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In a society that tells us to pursue our dreams above all else, and that nothing is out of reach, the desire for “the good life” becomes individual and private rather than in community. But where does that leave us?

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Alexander is a lively Scottish boy. We see him as part of the natural world. Then, we hear from his parents, Claire and David, that he has a rare neurodegenerative disease. An innovative documentary with joy and sorrow.

A documentary about Matty Turner, a magician and his story. Even Reg liked it...

The film explores the unlikely relationship that exists between the small seaside town of Swanage in Dorset, and Surrealism. This relationship was formed by visionary English painter Paul Nash who lived in Swanage during the mid to late 1930s. As well as paintings and photographs, Nash recorded his fascination with this particular landscape in a number of essays, which form a major part of this film.

In If play is neither inside nor outside, where is it?, Helen McCrorie takes us to Cultybraggen Camp in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. Originally built during World War II as a prisoner-of-war camp, Cultybraggen has also functioned as an army training base, a nuclear monitoring post, regional government headquarters, a data storage centre, an orchard and now – in McCrorie’s film – a world run by children.

A sociological meditation on the different "exits" that young Palestinians choose, in order to cope with life in the refugee camps.

After a lightbulb gets tired of their daily routine, they lose their spark. Now they have to figure out how to get it back.

Piecing together fragments of a creative existence during the UK lockdown. A lone dweller in a small apartment. Time slips, memory disperses, erodes and fades. A film of animated happenings, a document of uncertainty: what have I become, or what was I?

An action film beginning beside a chalk pit in Aichi prefecture, ten years in the future, after the blossom wars. The central character is given a mission: collect and deliver a Solidarity Key. He will travel to Shanghai, Paris and Wolverhampton before the dream is over.

Oasissy’s oeuvre transcends onto the silver screen with a cinematic debut that defies genre, deftly blending their subtle tribute to Oasis with an unbridled passion for Céline Sciamma's masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Oasissy are a spoof, drag king, Oasis tribute act who have performed all over the UK, on the streets, in cabarets and on screens.

A portrait of the solitude and isolation of two characters, often ostracized and forgotten about by the outside world. In their old age, they find unexpected solace in each other.

In the world of money and sex, this emotionally engaging documentary gives rare insight into the reflective personal struggle of sex workers. Using animation for anonymity, real questions are deliberated by real women.

The eye is the window to the soul. That is why it terrifies us.

A couple sit down for a nice dinner but realise that there is more than meets the eye with this restaurant.

Using the human microbiome as the stage for the UK, specifically Yorkshire, we follow a girl as she accidentally ingests herself and travels through her gut. She encounters fearful, apathetic, and aggressive bacteria. The film plays on fears of foreign bodies invading us and our country. It is a child's fantasy of their mother's journey to a new unfamiliar land, made more uncanny and dreamlike with the use of classic special effects and a sci-fi experimental soundtrack.

A short film following ancient vampire Tereni Fairuz during the 2020 pandemic.

For most transgender people going to the beach is a fantasy.

Can you be Muslim and gay? A bereaved fiancé goes on a deeply personal journey to prevent the tragedy from ever happening again.

Juliana Capes and Ruth Barrie’s Be Different Today explores the relationship between text and image – signifier and signified, thing and descriptor – through a moving-image document of seven sunrises and visual description prompted by same. What may conceptually suggest a duplication of intentions, however – show, and tell – also begins to point to something deeper: the connection between the elemental and the personal, a cosmic event and the word-thoughts it prompts, the way in which language is governed.

An interview with two people on their experience of Shibari, and what it means to them.

A very special online performance, ahead of the May 2021 European tour, Melanie will be performing tracks from her new album, as well as giving fans a unique preview of her live show.

This one-hour special features interviews with McFly and never-before-seen footage from key moments in their career as well as culminating in a very special gig.

Julia collects plants from all over, particularly the gardens of notorious killers across the UK.

It is about a dancer in love expressed through colour, sound and movement. The dancer is a hand drawn line animation that appears and disappears in and around different colours and feelings, sometimes in the music sometimes behind it.

COVID-19 is far from the first pandemic to wreak havoc in the world. A long line of infectious diseases have devastated and in some cases destroyed entire societies. This documentary examines the causes of epidemics. It also sheds a light on the impact infectious diseases have had on politics and societal change. Today, the world is facing COVID-19. Measures such as quarantine and lockdowns are being rolled out in an effort to control the spread of the virus; and some are questioning how effective they are. Over the centuries, scientists managed to develop treatments and medicines to help control or even eradicate infectious diseases. Virologists are facing that task again with the coronavirus, as the world frantically searches for ways to overcome a pandemic which threatens our modern way of life.

#PrecarityStory is a short documentary that tells the work story of Isabel, a cleaner, hourly-paid teacher, and researcher in the same British university. Her story stands as an example of the increasing casualisation of university labour and its human consequences. Filmed during the 2018-2020 UK higher education strikes, #PrecarityStory exposes the little-known reality of the academic precariat and fuels the ongoing public debate on the devastating effects of neoliberal policies —and, now also, Covid-19— in British higher education.

A cosmic meditation on mental health as expressed by the battle between positive and negative forces.

Estranged siblings are begrudgingly reunited for their father's funeral. While desperately trying to avoid addressing their past, the two end up revisiting memories they'd tried their best to forget.

The story of a young man who “got in touch” with himself over lockdown.

A nature reserve in the South-east of England becomes the site for a gruesome murder.

A short film about a girl reminiscing her past whilst composing a message to her ex

In 2018, photographer Tim Franco began shooting a series of large format portraits of North Korean defectors using an unusual technique for a book detailing some of their experiences.

Short dance film examining contemporary attitudes to grief.

An attempt at a phone call with mum!

A woman experiences a sexual awakening at the sight of a Brutalist church.

A man visits the opticians.

During the 2010's, Don, Bill, Stephanie, and Holly go Camping in a Abandoned Camp Ground in their town called "Specky Woods", to do stuff they Shouldn't be Doing. But they find out that something is going on in this place, and they have to use their Wits to Survive this Bloody Horror Flick.

There is almost no one who doesn't dream of building their own house one day. But it takes a lot of time and money to make this dream come true. These hurdles can easily be overcome with a Scandinavian wooden house. The so-called Swedish bullerby houses are inexpensive and turnkey within a few months. This documentation accompanies planners and builders at work and shows how a prefabricated house in Scandinavian design is created.

Son of the revolution is a documentary about the life and death of Sadegh Ghotbzadeh

Tony Robinson’s VE Day: Minute By Minute will take a unique look at a pivotal day in the history of the modern world, delving into the key events that made VE Day such a momentous twenty-four hours. This is the story of what happened on that most celebrated and important day, including original interviews with historians and veterans who tell their stories and share their first-hand experiences. Using unseen archive footage and stills, plus never told accounts from veterans who were there, this one-off special will chart the moment the clock struck midnight, to 24 hours later, when fighting officially stopped across Europe. Up and down the country it was dawning on people that they were waking up not with fear or anxiety, but with relief and excitement. This was a Great Britain no one had experienced for six years. A Britain at peace. At almost no notice street celebrations were being prepared and tens of thousands were flocking to London and other city centres.

Jack recounts his latest filmmaking failure in a way that blurs the line of fiction and non-fiction...

Becky Southworth, the daughter of a convicted sex offender, steps into the unsettling world of sex offender rehabilitation to see what can be done to stop them reoffending.

"Brief Loss depicts Lindsay Duncanson’s confinement to home during the Covid-19 lockdown. This piece contrasts with the artist’s other works made in vast rural settings. Her family regularly feature as part of her nomadic practice which explores connections between body and landscape." - Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

Hawthorn, a quiet teenage boy with all the correlating tender attributes, lives in a villageon the West Coast of Scotland. The mournful landscapes and whistling wind are interrupted by the blasting dystopic industrial rhythms from Glasgow’s The Modern Institute. The score mirrors Hawthorn’s defeated ego in his desperate love for a returning friend, Magnolia. Sorrowful and deeply felt, Hawthorn’s lovesickness is Romanticist in colour. The wilderness is uncaring. The water laps softly against the muddy sand, oblivious. Fat seals continue to lounge on rocks out at sea.

Produced as an ancillary to Shinnin Kawaguchi, the animation focuses on the figures place within the surrounding environment, here depicted as the landscape, a common structure used in early anatomical books such as the Kaishihen.

Set to scenes of a UK in lockdown, a daughter reads a letter from her isolated mother.

Amir is a Bangladeshi studying abroad in London. As he continues to question his faith and upbringing, he makes a decision to confront the matter head-on.

A visualization of the truths and experiences of The Ummah Chroma by alumni from the Ghetto Film School, making their debut as a collective with Armonia. Inspired by their voices, Novus Manier looks to capture the innermost fears and joys of their lives working as artists and storytellers.

Self sabotage. Obstruction of narrative. A film behind a horse.

Jack, Sharon and Keith claim that they were attacked by a shotgun-wielding cowboy as they went to retrieve their football from a nearby house in their suburban neighbourhood. A naive, low budget Production Company pick up their story and attempt to make a documentary about their frightening ordeal. As the events of that fateful night are retold through a series of interviews and dramatic re-enactments, it appears there might be much less to the trio's tale than we first anticipated.

A woman is alone at home, or so she believes...

Drew’s new film "A Tuning" is an enticing cacophony of sound and vision, which looks to decipher messages from our world and worlds beyond. As in many of Drew’s works, music and sound are powerful and important; they magically transform our sense of placement, folding the passage of time. Drew uses the film to explore his preoccupation with the power of improvisation, how melodies can betray the messages of the cosmos, how music can be telling. Text is significant throughout, taking others’ often historic words and using them to embody our fears, “they long believed that the moon moved, followed them, or often ran this and that toward or away from it”.

The programme includes The Damned’s set-smashing performance on The Old Grey Whistle Test and the Sex Pistols' anarchic trip on the Thames. It also features powerful live performances from Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Gang of Four, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Tubeway Army, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Soft Cell, The Selecter, Joy Division and the Au Pairs. In addition, there are gems from The New York Dolls, The Fall, Blondie, Pete Shelley, The Police, Devo, X-Ray Spex, Klaus Nomi, Laurie Anderson and many more.

A British Intelligence Officer known as Thomas Edward Lawrence conducted daring raids during World War I which made him a legend. But how did this man become the renowned ‘Lawrence of Arabia?’ This fascinating history documentary explores the character behind the man and tries to explain how he came to lead a small band of Arab fighters against the fourth largest army in the world.

Multi-Award winning surreal period short with a sci-fi twist. In an idyllic village a young girl is revealed to exert a sinister level of control upon her fellow villagers and animals, in an eerie twist.

"The Circle Has Moved" is a short dance film made during COVID-19 isolation, directed and edited by Izaak Brandt. Dancers have been completely removed from a sense of community and identity during lockdown. This film aims to do two things: highlight this isolation whilst at the same time reinforcing the strength, diversity and unity of dancers worldwide. The film is brought together by a poem written and performed by Izaak Brandt, with an original score by Pete Brandt.

Award-winning British choir Tenebrae, under the direction of Nigel Short, is one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles, renowned for its passion and precision. In this performance Tenebrae once again breaks new ground in a programme of music for Easter, with all 20 of its singers filmed and recorded separately as they isolate themselves in their own homes. Under the direction of Nigel Short conducting via video link, Tenebrae sings a concert for Easter, including Gregorio Allegri's stunning Miserere, at a time when the world has never needed the medicine of music more. Tenebrae's repertoire for this specially filmed performance includes the following: JS Bach – Wenn ich einmal soll scheiden Lobo – Versa est in luctum Allegri – Miserere Purcell/Croft – Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts Parry – My soul, there is a country JS Bach – Ach Herr, lass dein lieb Engelein