Reel Issues Films

When a spirited eight-year-old lands the part of Innkeeper in the school nativity play, she battles her perfectionist teacher who insists that she "stick to the script" and refuse Mary and Joseph a room.

A Peacemaker, who rejects his final mission to save an endangered planet, is believed to be cursed when a solar storm hits his spaceship.

Once prominent executives of a powerful corporation inexplicably turn feral and wander the forest. They are hunted and traded by hunters as retribution for their crimes against the environment. One of the hunters encounters someone unexpected, and loyalty is tested.

Based on the Parable of the Lost Son, we follow Lilah, a 16 year old British-Pakistani Muslim girl who is searching for her place in the world. Since the death of her mother, Lilah has begrudgingly taken on her mum’s role in the family home. Frustrated by her inherently obstinate father and her brother’s legalistic faith, Lilah makes a plan to run away with Jimmy, the 22 year old guy she has been seeing in secret. Torn between the call of a life without imposed values and the importance of her culture, Lilah makes the choice to flee, putting her family’s forgiveness to the ultimate test.

Only Child is the beautifully shot film in which we watch as an Irish couple go through a life journey dealing with the harsh reality of love and loss. The battle of needing the person you love to be there for you, whilst you be there for them.

June 2016. In their first ever European Championships, Wales march through to the semi-finals. For a girl gang in small-town South Wales, the line between patriotism and xenophobia becomes blurred.

Alice has sold details about her famous daughter to the press. The daughter’s ensuing overdose and the money burning a hole in Alice’s pocket takes on a deeper meaning of betrayal, guilt and whether Alice should be forgiven.

It's 2025 and the Water Wars ravage Europe. A notorious prisoner of war is on the run, pursued by trained killers. Cornered, he takes an old man hostage in a last ditch attempt at freedom.

Fingers is a short crime drama inspired by the story of Salome and John the baptist, re-imagined in the context of a 1960s nightclub in London's East End.

A woman with albinism has her arm hacked off by a witch doctor. Now she wants revenge.

Once renowned food critic, now homeless and battling alcoholism, campaigns to save her local soup kitchen, despite her complaint shutting it down.

Merle is an officer in an anti-communist 'Red Squad' during the McCarthy Red scare. Rounding up the suspects, curbing the 'pinko threat' is surely the thing to do, just part of the job. He supervises the arrest of a bunch of beatniks, poets, musicians - young people who are surely a threat to society. But when one of the suspects is killed during the arrest Merle is set on a journey that threatens to change his view of the world and transform his life. Could there be a wrong kind of right?

Phil is taking over as bingo caller from his father, but his meticulous preparations are interrupted by the return of his magnetic younger brother.

Set within the world of competitive gymnastics, Pommel is a coming-of-age drama about the tumultuous relationship between two young brothers as they compete for recognition and approval in an up coming gymnastics competition.

Long-suffering housewife Abby longs to be free from emotionally abusive husband. She’s frequently apologising for his rudeness, but divorce simply isn’t an option. One day he crosses the line, offending the local Village Watch leader David King, causing protection to be withdrawn from their manor house, and Abby springs into action.

A young woman from a poor village in China, Xia Jia, arrives in Hong Kong to be a surrogate mother for a wealthy Chinese couple, living with them so they can supervise her pregnancy. It is an isolating experience, made harder by the harsh treatment of the wife towards Xia Jia, driven by bitterness and jealousy.

A woman works out the best way to kill an unconscious enemy general who has sought refuge in her tent, while her two best friends dissuade her using a combination of wit, distraction, and utter disbelief in her ability to pull it off.

A genius stock analyst loses his wife in a fatal car crash. Through his obsession to find comfort and destroy those responsible he is drawn into one final deadly ultimatum.

Ireland, 1847. A destitute young widow desperate to save her dying son, must make a choice, but is the cost of survival worth the price of her humanity?

Supernatural drama set in the British trenches of WW1. Along with the rest of his platoon, young Private Edwin Childs fears imminent German gas attacks. As the dreaded attack begins, how much will Edwin give of himself in the ultimate act of compassion towards his fellow men?