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Isolated on a farm and fighting against his family's decision, Aaron struggles to be heard as he watches his mother willingly die.
Nov 2014
As Sonnyboy, a young Romani man, struggles to come to terms with his father's passing, a series of events threatens the family and their way of life.
Feb 2024
Struggling to make it in a big city, a young artist finds herself retreating into the rose-tinted memories of the village she left behind.
Jul 2021
Irishman Vincent Coke is facing execution on the electric chair after a lifetime of adventures, including smuggling rich Cubans from Cuba to the USA. While rebelling against the system, he finds an unexpected lifeline offered to him by the very system he is rebelling against.
Oct 1986
At the start of the 20th century many left the Feudal and impoverished Southern Italy looking for a brighter future in the Americas. Carmela and Giacomo set off from their home land never to return. After many years, Carmela's son,now a middle aged man, visits his parents village only to find it derelict and abandoned
Jan 1989
UK Airport Immigration Officer Sarah begins to question her role and institution when an unidentified passenger dies on an arrival flight from Egypt.
Jun 2024
A depressed Jester sets out across plague-ridden England to rescue the Queen’s nephew and prove he is more than a fool.
Oct 2024
In this gleefully anarchic tour-de-force of puppetry, a primal scream class unleashes a man’s inner id - quite literally.
Oct 2015
A boozy barmaid and her newfound gay friend quit London and hightail it to northeast England on the lookout for sex and excitement in this multi-award-winning film based on Tennessee Williams’ short story Two on a Party.
Nov 1994
A girl finds herself inside a fashion magazine – Joanna Hogg's graduation piece at the National Film and Television School starring a then unknown Tilda Swinton.
Jun 1986
In an 18th century Cornish tin mining community, two isolated young women risk their lives to break free from abuse after a local miner pushes them to breaking point.
What could possibly be more important than feeding your daughter?
A young man who is going through a mid-twenties crisis is going to a fancy dress party dressed as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Jul 1990
Katrine leads a normal life, with a normal job and a normal relationship. But one day she awakes to find the world around her has changed. Or rather, its the same but she is seeing it with different eyes, noticing things she never saw before. Her reality starts to crumble. She becomes aware of small discontinuities in time and space, abruptly she is whipped from one place to another. Then she takes a closer look at the everyday objects around her, things she has seen and touched many times before are now flat, falling apart, fake.
May 2018
Have you ever wondered what happens with your pet when you are not at home? A dog worried about its future, a lazy parrot and an aquarium full of fish with strong religious beliefs, show us what really happens, since they share an uncertain future with the old age of its owner.
Jan 2000
Brody, a recently divorced and overworked father cannot find a way to connect with his son Jake. When Jake runs away, Brody searches to no avail until he comes across something he wasn't looking for, something long forgotten: his childhood imaginary friend, Fink.
Oct 2013
Sam lives in a place where everything is polished and secrets are cleaned up and kept. So when Georgina goes missing, everyone acts like nothing happened. But Sam can't stop thinking about her, the enigma who lived next door, swimming daily in her pool. As Sam drifts back into his memories of Georgina, he comes to realise he may know more than he wants to remember.
Mar 2012
Sisters grapple with opposite pregnancy experiences — one dealing with an unexpected conception while the other faces IVF struggles.
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Shane and his mates want revenge on a local hermit who frightens them one night. Shane distracts the man while the gang carries out its plan. But who is this man ? And why does he live in the middle of nowhere ? Shane is about to learn something he won't forget.
Sep 1999
A Windrush migrant is employed as a servant on an estate, presumably to look after master and manor, including a collection of colonial artefacts, but soon discovers he was actually procured to be part of its most prized possessions.