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Rhoda

After years of living alone, Rhoda takes in a lodger, but the change unsettles the equilibrium of her home.

Girls Hugging Their Fathers

A young woman is confronted by her inability to access her own anger as she makes a final attempt to acknowledge it through the act of hugging her father.

For People in Trouble

When two people meet one night in London, their relationship blossoms and fractures, intertwined with impending societal collapse.

Muna

British-Somali teen Muna is desperate to go on the school trip - but her parents aren't so sure. Tragedy strikes when her grandfather dies back in Somalia, and Muna must navigate a confusing mourning period for someone she never really knew - all while still hoping to persuade her mother to change her mind.

Buffer Zone

Two young soldiers across enemy lines fall in love and find escape from their oppressive environments in this musical drama.

Original Skin

In an alternate society where having sex means swapping bodies with the other person, a young woman struggles to be herself, defying her small conservative community where swapping is considered taboo. A deeply intimate portrait of identity in transition.

They Heard Him Shout Allahu Akbar

Zaid, recently released from prison for an unknown crime, tries to reintegrate into his previous life, only to find that the arms of the state can control what he says and does

Weekend Dad

A butcher looks forward to spending time at the weekend with his young daughter.

ear for eye

From front rooms, Black families, friends, students and older generations navigate British and American society today.

Femme

When Jordan gets into the car of a flirtatious drug-dealer, his night takes a dangerous turn.

Life in a Day 2020

On July 25th, 2020, Ridley Scott and Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald invite you to be part of Life in a Day—a historic, global documentary capturing a single day on Earth. Videos from around the world are woven into a feature film.

7 Bananas

Dara and Sophie's once close friendship is now only sustained by likes, memes and ever-delayed meet-ups. When Sophie commits suicide, Dara is forced to look behind the surface of Sophie's last messages.

Two Single Beds

When stand-up comedian Jay prolongs his flirtatious post-show drinks with fellow stand-up June he misses his last train home, forcing a more intimate exploration of himself than expected. Can he resist the temptation to escape his reality for a night or stay faithful to the growing number of people waiting for him at home?

Joy

A mother deals with pain, toil and heartbreak after she comes to London to seek a better life for her and her son.

Night Bus

Driving through the nocturnal streets of London on the eve of her 30th birthday, a night bus driver discovers a supernatural entity who has boarded her vehicle, and threatens to stay.

What's In a Name?

People with different heritages explain what their exotic names mean to them and the society around them.

The Tombs

A live streamed, publicity stunt, filmed inside London's most famous scare attraction takes a terrifying turn as the event awakes an evil spirit. Something relentless and seemingly unstoppable starts stalking the celebrity guests through the claustrophobic halls of this maze of terror.

Blue Story

Blue Story is a tragic tale of a friendship between Timmy and Marco, two young boys from opposing postcodes. Timmy, a shy, smart, naive and timid young boy from Deptford, goes to school in Peckham where he strikes up a friendship with Marco, a charismatic, streetwise kid from the local area. Although from warring postcodes, the two quickly form a firm friendship until it is tested and they wind up on rival sides of a street war. Blue Story depicts elements of Rapman's own personal experiences and aspects of his childhood.

The Devil's Harmony

A bullied teenage girl leads a glee club on a trail of destruction against her high school enemies.

White Girl

Beth, a thirteen-year-old white girl, is seemingly lost. She wanders around east London, seeking out help from strangers. But over the course of an evening, her interactions with the city's dwellers take darker turns. Terror appears to lie around every corner.

Dawn in the Dark

When a young girl’s father is taken to hospital, a familial bond between her and her uncle is tested.

The Last Tree

Femi is a British boy of Nigerian heritage who, after being fostered in rural Lincolnshire, moves to inner-city London to live with his birth mother. Struggling with the unfamiliar culture and values of his new environment, teenage Femi has to figure out which path to adulthood he wants to take.

Somnium

Joan Kepler is an intergalactic postal worker. She's top of her game, a senior deliverer in an industry that's been threatened by newer, faster technologies. Keeping Joan company on her endless missions is her ship, PAT 1. He's laconic, lazy and desperate to retire but remains deeply loyal. Together they've explored the outer edges of the galaxy, all the while preserving their 100% delivery record. But on this job, something's different. Three innocuous packages and a trip into uncharted space: it's nothing she hasn't handled before.

Frank's Joke

Frank told a bad joke at his new place of work. Nobody laughed. Now at 3am in the morning he is unable to sleep as he obsesses and ruminates over this social faux-pas, leading him to ponder on the nature of memory itself.

Feline

David has found what appears to be the perfect summer job as a grounds keeper on a lavish country estate. He has the summer to himself and the opportunity to contemplate the next stage of his life. Only David isn't alone. When he meets James, a charismatic manipulator; and Grace, the beautiful, enigmatic but complex daughter of the homeowners, David's solitary summer begins to darken.

Facing It

Shaun always feels separate and isolated from the confident, happy world around him. Whilst waiting for his parents in a busy pub, Shaun struggles valiantly to join in with the admirably happy people in the crowd, but the more he tries, the more he goes awry. As everything in the pub goes from bad to worse, Shaun finds himself confronted by the painful memories that made him who he is. His feelings, memories and desires overwhelm him and by the end of the evening he is ready to explode...

Masterpiece

A group of young men try to interpret their friends art, so they can save face and show support.

Dear Mr Shakespeare: Shakespeare Lives

An evocative and imaginative exploration of the racial tensions in Othello and how the themes in Shakespeare's play still resonate today.

Chester P for Mayor: Hip-Hop, Homelessness and the Housing Crisis

Chester P (Real talk records) takes a film crew with him on a journey as he attempts to find the truth about the effects of the austerity measures and the housing crisis on the people of London with a moving and insightful narrative.

Breakfast in Kisumu

Shot across 16mm, VHS, DV, and Digital, Breakfast in Kisumu is a personal homage to the 20-year journey of renowned professor and political activist Rok Ajulu. Filmed across six countries between Europe and Africa, with a proxy-archival quality, it follows Rok’s account of his struggles as an exiled freedom fighter of the post-colonial, apartheid era. In conversation with his daughter, he tells of his numerous deportations, prison sentences, and academic career. As Rok recounts the collapse of the apartheid regime, Breakfast in Kisumu shows us a homecoming: his journey back to Africa for the transition of the African National Congress (ANC) from a liberation movement into a governing party, his marriage into the Sisulu Family, and the continental significance of 1994.

Elle & Naomi

An experimental narrative following a musician and a fan after a gig, presenting a portrait of loneliness, inhibitions and ambitions.

I Was 3

One morning Laura finds her face with the caption "Missing" in a newspaper article, it soon becomes apparent that her childhood has been a lie.

Cuttings

A coming of age drama, Gemma returns to her family home after a recent death to discover buried family truths in an uncovered archive of home video.

Cuttings

A coming of age drama, Gemma returns to her family home after a recent death to discover buried family truths in an uncovered archive of home video.

Last Leg

15 year old, Reyna an aspiring swimmer, living with an abusive father, struggles to pursue her passion in swimming. She trains to win first place but with a father who controls the world around her, the goal to win is tested.