Acting
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.
A cash-strapped young couple inherits a grand country house, only to find it is both falling apart and teeming with the ghosts of former inhabitants.
A banker becomes the target of his chauffeur's fury - but is the power dynamic on these four wheels quite what meets the eye?
Alia is an Afghan-Irish girl torn between two lives. When her secret relationship with an Irish boy comes to her sister's attention, it forces the family to make a decision that could ultimately tear it apart.
When Swedish student Elin Ersson boards a flight to Istanbul, the passengers include an asylum seeker being deported to a perilous future in Afghanistan. When everyone else takes their seats, Elin takes a stand.
A refugee washed ashore finds himself in the body of a donkey and captured by a man who tries to sell him for labor as a packhorse.
When you change where you are do you change who you are? I Am Nasrine is an intimate journey of self-discovery and ultimately reveals the unfolding of a soul. Set in modern day Tehran, and the UK, the film follows the paths of Nasrine and Ali, sister and brother in a comfortable, middle class Iranian home. When Nasrine has a run-in with the police, the punishment is more than she bargained for. At her father's bidding, Nasrine and Ali set out for the UK, torn about leaving behind their home and all that they know, embarking on a reluctant exile.
