Taina Galis
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Lynn and Lucy are lifelong best friends, their relationship as intense as any romance. Neither has ventured far from where they grew up. Lynn, who married her first boyfriend and whose daughter is fast growing up, is delighted when the charismatic, volatile Lucy has her first baby boy. Lucy, however, does not react to being a mother as Lynn expects. Soon, they find their friendship is tested in extreme circumstances.
Lynn + Lucy

A mexican chef meets her love interest in an american man.
American Curious

Gloucestershire, England, 1796. A poor day labourer is offered work but must first let his son be used in a medical experiment. Based on the story of James Phipps, the eight-year-old boy used by Dr Edward Jenner to test the world's first smallpox vaccine.
James

A portrait of teen escort, 'Coco'.
Rate Me

Ten Londoners and a dog. They dance together, steal together, eat together; agree and disagree, celebrate their differences and share their talents. They spark a debate about the world we live in, who has stolen what from whom, and how things might be fixed.
Here for Life

'Bo' Gritz is one of America's highest decorated Vietnam veterans and the real life inspiration behind Rambo. He also killed 400 people, turned against Washington and moved to the Nevada desert where he now sleeps with many weapons. Filmed over ten years using impressive visual material, Zimmerman's portrait of Bo embodies contemporary American society in all its dizzying complexity and contradictions.
Erase and Forget
Inspired by the Young Vic theatre's acclaimed production of Samuel Beckett's Happy Days, Mayday reunites Juliet Stevenson and the director Natalie Abrahami. Written by Nancy Harris, the film is a modern-day story of an isolated woman fighting to 'keep up the glamour' in the manner of Beckett's buried heroine Winnie.
Mayday
In a shadowy caravan on a Scottish Island, teenage lovers, Sorley and Maggie spend time awkwardly, stalked by the haunting presence of Sorley's father. Arrested by this and by their feelings for each other, the couple seek escape, where a Cuillin rises out of the sea.
A Cuillin Rising

Two young friends reveal their hidden desires by a theatrical presentation of Dionysus. The myth as well as the girl, initiating and redemptive becomes the catalyst of the hidden inner desires.’
Bacchanal
Winner of Best UK Short at London East End Film Festival and Grand Prix du Jury at Angers Premiers Plans 2010
Whore.

Fyzal Boulifa's Cannes winning and Bafta-nominated short is an allegory of emancipation inspired by his mother's experience growing up in Morocco. Produced by Gavin Humphries the film also won the Fujifilm Prize and was selected for Sundance.
The Curse

Examines the resilience of residents who are profoundly overlooked by media representations and wider social responses. Interweaving intimate portraits with the residents' own historical re-enactments, landscape and architectural studies and dramatised scenes, the film asks how we might resist being framed exclusively through class, gender, ability or disability, and even through geography.
Estate, a Reverie
A Muslim girl rebels against her parents, wanting to stop wearing her veil.
Burn My Body

A duet for two men taken from STILL, a long-form piece of work choreographed by Nigel Charnock for Candoco Dance Company in 2009.“With every piece I make there is part of me in there, its always about relationship rather than relationships, and more so in this piece about the loss of that, about losing someone” Nigel Charnock.