Power, Profit and Populism: The Battle for Hard Brexit

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson likes to call the Brexit referendum an “amazing moment for the country”, a rebellion of the "little people" against the faceless EU bureaucracy. But what if Brexit was ultimately not about the "will of the people" at all, but about the interests of a small British elite?

Thazh Bazi

THE DOLLS GAME

“The Dolls Game” with original name of “Thazh Bazi” is a short film about a clown working in an amusement park in Iran, trying to get his salary from his employer to pay for the lawyer. He wants to get his daughter back!

The Secret Life Of Jim

Nick tries desperately to have one more real moment with his father Jim who suffers from Alzheimer disease. But he fears he might have run out of time. This film explores the struggles of being a sole carer, grieving and the use of music to bring someone back.

Land of Nod

Logline: On the eve of her execution, a religious devotee grapples with her faith when an enigmatic visitor offers her a chance at freedom. Synopsis: Would a woman so steadfast in her divine mission begin to lose faith in the face of her impending execution? Sitting alone awaiting her execution Jeanne is visited by a man of faith. Through a series of probing questions, this ominous interlocutor attempts to persuade her to recant her claims of divine contact with God.

Franciacorta - A Golden Feeling

Directed by the young Italian talent Enea Colombi, Franciacorta: A Golden Feeling is the new fashion film released by the The Franciacorta Consortium, in collaboration with the National Chamber of Italian Fashion. Produced by the Milan-based creativity factory The Blink Fish, the video celebrates the opening of Milan Fashion Week with beauty, movement and style. The video also marks the tenth anniversary of partnership between Franciacorta and the National Chamber of Italian Fashion. Franciacorta: A Golden Feeling works as a bridge between the two organisations whose shared values include an appreciation for the craftsmanship, originality, elegance and quality of the Made in Italy. A journey into a new dimension, Franciacorta: A Golden Feeling becomes an ode to the beauty and dynamism of the fashion world.

If Any

A one-minute poem film that offers a meditation on time, memory, the spectral, the animistic, and the presence and absence of faith. Directed, written, filmed, read, edited, and produced by Adam E. Stone. Filmed in Carbondale, Illinois, August and September, 2020. Painting by Saribenne Evesong (1931-2009). Text of poem: Only spirits, if any, stay forever, the corporeal always pivot away. A raucous goodbye, or a misunderstanding, "Good luck, old friend!" or "Good riddance, old fool!" I pedal faster, to a hum on a breeze, a flutter along a long-darkened hallway. I name the ghosts, as if I can still see them, a crush ... a friend ... an inspiration. You called me silly, poked at my gloom, said "There's no such thing as being alone!" And even today, I want to believe you, but I fail every test, again and again. Use "CC" button on Vimeo to enable closed captions in English. Download web vtt file from Vimeo when downloading film. HD Apple pro res 422 version available for download upon request. Copyright 2021 by Adam E. Stone. All rights reserved.

There Are No Comets

Lee revisits his relationship with Eve with the help of the Comet – a memory stimulation pill. The further he goes, the harder it becomes to let go of the past.

United

A teenager is forced into living with his grandfather and they can't seem to find any common ground. A family bond is torn apart and only one thing can reunite them, football. It's a game of pride.

Park Life

Liam's good day is about to turn bad as he encounters a dead body in the park. With only himself and nearby runner Jenny at the scene, talk turns to 'what happened?'

Self-Help Series 2

A student film crew follow celebrity self-help guru Veronica Moses and her PA Tricia as she attempts to navigate her life after a very public, very embarrassing incident in a bookshop.

October Eleventh

Our home turned to ice one bitter cold night, winter rattling the door before we knew it.

Wallace Chan - The Art of Materials

The latest documentary by award-winning director Martina Margaux Cozzi is a visually stimulating portrait of Hong Kong-based multidisciplinary artist Wallace Chan. Established as one of the greatest jewellery designers in the world, Wallace Chan - The Art of Materials chronicles the artist's debut into the world of sculpture fuelled by his desire to innovate. A tribute to creation itself, the film delves into Chan's mind to uncover the intricate relationship between materials, time and space.

The Girls of Dinefwr

Kate, a troubled young girl looking to meet new people, experiences a dark turn of events after agreeing to a second date with the dark and mysterious Theo.

Sometimes They Remember

A politician is invited to visit a mysterious town in the Welsh mountains, where his past decisions come back to haunt him.

Understanding

Inspired by the magic of American Sign Language, Understanding is a 3D animated short film about a lonely giant who creates a friend and the world they inhabit while learning to understand his new creations.

Metamorphosis in the Slaughterhouse

Shadi is a little girl that her parents have been accused of murdering a girl in the village, and villagers killed her parents to seek revenge. Her uncle adops her and now Shadi must face the problems that people of the village caused them.

Killing the eunuch KHAN

The serial killer intends to slaughter so much that the blood spills over the ditches of the city. To reach this target, he designs a plan in which victims kill victims. The plan is carried out and the stream of blood gradually fills the ditches of the city by the people who kill each other.

HELLO FRISCO

Why was the baby abandoned in a Victorian drain? And how can the four maids on a mission save its life? This playful, surreal, road movie pits four teens against the elements in a race against time.

Cof ar Goll

Cof ar Goll - Lost Memory

A surreal poetic film about self-identity. Abstract imagry depticts a therapist's attempt to help a patient recconect with themself. Made for the Straight 8 competition and selected as one of the top 25 films.

MotherTruckers

As the UK’s transport crisis grows, lorry driver and writer, Lisa, dreams of escaping reality. Travelling on roads, her truck helps give her access to an out-of-this world imagination.

Flotsam

In a UK where all foreigners are outlaws, a warm-hearted farmer discovers the unconscious body of a French man on the beach, and shelters him despite her husband's violent nationalism.

The Mixtup Museum

Imagine the world in 50 years time: the year is 2072. Some young people are doing a history project and find an old video made by a group called Mixtup. It is about a virtual museum - perfect! There are the two rooms in the museum. The First one is called 'Me:Unlimited'. It is filled with things that the young people in Mixtup are inspired by, things that they love. There are things that they have created, things that nourish them and make a difference to their own and other people's lives. The second room is called 'Dark Pasts.' The young people have put things in here that they think should be history in the future. These are things that the young people of 2072might have heard about but have never had to deal with themselves. They want to share this video with others. Welcome to the Mixtup Museum.

Pet Name

Sophie (Ambika Mod) has spent weeks planning a special day out for James’s (Conor Joseph) birthday. Something that will elevate their relationship with just the right amount of nostalgia, sentimentality and romance. But whilst searching for a lighter, to light a birthday candle, Sophie’s curiosity delivers an unexpected blow; a simple message in a card that reveals James’s unique pet name for her, “Goose”, may not be as original as she first thought. Blindsided but not wanting to derail the day, Sophie presses ahead with a trip to the seaside town of Llandudno, North Wales. Set against the faded seafront with its neon-lit amusement arcades, Sophie begins to unravel as she views her relationship through a new lens, whilst James is forced to reckon with the relics of his past. Throughout the day they desperately search for something unique and special to define themselves, in a world that is exceptionally unoriginal.

Floorboards

An ageing Detective and his younger Partner investigate an abandoned house with hidden and unusual consequences.

(mis)placed

(mis)placed is a series about the intersecting lives of twenty-somethings, all searching for love, work, and meaning in the world today.

Mute

The true story of a deaf couple...

Khakestar

Ashes

Mothers are always waiting here.

Better Get Better

Best friends Scarlett and Freya are practically inseparable but when Scarlett breaks her ankle and Freya starts struggling with her mental health, the difference in how they're treated starts to change this.

Access Control

A disgraced ex-cop (Dan Lyons) and a hot headed newly-wed (Andrew J. Bullard IV) must team up as hospital security guards to solve a local pill thief case. In doing so they must put their differences aside and learn the importance of valuing the relationships in their lives. In this buddy-cop dramedy, it's about who to let in and who to keep out.

Yes | No

A young couple, Nia and Siôn find themselves speaking to the police about a rape. They come to realise that the line you should never cross is the one you can never come back from.

En el segundo izquierda

On the Second Floor

Aurora is an elderly woman who lives alone in a small apartment in Madrid. She lives a simple, monotonous life, so any change in her routine is something eventful. Since her husband passed away, and most of her friends, her only visitor is a small bird that comes to her window every morning. She feels alone and neglected as she looks melancholically at all the things surrounding her… constantly reminding her of her past.

What Comes Next?

What Comes Next? is a cinematic montage compiled entirely from amateur and low budget documentary footage shot in Wales during the post-war years leading up to and including the Festival of Britain celebrations in 1951.This theatre of the everyday touches on locations and lives that, though incidental in themselves, were symbolic of a broad sweep of change that ultimately transformed the face of Wales and ushered in a period of social reform, reconstruction and modernisation against a backdrop of economic austerity. Originally inspired by the montage documentaries of the 1920’s, the film seeks to present an insight into the challenges faced by Welsh working class communities that battled to build a better future while also reflecting on the legacy of Britian's colonial past that to this day continues to cast the deepest of shadows.

Desires and Delusions

The restrictive and predictable world of Regency England has become increasingly tiresome for one young heiress who yearns to meet more eligible and attractive suitors rather than ones at the balls and soirées nearby. When she hears there is an alternative, she has no hesitation in trying an unconventional dating service called Pandora’s Prospects. The promise of taking its clients from “portrait to proposal” sounds so exciting that she ignores the advice given by her judgmental friend. She instead hastily makes her choice from the curated selection of gentlemen matched to her requirements. Everything seems to be going well, until they meet.

Gooshvarehaye Gilas

Cherry Earrings

Cherry Earrings narrates the story of an afghan family, who has entered to Iran in an illegal way.

[ technopoetics ]

[technopoetics] is composed of object-poems and graphic poetry by the brazilian visual artist Alexandre Dacosta. These works are part of the book [tecnopoética] (Editora 7 Letras / 2011). Writer, narrated, composed music and directed by the author himself.

Shark Man

Due to crippling anxiety, Gary struggles to provide for his growing family. His secret weapon? A therapy hand puppet shark that he believes turns him into fearless superhero Shark Man.

Trigger

A cab's journey shifts pace when Claire and Hannah discover a bag neither of them had noticed when they climbed in. They are shocked to find out what is inside the bag and argue about what to do with it, anxious to keep their find a secret from the driver.

A Mother's Gift

Tom, an emotionally closed off, extremely successful businessman’s stone façade begins to crack with the news of his estranged mother’s death. Letters she has left behind force him on an emotional journey where he must learn empathy, acceptance and forgiveness not only towards his mother but more importantly towards himself, or he risks losing his sister and the only family he has left.

A Manchester Story

A positive documentary following the healing efforts made by people in the aftermath of the 2017 Manchester Arena Bombing.

Help! I've Stolen Amy Adams' Nose!

A celebrity-obsessed ballet dancer wakes up one morning sporting the nose of her idol, A-list actress Amy Adams.

Saint Francis Xavier - To the Ends of the Earth

Docufilm on Saint Francis Xavier which traces the history of the birth of the Society of Jesus, starting with Xavier's university years at the Sorbonne in Paris and his troubled encounter with Ignatius of Loyola, up to his complete missionary dedication in the Far East. With the interview contributions of Jesuit fathers Jean Paul Hernandez and Ottavio de Bertolis, and the stunning images from 1600 Baroque paintings of Church del Gesù in Rome.

THE CLIFF

The Cliff is a comedy-drama that satirizes stereotypes of the UK’s countries and uses allegory to explore the pressure of Brexit on its union. It follows an eclectic group of friends (one Scottish, one Welsh, one Northern Irish and two English) and their European friends as they navigate the twists and turns of their relationships. In this pilot episode, the group takes a vote that pushes them literally to the edge of a cliff.

Pack. Escape.

Julia wants to escape her violent father and convince her mother and her little sister Jess to run away with her. The father comes back home earlier than expected and tries to stop them.

Send Proof

Millions of people claim to have experienced miraculous healing. Send Proof asks the question "Where's the evidence?" When his former pastor leaves the faith, Director Elijah Stephens embarks on a journey to find evidence for miracles. Along the way, he interviews atheists and skeptics, medical researchers and academics, and those claiming to have experienced miraculous healing. Will he find the proof he seeks?

Connection

Eleri has been caring for her mum, Luned, since she was a child. But both have become so invested in their reversed roles of parent and child, that they’ve lost sight of one another and the true connection between them.

barande

A WINNER

This film is about the story of a female filmmaker who lives and works in her mother's greenhouse. After her film gets selected in a reputable film festival abroad, she is faced with problems to leave the country.

SEASONS

A Cinema poem by Russ Camarda... A journey of a soul awakening to its true nature... The Universe, through the seasons of its experience of itself. Filmmaker Russ Camarda creates a Cinematic poem using one small camera , no crew and a handful of actors... shooting through different seasons over the course of a few years. Narrated by various performers, featuring the voice of Rosalyn Coleman Williams (Broadway’s to Kill A Mockingbird), the poem is at once a personal journey and a Universal one. Death, Birth, Renewal and Return... it is the tale of the Immortal.. dreaming of mortality.

Fukushima Traveler

The documentary is about an Iranian journalist who lives in Japan and tells interesting and shocking stories about the 2011 Fukushima earthquake.

Black Lives Matter in West Papua

Sung partly in a threatened West Papuan language and English, this song is a call for freedom and self-determination in West Papua. It is currently occupied by Indonesia. The song highlights the idea that black lives matter in West Papua and that the people want to free West Papua from the pain and suffering of occupation.

immortal woman

"I love you, customer!" Hee-kyung and Seung-ah are emotional workers who sell cosmetics at large marts. I'm a store salesman. They should always greet guests with a smile. One day, a customer comes asking for a refund on cosmetics purchased a few days ago. Customers pick on all kinds of faults and bother them. However, they smile and endure the customer's harassment. As the situation becomes serious, the mart manager tries to deal with the situation. The guest asks Heekyung to kneel and apologize. Hee-kyung kneels down and apologizes, holding back her anger. Still, the customer's harassment continues. Company colleagues call Hee-kyung, who is kind to customers, an immortal smile angel. How long can Hee-kyung treat rude guests without losing her smile as an immortal smile angel in the silver company?

Unsinkable

The story of Alan Corcoran’s unprecedented length of Ireland – 500-kilometre – sea swim for charity has all the hallmarks of a fascinating documentary. With the stunning backdrop of Ireland’s wild coastline, the story tells the succession of challenges faced during such a monumental undertaking. It’s a film that explores a person’s journey through grief, using the swimming project to channel negative emotions into a meaningful, hopeful, inspiring adventure. Best Feature Documentary - Prague International Film Festival Outstanding Excellence Award (Human Spirit) - Docs Without Borders Film Festival Official Selection - London Mountain Film Festival; Prague International Film Festival; Lyons International Film Festival; Docs Without Border Film Festival 'Alan embodies the adventure, joy and challenge of outdoor swimming.' - The Outdoor Swimming Society. 'Alan turns grief into greatness through his epic swim.' - SwimSwam Magazine 'As Irish adventures go, this has got to be one of the most extraordinary and difficult to date.' - Sean Conway (author and adventurer) 'Alan's length of Ireland sea swim epitomises the spirit of outdoor swimming. Unsinkable is an inspiring tale of family, adventure, triumph and hope.' - Outdoor Swimmer Magazine 'It's hard not to root for Unsinkable's charming subject.' 4/5 Stars - Irish Film Critic

Through Their Eyes

One person's struggle for authenticity in the dating world.

What happens when you die

A film-poem exploring the physical aspect of the very last moments as life becomes death.

The Mirror

The Mirror is the latest fashion film directed by Giuila Achenza for the Milan-based fine jewellery brand Avel Lenttan. The film takes us on a journey of self-discovery, in which we learn to appreciate and love the natural beauty that is hidden within ourselves highlighted by the refined simplicity of the brand’s collection. We are presented with two identical women meeting at a crossroad between dream and reality. Facing one another with curiosity, they slowly come to realise how they are one and the same - two sides of the same person who have learnt to co-exist and appreciate each other’s peculiarities.

Maman

Maman lost all the beautiful things she once had – including her name, her job and her husband – years ago, after the outbreak of the war. Now she works as a cab driver and lives with two of her three sons in a small apartment. In order to proceed with her maternal authority, she keeps her sons apart from each other and of course from a piece of land she owns. Just when she gets rid of the wife of her youngest son, the other son decides to marry one of his colleagues. And the story develops in two parallel worlds: in the world of the real and the world recreated in a film script the youngest son is writing…

Mother Sky

Two vulnerable friends run from their problems in the city, taking shelter at a commune lead by a woman who cannot feel pain. Little do they know they've stumbled into a situation worse than the one they left behind, as they get caught in a whirlwind of chaos, aggressive neighbours, hallucinatory ceremonies and land grabs that, combined, could prove fatal.

The Creadur

Luke finds himself in the mountainous landscape of Wales with his friends Josh and Eric, one year after the death of his parents. Hitting the bong, they listen to their favourite songs one last time before Luke's parents cabin is sold. However, with night time chills comes a fog bringing an ancient stalker that will test their brotherly bonds. Luke is convinced of the presence of an unwanted guest, but can he convince the others before the night's haze turns from green to red?

Mann Documentary

This short documentary sees World War Two veteran Jack Mann tell his inspiring tale for the very first time in front of a camera. A true story of a free-spirited Jewish boy's journey to manhood, Jack fights to make his father proud. As part of the Special Forces, he knows only too well what will happen to him if he is captured behind enemy lines.

Jackdaw

A troubled vagabond who ends the suffering of strangers must make an impossible choice when the time comes to keep an old promise.

Salt Water Town

As rising sea levels loom across the coast of Wales, a father and son clash over the future of their failing caravan park.

Jandad

The savior

A little girl lives with her dad in a village with his dad. after losing her mom, she tries to save the fishes instead.

See Me

OWAIN (40s), a grieving tenant farmer, must save his ancestral home from development into soulless holiday homes. Early in the short, Owain is confronted by his landlord and the man who purchased the farm who exclaims they will return with the police if Owain fails to vacate the property by morning. Owain returns to his bedroom, immersed in a childhood memory of his father comforting him with a story steeped in Welsh mythology, that of the red dragon. Desperate and running out of time, Owain enacts a ritual, asking for the dragons' support. Moving into the morning, Owain takes his last stand, defiant and tragic. During his final moments Owain sees the dragon from his father’s stories, a sign of hope.

Villa

What starts as a filmmaker’s intension to showcase a man’s struggle with mental health and depression, soon becomes a vindictive and manipulative attack on her subject and those closest to him, a direct result of her own ingrained and deep-rooted prejudices. There is no victim or hero in her eyes, only evil-doers whom she is hell bent on exposing through her images and line of questioning. At the brunt of the filmmaker's onslaught is Daniel Smyth, a sufferer of Schizophrenia with Paranoia. Then she gets her teeth into Jenny Carr, who is a hard-nosed kickboxer, and finally Daniel's girlfriend Kate Edwards, who is unwittingly in a love triangle with Daniel and Jenny. The filmmaker makes them squirm, flirting around the subject in the inevitable lead up to giving the game away.

BiAban

Without Aban

Aban is a forest ranger who has to get married in another month. In a chase with wood smugglers, he finds a little girl on the road who has died. Everyone doubts that he must have had an accident with the child, but Aban does not admit it, but admits that he killed a girl 15 years ago in such a situation and secretly buried her. The police ask him for a sign or a document, but he has no evidence, and even the place where he buried the child has become a highway ... Aban complains about himself, but there is no evidence to prove his conviction.

Martha’s Journey

The University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten is a creative safe space to try out new things, experience different concepts and challenge yourself. You can only create something truly personal and unique if you believe in yourself and your own ideas.

The Book of Joshua

A young preacher contemplates walking away from his calling as he struggles to revitalize his congregation in an economically depressed region of the South.

IN THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS

Just before conditions on Planet Earth became unsuitable for human life, a small group of children received a message from a faraway galaxy: an ancient civilization’s plea for notes describing life on Planet Earth. In The Garden of Forking Paths is made from all that is left of those notes.

بيت العمر

Bayt El Omor (Home of a Lifetime)

Tinged with melancholy, this tightly staged short film follows a nostalgic Lebanese widow grappling to honor her late husband, despite her life being at stake in the walls of her own home.

Baby Boy

BABY BOY is an adrenaline fuelled dark drama following a sexually repressed London black cab driver, who abandons his wife and children when he relapses in drug addiction and descends into a wild weekend of crack cocaine, robbery and violence with his young queer lover. The film explores addiction, sexuality and masculinity against the backdrop of modern day London.

Losing Flowers For All Occasions

An experimental climate change poem, the explores the idea of the Earth heating up to the point all of the flowers die, including the one's we put on the graves.

LONG WAY BACK

David and his estranged daughter Lea are forced to make a long and eventful car journey home together after she leaves university under tragic circumstances.

INKA

Slapstick comedy about an Eastern European girl arriving in the UK.

Four O'Clock Flowers

In the aftermath of a violent knife crime, two mothers must face their feelings of loss, guilt and revenge.

Never Ask Why

The unfulfilled dream of a young football fan became the catalyst to help achieve the dreams of talented young under-15 football / soccer players who come from very underprivileged and under-nourished families, struggling to meet their daily needs. 'Never Ask Why' is the journey of Jishnu Mitra and how his dreams have provided hope to over 250 children in Delhi and Kolkata, India. It is the story of the 1st year of the Jishnu Mitra Foundation, where the children played under the banner of 'Dream Team' in the U-15 Delhi Youth League. This short docu-drama explores the impact of football foundations in the sporting ecosystem in India. While exploring the themes of ambition, failure, the spirit of life, and love for 'the beautiful game' of football, the film is a celebration of hope, the display of true human spirit and grit that brings strangers together for a larger cause. The children did not win the league but they won the hearts and minds of everyone with their playing style and passion for the beautiful game. 'Never Ask Why' is a maiden passion project from the start-up production house 'Eating Potatoes'. The film is directed by Saurabh Dubey, the Co-founder of Eating Potatoes, who is also an acclaimed musician, rapper and lyricist.

Please Don’t Stand Up When Room Is In Motion

'Please Don't Stand Up When Room Is In Motion' uncovers Ali (Novo Amor)'s journey over the production of his Welsh Music Prize-nominated album ‘Cannot Be, Whatsoever’. The title—plucked from the album’s artwork—refers to the idea of embracing the mess, chaos and clutter that surrounds the creative process of writing an album; not letting go and seeing where the path takes you.

BETH (10 minute cut)

A true story of one asylum patient's struggle as her focus on returning home does not go as she planned. A period piece that highlights the travesty of those resting in unmarked graves from barbaric treatments.

1934

A moving love story lost in the past. Mountains as a place of the soul, between Trentino and Südtirol. Twenty pictures taken between spring and summer 1934. A composition of photographs, sound design, and narrating voice.

Leaving Yesterday

After waking up in a stranger's apartment, a man begins wandering through lost memories, reluctantly remembering a part of his past he tried to forget.

GISOUM

After her mother’s death, a young woman finds out that her father is alive. Forced by curiosity, she returns from France to Iran in order to search for him after 30 years. Along with her husband and a bunch of old friends, desperately seeking an unseen father, she travels to the northern coasts of Iran. Gradually, through the journey, everyone realizes that she has got so many untold secrets…

Kara - Star Of The World

Kara was five years old when a devastating accident caused her traumatic brain injury. Now thirty five years later she has returned to where it all happened to see the way things used to be and should have been and what is to become on her journey to be Star of The World.

One Last Spin

An unflinching look at gambling addiction through the eyes of recovering addicts. One Last Spin explores the environments that condition people to gamble and the devastating effects it has on their lives and communities.

AanDigari

Anotherself

A trans girl goes back to the family after twelve years.

Changing skin

We are little miracles. Tiny ones, even, who never stop shedding our skins, over and over. The world settles in our sweat. Alone, though, with no memory of what drove us into this life that jealous people claim is ours. Forgotten, skins fall one after another, like caresses that—much moreso than our cells, in truth—create them, these skins, which are neither ours nor those of others, regardless of the energy that we spend, at night, exchanging them.

Buskers

Street Musicians Selection and Placement Examination is held by the municipality to determine the places where street musicians play. Where and when each musician will be found which songs he will play will be determined according to the results of the exam. The little girl who saves money to buy a red violin wants to take this exam, but she can't wake up. While other musicians comfort the sad girl at the exam venue, the exam results are announced, but the musicians and the little girl realize the nonsense exam they are in.

China in a Box

“China In A Box” from Irish singer/song writer Niall McNamee is about a loving, honest, yet fragile relationship and how these connections with a loved one should be cherished. Tugging at your heartstrings, the song is emotional and sincere, with raw pianos emitting a warmth and comfort. China in a box is the music video teaser to the Feature Film, Love Without Walls showing the character's back stories ... the film will be released in 2022. (www.lovewithoutwallsfilm.com)

The End

On the day of their wedding, Princess Hilderose follows her gallant fiancée Sir Maximilian to fulfill his one request before they get married: to slay a dragon to prove he's worthy of her love. But to her horror, the only thing that returns from the cave is his headless corpse, leading to the end of their fairy tale. However, as the credits roll, Princess Hilderose jumps in to stop it, determined to go back in time to the beginning of their story to save her love. She tries multiple times to save him, however her fiancée has more love than brains in his head, not heeding her warning and dying over and over again. Finally, angry and fed up, Princess Hilderose takes the sword for herself and kills the dragon with ease, dragging her fiancée into the church and finally getting her happily ever after.

Try To

Feeling guilty means being lost, hurt, sad, paralyzed, hopeless, angry. “Try To” should make us feel all of the above. It is a story about guilt and a story about a question: Can we keep on living, knowing what we have done? The world that surrounds our main character John, is fabricated by his mind, his thoughts, fears, hopes and memories. John has encapsuled himself in this imaginary world to keep out the real one. However, through his senses, the outside keeps creeping in. The things he hears and feels in the real-world weave into his imaginary experience, hinting at what he has done. He can now choose to keep ignoring reality and with it the ones that need him the most, or he can come back into the real-world and live with his guilt. John will never be able to live a normal life again, but for his family he at least must try to.

Legacy

"Legacy," in collaboration with poet Fiona Tinwei Lam and based on her poem, creates a memory space using symbolic objects, evocative tableaux, and a variety of digital effects to concretize the wisdom that comes with temporal and emotional distance, creating a fanciful, wry, and occasionally bittersweet postmortem of a relationship that founders on the rocks of cross cultural differences. Biography of Fiona Tinwei Lam Fiona Tinwei Lam is a writer, editor, and educator from Vancouver, Canada. She has authored three poetry collections: Intimate Distances (finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Prize), Enter the Chrysanthemum, and Odes & Laments. as well as a children’s book. Her poetry and prose appear in over 40 anthologies, including The Best Canadian Poetry (2010 and 2020 editions). She has co-edited two anthologies of nonfiction and edited The Bright Well: Contemporary Canadian Poetry about Facing Cancer. Her award-winning video poems have been screened at festivals locally and internationally. www.fionalam.net Text of the poem: Legacy Each summer, your mother’s hands transformed heaped bowls of ripe fruit into glistening fillings. Her deft persuasion of dough into pastry through the white silted air Rhubarb, blueberry, peach, apple -- desserts for a year’s worth of holidays. I tried to make pie the way I tried to be a wife: four pyrex pie plates, a battle to bind flour, fat and water into elusive tenderness. You gave me a yearning for homemade pie that lingered longer than love, then left with the pie plates and what you learnt -- congee breakfasts, the intricate textures of dim sum, how to eat shark's fin with a spoonful of vinegar, never to forgo the good luck of red bean soup, and always to rest your chopsticks parallel across the bowl at a meal's end. From Fiona Tinwei Lam, Intimate Distances (Nightwood Editions, Canada, 2002) Copyright © Fiona Tinwei Lam 2002

Blunt Instrument

Out on a rural country road, a woman encounters a mysterious man stranded with a stalled vehicle, possessing a hard guitar case. However, much to her surprise, he knows nothing about music or where he is going. Is the man saying who he really is?

The Pitch

The Pitch is a satirical short film that spoofs the advertising industry by imagining a potential collaboration between chicken nuggets and bluetooth speakers. Starring Lourdes Hernández, it follows a call between an agency creative and director trying to one up each other on the most important product of the year...vegan chicken nuggets. Ridiculous, absurd, yet only too real, The Pitch is a commentary on the agony of the creative process until it all becomes a mess.

Canvas

An ex-military boxer with PTSD seeks redemption in a local charity match to save his estranged father's gym.

Dance More

Are you a compulsive over-achiever? Dance More encourages us to value pleasurable experiences over mindless achievement. Dance More is one of 9 videos that comprise Directions to Enough, an experimental, self-help video series. The series presents guidelines for slowing down, becoming more present, and accepting difficult circumstances while maintaining high levels of creativity, productivity, and agency. These guidelines were first articulated during the Art of Enough podcast series. (Segment 5 – Directions to Enough – Jay Sullivan, 2018) Each video in the Directions to Enough video series has several intentions: 1) communicate to the audience a useful guideline for improving psychological and emotional health, 2) explore and expand the strategies and motifs related to traditional instructional videos, 3) create a unique creative process where the production of the video creates improved psychological and emotional health for the filmmaker.

Bald

Bald tells the heartwarming tale of how the baldest man in the world accidentally starts a moon-worshipping cult in South Wales.

Royaye Sahel

Beach dream

Amin's grandmother is sick. and his uncle, who owns a beach motel wich served several guests who they are foreign engineers , asks Amin to take care of the motel for only two days so that he could visit his mother before dies. And this is the beginning of physical, mental and spiritual maturity for Amin.

Ali and His Miracle Sheep

Guided by his grandmother’s haunting Sumerian lament, 9-year-old mute Ali takes his sheep, Kirmeta, for sacrifice on a strenuous 400km journey across Iraq’s landscape, destroyed by years of war, to the shrine of an ancient saint. Along the journey Kirmeta becomes increasingly resistant and runs away to escape his bloody fate. Ali eventually finds Kirmeta amongst carcasses of cars leftover from decades of violence and false promises of freedom. When Kirmeta collapses from exhaustion the pilgrims think he’s dead. But with the continuous prayers of grandmother back in the village, Kirmeta mysteriously recovers. Witnessing this the pilgrims declare him a MIRACLE SHEEP, a reputation that accompanies them on the rest of their journey. Can both boy and sheep survive the hardship and accept their fate? A lyrical hybrid film whose symbolism exposes the suffering of a nation whose only hope left is a mute child and his “miraculous” sheep. WINNER OF BEST FILM AWARD IN SHEFFIELD DOC FEST UK COMPETITION - The Sheffield Doc Fest jury wrote: “The jury was bewitched and moved in equal measure by Maythem Ridha’s intensely cinematic and lyrical film, which has the quality of an intimate epic in spite of its short length. Strikingly confident in both its embrace of formal hybridity and tonal ambiguity, the film shifts delicately from moment to moment in a flow of imagery that is at once beautiful, absurd and utterly heartbreaking. Ali and His Miracle Sheep made us consider the very meaning of "British cinema", when the fates and lived realities of individual nations are so inextricably bound up with the actions of others.”

Heart Valley

Heart Valley follows a day in the life of Wilf Davies, a shepherd from the small village of Cellan in Wales. Kind and inquisitive, the film looks at the world through Wilf's eyes, asking questions about what it is we should truly value.

NYC! Sound (Back) On

Celebrate New York's reopening with this audio-visual homage to the greatest city in the world. 900+ sounds sampled. 6 days of shooting. Countless days of editing. As New Yorkers eagerly await a full reopening, the Bonamaze directing duo celebrates the spirit of the city with the release of their new short, “NYC! Sound (back) On.” The goal of this creative, audio-visual homage is to capture the heartbeat of the Big Apple like never before, with a special emphasis on sound that brings the city’s diverse culture to vibrant life. Selected as Vimeo Staff Pick - Best of the Month and winner of Best Unscripted and Best Use of Sound & Music at Berlin Commercial 2021.

Infinite Wisdom of an Ageing Superhero

A love story between father and son. A passing down of ageless wisdom. Memories that we all hold close to our hearts. Words that ease our anxieties. The story takes place over a collage of memories shared by Harry and his dad. As father and son grow to be equals, the inevitable must intervene. Time is cut short. But this story is not about death, it is about the living.

Bella

A feature-length film about the life, work, influence and impact of California-based choreographer/Arts Activist Bella Lewitzky. Described as "...one of the greatest American dancers of our age," (Walter Terry) Bella Lewitzky was a talented, strong, out-spoken artist, who dedicated her creative life to protect the rights of every American citizen.