Ill Manors

Ill Manors 2012

6.30

Ensemble film revolving around characters living in Forest Gate, London. Over the course of a few days, six inter-linking stories explore issues of drug use, prostitution and urban poverty.

2012

Mum & Dad

Mum & Dad 2008

5.70

Mum and Dad, and their 'adopted' children, Birdie & Elbie, work at the airport. The family live off whatever they scavenge from cargo holds, offices and hotels - including a steady stream of transient workers who populate the airport's soulless hub. When Lena, a young Polish office cleaner, is befriended by Birdie, she gets drawn into a nightmarish world of torture, murder and perversity.

2008

The Hungry

The Hungry 2017

5.70

Tulsi Joshi, a widow and bride to be comes to her own wedding seeking revenge for the brutal murder of her first born son.

2017

Trail of the Spider

Trail of the Spider 2008

9.50

Trail of the Spider transposes Western genre motifs and the suppressed racial history of the American west (where one in three cowboys were black or Mexican) onto the transforming landscape of East London. Questioning and re-imagining the Western’s portrayal of the “Vanishing Frontier” , the film extends the metaphor to the material and psychological conditions of a present day city increasingly dominated by volatile financial speculations and private interests.

2008

The Empty Plan

The Empty Plan 2010

1

Shifting between documentary, historical reconstruction and melodrama, The Empty Plan interrogates the relationship between theory and practice in the theatre of Bertolt Brecht.

2010

Borrowed Time

Borrowed Time 2013

5.30

The story of two totally contrasting figures who come together in the most hostile of circumstances, only to form an unlikely bond that will help them both find a way out of their respective troubles. It is a bittersweet comedy about growing up and rediscovering youth in parallel, united by the subconscious desire to seek out the missing elements in their lives.

2013

I Used to Be Famous

I Used to Be Famous 2015

6.00

A culture clash between a washed-up pop star and a musically talented young man with autism. These opposite characters transform each other's worlds through the power of music.

2015

All the World's a Screen: Shakespeare on Film

All the World's a Screen: Shakespeare on Film 2016

1

An exploration into the history of Shakespeare's plays, from the silent era to the modern day featuring archive interviews with movie directors including Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh and more.

2016

Knock Down Ginger

Knock Down Ginger 2016

4.00

Set in the late 1990s, tensions run high as Sarah-Lee learns that it's not always fun and games when it comes to growing up.

2016

Spring

Spring 2011

4.20

This short gay themed film touches some of the more extreme areas of gay eroticism. The encounter of the younger, possibly virgin young man, with a slightly older man is full of little ritualistic intimacies that will shape this young man's life - and his life will never be the same again....

2011

Naptha

Naptha 2019

6.00

Faraz’s quiet life working at an isolated petrol station is turned upside down when his ageing father Malik begins to speak in a long-forgotten language and insists on returning back home.

2019

Yowie and the Magpie

Yowie and the Magpie 2008

1

Set amid the rocky outcrops and dusty spinifex of the Australian outback, a supernatural monster tale documents the downfall of one man and his nemesis, the abominable apeman of aboriginal folklore, The Yowie.

2008

Balsa Wood

Balsa Wood 2014

2.00

A light hearted slice of life of a suburban Filipino/mixed race family.

2014

Bunny and Clive

Bunny and Clive 2016

1

News of a new girlfriend disrupts mother-and-son crime duo, Bunny and Clive.

2016

Ramona & The Chair

Ramona & The Chair 2016

1

Ramona takes all her therapist's advice as the word of God. But instead of enlightenment, she finds herself in a trinity of confusion with an empty chair.

2016

Two Dosas

Two Dosas 2014

5.60

Geeky Pavan takes his ‘English Rose’ on a date to the most authentic Indian restaurant in the city. To his horror she goes off-menu, in Hindi...

2014

Talking with Angels

Talking with Angels 2003

8.00

A young boy struggles to maintain a degree of normality for his family in the face of his mother's mental instability in England's North West in 1971.

2003

Passenger

Passenger 2014

1

Young couple Tom and Alex, traveling on London's tube, meet Peter. Ensuing conversation and events challenge Tom and Alex’s view of the world, ultimately shattering the immortality of youth.

2014

The Field

The Field 2018

8.00

A poor agricultural labourer leads a double life in the village's last remaining cornfield. But the harvest is approaching.

2018