The Forfeit

A young working-class Welsh woman meets her wealthy English boyfriend’s eccentric family for the first time on Christmas Eve. She’s thrown straight into the family’s traditional Christmas game, and struggles to keep up with its in-jokes and strange rules. But as she improves, she begins to uncover a dark secret in the family’s past.

Written & Directed by Josie Charles & Phoebe Brooks | Produced by Lily Donnelly, Amy George

When The Clapping Stops

Written by a Care Worker

Matty - a young and dedicated care worker - meets his match when his agency assigns him to middle-aged firecracker and epilepsy sufferer, June. Despite struggling to access support from a sector stretched thin, Matty must also provide unpaid care for his terminally ill Grandfather. Soon, the emotional stress of balancing his personal and professional care duties begins to take its toll - abandonment and isolation causing dangerous cracks to appear.

Directed by Cameron Perry | Written by Sam Briggs | Produced by Mo Abdelkhalek, Tom Nangle

Slaughterhouse-Six

In this video director and choreographer Darya Gushina reasons on the topic of relationship between equals, when mental and physical violence suddenly becomes the main argument in the dialogue. Through movements and music against a harsh landscape, the author shows us how the winners, who are torn by conflicting feelings, invariably disguise their doubts and shame on their actions behind striving for humane goals and ideals.

Directed by Dasha Gushchina | Produced by Varvara Sidorenko

An Island Drifts

Set in Singapore, a young teacher presses for the truth from a maladjusted student, the act leads to devastating results and they suffer the ignominy of losing everything that matters to them. The story holds a mirror up to society, where a mistake can derail a life in an overly pressurized world.

Written & Directed by Vivian Ip | Produced by Jasmine Tay, Kim Mariel

Oluwale

The first documentary to explore the story of David Oluwale, a Nigerian immigrant chased or thrown into the River Aire by Leeds Police in 1969.

Written, Produced & Directed by Jeremiah Quinn

It's Dog To Make A Houseplant If You're Sandwich

In an anonymous suburbia of the near future, middle-aged dad Graeme becomes increasingly perplexed after his neighbour's dog vanishes, his wife and child disappear and then his favourite gadget goes haywire – but surely things can’t get any worse?

Written & Directed by Olivia Waring | Produced by Jesse Romain

Fall Better

Owusu is learning to walk again. He is in recovery from a debilitating illness and cannot trust his body to respond to him. But rebuilding a body isn’t just about rebuilding muscles: Owusu must learn to let himself fall, and fail, and face up to his weaknesses, in order to grow strong again.​

Written & Directed by George Magner | Produced by Joshua Brown