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A Southern soldier in the American Civil War is sent to reconnoiter the enemy positions and becomes trapped beneath a huge pile of rubble by Northern...

Song tells the story of the women who worked in Victorian London's clothing sweatshops, eschewing a conventional narrative in favour of a series of...

A rich and challenging account of the experiences of a German Jewish musician who settled in Britain to escape Nazi persecution. Two of his friends...

This chilling and provocative faux home movie presents the story of three dissidents and their plan to commit a revolutionary act on film....

An elegant film about one man's fears and fantasies regarding HIV testing.

Traces the role of women in British television, from 1946 to 1997.

Captures a moment in 1970s Britain's immigration debate, focusing on new arrivals at Heathrow as they wrestle with immigration law.

A marital breakdown is brought to life through a mixture of dramatisation, monologue, montage and animation. Through the perspectives of the husband,...

In a hugely entertaining parody of her media persona, a pre-'Female Eunuch' Germaine Greer stars as a terrifyingly amorous woman who alternately...

The idyllic, rural past of a Suffolk village comes to life through the memories of an old man who tends a country graveyard.

A poetic young man crosses paths with a young runaway woman, and together they embark on an all-night journey through London’s sleepy...

European emigre Tanya moves to London to work as a family au pair. Still grieving for her recently deceased father and rejected by an old friend,...

An Englishwoman travels to a Normandy village to investigate her husband's disappearance.

An old woman, her grandson, cabbage soup... A man arrives, bearing meat, setting in motion a situation which escalates beyond the point of barter.

Animated retelling of the story of Noah's Ark by political cartoonist Abu.

A girl takes her camera along to a rocky beach, but quickly becomes fascinated with a far stranger mechanical contraption that she finds there.

The pressures of her job in a hospital forces a young doctor to abandon a colleague suffering from depression to treat another patient.

A series of non-dramatic tableaux representing scenes from De Sade's novel.

Inspired by Virginia Woolf, a young writer worries that marriage will hinder her literary ambitions. The film includes extracts from Virginia Woolf's...

A young woman enacts an imaginative revenge on her boyfriend for playing away. Director Chris Petit made this three-minute short to test a new super...