Ella Smith
Turner Prize-nominee and Deutsche Börse Prize-winner, Richard Billingham returns to the subject of the striking photographs that he captured of his family during Thatcher era Britain in this drama recounting his childhood in a Birmingham council flat.
Shot like a documentary, the semi-improvised comedy Hoff The Record follows TV legend David Hasselhoff – playing a highly fictionalized version of himself – as he arrives in the UK in an attempt to reignite his flagging career. It’s been thirty years since he rose to worldwide fame in Baywatch and Knight Rider and things have since gone a little stale for The Hoff. Will a move across the Atlantic change his luck?
A short film written by comics great Alan Moore, Jimmy’s End is a Lynchian noir about a Northampton writer and occultist who attempts to take over local people’s dreams on the way to taking over the world. It has an 18-minute prelude, Act of Faith.
A look at the people in charge and on the front lines of a contemporary police force.
Hot Property is an (un)romantic comedy about love, greed and estate agents. Melody Munro is a corporate spy with a big problem – she’s spending everything she has and a few things she hasn’t on her lavish lifestyle. But when she gets caught embezzling money from her company she is fired on the spot. No more car, no more credit cards, she can’t even afford Nespresso capsules. When her (now ex) friend and landlord calls to throw her out of the flat, it is the final blow. She will take no more. Melody vows to defend ‘her’ home at all costs. She uses her spy skills to take on her landlord, a raft of hipster tenants and a psychotic estate agent
In the late 1990s, a drug-addled nihilist resorts to murder to climb the ladder of the London music industry.
The girls of St. Trinians are on the hunt for buried treasure after discovering headmistress Miss Fritton is related to a famous pirate.