Encounters 14 · Bristol
239 films from 32 countries are recorded in the archive for this edition, with 6 award winners.
The festival marked the centenary of Russian animation with a special focus including historical rediscoveries and contemporary work. Joanna Quinn, one of the most celebrated figures in world animation with two Oscar nominations, presented Desert Island Flicks. Richard Williams gave a masterclass drawing on his legendary career from Who Framed Roger Rabbit to The Animator's Survival Kit. Peter Lord introduced newly rediscovered 1905 puppet animation by Alexander Shiryaev, and Clare Kitson launched her book on Channel 4's animation legacy. An advance preview of Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir was a festival highlight. Dennis by Mads Matthiesen won the International Jury Award.
Dennis is the story of a boys attempt to cut loose of his possessive mother and a fragile teenage mind captured in a huge macho body.
Helen is fighting for her life. She knows that her husband Jim will kill her unless she escapes. One night, following another vicious attack, she finds the courage to leave.
Having been struck by a 150-ton meteorite, Henry has to adapt to living precisely 91cms from himself.
In an in-between world of flyovers, grass verges and dead-ends, Marvin is not going anywhere. In this forgotten corner arrives an adolescent, changing his world forever.
A mother attempts to explain the intricacies of adult love to her young daughter.
The mating habits of the water shrew as never seen before…
A music video for the song by Wild Beasts.
Shot in B&W, the film follows the journey of Alex towards an emotional meeting and reconciliation with his father in the middle of English nowhere.
Ever wondered what it's really like to be Julia Roberts, Will Smith, Michael Douglas or Emma Thompson?
A portrait of an unusual shop in the East End of London, run by the same family for 130 years.
A Jehovah's Witness gets more than he bargained for when he calls upon a family who are in the middle of a domestic crisis.
A young freerunner strives to find his own personal route through life using the discipline of parkour, but it all stops when he reaches the inevitable mental block.
Sam is on a quest in a world where enemies are everywhere. His fantasy mission collides with harsh reality when his mother finds herself in danger.
This is a theatrical show of clockwork machines and skull headed chorus lines. Odell has incorporated Damien Hirst’s album artwork with his own signature style.
Three characters are displaced without future or past. Trace depicts their transitional state.
In the face of overwhelming urbanization, indifference and recklessness, a small creature struggles to preserve a remnant of the peace he once knew.
When a young man avenges his cousin’s dignity by stabbing her drug-dealing sex buddy, he sets off a chain of bloody events that leads to his own ruin.
Olja is spending her summer holidays with her grandmother in Russian where she left 8 years ago. With her childhood friend, she gets to rediscover her roots.
A poetic study on the cruelty and innocence of youth.
A five-year-old Scottish boy discusses the best way for a group of small dinosaurs to stop a big dinosaur from picking on them.
Ali is thrown out for coming home drunk by his father. He spends a night rough on the streets. Then he sees something that gives him the strength to face his father.
A chance encounter with two apparently affable strangers in the remote countryside forces a couple to confront the dark heart of their fractured relationship.
In a Victorian studio, a first-time model poses for a callous photographer.
Within the confines of an underground theatre’s vaults, a young boy finds himself trapped as the evening’s events unfold.
Told through a single stand up comedy routine, John J Jones performs to an unforgiving audience. As he loses interest, his body rebels against him, and the truth behind the one-liners leaks through the cracks. This is car-crash comedy at its most compulsive.
An old man sits on a bench in a park. He feeds pigeoons as life passes by in front of him. He notices something and stands, sending the pigeons scattering. We move with him as it's increasingly revealed that he's not the vulnerable character we first thought he was.
A little world is in trouble. The film explores the inhabitant’s reaction to the impending doom. One man tries to stop the inevitable.
AJ is just 22-years-old but already a father of seven. His tough appearance conceals a sensitive young man living through some of the defining moments in his life.
The world collides in Chungking Mansions. As perhaps the most diversly populated building on earth it is a paradise of multi-culturalism and low-end globalisation, uniquely belonging to no one and everyone.
This film is a subconscious drift through despair, frustration, joy and redemption. It features a collection of surreal characters at crucial moments in their briefly glimpsed stories.
A husband secretly plots his wife’s funeral. What he doesn’t know is that the wife is always one step ahead of the husband.
At the end of a school day there’s one girl who doesn’t want to go home. She dreams up an identical self that follows her around.
Amidst the London summer of 1978, two classmates discover a mutual admiration for music and each other through the latest Buzzcocks single.
Jessica was kicked out at 16 after a family argument and has been housed by the council ever since. The film paints a grim picture of the reality of a life on benefits.
A date with a great love.
A true story of a woman who tries to seek asylum in the UK. Speaking of her experience in her own words, the film illustrates the journey she goes through.
In peaceful Halftone City, a mysterious heroine and a brave ally face the ultimate threat.
Stevie has seconds to make a decision that will affect the rest of his life. He asks the Almighty for some guidance.
Matt and Nayar are thrown together in the chalet of a holiday park. This reluctant encounter of one day becomes a moment of significance for both of them.
In an in-between world of flyovers, grass verges and dead-ends, Marvin is not going anywhere. In this forgotten corner arrives an adolescent, changing his world forever.
About a boy, a girl, and a bag of rubbish. When a young couple’s relationship reaches breaking point, they discover an unusual way to communicate again.
One man’s life told in one shot on one giant human-sized zoetrope.
A knitted newcomer brings music and dance to a small, isolated town. When done, he leaves behind a young boy and a red suitcase filled with questions.
When his trusty forecasting machine malfunctions, the weatherman’s life takes a turn for the worse... A short film with rain in places.
Danny lives in two worlds. One is full of magic, the other is dull. One day, he sees a chance to reach across and connect the two by sharing in a magical encounter.
A motorist struggles to lay the past to rest after picking up a hitchhiker who claims to know the future.
Don't pull the end of the thread… Darn it…
Keith Reynolds leaves his hat in his car. This isn’t the only mistake he makes today.
Helen is fighting for her life. She knows that her husband Jim will kill her unless she escapes. One night, following another vicious attack, she finds the courage to leave.
A mother attempts to explain the intricacies of adult love to her young daughter.
A family lives in a house that teeters precariously on the very tip of a mountain. The balance of the house is affected not only by the family that lives inside, but also their cow, dog, cat, a passing bird, and a man who returns in a car with a couple of sheep.
A group of evenly and carefully placed men live on a floating platform. Each man is aware that the platform is not stable and in order not to fall to their deaths, they maintain a careful balance of weight to prevent the platform from tipping too far and cause them all to fall.
A family face a dilemma when they discover that they cannot afford to bury their father. Mum and the children cart Dad’s rigor mortised corpse throughout the city in search of a suitable burial place.
A son disappeared on the war front two years ago. When he finally calls home, his family want to forget the suffering of the past. An allegory about the human need of past, present and future.
Mr. K is a do-it-your-selfer and he works very seriously. One day he has a problem with one of his screws. Furious, he decides to complain at the administration office of the Department Store of Non Ferrous Metals!
A collection of awkward and embarrassing everyday moments, each with an uneasy familiarity.
Unlike its usual role as an anonymous design tool, the transition moves into the centre of attention here. The images themselves, in contrast, remain empty.
East meets West in an acid-based encounter with male consciousness on the verge of collapse.
Pure fantasia, a race to save the world from a fatal heart attack, juxtaposed against a love rivalry between two brothers - a mortician and an actor playing Christ - for the heart of a scientist studying the Earth's core.
In the forest, a lion captures a mouse and is about to devour it when the mouse proposes a deal.
A man is in prison. His cell companion is tortured to death. When the guards come for him, he manages to escape them. By this desperate attempt, he reaches the roof of the building. From the watchtowers, a soldier threatens him: then the prisoner expresses all the measurement of his freedom.
solutions to some of the most amazing characters in the extra-terrestrial job.
A man and his son are living on the top of a mountain. The only access to the outer world is a bridge. Since it fell down, the two characters are completely isolated from the rest of humanity. The father used to overpretect his son from the sad reality of men's world. One night, the child see the flashing lights of a remote city.
A child manages to tame a huge white wolf and to ride on it. He and his little brother are delighted. But to feed the family, their father brings home one day a bigger animal than usual, a white wolf.
Mrs P gets lost in London so we don't have to.
The great escape from homework can bring you to amazing places.
An impatient girl takes on the task of building a robot. Can she complete it without destroying her own creation?
The story about a young girl, her mother, the Royal Family and shopping. Animated music video with lots of airplanes, antennas and one explosion.
Anything a cat can do, a horse can do badly.
Rubbish, rubbish and more rubbish. After the disappointment of recycling we scale the garbage mountains and peer into the litter-strewn future.
Explore with us man's demented love affair with the car. Hurtle with the Guzzler family in dino-SUVs, rocketmobiles and various eco-cars towards the ultimate destruction of the world.
A short animation film about the filmmaker's grandmother, Oma Grete, and the gigantic house dust mites that threaten to destroy the world.
A short film about two very different colleagues and the tense situation that builds up as the tidy rooster gets increasingly annoyed with the clumsy elephant.
This is a singular view about the story of good and evil and the eternal fight for supremacy, when in fact they do not know that they need one another to keep existing.
A lone astronaut attempts to terrafarm a hostile planet with a malfunctioning robot As his only campanion. Every small success the Terrafarmer enjoys is decimated by the robot's stupidity in a classic chalk and cheese comedy.
Being controlled by time can take its toll!
A live action 3D animation about J03, an 8bit digital man stuck in our 21st century analogue world searching for a way home.
One of Collision's latest works directed by Ben and Chris - a Mad Max style post-apocalyptic vision of our dark and not too distant future - with dancing!
Traditionally animated stop motion film about the day in the life of a family of house mice - set to the Knife's beautifully atmospheric track.
A painstaking recreation and frame by frame homage to Russ Meyer's "Valley of the Ultra Vixens" - featuring the Pipettes as the main attraction.
A soul searching film noir centred round a tortured faith healer haunted by his disturbing past.
The band do some really quite superb acting in this tale of family dysfunction that ends up in a tea table brawl.
Their privacy is soon to be interrupted by the most (un)likely of voyeurs.
A seemingly normal club performance takes a very dark turn indeed.
The latest Collision video and a dark tale of power and money corrupting a simple farmer when he is given a magical golden guitar.
The video that launched Collision and won a sea of awards - Thom Yorke takes more than he should from an enchanted forest and suffers the consequences.
The band take a ride in their plasticine tour bus through a truly bizarre and trippy claymation world.
A colourful journey through life with an adventurous apple.
Alone at the top of a crane, a weary worker has had enough of his yapping colleague.
This urban tragedy shows the disastrous consequences of youth violence.
A hotel cleaning lady gets creativre when faced with a mess.
An impressionistic view of the seaside using hand-drawn animation, photography and collage.
A fanciful tale of the philandering Mr. Peep and his suffering but resourceful wife.
Things are not as they seem as a schoolboy takes a peek at his hand during an exam.
A cautionary yet stylish tale of celebrity gone wrong.
One man relates his journey from Africa to the detention centres of Britain.
An edgy cut-and-paste piece on industrialisation's destruction of the environment.
A portrait of life for a weaver and her assistant.
An animated film shot on location in North Tipperary. It consists of six stories by six farmers from one parish.
A blind old man sitting by a river… under his favourite tree with the sun shining… evocative sounds play around him as he has an extraordinary reverie.
An old man and a young indigenous woman anticipate the end of the world in August. Is it going to be in the present or in the distant future?
The life of a quiet, hard working man is interrupted by some noise obstacles that will challenge him his way of living.
Hikikomori is a condition prevalent in Japan where young people shut themselves in their rooms for months, even years on end. Yasuo Yamamoto is one such person.
What is a home? Are we ever at home? This film explores the feelings and thoughts of the relationship between a person and his home.
An unsure encounter between a small girl and a stoat.
The mating habits of the water shrew as never seen before…
A simply drawn tale of opening up and shutting down.
Stereo takes on vacuum in this no-holds barred fight to the death.
This documentary follows a newly discovered Neanderthal Humanlike specimen which is found to have logic-solving intelligence.
When villagers come across a mirror for the first time, they mistake their own reflection for a stranger. A Korean folktale.
A story of a purple boy, a green ball, a red ball, a green girl, a red girl and purple boy.
When the man who always finsihes last finds his luck is turning around, his rival from across the valley will go to any measures to even up the scales.
A robot attempts to babysit a mischievous young boy with disastrous results.
Josie had been a ;eukaemia patient for many years. After being told her condition is terminal, she decided to go home and reunite with her family.
What if you watch a film and whenever you desire to pause it, you face a painting?
The birds took over London and came to power. The Bird Empire expands beyond the Earth boundaries and falls under unexpected circumstances.
An elderly couple's lives are turned upside down when he gets stuck to the ceiling. Gravity may have given up on him but she certainly hasn't!
A macabre tale of love and obsession.
An old woman remembers a childhood episode. Past demons are recalled then banished in her imagination. Meanwhile the outside world goes on – oblivious.
Jack woke up in a Funk one day. No one really knows how it started.
An animation about a young Nigerian girl recounts her experiences of being fostered into a white British family.
When the bedtime story ends and the lights go out, a little boy exacts revenge on his tormenting older brother.
Tavi, a man in his late thirties, discovers that Alexandra, his 4 year old daughter, is not calling him 'Dad' anymore.
What starts off as harmless fun between two young brothers soon turns into a power struggle in which one is eventually forced to fight for his life.
A child with a fertile imagination sees her grandfather’s illness under a new light: perhaps he’s a wizard!
Madame Tutli-Putli boards the night train and finds herself caught up in a desperate metaphysical adventure, drifting between real and imagined worlds.
A film diary about the vicissitudes of existence and how to encounter them with dignity. A journey in which space and time coordinates become tangled…
A one-take overhead shot features trampolining gymnasts displaying large plaques emblazoned with words simulating music video editing effects in the movements.
Candid never loved her. Manipulation is his favourite game.
The short life of a boy in Africa, who loses his mother to Aids and finds his last home in an orphan village.
An innocent love affair between two truanting Singapore teenagers plays out indoors whilst the haze spreads outside from burning forests in neighbouring Indonesia.
Betty sleeps in a narcoleptic stupor. Uncle Henri VIII, Aunt Victoria, an emotional alien, a cool witch and a handsome prince come to wake the Princess.
A story about a man in a yellow raincoat searching for his echo.
A delicious food of vanishing times meets two men. They understand each other even without words.
A tunnel-maker and a farmer practice Icelandic wrestling in order to escape their daily routine and to express their true selves.
Otto and Lola, two cabaret artists, fill their lives with their passion: acting.
Dennis is the story of a boys attempt to cut loose of his possessive mother and a fragile teenage mind captured in a huge macho body.
A boy returns home shortly before he joins the army. A sensitive depiction of an 18-year-old’s struggle between national duties and personal liberty.
Having been struck by a 150-ton meteorite, Henry has to adapt to living precisely 91cms from himself.
A taxi-driver falls in love with his passenger and decides to marry her. The young lady has to escape before the wedding…
A sponge, a salad, a car, a balloon and a pair of socks compete in a series of heroic trials. A classical epic!
Against old wisdom, Teresa decides to prove to everyone that she can become a fisherwoman.
Highway, nighttimes, a rundown building and a van. Two men drag a woman into the building. Three women and two men are inside the van. Another car appears…
A woman is in a coma. In her mind, she’s trying to reach glowing light on the horizon. Her partner’s affection helps her on her journey to wake up.
During an opulent and luxurious banquet, complete with hordes of servers and valets, eleven pampered guests participate in what appears to be a ritualistic gastronomic carnage. In this absurd and grotesque universe, an unexpected sequence of events destablishes the endless symphony of abundance.
As Marija discovers the world, she is often alongside firemen. Is it because things around her catch fire?
Tola finds herself hopelessly trapped under Kuba’s spell, and she must fight with her emotions to set herself free. It will take more than good advice to help her fall out of love…
A security guard secretly falls in love with a bookstore clerk via CCTV monitor and looks for ways to connect with her. Then she appears with another guy…
Hanley has it all – a job, a house, and a fiancée, until he pulls out his wedding. His life disintegrates before his eyes. Has his ex-fiancée placed a curse up him?
Five bored kids decide to blow something up. It seals the fate of Nathan, who risks everything after he is bullied, into making a life and death decision.
A crocodile, a mouse, a cat and an elephant are all trying to make their way up the career ladder, using all knowledge they have gleaned from management bestsellers.
Two young brothers search for a new life outside the Arab drug slums. When a traumatized Israeli ex-soldier comes to the neighbourhood, an opportunity arises.
A teenage boy hindered by his father's expectations escapes into the thick fog with a girl and emerges a young man.
Frankie is 15 and preparing for fatherhood. He is determined to be the best dad ever, but as his day goes on, he starts to realise how impossible this will be for him.
Lucas suffers from insomnia since he lost his daughter in a car accident. He tries to reconstruct her last moments in order to accept the event of that tragic night.
One night on a train, a Bosnian salesman encounters an African, who tries to enter the country illegally, and a federal policeman on his last service.
A timid boy has a crush on a girl, who is a friend of his mate. The film follows a group of young teenagers on a journey from innocence to adulthood.
Thirteen-year-old Nancy encounters her first real threat as a female when an older man aggressively pursues her on her way home.
On Jonas’ 14th birthday, his only friend Tüte gives him a coupon for a hairdresser. The two boys decide to skip school and go to the town…
Conny’s world crumbles when her husband is suspected of murder. Through her love for him she tries to fight the rumours and her own suspicions.
A young woman must fight against her circumstances to learn how to be a good mother.
A gang of three kids decide to get rid of a boy from the neighbourhood. Based on the short story by Charles Bukowski.
Karl Szmolinsky is contacted by the North Korean government to send his “German Giants” to Pyong Yang. What happens next is beyond his imagination.
Having won the lotto, Lola starts to imagine her new life. However, her husband has a different plan…
Patrick, a Chadian-Irishman auditions for a role in a film depicting a civil war drama set in the fictional nation of Miranda.
A story about a boy and the curiousness of his favourite treat.
A scientist has become obsessed with the strange half-eel, half-human creature he’s studying. When she beckons him to her, it’s the call of a siren…
In the aftermath of a disaster, a defending champion is left stranded on a desolate landscape. This film portrays a redundant champion faced with an indifferent world.
It’s the final of the Rush of Joy, fame, money, free healthcare are up for grabs. The stakes are high and the risks great. Who’s got what it takes to become a winner?
Detective McGee volunteers for the Federal Air Marshall programme and accidentally stumbles upon a drug smuggling ring.
Four children play hide and seek in an old house and they soon encounter the house’s monstrous owner. For one of them, the day is about to get a lot worse.
A poem exploring the ambivalence implicit within interpersonal relationships of infant siblings… sort of.
One small random act of malice forces an ordinary man off the safe road and on to a dark journey that he'll never forget.
Maggie arrives for the second date with Nick, her sexual partner, only to find three other dinner guests.
Laying the dead to rest has never been so much trouble.
200,000 people work on the beaches of Rio de Janerio. They call themselves ‘Ambulantes’ and they earn a living selling all kinds of goods to the ‘bahnistas’ (beach-goers). Marcel and Tila work on the beaches and their’s is a tale of hardship and determination; two stories among thousands of lives.
On her 16th birthday in a small factory town in North Wales, Tina dreams of escaping her inevitable blue collar destiny – the production lines of the local chicken factory. Frustrated by her lack of choices Tina yearns to raise her status above the expected. But will she fail? A poetic tale of the journey from childhood to adulthood,.
A complex thought process made simple…
A dark, surreal reverie on the consequences of alcohol abuse in which David Evans is taken on a journey of repressed guilt and surpression.
An affluent English banker takes a high-risk investment in Islam.
Postman Alasdair rows to the mainland everyday in order to collect letters for his Island and meet with Isla, the postwoman. One day he receives a letter announcing his redundancy. Only then does he realise what is important to him.
Leonard has finally buried all of his problems – or so he tjinks. Can he secape when they keep coming back to haunt him?
What will happen in the future, what will happen to the next generation of people in Serbia? ‘Playground’ interviews the children of Presevo, focusing on the conflicts between the Roma gypsies, Albanian and Serbian people.
A man with a ventilator in his head gets an idea stuck in the system and the man’s head inflates. He is immortalised through a monument.
Continuous rain disrupts the quiet life of a mountain settlement.
The romantic story of amateur pilot Mario and ornithologist and cameraman Giuseppe. The magic bird Stuzzi makes their dreams come true…
Lisa Skvortsova has chosen lullabies from around the world for her animation series. Here we see a Russian Lullaby, a Lullaby from the Isle of Man and an Irish Lullaby.
In Mordovinian folklore a KuiGorozh is a hybrid between an owl and a snake that fulfils any wish as long as its master can keep it busy. The laziness of a couple thus leads to disaster…
Schmidt’s debut film is based on fairy-tale themes. Vasilisa is snatched by the witch Baba Yaga, but a bear comes to her rescue.
Based on a story by Nikolai Gogol, the film tells of an old couple who cannot live without each other…
Far away in the north live some snow owls. When one falls into a hole, the others look down and also fall…
Hakim tricks three men responsible for the loss of his house into buying his servant-hare played by his wife who performs miracles and fulfils any wishes…
Carlo Roda has gleaned thousands of film reels over the past 30 years. Why does his life’s work now sit in a damp, dusty warehouse while his dreams turn into memories?
A documentary team follow community warden Dougie McLelland, a well-meaning idiot who dreams of becoming a cop.
A dark horror about a man and his obsession with hunting and cleansing homeless people.
Within a winding Edinburgh stairwell, a frail old man struggles to makes his way up the many flights to the summit.
With everything to win and everything to lose, four anonymous players at a high-rolling card game stake it all on the last hand. Last chance to make a killing. Last chance to beat the odds. The pressure’s on. Somebody’s going to snap.
A young couple break into an abandoned school. Strangers to one another they struggle to achieve the intimacy they desire.
A trip to the chip shop ends in humiliation for a young girl and her grandfather, but can her love for him rescue them both?
The concept of space travel through the eyes of a ten-year-old.
Sometimes temptation is too hard to resist for Wilson Brown and his Chinese Finger Trap.
Different interpretations of 'silence' created by students of II Documentary Course, conducted by Andrzej Wajda, Master of the School of Film directing.
Moscow's famous electric train starts off from the station. Some people are dozing off, tohers are reading, some are deeply involved in their own thoughts. The film was made as a part of the programme Russia-Poland: A New Gaze.
A short story about a man who sits on a street lamp. A couple of friends returning home at dawn pass by. No force or arguments can bring him down.
Patty Diphusa is an erotic film star created by Pedro Almodovar. One day she comes to Poland, because the script says so. She waits for a man of her dreams, but he is not coming. She calls to Almodovar.
Residents of a psychiatric institution are observed on their visit to the Institution's general store. Some simply shop, others sing.
One of the main thrusts behind the making of the film is an attempt to return to the time of childhood, vacation, and hot summer. 'I remember the feeling when the indefinite number of noteworthy details, things to discover, stories to explore, matters to think over, made each day seem to last forever.'
A glance between Ryan and Ed on a Sheffield bus ignites a sexual fuse. But Ryan is only 13 and Ed is a middle aged man.
A man attempts to save an elderly woman from the grasp of a faulty pacemaker. All is not what it seems.
First love blossoms whilst gang rivalry rules the day and wolves prowl the night.
Paul is selling up the family house. His sister Joan pays him a visit, the discovery of something from their childhood rekindles memories long forgotten.
A tense stand-off between a man and a horse. Based on the short story by Ted Hughes.
A misunderstanding between a family and a stranger has far-reaching consequences.
A farm in spring. A teenage boy, visiting there, is excluded from the sexuality his friends are exploring. Alone in the unfamiliar house he’s frustrated, until a chance encounter that draws him out into the wilds.
Afterwards, Dad and Nick came to the grey, windy seaside to try to become a family again.
An unusual friendship between Toby, a bereaved and angry 12 year old, and his classmate Art, a wise and witty kid who just happens to be plastic and filled with air.
A street preacher is challenged to put his faith to the ultimate test by an angry young atheist.
Homer, a seemingly dysfunctional teenager makes a bet with his eccentric bong-smoking grandfather that could spell danger for a local shopkeeper.
The story of Francis Cooper and his mother; Emily Maddison and that man's face; and Craig MacKay and his cat.
Philip is being bullied at his new school. As his father is in prison, it falls to his mother to srot out his nasty classmates, which she does with stunning aplomb.
Shannon Airport, September 1994 - Irish Government representatives wait for Boris Yeltsin. Unfortunately, El Presidente cannot meet the Irish delegation on the tarmac. Some plain talking on the Irish side escalates into a diplomatic incident.
Laura, a 12 year old Protestant girl wants to be a Riverdancer when she grows up. However, with her mother dead, will her Dad, Lexie, help her?
A toe tappin’ Rock ‘n’ Roll rebel (Ardal O’Hanlon) from Northern Ireland saves the planet from mute-ants, with only his hearing impairment, a trusty tractor, and a fertiliser/moonshine bomb.
Yu Ming wishes to escape his dull life working in China. Randomly, he chooses Ireland to relocate to. Arriving in Dublin he is puzzled to find that nobody understands a word he says!
A dramatic day in the life of a remote answering machine, which leaves the viewer wondering about the real stories behind some of the cryptic messages left for the recipient.
Harry thought his past was behind him. He was wrong. Harry must do one last job for his old boss. If he refuses, his young daughter dies.
This poignant documentary explores a woman's unique take on her overweight and ageing body. Having recently turned sixty, Ethel continues to be self-assured and happy with the way she looks.
In 1993, 12 gay men were arrested and sentenced to imprisonment and caning in an entrapment exercise. This is a fictional account of what has happened since then.
As celebrations get under way on the holy day of Eid, a British Asian family are surprised by a sudden visit.
A frosty winter's day, a girl and a boy enter a café. He would like ice-cream, she feels like eating a cake, they seem to be very content. They talk because you can't just eat or drink in a café, you have to talk. About what? About everything.