Arts Council Of England Movies

A film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, based on a popular stage production by the Royal Shakespeare Company. A small boy dreams the play, which un...

Peggy wants to be married.......

Six teens who were traumatized by child abuse early in their lives come together to form a gang that ultimately plots revenge against the ones who com...

Tony Harrison's poetic essay on the working class - in particular the British miners -, its struggles, its dreams and its icononography - at the very...

Janice Beard is a dreamer who can't seem to quite make it big. She is working in an auto design company and falls for the mailboy, but he is hiding s...

An unconventional portrait of painter Frida Kahlo and photographer Tina Modotti. Simple in style but complex in its analysis, it explores the divergen...

The story of Exodus is relocated to the seaside town Margate. Moses lives in the Promised Lands with his adoptive parents, until he finds his mother i...

A 16mm anthology of experimental super 8 films by Derek Jarman, Michael Kostiff, Cerith Wyn Evans and John Maybury, with framing footage by Tim Burke...

An ageing director is making her final film: one delving into her past. Face to face with the embodiment of her younger self, the line between her pre...

Part home movie, part road movie, Kötting's riveting and eccentric film stars his 85-year-old grandmother Gladys - opinionated, bursting with anecdote...

Director Clio Barnard, using Harry and Paintbox techniques, intercut with a Hi-8 video diary, presents a non-narrative collage addressing sexual diffe...

A father and son rescue the sole survivor of a train crash.

A single mother determined to make it as a singer puts together an all-girl reggae group named Neeta, Sweeta, & Nastie with her friends. Living in a h...

An update of Gogol's comic story about a man who thinks the way to his boss's heart is by sending letters to her dog. Starring Steve Evets, Yasmin Mil...

An eager couple, Charlotte and Myles, are interrogated by two Home Office agents about their spousal visa application. They endure a series of assessm...

Cornwall 1895: a blatant swindle by the local bank threatens the life of a remote mining village. The fate of its whole community hangs on the courage...

A new film made from more than a hundred fragments of archive film, Echoes of the North transports you back to Northern England a century ago, taking...

Tody is a lonely bird slaving his life away in a packaging factory. He dreams of a better life in the sunshine with someone there who actually cares i...

A retelling of the Biblical story of Judith and Holofernes, exploring female aggression and the links between war and sexual desire.

A clear-eyed look at the inevitability of our demise, based on Philip Larkin’s poem of the same name.