Soundtrack: Simon Fisher-Turner

Direction Derek Jarman

Cast John Quentin · Nigel Terry · Derek Jarman · Tilda Swinton

Synopsis Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman's experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an exploration of the meanings associated with...

Direction Kamal Aljafari

Cast Darin Dibsy · Kamal Aljafari

Synopsis In the summer of 1982, the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time, it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive. The archive contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images. Taking...

Direction Jon Ronson

Cast Anthony Frewin · Stanley Kubrick · Anya Kubrick · Christiane Kubrick

Synopsis Stanley Kubrick's films were landmark events – majestic, memorable and richly researched. But, as the years went by, the time between films grew longer and longer, and less and less was seen of the director. What on earth was he...

Direction Bartek Dziadosz · Colin MacCabe · Christopher Roth · Tilda Swinton

Cast John Berger · Tilda Swinton

Synopsis 'The Seasons in Quincy' is the result of a five-year project by Tilda Swinton, Colin MacCabe and Christopher Roth to produce a portrait of the intellectual and storyteller John Berger. It was produced by the Derek Jarman Lab, an audio-visual...

Direction Mike Hodges

Cast Clive Owen · Alex Kingston · Gina McKee · Kate Hardie

Synopsis The gripping story of a writer who gets more than he bargained for when he takes a job at a casino in order to gather material for a novel. As he falls deeper into his life as a dealer, he...

Direction Lodge Kerrigan

Cast Katrin Cartlidge · Vincent D'Onofrio · Colm Meaney · Patrick Husted

Direction David Moore

Cast Ray Winstone · Essie Davis · David Warner · Tom Hardy

Synopsis A BBC adaptation of the classic tale of the 18th century demon barber of Fleet Street, London, who cuts the throats of his unsuspecting clients in his shop.

Direction Derek Jarman

Cast Tilda Swinton · Steven Waddington · Andrew Tieman · John Lynch

Direction Don Boyd

Cast Richard Harris · Lynn Redgrave · Tom Bell · Emma Catherwood

Synopsis Modern story inspired by King Lear set in contemporary Liverpool.

Direction Derek Jarman

Cast Tilda Swinton · Johnny Mills · Philip MacDonald · Pete Lee-Wilson

Synopsis A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to flee them. Two men who are lovers...

Direction Derek Jarman

Cast Nigel Terry · Sean Bean · Dexter Fletcher · Spencer Leigh

Direction Derek Jarman

Cast Tilda Swinton · Jonny Phillips · 'Spring' Mark Adley · Gay Gaynor

Synopsis The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose. A dark meditation on London under Thatcher.

Direction Michael Almereyda

Cast Elina Löwensohn · Martin Donovan · Galaxy Craze · Peter Fonda

Synopsis This ultra-hip, post-modern vampire tale is set in contemporary New York City. Members of a dysfunctional family of vampires are trying to come to terms with each other, in the wake of their father's death. Meanwhile, they are being hunted...

Direction Mike Hodges

Cast Clive Owen · Jonathan Rhys Meyers · Charlotte Rampling · Malcolm McDowell

Synopsis Will Graham is a gangster who has left the life of crime and is living in the countryside. He comes out of hiding to investigate the death of his brother when he learns that he committed suicide. Charlotte Rampling is...

Direction Michael Almereyda

Cast Rachel O'Rourke · Lois Smith · Alison Elliott · Jared Harris

Synopsis As with Almereyda's previous films, this one deals with a gothic subject in a modern context. Lushly filmed it concerns an alcoholic womans return to her Irish roots, only to turn into a film about a woman whose soul is...

Direction Andi Engel

Cast Jeroen Krabbé · Susannah York · Ulrich Wildgruber · Jane Gurnett

Synopsis Art critic Keller was once part of a far-left radical group. They contact him again 10 years later and ask him to assassinate a Chilean doctor and war criminal, who's visiting London, but Keller has lost his ideals and feels...

Direction Ate de Jong

Cast Irène Jacob · Stephen Rea · Marianne Sägebrecht · Colin Salmon

Synopsis Melodrama about a man cursed with immortality, who tries to declare his undying love for a depressed actress.

Direction Takashi Makino

Synopsis Abstract short in DCP.

Direction Mitchell Lichtenstein

Cast Celia Weston · Daniel O'Neill

Direction Cynthia Beatt

Cast Tilda Swinton

Synopsis In 1988 Cynthia Beatt and the young Tilda Swinton embarked on a filmic journey along the Berlin Wall into little-known territory. The film 'Cycling The Frame' is now an unusual document. 21 years later, in June 2009, Beatt & Swinton...