Content from Film London

Ensemble film revolving around characters living in Forest Gate, London. Over the course of a few days, six inter-linking stories explore issues of drug use, prostitution and urban poverty.

The film revolves a supposedly pivotal moment in Brown's life – his decision to quit accountancy in 1950s Glasgow for comedy after the death of his uncle Harry, a regular character in his routines 'who began with socialism, drifted into Buddhism and ended up with rheumatism'.

A poor agricultural labourer leads a double life in the village's last remaining cornfield. But the harvest is approaching.

An exploration into the history of Shakespeare's plays, from the silent era to the modern day featuring archive interviews with movie directors including Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh and more.

A real estate agent is tasked with selling the former flat of one of London’s most notorious serial killers, Dennis Nilsen.

Shifting between documentary, historical reconstruction and melodrama, The Empty Plan interrogates the relationship between theory and practice in the theatre of Bertolt Brecht.

Trail of the Spider transposes Western genre motifs and the suppressed racial history of the American west (where one in three cowboys were black or Mexican) onto the transforming landscape of East London. Questioning and re-imagining the Western’s portrayal of the “Vanishing Frontier” , the film extends the metaphor to the material and psychological conditions of a present day city increasingly dominated by volatile financial speculations and private interests.

Set amid the rocky outcrops and dusty spinifex of the Australian outback, a supernatural monster tale documents the downfall of one man and his nemesis, the abominable apeman of aboriginal folklore, The Yowie.

Geeky Pavan takes his ‘English Rose’ on a date to the most authentic Indian restaurant in the city. To his horror she goes off-menu, in Hindi...

Set in the late 1990s, tensions run high as Sarah-Lee learns that it's not always fun and games when it comes to growing up.

Mum and Dad, and their 'adopted' children, Birdie & Elbie, work at the airport. The family live off whatever they scavenge from cargo holds, offices and hotels - including a steady stream of transient workers who populate the airport's soulless hub. When Lena, a young Polish office cleaner, is befriended by Birdie, she gets drawn into a nightmarish world of torture, murder and perversity.

A young boy struggles to maintain a degree of normality for his family in the face of his mother's mental instability in England's North West in 1971.

A shy young boy forced to deal with the death of his best friend. When a young boy finds his best friend, an 80-year-old man, dead, he uses his love of science to try and keep him alive.

A strange romance about two lost souls. Wendy (one good eye) and Sid are trying to connect in a mid-range hotel near an airport.

Faraz’s quiet life working at an isolated petrol station is turned upside down when his ageing father Malik begins to speak in a long-forgotten language and insists on returning back home.

Ramona takes all her therapist's advice as the word of God. But instead of enlightenment, she finds herself in a trinity of confusion with an empty chair.

A young boy, Ben, lost in a vortex of poverty, is bullied at achool and neglected at home. He takes control of his life and rids himself forever of his aggressors.

A culture clash between a washed-up pop star and a musically talented young man with autism. These opposite characters transform each other's worlds through the power of music.

A light hearted slice of life of a suburban Filipino/mixed race family.

News of a new girlfriend disrupts mother-and-son crime duo, Bunny and Clive.