Hobbs exploits the machine's motion - from left to right of a page - as a way of bolstering the sense of movement.
Amy Johnson worked as a typist for a firm of solicitors before her record- breaking solo flight from Croydon to Australia in 1930. This film has been created with an Underwood 315 typewriter as a celebration of her journey.
Cinematographer Ebrahim Moradi (who also edited the film with Parvazeh) captures the great and small of this community, showing a painterly and patient eye for faces.
A snapshot of the life of an elderly woman in a largely empty village near a lead mine.
Dziewanska is perfectly cast as Ruthie, directed so that her natural energy leaps from the screen but also able to capture how children easily pick up on the energy of others in ways that can make them move quickly between opposing emotions.
A young girl jumps to conclusions about the family maid after her mum tells her a wartime story.
Although this is only 25 minutes long, it is lean and immersive and, while it feels complete in itself, could easily form the foundation for an equally strong longer feature in the Ken Loach mould.
A young boy's dad is determined that he learns how to hunt.
This is a tale that does not start gently, and is unafraid to show its teeth.
After years of confinement, a teenaged girl escapes her kidnapper and returns to the house of her long-lost family, but her homecoming is far from welcome.
Like a nacreous pearl, it’s built up in semi-transparent layers, allowing attentive viewers to catch glimpses of what’s underneath, whilst others will simply enjoy the richness of its lustre.
A haunting fable about a girl overwhelmed by sorrow, the boy who loves her, and how greed leads good hearts to wicked deeds.
Gorgeous imagery is at once sense and senseless, transporting and troubling, riddle and rhythm.
A triptych of documentary images play simultaneously, united by the same geographical space but offering both complementary and contradictory narrative clues as to what is really going on.
A thoughtful film which places the yearning for individual freedom into the context of a world in which people are interdependent, Goddess takes a gentle approach to asking difficult questions.
A young woman struggles with her desire for the maid who helped to raise her.
The spirit of the thing is fun and frightening in equal measures.
Not everyone can be a dog sitter. A young woman learns this the hard way when the tiny Pomeranian she’s hired to watch reveals itself to be a deranged murder junkie.
Inventiveness with camera in what feels like location shooting rather than two-camera studio gives it a versimilitude that helps carry its comic elements.
Crucially, this isn’t a journey built upon a series of triumphs, but has much more to do with making mistakes and learning and growing as a result – a human process rather than a Hollywood one.
A young woman with Down syndrome realises that she will need to stand up for her rights when support workers try to set limits on her romantic relationship.
A young Romanian nationalist visits his friends in Bucharest and tries to convince them to attend the Romania’s National Day Parade. Through the night they get drink and discuss the country.
