Small Axe(2020)
Eine Anthologie-Serie mit fünf Geschichten, die das Leben einer Gruppe von Freunden und ihrer Familien in der westindischen Gemeinschaft Londons von Ende der 1960er bis Anfang der 80er Jahre beleuchten.
Eine Anthologie-Serie mit fünf Geschichten, die das Leben einer Gruppe von Freunden und ihrer Familien in der westindischen Gemeinschaft Londons von Ende der 1960er bis Anfang der 80er Jahre beleuchten.
Loving parodies of some of the world's best-known documentaries. Each episode is shot in a different style of documentary filmmaking, and honors some of the most important stories that didn't actually happen.
An assassin on a final assignment in Fuerteventura, to kill a man he has never met. When his target is delayed, he finds himself drawn to the island, people and a ghostly shipwreck. Instead of following protocol he stays. But when the target returns, the world has shifted. Before everything was simple, now nothing is.
Die erfolgreichen Zeiten seiner Jugend sind für Boxer Jimmy McCabe längst vergangen. Obwohl er nie die Hoffnung verliert, scheint er doch immer an den falschen Stellen danach zu suchen. Als er schließlich ganz unten angekommen ist, bleibt ihm nur der Rückhalt seines Boxclubs. Der Besitzer Bill, Kampfpromoter Joe und Corner Man Eddie stellen die einzige Familie dar, die ihm noch bleibt. Gemeinsam mit ihnen nimmt er das Training auf und riskiert sein Leben, um sich einen respektierten Platz in der Box-Szene zurückzuerobern.
Poet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery, but became a vocal critic of the government's continuation of the war when he returned from service. Adored by members of the aristocracy as well as stars of London's literary and stage world, he embarked on affairs with several men as he attempted to come to terms with his homosexuality.
23-year-old Franky is a nurse who lives with her large family in an East London borough. Obsessed with a thirst for revenge and a need to assign guilt for a traumatic event that happened 15 years before, she is unable to build any meaningful relationship until she falls in love with one of her patients – Florence. They escape to the coast where Florence lives with her more open-minded patchwork family. There, Franky finds the emotional shelter to deal with the grudges of the past.
Talentierte und mörderische Friseure finden bei einem Wettbewerb einen ihrer Kollegen ermordet, noch bevor mit der Beurteilung begonnen werden konnte. Während sie sich durch neonbeleuchtete Hallen schlängeln, entfacht sich ein Spiel aus Intrigen, Verbitterung, Korruption, während sie nach dem Mörder unter ihnen suchen.
Jade is a young mother in the prime of her life when an acid attack leaves her severely burned. While her face has been reconstructed, her beauty is lost beneath the scars. Descending a self-destructive path with relationships crumbling, Jade must take drastic action to reclaim her life.
Mangrove tells this true story of The Mangrove Nine, who clashed with London police in 1970. The trial that followed was the first judicial acknowledgment of behavior motivated by racial hatred within the Metropolitan Police.
David is a successful city trader in London who is relentlessly focused on work. Beneath the confident facade, he is trapped by memories of the past and hostile to anyone who dares to help. Flashbacks reveal a childhood in South Africa at the mercy of an inadequate bully of a father Donald and an ineffectual mother Joanne. The physical and sexual abuse he suffered threatens any chance of happiness he might have now.
Laila, a girl on the run from her family is hiding out in West Yorkshire with her drifter boyfriend Aaron. When her brother arrives in town with a gang of thugs in tow, she is forced to flee for her life and faces her darkest night.
FRIEND REQUEST PENDING is a short comedy drama about the mature generation dating in our modern social networking world. It's a tale of love but more importantly life long friendship. The twelve-minute tale tells the story of Mary (Judi Dench) and Linda (Penny Ryder) who spend an afternoon discussing the pleasures, pitfalls and problems with using social networking to try and woo the local choirmaster Trevor (Philip Jackson).
Children at recess are witnesses to the conflict between riot police and strikers. The neighborhood of a mining town is transformed into a battlefield for the last time. After the failure of the strike, calm returns to the streets and workers to work, with the certainty of knowing that the closure of the wells can no longer be stopped.
A short film about unity. This is a story about boy who finds an unlikely connection with his eccentric neighbour Patricia.
A single evening at a house party in 1980s West London sets the scene, developing intertwined relationships against a background of violence, romance and music.
Alex Wheatle follows the true story of award-winning writer, Alex Wheatle, from a young boy through his early adult years. Having spent his childhood in a mostly white institutional care home with no love or family, he finally finds not only a sense of community for the first time in Brixton, but his identity and ability to grow his passion for music and DJ’ing. When he is thrown in prison during the Brixton Uprising of 1981, he confronts his past and sees a path to healing.
Education is the coming of age story of 12-year-old Kingsley, who has a fascination for astronauts and rockets. When Kingsley is pulled to the headmaster's office for being disruptive in class, he discovers he's being sent to a school for those with "special needs." Distracted by working two jobs, his parents are unaware of the unofficial segregation policy at play, preventing many Black children from receiving the education they deserve, until a group of West Indian women take matters into their own hands.