Brian Bovell

The Football Monologues tells the stories of seven different people living in and around the beautiful game. Each of our subjects talks intimately, unveiling their innermost hopes and fears. One by one they touch on themes central to us all: the fragility of our mental selves, the failings of our bodies, the complexities of our relationships and ambitions and our need to connect.

Tom el gato y Jerry el ratón son expulsados de su casa y se trasladan a un elegante hotel de Nueva York, donde una empleada descuidada llamada Kayla perderá su trabajo si no puede desalojar a Jerry antes de una boda de clase alta en el hotel. ¿Su solución? Contratar a Tom para deshacerse del molesto ratón.

Jack Strachan, a shady ex-sports star in hiding out in Norway, is stalked by a mysterious woman he cannot identify who closely resembles his murdered wife, Veronique. Convinced of her evil intent and determined to unmask her, he forces himself to re-live the harrowing events that culminate in Veronique's brutal murder at the hands of violent associate, Karim, and confront the demons that first drove him underground.

Un pequeño huérfano a finales de 1967, se va a vivir con su querida abuela a Demopolis, un pueblo de Alabama. El niño y su abuela tienen extraños encuentros con algunas brujas por lo que deciden mudarse a un hotel de lujo en la costa. Por desgracia, llegan exactamente al mismo tiempo que la Gran Bruja que ha reunido a sus compinches de todo el planeta -que van de incógnito- para llevar a cabo sus horribles planes.

En las afueras de Londres, una pareja portuguesa y padres de tres hijos, Bela y Jota, luchan por llegar a fin de mes. Cuando surge un malentendido en la escuela con su hija sorda, los servicios sociales británicos se preocupan por la seguridad de sus hijos. La película retrata la incansable batalla de estos padres inmigrantes contra la ley para mantener unida a su familia.

Un hombre se despierta dentro de una habitación y descubre que es un prisionero enviado al espacio para formar la primera colonia humana fuera del planeta Tierra. Mientras tanto, su compañera de celda parece estar decidida a destruir todo lo que les rodea.

Cinco chicas problemáticas se ven obligadas a acogerse a un programa experimental de enseñanza, impartido por la enigmática Madame Duret (Uma Thurman) en el internado Blackwood. Pronto empiezan a mostrar talentos singulares que no sabían que poseían, y a tener extraños sueños, visiones y lagunas de memoria. Cuando la frontera entre realidad y sueño comienza a hacerse demasiado difusa, todas comprenden al fin el motivo por el que han sido llamadas a Blackwood. Aunque puede que ya sea tarde...

If you were forced to flee your own war-ridden country, would you sacrifice what makes you human to survive?

A dark, surreal comedy about a local man who becomes convinced that a vast conspiracy is behind the impossibly rapid gentrification in his London area. But is it all in his head, or is the truth even darker than he imagines? Cla'am is the debut short from Nathaniel Martello-White, one of the UK's leading young playwrights.

After mishearing a pair of fishermen talking about the superior flood barriers in The Netherlands, Noah devises an escape plan to Never Land. The only person who takes an interest in his plan is Katie, Noah's wild-hearted next-door neighbor. Noah's parents think his compulsion to turn off taps is foolish, but even they can't deny the growing storms that are threatening their little fishing village.

Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at the social and political context from which our favourite sitcoms grew. We enjoy a trip through the comedy archive in the company of the people who made some of the very best British sitcoms. From The Likely Lads to I'm Alan Partridge, we find out the inspiration behind some of the most-loved characters and how they reflect the times they were living in.

Cheating Edwardian escape artist Max can escape anything, except his wife's revenge.

El pequeño Tom descubre a Santa Claus en el cobertizo de su jardín. Ha tenido un accidente probando su nuevo trineo y tiene que regresar a Laponia. Pero la policía londinense lo arresta antes de conseguirlo poniendo en peligro unas navidades llenas de regalos.

Shoot the Messenger follows one man's painful journey towards self-discovery. On the way he finds both his own attitudes and the expectations of his community challenged.

London 1939. In the weeks before the beginning of the Second World War, the Say When jazz club keeps London's Shoreditch swinging. Run by Thomas (Richie) and his wife Massie (Natasha Wightman), it's a place where gangsters and aristocrats, home office gents, and loose women can kick back and relax. Thomas' job is to keep everything running smoothly. But when he starts having an affair with singer Butterfly (Joely Richardson), this carefully balanced world disintegrates into blackmail, drugs, and suicide.

En Londres, poco antes de las Navidades, se entrelazan una serie de historias divertidas y conmovedoras. 'Love Actually' es una manera abreviada de decir 'Love Actually Is All Around' y éste es precisamente el argumento de la película: mires a donde mires, encontrarás el amor en todas partes. Todos los personajes, cada uno a su manera (un primer ministro, una vieja estrella del rock, una asistenta portuguesa que sólo habla su idioma), están relacionados con los aspectos más divertidos, tristes, ingenuos y estúpidos del amor.

In 1997, six African women pledged that in the first year of the new millennium they would tell their stories, stories by African women. They called their series "Mama Africa" and drew their tales from the depths of their hearts. The result is a groundbreaking initiative bringing together the incredibly fresh talents of six female directors from the vast and diverse continent of Africa.

Penny, una cajera de supermercado, ha dejado de querer a su marido Phil, un taxista tierno y de espíritu filosófico. Su hija Rachel es limpiadora en una residencia de ancianos, pero su hijo Rory, un chico de carácter agresivo, está en el paro. Phil y Penny han perdido la alegría de vivir, pero cuando Rory cae enfermo y tiene que ser ingresado urgentemente en el hospital, el dolor los une de nuevo y vuelven a descubrir el amor.

En un hotel de Venecia, donde rueda un documental un equipo británico, están ocurriendo hechos muy extraños, en los que están involucrados algunos huéspedes: torturas, dolor y perversión.

A young lawyer gets more than he bargains for while investigating his brother's mysterious death.

Stephen Lawrence was a black London teenager murdered by white racists in 1993. His parents fought to have the crime properly investigated, culminating in a judicial enquiry into the event itself and also the inadequacies of the ensuing investigation by the London Metropolitan Police.

In 1958, a Caribbean couple make the journey to a new life by moving to England.

Al morir sus padres adoptivos, Hortense, una joven negra que vive en Londres, siente la necesidad de conocer a su madre biológica, la cual la dio en adopción nada más nacer. Cuando por fin la encuentra, resulta ser una mujer soltera que trabaja en una fábrica.

Spike and his sister Anjela live in the Terrordome, a huge ghetto that all the blacks have been forced to live in. Jodie, Spike's pregnant white girlfriend, ran away from an abusive white boyfriend who, after seeing her with Spike, sets up a trap for her. Spike's 11-year old nephew Hector dies as a result of this trap, and Anjela, finding the body of her son, goes on a police-killing rampage. Her apprehension sets off tension between Spike and his brother-in-law, as a race war broods inside the Terrordome.

A corpse is fished out of a north London canal with stab wounds through the eyes. The victim was a prominent member of the Hasidic Jewish community, and the cause of death one reserved by the Hasidim to punish "moysers" or informers.

Television interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the peak of his career. But when he receives a message at his office that his wife needs to see him urgently - a matter of life and death - his life is irreversibly altered. And so the frantic search begins for George Grant 's truth - and his wife.

This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals the profound effects of body image and the strain of racial and sexual identity on their charged, intensely loving bond. At the heart of Onwurah’s brave excursion into her mother’s scorned sexuality is a provocative interweaving of memory and fantasy. The filmmaker plumbs the depths of maternal strength and daughterly devotion in an unforgettable tribute starring her real-life mother, Madge Onwurah.

A young man looks back over his unhappy marriage and struggles to come to terms with his wife's suicide.

Set in a commercial radio station in an enterprise zone called ‘Riverside’, Thin Air involved property development on a massive scale, the disruption and forced exodus of a local community, the stripping away of local authority powers, left-wing activism, designer drugs, media hacks.

To mark the conclusion of their "Third World Week" celebration, a cricket team in a small English village invites a black cricket team from South London to a charity game with comical results.

A bored and frustrated suburban housewife follows her dream of becoming a racing driver

A young black woman in England becomes increasingly frustrated with her life with her lazy, demanding boyfriend, and with the help of friends seeks something better.

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.