Simon Manyonda

Two twenty-somethings, both reeling from bad break-ups, connect over the course of an eventful day in South London – helping each other deal with their nightmare exes, and potentially restoring their faith in romance.

A special forces veteran, an uptight property developer, an influencer with half a million followers and an incompetent instructor are thrown together on a high-end fear of flying course. The course's final challenge is an experience flight from London to Iceland, which ends up being a horrendous ordeal. Lost in Iceland, freezing and terrified, they must find a way of facing their fears and working together to spread their wings... and fly.

Un viaje de otro mundo a través de una Europa en decadencia: una colección de relatos fantásticos de humor negro sobre personajes desdichados y una fortuna condenada.

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.

Alex arrives uninvited to a party and, after a set of excruciating interactions with other guests, is forced to recount a self-reflecting dream he has had. A meditation on oneiric experience in cinema, mental health, talking dogs and fishermen.

Rebajas en un gran almacén inglés, Sheila ronda estanterías, sopesa prendas y, de repente, un vestido rojo sangre de seda la hipnotiza. Ya no hay nada que ella quiera salvo ese vestido, nada salvo acariciarlo, tantearlo, adorarlo... Parece que pesa una maldición sobre cada persona que ha poseído esa prenda fetiche.

Ambientada en un presente de ficción, un anciano rey abdica y divide su reino en favor de sus dos hijas corruptas y aduladoras, rechazando a la única que realmente le ama. Su fatal decisión llevará a la familia y al estado al colapso y al caos.

A finales del siglo XIX dos genios, Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) y George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon), compiten -éste último junto a Nikolai Tesla (Nicholas Hoult)- para crear un sistema sustentable de electricidad y poder comercializarlo a todos los Estados Unidos en lo que se conoce como la 'guerra de las corrientes', una rivalidad entre ambos en la década de 1880 por el control del incipiente mercado de la generación y distribución de energía eléctrica.

For generations, African men have gathered in barber shops to discuss the world. These are places where the banter can be barbed and the truth is always telling. Follow along as we leap from a barber shop in Peckham to Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos and Accra over the course of a single day.

There’s a sense that time is running out. Our narrator, Simon, is like a man sinking in quicksand. He’s a man of routine. Rising, dressing, travelling to work on the DLR. Every day is the same. His sense of self is slipping away as he becomes (perhaps literally) someone else. It’s a similar story for Dr Benham, stuck in his STD clinic watching a parade of patients come and go. In his parallel story of metamorphosis he’s being spat out by his own life. He too is becoming a different person, from the feet up.

A tale of music and memory is unspooled through a schoolgirl's mixtape.

An aged king decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters, according to which of them is most eloquent in praising him. His favourite, Cordelia, says nothing. Simon Russell Beale, whose recent appearances at the National include Timon of Athens and Collaborators, takes the title role in Shakespeare’s tragedy.