Bhasker Patel

God answers unscripted questions on live TV as billions of onlookers watch in awe.

Ria, a seven-year-old girl growing up in a village, is led by her mother to a place where a group of women from her community await her. Here she is mutilated by an unqualified cutter, who completes the cultural FGM-ritual that ensures she will one day be taken as a wife. The child, once old enough, goes on to be forcibly married and moved away from her family to the England. Eventually, Ria seeks help in escaping the life she is trapped in, but the life of her two younger sisters hang in the balance. Can she change her elders' minds and prevent them from being led down the same path? Or will they become three more of 200 million women across the globe whose wings have been crushed by FGM?

A desperate writer signs up for a fully A.I. operated retreat to cure her writer's block, but when an unforeseen software glitch occurs, she gets trapped inside her unit with an unstable android and no communication with the outside world.

A screenwriter embarks on a new film script and finds his creation taking on a life of its own. Unable to tell fact from fiction, reality from unreality, he finds his life slowly becoming a film in this dark and surreal comedy drama.

Kate is stuck in a dead-end warehouse job, when she receives a mysterious message. But with a boss this controlling, building a friendship is hard, especially when the other person is trapped across the universe.

When Naomi refuses to be exploited in her oppressive cleaning job, she must convince her colleagues to stand up and demand their right to be treated like a human being, or lose everything.

Ding Ling is a research scientist who fled Indonesia in the wake of rising sea levels, and at the start of the episode disembarks from the cargo ship on which she had been living. She moves onwards to explore new/old territories, revealing something of her past in Indonesia and China via Singapore as the episode progresses. During her journey she meets the resourceful Senait, an Eritrean refugee who subsists by evaporating water from the Dead Sea to make it potable. In her ongoing effort to compile an archive of those who remain, Ding Ling records an interview with Senait, where Senait recounts her own peripatetic past and perilous journey through Sudan.

Our protagonists are taken captive aboard a gigantic cargo ship, whose megalomaniacal captain Ismael entertains biblical pretensions. Ben is made to ‘pay his passage’, while a ghostly Yasmine stalks the empty corridors of the ship. Whales and whaling become a key subject – interrogating colonial and indigenous politics in the process.

Ben and Yasmine continue further south to the Moroccan coast, where they are attacked by Jamila and her group of parasitic bandits. The ethics of survival and predator-prey relationships in both human and marine species are explored, as members of another group intervene. But is this out of the frying pan and into the fire for the protagonists?

암에 걸린 어머니를 돌보던 라이언은 아버지의 사망 소식을 듣고 장례식이 열리는 스코틀랜드 서소에 가기로 한다. 어릴 적 자신을 버리고 떠난 아버지에게 미련은 없지만 이참에 홀로 자동차 여행을 떠나기로 계획한 것이다. 그런데 먼 친척이자 자폐증을 앓고 있는 써니를 함께 태우고 가달라는 어머니의 부탁에 계획이 틀어지고 결국 라이언은 써니와 이틀간 자동차 여행을 떠나게 되는데…

Two avid gardeners start a rivalry that gets out of hand.

Two ambitious detectives stakeout a potential drug deal.

A young man searches his deceased father’s flat for a document that will justify expenditure for a large sum of money. He’s not been to the flat for quite some time and discovers with stupefaction his father’s strange acquisition.

A warm and witty celebration of Sue Townsend's life and writing, the story is told with the help of children from Sue's old school, her friends and family, as well as the comedy and literary stars she inspired - including Stephen Mangan, Ian Hislop, David Nicholls, Isy Suttie and Adrian Scarborough. Drawing on Sue Townsend's own archive of letters and notebooks, the film also features unseen photographs, footage and even her appointment diary, which includes poignant entries about her struggles with ill health, written in a humorous style instantly recognisable from her books.

CIA와 NSA(미 국가안보국)의 정보 분석원인 에드워드 조지프 스노든은 정부가 테러 방지라는 명분으로 국경과 신분을 가리지 않고 모든 개인정보를 수집하고 있는 것을 발견하고 큰 충격을 받는다. 국민의 자유를 침해한 권력에 맞서기 위해 국가 기밀문서를 모아 홍콩으로 건너간 스노든은 가디언지 기자 글렌 그린왈드와 이완 맥어스킬, 그리고 영화감독 로라 포이트라스를 만나 역사상 최대 규모의 폭로를 준비하게 되는데…

Three interwoven stories of loneliness and isolation that centre around Janan, a woman from Afghanistan who travels to the UK for artificial insemination. Complications arise when William, a medical sciences student working in the clinic switches the donor's semen for his own.

On 7 May, churches, school halls, and back rooms of community centres will be turned into polling stations, staffed by council workers and volunteers. A church polling station is the backdrop for a real-time play for theatre and TV, called The Vote, staged at the exact moment in which the action is set - the last 90 minutes before polls close.

A young couple looking to rekindle a damaged relationship retreat to the remote Scottish Highlands. They are haunted by their past, their surroundings and each other.

Thunder Racers, Infinite Finity, Rat Warriors. Junk Comics' titles have been referred to as 'the worst printed material since Mein Kampf'. Tony Leary, the nice-guy owner of Junk Comics, is gearing up for one last roll of the dice. His new superhero title, The Sodomizer, launches at the British International Comic Show, and nothing will stop Tony from making it a success. Nothing except a gang of Geordie criminals who are using a comic company to launder their dirty money. Tony is drafted by the police to identify the culprits and bring them to justice. Aided by his trusty geek sidekicks, Rick and Keith, Tony must defy the odds if he is to become a real life hero.

알츠하이머에 걸려 기억을 잃고 정신병원에 입원한 프랭크. 환각과 현실을 구별하지 못하는 그에게 어느 날 그의 아들 제임스가 찾아오고, 제임스는 그를 집으로 데려가려 한다. 집으로 가는 길, 제임스는 자신의 아버지를 찾는 JB라 불리는 남자의 계속 되는 협박 전화와 예상치 못한 아버지의 돌발 행동에 한 순간도 긴장을 늦추지 못한다. 그러던 중 자신의 아버지가 잃어버린 기억 속에 의문의 죽음과 관련된 단서가 존재한다는 것을 알게 되고, JB 역시 그 의문의 죽음과 연결되어 있다는 것을 알게 되는데…

1989년 9월 11일, 아버지의 부음을 받았다. 그날 내가 어디 있었는지는 잘 기억나지 않는다. 22년 후, 나는 쿠웨이트시티의 한 호텔 방안에 있다. 사람들이 잠시 지나갈 뿐인 이 장소, 집에서 아주 멀리 떨어진 이곳이 내가 아는 한 아버지가 머물렀던 마지막 장소이다. (2014년 아랍영화제)

Compelling drama-documentary which tells the story of how, three years after the 7/7 attacks on London, a busy shopping centre in Bristol was the intended target of a devastating terrorist attack.

Frank is an ex-soldier, haunted by a violent past. He lives alone, drowning his nightmares with alcohol. Christine - smart and successful... on the surface, tackles life as a single working mother by immersing herself in drugs, parties and sex. Lynette, a young rough sleeper watches Christine stumble out of a club whilst she sits in the cold waiting for loose change to fall on her lap; her luck seems to change when she meets Frank who despite his misgivings, offers her a place to stay.

Based in a London suburb Mahmud Nasir lives with his wife, Saamiya, and two children, Rashid and Nabi. His son plans to marry Uzma, the step-daughter of Egyptian-born Arshad Al-Masri, a so-called 'Hate Cleric' from Waziristan, Pakistan. Mahmud, who is not exactly a devout Muslim, he drinks alcohol, and does not pray five times, but does agree that he will appease Arshad, without whose approval the marriage cannot take place. Shortly thereafter Mahmud, while going over his recently deceased mother's documents, will find out that he was adopted, his birth parents were Jewish, and his name is actually Solly Shimshillewitz.

얼굴에 하트 모양의 커다란 표식을 가지고 태어난 제이미는 그 때문에 스스로 마음의 문의 닫고 세상과 단절된 채 살아온 젊은이다. 그가 사는 런던의 동부 구역에는 후드티를 입고 활동하는 갱들로 악명 높은 곳이었으나, 최근에는 그들이 악마 가면을 쓰고 활보한다는 기사가 발표된다. 그러나 어느 날 밤, 제이미는 그 갱들의 얼굴이 가면이 아닌 실제 악마의 얼굴이라는 무시무시한 사실과 대면한다. 그들에 의해 어머니가 잔인하게 살해당하자, 제이미는 복수를 다짐하고 바깥 세상으로 발을 내딛는데...

Liz, a lonely widow,returns home from her holiday in Torquay with Damar, a Nepalese ex-Gurkha, whom she intends to marry. Her grown-up,divorced daughter and son are hostile to him because they never imagined Liz would find another man to replace their father, who died young. Her neighbour, bitter because she has been made redundant by cheaper, Eastern European labour, reports the couple to the council, losing Liz her benefits and Damar his job. Relations are strained with Liz's daughter using her grandchildren as weapons. Only when Damar leaves in the middle of the night do Liz's family realize how much she loves him and urge her to follow him and bring him back.

8 shorts centered around 8 themes directed by 8 famous film directors involved and sharing their opinion on progress, on the set-backs and the challenges our planet faces today.

A beautiful young woman with every privilege except freedom. A despised older man with nothing except his obsession. Are they the key to one another’s salvation? Or are they destined to destroy each other and themselves? Having just finished a degree at Cambridge, Anjika Indrani (Parminder Nagra) has the world at her feet. However when her father announces that he intends for her to marry the son of his business associate, Anjika is angry and distraught at the unfairness of it. Then help is offered from an unlikely corner. Her father’s sinister chauffeur Don Flowers (Ray Winstone) proposes a way out… but it comes at a cost.

A Polish woman and a German man fall in love against the odds and decide to set up a cemetery for exiles. But can their daring venture survive the call of the toad? Adapted from Gunter Grass’ novel.

A man's life falls apart as a result of his affliction with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Tourette's Syndrome in this touching and funny tale.

때는 2065년. 우주비행사 출신으로 미공군 대령인 제프 트레이시와 그의 5형제중 막내 알란을 제외한 네 아들들은, 비밀섬 트레이시 아일랜드에 기지를 둔 국제 구조팀을 조직, 환상의 수송기기 '썬더버드'들을 타고 구조활동을 펼친다. 이들 트레이시 가족의 조력자들로는 테크놀로지에 관한한 천재인 브레인스와 제프의 조수인 키라노 및 키라노의 딸 틴틴, 그리고 사랑스러운 여인인 페넬로페와 그녀의 운전사 파커 등이 있다. 그러던 어느날 자신의 범죄에 '썬더버드'를 이용하려는 대악당 아리스토틀 스포드, 일명 '후드'에 의해 아버지와 형제들이 함정에 빠지게 된다. 이제 혼자 남게된 가족의 막내, 12살의 알란 만이 그들을 구할 유일한 희망인데...

London, one year from today... The dogs of England are dying, of "Mad Dog Disease," and Rabbie Burns, young drifter and certified schizophrenic, is hearing voices again - on Underground trains, over supermarket tannoys, and on his own T.V. He has 30 hours, a last weekend, to save the world from itself, before the "Supreme Being" himself loses patience and starts over, with a new species...

Pakistani taxi-driver Parvez and prostitute Bettina find themselves trapped in the middle when Islamic fundamentalists decide to clean up their local town.

Jeremy and Julian Lewis, the "Lewis Twins", are two unruly brothers who terrorise the city of Swansea from the caravan park where they live with their family. When their father, Fatty, is injured while working on a roof for local kingpin Bryn Cartwright, they try in vain to claim compensation. Thus begins a campaign of terror, which local policemen Terry and Grayo are ill-equipped to prevent, involved as they are in a drugs deal with Cartwright.

Amir is an illegal Pakistani immigrant smuggled into England in the 1960's to work, to send money to his family and perhaps even bring them over with him. A skilled laborer, he is forced to do unskilled work like shoveling sheep dung and processing wool. He lives in a boarding house with nearly a dozen other men, under the supervision of Hussein Shah. He befriends a young student, Sakib, who dreams of being a writer. Their existence is punctuated by secret movies, a visiting prostitute, fear of detection and deportation, and the gangster-like smuggler who comes by for his take every week. The household is shaken up by the arrival of a white girl, Shah's girlfriend, and the sense of femininity and family she brings.

One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.

This is the story of the lovely Kate Swallow and the loves of her life. At the start she is with Alec Bolton, a noted author, who discourages her when she wants to write a novel. Later she is swept off her feet by Alecs publisher, Vanni Corso, and leaves Alec for Vanni. She writes another novel and Vanni tells her he doesn't think the book will sell. Both of their actions are an indication of their vanity and fear of losing her.

An elderly woman learns that she is dying of cancer. She and her husband leave their small farm on the Isle of Skye to visit their children to inform them of the news. During the journey, the couple rediscover their love for each other.

A childless British couple visit a fertility shrine of Gulab Shah in Karachi run by eunuchs and set off a huge culture clash.

영국에 사는 파키스탄인 오마르는 좌파지식인이자 유명한 저널리스트인 아버지의 뜻에 따르지 않고 삼촌 나세르가 운영하는 세탁소의 관리인이 된다. 어느날 오마르는 삼촌 가족과 식사를 하고 돌아오는 길에 인종차별주의자 집단인 민족전선 갱들과 만나게 되는데 그 안에서 옛 친구 죠니를 만나게 된다. 이를 계기로 죠니 또한 오마르를 도와 세탁소 일을 하게 되면서 둘은 서로에게 꼭 필요한 존재가 된다. 하지만 오마르는 영국 사회에서의 성공을 위해 냉혈한 삼촌 나세르를 닮아간다.

1935년 상해. 인디아나 존스는 클럽에서 가수 윌리스 코트의 노래를 들으며 그녀의 정부이자 상해 범죄 조직의 두목 라오치와 밀담을 나누는 중이다. 인디아나는 누루하치 황제의 위패를 압수했으나 라오의 배신으로 목숨만 부지한 채 클럽을 탈출한다. 인디아나는 이곳에서 알게 된 쇼트 라운드와 윌리를 데리고 화물 비행기를 차지만, 라오의 조직원이었던 조종사들은 연료를 버리고 탈출해버린다. 극적으로 살아남은 세 사람이 떨어진 곳은 인도. 이곳 사람들은 인디아나 일행을 하늘이 보내준 사람이라 생각하고 마을의 아이들을 잡아가고 약탈을 일삼는 이들을 처치해 달라고 하는데...

"These Indian films. They're done to a formula - songs, dance, routines and a lot of sentimental heavy breathing." When her 17-year-old son Roy falls in love with a Muslim girl, and a Bangladeshi butcher seeks help from her husband Raji, Leela realises that the tears and romance of Indian cinema are closer to her own life than she has ever imagined.

Sanjay, a biliouse, elderly man blind to his own loneliness finds comfort in living a humdrum, unvaried life.