Tim Plester

Scatterbrook Farm is besieged by birdwatchers when the children spot a group of rare choughs.

Currently a primary focus for environmental campaigners in the UK, HS2 is a controversial new high-speed rail line being built from London to the North of England. Documenting a single day on the front line of battles against the HS2 construction, The Battle of Denham Ford tells the story of attempts by HS2 contractors to fell a tree that overhung their compound. A protest camp sits adjacent to the compound, and, hearing of the plan, the activists installed a climber in the tree. As the day unfolds, the film documents as a range of private security contractors, with support from the police and emergency services, try to regain possession of the tree. Raising questions about the relationship between private citizens, corporations, and the state, the film places the viewer on the ground, offering a perspective that is as close to the experience of being there as any film could deliver. – Sheffield Doc/Fest

Unable to face the mother who left her at a young age, BRYNJA (40) takes shelter in a small guesthouse in a village outside Reykjavik. There she befriends MARK (50), a British tourist, who's dealing with his own personal tragedy.

An otherworldly journey through a Europe in decline - a collection of darkly humorous, fantasy tales about ill-fated characters and doomed fortune.

Traversing the back-roads of the Southern United States in search of the people and places so often ignored by the mainstream media, Southern Journey (Revisited) is both a music documentary and a road movie.

공항 수하물 노동자로 일하며 음악의 꿈을 키우던 이민자 출신의 아웃사이더 파록 버사라. 보컬을 구하던 로컬 밴드에 들어가게 되면서 프레디 머큐리라는 이름으로 밴드 퀸을 이끌게 된다. 시대를 앞서가는 독창적인 음악과 화려한 퍼포먼스로 관중들을 사로잡으며 성장하던 퀸은 방송에서 외면을 받을 것이라는 음반사의 반대에도 불구하고 무려 6분 동안 이어지는 실험적인 곡 보헤미안 랩소디로 대성공을 거두며 월드스타 반열에 오른다. 그러나 독보적인 존재감을 뿜어내던 프레디는 솔로 데뷔라는 유혹에 흔들리게 되고, 오랜 시간 함께 해왔던 멤버들과 결별을 선언하게 되는데...

The peace and quiet of a family home is shattered as a mysterious stranger breaks in during the dead of night. In the aftermath, a young woman is left imprisoned and fighting for her life, her captors intentions and motives unknown.

55 Steps is based a the inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese, a mental illness patient herself, who brings a class action suit to give competent mental patients the right to have a say in their medication while they’re in a hospital, and Colette Hughes, the lawyer appointed to her case.

One of the most important English singers of 20th century traditional song, Shirley Collins and her sister Dolly stood at the epicentre of the folk music revival from the 1950s through to the 1970’s. Directors Rob Curry and Tim Plester have created a poetic response to the life-and-times of this totemic musical figure. Four years in the making, and co produced by Fifth Column Films and Burning Bridges, The Ballad of Shirley Collins is the fascinating first release from Fire Films - available to you exclusively through the Lush Player. A captivating study of heritage, posterity and the true ancestral melodies of the people, this heartwarming film revolves around Shirley’s tragic loss of her voice and struggle back to the limelight. And ultimately, it suggests that in these turbulent and increasingly untethered times, we may just need Shirley Collins and all she represents more than ever.

This drama documentary tells the story of the Conservative Party's 2016 leadership campaign - how Boris Johnson, having won the referendum and in pole position to be the next PM, handed victory to Theresa May. Based on extensive research and first-person testimonies, this dramatized narrative goes beyond the headlines to lay bare the politicking and positioning, betrayals and blunders of this extraordinary political time. The programme also features key interviews with people who were intimately involved in the campaigns of the main contenders.

'All Small Bodies' is a feminist, sci-fi take on the Grimm tale of Hansel and Gretel. It occurs in the distant future among the ruins of a planetary catastrophe, revealing the abuses of history and technology. In the wake of the chaotic aftermath, there are several resilient survivors including two young girls named Z and Bub. The film follows these curious adolescents who have long been lost and alone in the haunted, other-worldly woods, as they awaken their extrasensory abilities and reclaim their autonomy from a menacing dark presence.

Ah, Sweden. Prosperity. Tolerance and equality. ABBA, social democracy and clean fresh air and... snus - the superstrong smokeless tobacco that is forbidden all over Europe. A harmless alternative to smoking according to some. Others might disagree... Things seem to be looking up for small time thief Karsten Lammstrom. His prison time is coming to an end. On the outside waits Annika, his wife to be, and a livelihood: a sightseeing-boat in the Swedish archipelago. What Karsten doesn't need is a Balkan warlord arriving to the prison; notorious Serbian torturer, Zlatko Pavic. When Zlatko takes an interest in Karstens habit to use snus, things take an unexpected turn of events. Karsten ends up facing a grueling moral dilemma.

The story of Captain Matthew Webb, the first-ever person to successfully swim the English Channel in 1875 equipped only with his moustache, doses of Brandy and a wire wool swimsuit.

the story of an English girl trying to find love between the office and her home life. But finding her match proves tricky when she isn't altogether sure who she is.

A collection of films from an eclectic array of contributors commissioned to raise funds for the Bristol independent cinema The Cube.

A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of bank robbers to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.

어린시절 운명처럼 살사에 끌려 신동 소리를 들으며 촉망 받는 댄서로 커가던 '브루스'. 대회란 대회는 모조리 휩쓸며 대상을 거머쥐었고, 마지막으로 전국대회 재패만을 앞둔 어느 날, 말썽쟁이 친구들의 괴롭힘에 수치심을 느껴 대회에 불참하며 그의 살사 인생은 끝이 난다. 그렇게 꿈을 접고 평범한 아니, 키작고 뚱뚱하고 볼품없는 루저가 되어 살아가던 '브루스'는 회사에 새로 발령 온 미모의 직장상사 '줄리아'에게 운명처럼 끌리게 되는데... 너무 완벽해 가까이 할 수도 없었던 그녀의 취미가 다름 아닌 살사라는 것을 알게된 순간, 25년간 꼭꼭 숨겨뒀던 살사 본능이 다시 꿈틀대기 시작한다!

A young woman who has recently finished university is working a dead-end office job whilst looking for 'the one'. Why can't she find the man of her dreams?

전세계 가장 위험한 범죄자를 특별 격리 수용한 우주감옥. 한번 들어가면 절대 빠져 나갈 수 없는 그곳에 대통령의 딸 ‘에밀리’가 인질로 붙잡힌다. 최첨단 보안시스템을 뚫고 탈옥에 성공할 수 있는 단 한 명의 인물은 전직 특수요원 ‘스노우’. 누명을 쓰고 조직에서 버림받은 스노우는 자신의 자유를 조건으로 한계초월의 구출작전에 응한다. 도망칠 곳 없는 우주 한복판, 사상 최악의 범죄자 500명. 이것은 시작에 불과하다. 거대한 우주감옥이 궤도를 잃고 지구로 돌진하기 시작한다!! 해결할수록 업그레이드 되는 위험한 미션! 극강의 리얼 액션이 펼쳐진다!

As quintessentially homegrown as a game of cricket or a plate of fish-and-chips, Morris dancing is one of Englands most ancient roots traditions. And yet to your average man on the street, its seen as little more than a national joke. And a bad national joke at that. Something to ridicule. Something to be embarrassed about. A heartfelt docu-ballad in praise of birthplace, bloodline and rural brotherhood, WAY OF THE MORRIS follows Tim on a deeply personal journey from the barleyfields of his childhood to the killing fields of The Somme, as he traces the poignant link between the spirited folk revival of the mid-1970s and the true story of the young Adderbury Morris side so decimated by the carnage of the First World War.

Amy Pond and Rory Williams are trapped on a crashing space liner, and the only way the Eleventh Doctor can rescue them is to save the soul of a lonely old miser. But is Kazran Sardick, the richest man in Sardicktown, beyond redemption? And what is lurking in the fogs of Christmas Eve?

교도소에서 나온 뒤 모든 것을 새롭게 시작하려는 미첼(콜린 파렐). 갱스터가 되지 않기 위해서라면 무슨 일이든 하려는 그가 소개받은 일은, 세상과 담을 쌓고 집 안에 숨어 지내는 여배우 샬롯(키이라 나이틀리)의 보디가드가 되는 것이었다. 그녀를 위해 막무가내인 파파라치를 막으면서 미첼과 샬롯은 단순한 보디 가드와 여배우 이상의 감정을 느끼게 된다. 한편 미첼의 실력을 탐내는 갱스터 보스는 새 출발하려는 그를 내버려두지 않고 범죄현장으로 유인하게 되고, 이제 그들 앞에 시작하기 위해선 끝을 맺어야 하는 운명의 격돌이 기다리고 있는데...

지금, 세상은 영웅이 필요한데 ‘왜 아무도 슈퍼히어로가 되려고 하지 않는가?’라는 의문을 가지는 데이브. 정의 수호를 위해 직접 ‘킥 애스’라는 닉네임을 정하고, 슈퍼히어로가 되기로 결심한다. 위험 앞에서도 몸을 사리지 않고, 시민을 구하는 데이브의 모습이 유튜브를 통해 퍼지면서, ‘킥 애스’는 새로운 히어로로 일약 스타덤에 오르게 되고, 끓어오르는 영웅 본능에 점점 고취되기 시작한다. .

Axl wants to find his long-lost father and rediscover his past. Vera just wants to forget hers as she tries to move on from heartbreak. Their stories come together in the melting-pot of 21st century London.

A man's search for the existence of life outside our universe takes a remarkable turn when he connects with a recently bereaved family.

In 1303, a ragtag bunch of crooks and ne'er-do-wells plot to take revenge on Edward I, the King of England.

19세의 어린 나이에 운명적으로 다가온 사랑 데보라와 결혼한 이안 커티스는 낮에는 직업 상담소 직원으로 밤에는 무명 밴드의 리드 보컬로 활동하고 있다. 그는 타고난 음악적 재능을 발휘하면서, 본격적으로 '조이 디비전'이라는 밴드를 구성해 활동을 펼친다. 이 후 연이은 앨범 성공과 함께 대중의 쏟아지는 관심을 얻게 된 그는 자연스레 고향인 맨체스터와 가정에서 멀어지고, 공연장에서 만난 여인 아닉과 깊은 사랑에 빠진다. 갑작스런 명성과 또 하나의 사랑 앞에서 혼란스러운 이안에게 공연 도중 찾아온 발작 증세는 무대에 대한 두려움을 가중시키며 그를 괴롭게 만드는데...

A pair of rivaling stage magicians are forced to confront their falling out over a guillotine mishap when they compete in a magic competition.

Maggie, a quiet retiring grandmother, finds herself helpless as her grandson’s health deteriorates. When one last chance appears, but money is desperately short, Maggie acts to raise the cash in a fashion that surprises everyone but her...

The Boat People is a psychological thriller. Jared is taken to the coast by his new girlfriend, Alice. They stay in the seaside cottage she's owed all her life with her sister, Cleo. As soon as he gets there, Jared begins to have haunting dreams.

Paul Reynolds is a Gatsby-like figure: owner of a magnificent house, the host of great parties, and a collector of interesting people. He persuades Lizzie Thomas, a secretary at a local estate agent's, to come and work for him as his assistant, to bring some order to his chaos. He inspires her with his enthusiasm and imagination, and frustrates her with his apparent carelessness and destructiveness, which culminates in her calling the police as one of his parties is attacked by local troublemakers, seemingly with his tacit approval. But their paths are destined to cross again and again as Lizzie, with the help of some of the people that she met at Paul's house, rises through the changing landscape of corporate Britain. This is the tale of a meaningful and powerful relationship that isn't a love story; it's about those rare people who profoundly influence and shape our lives.

Intergalactic revolutionaries "Blake's 7" make an eventful late night stop at Newport Pagnell Services on the M1.

Intergalactic revolutionaries "Blake's 7" make an eventful late night stop at Newport Pagnell Services on the M1.

스페인 이비자 클럽의 전설적인 DJ 프랭키 와일드의 범상치 않은 삶을 다룬 이야기. 스페인의 화려한 저택에서 남부러울 것 없는 생활을 누리고 있던 와일드는 타고난 청각장애로 인해 청력을 상실한다. 결국 그의 팬들, 레코드회사, 그리고 아내마저 모두 떠나고, 프랭키는 자기연민과 약에 취해 1년여를 빌라 안에서 고립된 채 보낸다. 영화는 대부분의 사람들이 겪어보지 못했던 클럽과 레이브 문화에 대한 내부자의 시선을 유쾌하게 보여준다. 프랭키 와일드 역의 폴 카이에는 이 영화로 다수의 영화제에서 연기상을 수상했으며, 감각적인 영상과 리듬은 보는 이의 눈과 귀를 매료시킨다.

Based on a true story, the movie tells the story of two pigs, named Butch and Sundance, who staged a dramatic escape from an abattoir in January 1998 and remained at large for a week ...

1943년 8월, 제2차 세계대전인 대서양. 임무를 마치고 귀환 중인 미국 잠수함에, 독일 잠수함의 공격으로 이틀전 침몰한 영국 병원선의 생존자들을 구출하라는 명령이 떨어진다. 사고 지점에서 여자 간호사를 포함한 세 명의 생존자들을 구출하여 탑승시키나, 여자가 배에 타면 재수없다는 미신을 믿는 일부 선원들은 탐탁치 않게 여긴다. 그 후 아니나 다를까, 아무도 없는 방의 턴테이블이 저절로 작동되어 음파를 감지한 독일군들에게 폭뢰 공격을 당하고, 선원들이 여기저기서 정체불명의 목소리를 듣고, 유령을 목격하는 등, 불가사의한 일들이 계속해서 벌어진다. 그런 모든 일들이 며칠전에 갑판에서 불의의 사고로 실족사한 함장과 연관되어 있음을 차츰 깨닫게 되는데... 과연 잠수함 승무원들은 독일군의 공격과 유령의 공포를 이기고 무사히 귀환할 수 있을 것인가... 함장의 죽음과 침몰한 영국 병원선에 감춰진 진실은 무엇일까. (funnypunch@hitel.net)