Vicky McClure

Tommy, an out of work building contractor, faces up to the consequences when a series of phone calls expose a lie that spirals out of control. With his family in danger and everything he knows rapidly unravelling around him, he must make the toughest decision of his life. Set entirely within the claustrophobic confines of a parked car, HOLD brings an atmospheric and tense twist on a familiar genre.

On the day before Mother's Day 1993, Colin and Wendy Parry's lives are torn apart when their youngest son Tim is killed in a terrorist attack by the IRA in Warrington's town centre. The attack shocks ordinary people on both sides of the Irish Sea. Sue McHugh, an unassuming and normally shy Dublin housewife, is deeply affected by the tragedy. Spurred into action by the events in Warrington and the hope that she can make a difference, Sue urges people across Ireland to demonstrate that the killings on all sides must stop. But has Sue underestimated the challenge of brokering peace in a community that has known only conflict? As the grieving Parrys search desperately for answers to their son's senseless killing, they form an alliance with Sue, her husband Arthur, and her Peace '93 movement, travelling to Dublin in a bid to bring about peace and ensure Tim's enduring legacy is one of hope and tolerance. Based on real events.

A contemporary take on Lady Macbeth, summoning up her demons. A mix of live action and animation.

The Nest is a Cathy Come Home story for Generation Rent; a warning tale of how quickly social harmony can break down when people are pushed out to the sidelines. Janine is a single mother struggling to raise her children at odds with the local community. And her daughter Clemy is an angry teenager trying to assert her growing independence. This tense environment is exacerbated by the fact they are living illegally in a squatted house. After being evicted the family is forced to confront their growing sense of resentment and frustration at the world around them.

A tense psychological drama.

An Emergency Services Operator in a Fire Control Room has just started a long night shift when she picks up a call from a desperate young mother. An hour previously, Gemma had fallen asleep in front of the television and has now woken to find the room full of smoke. Her three year old son is trapped in his bedroom upstairs. Flames have started to creep down the stairs that Gemma must use in order to reach him. The operator’s guidance is all that Gemma can rely on in order to survive.

Two friends attempt to rob a petrol station but are so useless that they end up working there all night.

A short film about a boy balancing the stress of growing up with his love for Grimsby Town F.C

Beverley is a short film written and directed by Alexander Thomas and produced by Cass Pennant and starring Vicky McClure and Laya Lewis. It follows the identity struggles of a mixed-race teenager who moves to white suburbia. Her fight to fit in with the local gang leads to devastating consequences.

"It’s the story of the people who escape to the alternative reality of being a football manager, and the effect this has had on their lives. It’s also the story of how a computer game made by football fans has become a part of the world it set out to replicate." - Miles Jacobson

Svengali conta a história de Dixie (Jonny Owen), um carteiro do País de Gales e fanático por música. Toda sua vida ele sonhava em descobrir uma grande banda e, em seguida, um dia, vasculhar o YouTube, ele encontra 'The Premature Congratulations'.

Joey Jones é um veterano do exército norte-americano que lutou na Guerra do Afeganistão. Após ter sua namorada, que estava grávida, assassinada, ele usa seus contatos com a máfia chinesa para encontrar a pessoa responsável pelo crime.

Anna Karenina, casada um alto funcionário do governo russo, envolve-se com o Conde Vronsky, oficial da cavalaria, chocando a alta sociedade de 1874. Ela pede o divórcio, mas o marido, além de se recusar a concedê-lo, ainda a impede de ver o filho.

A fast-paced thriller about a vital and terrifying subject - the trafficking of children - with the heart-stopping vibrancy, compassion and energy that only the fate of children inspires. This is a story that touches all our lives. And it's happening now.

Two female friends are on a mission to rediscover the heady days of their youth. At a late night, isolated party in the countryside one of them discovers this might be more difficult than she imagined.

A.K. acabou de chegar a Inglaterra vindo da Ucrânia. Ele é filósofo, poeta, e uma autoridade em todos os aspectos da vida. Ao mesmo tempo, tem o grande plano de se tornar numa estrela internacional. Estrelato global, é assim que A. K. descreve o objectivo dele e da sua banda, os Gogol Bordello, que praticam um género particular de punk cigano muito extravagante. No entanto, de momento, e enquanto a oportunidade não chega, veste roupas femininas e finge ser mulher para homens casados. A. K. partilha o apartamento com duas raparigas, Juliette e Holly. Juliette sonha em ser uma espécie de Florence Nightingale do mundo desenvolvido. Actualmente, trabalha atrás do balcão de uma drogaria gerida por um farmacêutico indiano. Holly é bailarina profissional. O seu grande sonho é dançar no Royal Ballet. Até agora, não ganhou um cêntimo com a dança, e continua a melhorar as suas aptidões como bailarina exótica no Beechman's Exotic Gentleman's Club.

Shaun tem 12 anos e vive com a mãe em uma pequena cidade costeira na Inglaterra, em 1983. Solitário, sofre com a ausência do pai, morto na Guerra das Malvinas. No começo das férias escolares, conhece uma gangue de skinheads, na qual encontra a amizade e os modelos de comportamento que procurava. Numa festa, é apresentado a Combo, skinhead mais velho que acabou de sair da prisão e o adota como protegido. A postura racista do homem impressiona os jovens, mas todos o admiram, e logo a gangue começa a aterrorizar as minorias étnicas da vizinhança.

Very short film from director Shane Meadows, filmed on a mobile phone and was made to promote the NOKIA Shorts competition.

DC Lenny Milton (Winstone) is not as ambitious as his best friend and popular boss DCI Michael Love (Dunbar), but the pair are drinking partners and their wives and children are close. However, this goes very wrong over the space of 7 days, when Milton is approached by the police complaints division asking him to go undercover and investigate allegations of corruption against his friend. Milton finds this difficult at first and tries to dismiss the evidence building up. But as his suspicions begin to take shape his position appears to be in danger.

Two twelve-year-old boys, Romeo and Gavin, undergo an extraordinary test of character and friendship when Morell, a naive but eccentric and dangerous stranger, comes between them. Morell befriends with the two boys and later asks them to help him pursue Romeo's beautiful elder sister. He gradually becomes more violent after she rejects him.