Kayleigh and Ant are two impressionable kids who live on a council estate, hanging out and killing time. They trade player cards and are desperate to seem older and cooler than they are. With not much else to do, they decide one day to try to buy a pack of cigarettes, just like they've seen the older, cooler kids do.
Sunday 5 pm Chieveley Service Station: As separated parents ‘child-swap’ for the week ahead, two strangers, an isolated grandfather, Wallace, and an angry teenage son, Josh, bond through comical commentary on the scenes of broken family chaos they witness through the window, while indirectly sharing issues of their own.
RE-LIVE honours a young woman's journey as she processes the survival of a sexual assault whilst she was out running. Her determination to push past the trauma takes Amy step by step, closer to becoming whole again. How will she learn to heal in order to reclaim her body?
Hats is a comedy-drama about a black, British woman who explores her relationship with her ailing mother in a care home, through an assortment of hats, revealing some culturally complex emotions.
It's Me is a dark tale of a game that cannot be sustained. Set over the course of an evening, a mother remembers moments from a game she played with her son throughout his childhood. Tragedy strikes when he unexpectedly returns.
At a Catholic Confirmation camp, 16-year-old Orla‘s burgeoning sexuality sees her caught between the virgin-whore dichotomy, until a chance encounter with a sassy 16th Century Saint helps her to see the light. Starring Jessica Hynes, Lydia Page, Hugh Quarshie, Daisy Jacobs, Chicho Tche and Siobhan Finneran.
Suffering from sleep deprivation, Lynsey makes mistakes that spiral out of control.
Blood, viscera and torn flesh pierce the soft pink, sugary, talcum powder representation of pregnancy like a long-caged animal escaping from its bonds.
When Rita is exposed in a sex-tape scandal, her mother Sonali and grandmother Babisha are forced to confront their own hidden sex lives. Babisha is a widow, who has only ever experienced love by way of an arranged marriage. Sonali decides to confess that she was not a virgin before she married and in sharing her secret, feels relieved of a sense of guilt and shame. Rita is forgiven and Babisha, who is infatuated with her next-door neighbour finally finds the courage to accept her own sexual desire.
When Patrick is called to care for his ex-wife, whose degenerative brain disease has advanced beyond the care available to her, the last thing he expects is what he finds; and what they will share.
No money. No career. No relationship. 20-something screw-ups Margo and Celeste have two choices: sink or swim. The former childhood best friends haven’t seen each other for eight years - the same time it’s taken for them to both screw up their lives.
15-year-old Mattie has dreamlike premonitions which she is encouraged to ignore by her older brother Marco. But during a trip out of town, Mattie senses her visions could have some substance and that her brother's life might be in danger.
It’s Saturday and 9-year-old Grace is spending the evening with her father, Joe, in the wake of her parents' separation. Stranded in a leisure-time landscape of bowling alleys, retail parks and takeaways, they attempt to negotiate the changes in their relationship.
Two young girls find hope & friendship in the most unlikely of places, a moss side boxing gym.
Head Gamekeeper Abel discovers the Thing that is eating his Grouse and brings the horror back home to his already crumbling relationship with his wife.
Balanced carefully on a tightrope, Blue lives his life in fear of falling into the abyss below. When he meets Orange, a carefree spirit, he is tempted into a sensual dance that forces him to confront the wounds of his past and find his way back to embrace the euphoric energy of Orange.
Seagull is a recovering drug addict who is about to have a very strange night.
Leon is a mixed-race teenager trying to work out where he fits in. Lost and unsure Leon is guided by a mysterious figure, who helps him find new connections and understand where he belongs.
A young Cornish poet is compelled to buy an old writing case, curiously engraved with her own initials. Opening the case and reading the faint traces of a poem on the paper within calls the previous owner back from the shadows.
When flat-earth activist Fawn takes her alternative beliefs offline and onto the streets, a face from the past leads her to wrestle with her newly found ideology.
