Arts Council England Movies

The Rosie Kay Dance Company present a piece about the strange history and pop-cultural aftermath of CIA mind control experiments during the Cold War,...

Familiar Phantoms is an experimental documentary short film about memory, history and trauma.

In a world where water has become a scarce commodity, a young scavenger finds a source to satisfy her thirst.

From the lush and green grass of the Kazakh Steppe to the glorifying architecture of its capital, from its giant open-air mines to the traces of...

“It can take years to get over the loss of a loved one, but it can take a few heartbeats to lose yourself.” Inspired by a childhood...

Two figures wander the desolate Yorkshire Moors building colourful worlds around themselves. Absurdity ensues when their paths cross.

Njafweniko is a tender and tense short film about caring for a loved one suffering from mental health issues by First Acts filmmaker Emma Taonga...

This visually striking short film from director Kate Morrison combines exquisite production design, precise cinematography and committed performances...

A live action/animated short about a boy who’s sitting an exam he desperately doesn’t want to be in. His stream of conscience runs wild...

Sarah Turner's film is a ghost story that explores what we forget and how we remember. The stunning imagery comes solely from the window of the...

A fugitive escape path across five interlinked spaces - city, motorway, forest, coast and sea - using pen and ink drawn interventions into a live...

An art film about the campaign to save the Joiners Arms, the iconic queer pub in East London. Working directly with members of ‘Friends of the...

Filmmaker Tegan Pearce combines autobiographical spoken word and expressive visual direction to present a cinematic interpretation of autism.

'London Market eXcess' is a term used in the Lloyds insurance industry to describe the practice of re-insuring a policy over and over again,...

The director couldn’t have anticipated the coronavirus epidemic, but here is a near-future world in which a middle-class protagonist lives...

The Jump connects the widely recognised fantasy of Hollywood action and superhero films with the domestic setting of the artist’s British...

Three young women reflect on adolescence as a period marked by loss of ‘voice’ and the struggle between competing desires for autonomy...

Don’t Look at the Finger follows a ceremonial ‘fight’ between two protagonists, a man and a woman, in the grand architectural...

Patel’s new film Trinity, continues his exploration of language and physical communication, centring on the discovery of a martial language...

When did you last rest? When did you float weightlessly, your aching muscles soothed by lapping water?