The Spirit of Hulme is a whistle stop tour through 70 years of Hulme's history. Focusing on some of those who fought for better housing conditions and the right of the community to be consulted on what replaced the system-built housing that had largely failed within seven years of construction.
Beautiful Things is a journey into our obsessive consumption. The many objects we accumulate and we believe to be essential begin their production journey in silent secluded industrial and scientific sites. The film describes the hidden mechanical liturgy within four different remote locations where bordeline men work in complete isolation without any interference from the outside world. These men trigger, unconsciously, the long chain of creation, transport, commercialization and destruction of the objects feeding our bulimic lifestyle. They are monks inside temples of steel and concrete. They repeat the same liturgy every day. And we don't even know that they exist.
Shot in the real-life contemporary art world, Female Human Animal is a psychothriller about a creative woman disenchanted with what modern life - and modern men - have to offer her. When writer Chloe Aridjis curates the Tate retrospective of the surrealist Leonora Carrington, an elusive, brooding man appears, seeming to offer more. Enabled by the artworks' defiant mystery, Chloe pursues him. But as she descends into a world of obsession, is she hunter or hunted? A darkly romantic enactment of a woman going beyond societal norms, it puts on screen the lurid unconscious of our new sexual politics.
From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this tragi-comedy tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of the most famous French novelists and sole writer to have won the Goncourt Prize for French literature two times.
One of the world's most prolific classical recording artists, Daniel Hope has over 25 albums to his name and numerous prestigious awards won. He is music director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and artistic partner of the New Century Orchestra San Francisco among other roles.
The Sound of Life tells his and his family's story - one of flight and exile, of identity and history. It is a portrait of a virtuoso musician for professional and aspiring musicians and music lovers everywhere.