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Tuesday and Where Are We Now

Family Portrait (Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Kelly Holmes)

Margaret must convince her daughter Louise to take responsibility for the family after the death of her father, whilst the family endures the ritual of a family portrait.

Greylag (Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Ben Hunter)

After losing his animals, an elderly father now risks losing his son - who sees no future for himself on their farm.

The Last Supper (Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Robert Jack)

As an asteroid hurtles toward Earth, a (relatively) normal family attempt to have one final meal together. But families (like kitchens) can be complex things.

Man (Country: Sweden, UK; Year: 2016; Director: Maja Borg) , Official Site

An exploratory dramatisation of the biological – and cultural body in transformation.

Tuesday (Country: UK, US; Year: 2015; Director: Charlotte Wells; Writer: Charlotte Wells; Stars: Megan McGill, Rory Barraclough, David Leith)

Every Tuesday, sixteen-year-old Allie stays with her dad and is insistent that this week will be no exception, but when she arrives at his flat after school she must face that a world has been irretrievably lost.

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Where Are We Now (Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Lucie Rachel; Stars: Alex Kingsley, Lucie Rachel) , Official Site

Documentary about the relationship between a daughter and trans-parent as they embark on the road to transition.

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