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After the revolution in 1979, Iran prohibited the depiction of men and women touching on the silver screen. Since then, directors have relied on every cinematic trick in the book to mirror the ecstatic release of tension through touch - but often it is the game of glances that is enough to set a scene ablaze. Nazarbazi collages these saturated cinematic moments into a poem about love and desire in Iranian film, that also echoes our own time of physical distancing.

Feed Me is a larger than life fairy tale, part TV talent show, part thriller, video game in which Maclean plays all the parts.

The Bird Game is a wicked fairy tale in which a loquacious and bloodthirsty crow, voiced by Joanne Whalley, lures six children to a secluded mansion and snares them in a sequence of deranged games. It mixes dismembered parts of Sleeping Beauty and Ovid's Metamorphoses into a sinister witch's brew. Crow may be a villain but she is also an enchantress, a masterful storyteller and, in her climactic retelling of how she became a bird, a strange and scarred kind of heroine. Also featured in this hellish tale of childhood and transformation are a wolf-haunted lullaby, dirty Disney costumes, eels, and an enucleated eyeball (Text by Charlie Fox). Directed by Marianna Simnett, co-written by Marianna Simnett & Charlie Fox, produced by Sophie Neave, shot on 16mm by Robbie Ryan BSC, starring Joanne Whalley as 'Crow', music by Oliver Coates, and performed by live birds and children at Waddesdon Manor.

Human beings are horribly blind to the effect that they have on the natural environment. Yet all around us those repercussions reverberate.

How do you sum up a life? Me - a name on a headstone. Mine - all the things and the traces one leaves behind.

When an archaeologist is sent to excavate the remains of an Iron Age bog body, he finds the unexpected. The bog body has awakened to deliver him a stark warning; he must confront the impending storm of ecological collapse or face unfathomable disaster.

Joanne is seeking to reclaim her name. For much of her life her identity has rested more on how she looks than the many things she has gone on to achieve.

The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott focuses on the work of the Marxist historian Edward Palmer Thompson, who was employed from 1946 by the Workers' Education Association to teach literature and social history to adults in the industrial towns of the West Riding. These classes were open to people who historically had been unable to access a university education. Thompson became synonymous with the discipline of 'cultural studies' that emerged in Post-War Britain. Artist Luke Fowler draws together archival material from television, local sources and the Workers' Education Association archive itself, and combines them with new film and audio gathered on location in the former West Riding region of Yorkshire.

The film's main character, 'Bill' (played by Paul Hilton), is taking part in an advertising company's focus group meeting, which is using the conference facilities of an English stately home. But Bill also appears to be acting out or imagining scenarios set in a 1930s New York psychiatric institution, in which he takes on the character of a failed jazz musician recovering from alcohol abuse. Eventually, this 1930s world, and the shadow it casts over the present, entirely disrupts the proceedings. The film draws on the English writer Malcolm Lowry's time in a psychiatric ward at New York's Bellevue Hospital in 1935, which informed his novella Lunar Caustic. Lowry's voluntary attendance at Bellevue (he could check out when he liked), parallels the often privileged position that art occupies in relation to real life. Originally co-commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella with the Bluecoat, in association with Harewood House, Leeds and Spacex, Exeter.

Blue-skinned astronauts, that could come from our distant past, face off against post-apocalyptic tribal group from far off into our future, in a parable about violence, resistance and quantum theory.

Inspired by the myth of Persephone and her abduction and imprisonment in the underworld, Daria Martin's Wintergarden is a spellbinding slowdive into the subterranean shadows of the psyche. The film follows the descent-into-darkness (and subsequent recovery) of a young female protagonist, whose unsteady recuperation at a seaside sanatorium is coloured by Martin's own preoccupation with the past, and her penchant for artistic re-creation and revival.

Undead Sun is a reflexion on the elemental forces that WWI unleashed, the demons haunting society at the time and the products that continue to shape our contemporary experience.

The periphrastic confessions of a computer-generated figure.

The Eye That Articulates Belongs on Land offsets beguiling images of unspoilt nature with graphic visual evidence of the 're-wilding' of the landscape around the atomic plant since particular areas became off-limits to human access.