Barry Ward

In a rural town in North Wales, mussel harvester Jack has been married to his wife Maggie for over half of his life. He is troubled by his son Tom, who has little interest in the family trade. When Jack crosses paths with Daniel, an itinerant deckhand, their attraction poses an impossible dilemma.

Hoping to keep his recently fractured family together, David takes his children, Klára and Teo, on holiday to the Adriatic. There, teenage Klára, who struggles with an eating disorder, falls in love with a local boy, Denis. When Denis is accused of murder, Klára's condition worsens, and she ends up in hospital. The desire to save her is the only thing that unites her parents, and crisis situations call for drastic measures.

June 1961, NYC: legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans has found his musical voice and created the perfect trio, including bass player Scott LaFaro, said to be his soulmate through music. A residency at New York’s Village Vanguard culminates in the live taping of two of the greatest jazz records of all time in one night. Ten days later, LaFaro dies in a car crash. Numb with grief, Evans stops playing.

Two sisters, Jean and Joan Holbrooke, are so close to each other that they speak in unison, love the same man, and have the same dreams. They even make the same slip of tongue in unison. We cannot see the world as they see it, but we do see how the world reacts to them – through the courts and the press, through those that want to help and those who want to use them, through the eyes of beasts both tame and wild, and even through their own echoes in the core of the earth.

When hard partying and volatile neighbours move in next door, a quiet woman's life begins to spiral, pushing her to the edge and triggering a slow, unnerving descent into obsession and revenge.

When a battered boxer past his prime finds his dreams and his relationships on the ropes, he falls back in with a dangerous crowd and has to take the biggest swing of his life to reclaim his hope and his family.

A teenager, desperate to gain approval from a religious group, sells all of her belongings at a car boot. When a stranger lures her away for a slush puppy, what at first seems like an innocent drink ends up perverting her whole worldview.

Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among the small, close-knit community near to where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded in life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters around them unfolds through the rituals of work, play and the passing seasons as this enclosed world becomes an everywhere.

A group of protesters film a period re-enactment in a dilapidated 18th century house in a last ditch effort to save it from demolition. Through this film-within-a-film device, Paul Mercier’s satirical script gleefully blurs the lines between “real life” and dramatised events, while touching on a dizzying range of themes such as art, historical truth and conservation. The film is fuelled by an anarchic energy and propelled by Mel Mercier’s driving score.

Saskia has just moved into her first house, but the dream is tainted by an unexpected arrival.