Lessons in Self-Defense

A Particular Friend

2023

When Father Matthew discovers an intimacy between two of the other priests at a remote conversion-therapy centre in Northern Ireland, his attempt to do the right thing leads to a crisis of faith and feeling.

The Manggis in Ah Gong's Hands

2025

A bigoted Chinese grandfather having to look after his biracial grandson at the onset of a global pandemic lockdown

Asterisk

2016

Gold Medal Olympic runner, Travis Downes is forced to confront his actions after steroid allegations surface and his agent sets up a press conference for the next day. As he is locked in a hotel room his actions become more clear and he is forced to make a choice that will forever impact his future.

By the End of the Night

2018

Karim, 30, drives every night. One day at dawn, he drives his last client - a foreign artist, the same age than him. Karim feels irresistibly attracted towards this young man. What he feels will start questioning who he thought he was.

Betrayed

2011

Doug Collins has been a highly-respected analyst at the FBI for twenty-five years. He is liked and admired by all the members of his team, but they've seen changes in Doug recently: an attractive young girlfriend, working odd hours, increased frustration at work. And then there was the time he was seen texting on his Blackberry from inside the SCIF. It's all probably nothing. They know his recent divorce has been tough on him. It's not like he's a spy. But what if he is? What is the price of silence?

Pulse

Lilly wakes up in the middle of the night. Her heart beats uneven and her pulse is lower then ever. Maybe she'll die? To survive she needs to eat, but to eat she needs to loose control. Will she dare to let go, when the anorexia makes her believe that the control is the one thing that keeps her alive?

It Rained Tomorrow Night

2024

Jasiek and Olga photograph waterfalls, while Hela and Zuza take cheeky portraits of the Pope. Together, the four friends enjoy cycling trips, admiring the views, bathing in streams, and passing around a joint. It sounds like the perfect recipe for summer lightheartedness—until the instincts suppressed by relationship routines awaken.

Full

2001

Jamie is a young man who suffers from both anorexia and bulimia. His memories of being teased for being over-weight coupled with people's treatment of his sudden weight loss lead him to question his decisions for the first time. We are allowed into his reality and given insight into his perspective as he holds everyone at a distance while he examines the details of his disillusioned world. And this allows him to see just how paper thin the reality he has been living in truly is. "Full" is not about overcoming an eating disorder; it is about understanding an eating disorder, and how a young man comes to understand it.