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- Young runaway Sherry meets the radical street collective Spark. Together they experience the group's giddy thrills as well as its punishing manipulations, as Sherry's journey to paradise begins to sour.
- Shakespeare's most iconic work, "Hamlet" explodes with big ideas and is the ultimate story of loyalty, love, betrayal, murder and madness. Hamlet's father is dead and Denmark has crowned Hamlet's uncle the new king. Consumed by grief, Hamlet struggles to exact revenge, with devastating consequences.
- With his last breath, The Ringmaster breathes life back into his circus. Suspended somewhere between worlds The Forgotten Circus perform to no audience. Mixing circus, physical theatre, and dance to create a surreal world that floods the imagination and seeps under the skin. The circus represents the place between worlds and the point at which one says goodbye to oneself.
- Alison Murray travels as a hobo on freight trains across Canada and the US. She gets to know the community of train riders, especially the many girls riding the rails.
- The first Caribbean immigrants arrive in the black and white world of 1950's England. Amongst the chaotic piles of left luggage, two orphan children - Edith and Ezekiel - are claimed by the zealous, humbug-sucking Matron. Edith and Ezekiel's dismal days and nights are haunted by the mysterious figure of the Guardian. A knotted bedsheet is the path and a bead is the key from the monochrome 50's to the technicolor future of The SuperMarket of the Dead. Here they find their long lost Mother working on the check out. Magic humbugs help to sweeten the children's words and they find their voice at last.
- A family conflict ensues after Owen, the youngest of the proud military family Wingrave, expected to continue the family tradition and become a soldier, rejects violence and war and proclaims himself a pacifist.
- Portrait of minimalist composer Steve Reich.
- Each film reflects a UK-Brazilian collaboration, and the relationship between dance and film is at the heart of all the ideas.
- PETER GRIMES is probably Benjamin Britten's most famous and admired opera, appreciated around the globe for its visceral beauty and portrayal of a small community which struggles to accommodate the fisherman and outsider Peter Grimes. For 2013, PETER GRIMES comes home in a landmark project with open-air staging on the beach at Aldeburgh - the very location in which the opera is set - as dusk fades over the sea and darkness falls. Aldeburgh Music's stage production, directed by Tim Albery and conducted by Steuart Bedford, will be filmed for cinema release; the film version will be directed by leading multi-camera director Margaret Williams. With the North Sea and sky as the backdrop, a first rate chorus and orchestra PETER GRIMES ON ALDEBURGH BEACH promises to be one of the most talked about cultural events of 2013.
- The film 'Veterans' tracks five US Vets recovering from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), as they make their way through the streets of Los Angeles. Locked in solitary battles of isolation, dislocation and memory, these Vets converge in a quiet alley and find themselves joining in a ritual re-enactment of combat before returning to their separate lives.
- An original collaborative work with dancer/choreographer Mayuri Boonham for Channel 4's dance season.
- The choreography is inspired by the idea of the beginnings of classical ballet in the court of King Louis 14th, the Sun King. A sole male performer dances through a beautiful 17th Century ballroom filling the room with light as he moves.
- This mesmerising film by Errollyn Wallen and Dan Farberoff is inspired by an astronaut's response to his journey into space. A sense of weightlessness abounds in the slow motion footage of the dancers' movements, choreographed by Henri Oguike.
- Big Dance, British Council and Channel 4 in association with BAFTA have commissioned 5 new dance films the second series of Big Dance Shorts, this time focusing on the creative relationship between Brazil and the UK.
- A celebration of the best of dance film, introduced by Jonzi D. The programme is a mix of newly commissioned dance films as well as the best of existing dance films from around the world.