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Hollyoaks: In Too Deep

Royal Enchantimals: A Ro... In this new adventure, the Enchantimals travel to Royal Isle to search for their new friends' missing Queen and help them receive their enchantments!

The Real Manhunt: The Ni... Interviewing senior officers from Operation Minstead to tell the real story of the 17-year hunt for the serial rapist known as 'The Night Stalker'.

Reserved The film shows an unnamed city preparing for the arrival of a VIP. Shot in the style of a documentary, Reserved explores the absurdity of official routine and the everyday working of social privilege and hierarchy. The title refers to the signs that are often placed on chairs in the front rows of formal events. However, Abidi mainly focuses on those excluded from these 'reserved' spaces. Reserved portrays the experience of waiting, and the boredom and sense of uselessness that it causes. While events like these take place in cities across the world, Abidi draws upon her own memories of growing up in Karachi, Pakistan. She recalls continually having to wait for a mayor, governor or some other dignitary to arrive.

Deep into the dark water... Behind the scenes with director Mariano Baino on Dark Waters

Milk As an eight year old girl carefully decides which lollies to spend her hard earned pocket money on, she notices an old man at the counter ahead of her that is struggling to pay for the basics, bread and milk.

Wars in Yugoslavia Two-part Slovenian documentary on the Yugoslav Wars, 1991-1999.

Grace A young girl is looking for a change. But an old winter city can only offer the divine.

(Un)homeliness Pencil on paper and digital mixed-media film. For most people, home is permanent, private and secure. Here, however, Hu focuses on the instability and insecurity of 'home' for homeless people. Drawing is used as an exploratory tool to try to understand their experiences. This contributed to a proposal for ways in which disused urban interiors might house homeless people and those seeking asylum. This short film is one of the winning entries to The Architecture Drawing Prize 2021, a collaboration between Make Architects, the World Architecture Festival, and Sir John Soane's Museum.

Dark Valley An orphan, adopted by an authoritarian landowner, falls in love with his daughter on a farm in the mountains.