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Escape From Pretoria is the true story of Tim Jenkin (Daniel Radcliffe) and Stephen Lee (Daniel Webber), young, white South Africans branded ‘terrorists’, and imprisoned in 1978 for working covert operations for Nelson Mandela’s banned ANC. Incarcerated in Pretoria Maximum Security Prison, they decide to send the apartheid regime a...

Long held memories of grief and the ramifications of war collide when 10 year old Middle-East refugee Ako is forced to spend an afternoon with elderly English neighbours. With more in common than they might have imagined, all three realise that sometimes letting go is the hardest thing to do....

For ten year old Sami, despite the ongoing war raging around his Middle East home, life is fairly straightforward. He enjoys showing off to the beautiful girl next door and spending time with his family. But, with a sick father, Sami needs money to buy medicine. He is able to...

AFRICA UNITED tells the extraordinary story of three Rwandan children and their bid to take part in the opening ceremony of the 2010 Football World Cup in Johannesburg. Our pint-sized heroes set off in pursuit of their dream, picking up along the way a 'dream team' of displaced kids who...

Supramanya (Supraman) is a young Indian boy whose blind mother is struggling to make ends meet. When she gives up on taking care of him, Supraman takes matters into his own hands...

Sometimes leaving brings you back. Home explores a joyful homecoming within a painful context. For a teenager and a family who almost dared not dream of this moment, the return home is potentially full of hope, disappointment, misunderstanding, forgiveness, failure and joy.

In a forest where wolves prowl the night and rival gangs rule the day, first love blossoms for Sean and Layla. But Mia, Sean’s kid sister, feeling cast aside, must join the gangs to win him back, whatever the cost.

In 2005 Footprint were asked to Executive Produce four short films being produced by the UK Film Council/Screen South as part of their Digital Shorts Programme which supported emerging filmmaker teams in making innovative short films using digital technology.

Spike and Heaton are the unlikeliest pair. Taciturn, competent, unreadable, Heaton is someone we are instinctively afraid of. In contrast, his sidekick Spike is manic, child-like, unstoppable: someone we are instinctively afraid for. But when Spike commits a terrible crime, Heaton stands by him. There begins a chase across a...

This is the mysterious world of the tribal cop, where DNA and dreams are accorded equal value in the hunt for a killer, where mere facts are not enough. Harold H. Brewer is a police lieutenant and a Sioux Indian from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, USA. In...

Rachel and Mike are camping on the outskirts of a sleepy seaside town. In the neighbouring camper van, reunited Israeli sisters Dannie and Maya play cards and catch up. As Rachel pursues Jake, the sixteen year old son she abandoned years ago, Mike pursues Dannie, whilst Maya, a busking mime,...

This is the story of ten-year-old Catherine, the boisterous daughter of a farming family and a force to be reckoned with. Her younger brother, Matthew, is seriously ill with Leukaemia, so when Catherine and her new Hindu classmate, Uma, witness a strange and mysterious phenomenon in the hills, Catherine is...

Set amidst the aisles and routine of a supermarket where bored shift workers cross over but never meet, Closer is a moment in the lives of two, a female security guard and a shelf-stacker. Working the same place but different shifts, a monotonous and lonely existence, they begin leaving cleverly...

Yellow explores the combination of naivete and power possessed by young children. When the car breaks down next to a rapeseed field on a family outing, Natalie, a bored seven-year-old girl, takes the car keys and disappears into the sea of yellow flowers. When her mother's new boyfriend follows, he...

A postcard from a past lover hurls a married woman deep into the pleasures and regrets that only memory can bring.