My Name Is Leon by Lynette Linton is a TV feature set against the backdrop of the race riots in 1980s Birmingham. It tells the story of ten-year-old Leon, a mixed-race boy. We follow his quest to reunite his family after being taken into care and separated from his baby brother. Leon’s adventure leads him to an allotment, where he meets Tufty, who will teach him valuable lesson...
Taratoa Stappard’s brooding debut feature plunges us into the dour moors of 1859 North Yorkshire, where the British Empire’s reach casts long and twisted shadows. Mary Stevens (Ariāna Osborne), a young Māori teacher from Aotearoa (New Zealand), arrives in search of family truths, only to find the man who summoned her already dead and no clear path home. Stranded in an unfamilia...