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The Tunnel Short Film — Arash Ashtiani‘s The Tunnel (2021) short film has been released. The Tunnel short film stars Mohammad Amiri, Ramin Farahani, and George Georgiou. Crew Arash Ashtiani and Daniel Metz wrote the screenplay for The Tunnel. “Produced by Anna Griffin and Anna Seifert-Speck. Featuring cinematography by Nick Morris, and music by Cj [...]

Continue reading: The Tunnel (2021) Short Film: Three Refugees Run for a New Life in the UK through the Eurotunnel...

Don't stop running! This film is one of these super tense thrillers where you hold your breath the entire time until it's over. The Tunnel is a remarkable short made by an Iranian filmmaker named Arash Ashtiani based in the UK. Presented by BFI Network and Lush. This is based on true stories. Three refugees run the race of their lives through the Euro Tunnel, trying to beat the trains and overcome their terror in a bid to reach freedom and start new lives in the UK. An interview explains that the The Tunnel "drops us into the tense third act of a larger story Ashtiani is developing with co-writer Daniel Metz." Starring Mohammad Amiri, Ramin Farahani, and George Georgiou. This was not shot on location - it is a set built inside of a studio, and many of the trains are miniatures. Which is even more incredible because it's all so believable.

Hide and Seek

Written by Daniel Metz and Joanna Coates

Directed by Joanna Coates

UK, 2014

The dream of an abundance of love and sex and friendship is probably familiar to all of us, however conflicted it is with the ideology of a soulmate, the special and romantic idea of two starry-eyed lovers locked in a close embrace. While the majority of the Western narratives seems to adhere to the dream of the happily ever after, Hide and Seek offers a different view of love, seeking to mythologize a polyamorous union instead.

Coming from a first-feature British director and winner of the Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Hide and Seek presents us with four young adults from London, Max, Charlotte, Leah and Jack, who, though complete strangers to each other, decide to experiment with polyamory. They draw up schedules of partner-swapping including...

Update: Tony Benn doc wins audience award; Hide and Seek wins Michael Powell Award, Ice Poison takes international prize.

Joanna Coates’s drama Hide and Seek has won The Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature at the 68th Edinburgh International Film Festival, which has revealed its winners today.

Walking on Sunshine star Hannah Arterton, sister of Gemma, is among the cast of the film about four fragile youngsters who flee London to start an unconventional utopia.

Coates wrote the film with Daniel Metz, who also stars in the film and produces.

The Michael Powell jury, chaired by director Amos Gitai with actors Nina Hoss and Michael Smiley, described the film as “innovative” and “exceptional.”

On Sunday, Skip Kite’s documentary Tony Benn: Will & Testament won the audience award.

The award for Best Film in the International Competition went to Midi Z’s Ice Poison (Taiwan, Myanmar), which charts the economic despair in the rural and developing...

Charlotte (Hannah Arterton), Max (Josh O'Connor), Jack (Daniel Metz) and Leah (Rea Mole) have chosen to abandon the modern world of London in order to develop a utopian commune in the secluded English countryside. Sublimely uninterested in what is going on in the world around them, they foster a place in which imagination takes precedence over societal rules. As an expression of their newfound freedom, the foursome establishes a polyamorous lifestyle in an effort to breakdown interpersonal boundaries while also avoiding any romantic connections that might tear the commune apart. As they hide from the world, the commune serves as an existential Petri dish for the characters to seek out their true selves and find happiness. Joanna Coates' Hide and Seek tests the theory that societal norms serve as overbearing burdens for human beings; free of moral guidelines and everyday stress, people might just be able to enjoy life.