Lizzie Francke

Highlighted works

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  The Girl with All the Gifts

  In this post-apocalyptic drama, humanity has been all but destroyed by a mutated fungal disease that eradicates free will and turns its victims into flesh-eating 'hungries'. 

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  The Duke of Burgundy

  A dark and erotic melodrama from Peter Strickland, the multi-award-winning writer and director of Berberian Sound Studio (2012) and Katalin Varga (2009).

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  The Falling

  Carol Morley’s second narrative feature is set at a strict English girls’ school in 1969, where a mysterious fainting epidemic breaks out threatening the stability of all involved.

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  Remainder

  Omer Fast delivers a startling adaptation of Tom McCarthy’s acclaimed first novel, starring Tom Sturridge.

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  Who's Gonna Love Me Now?

  A heartwarmer about a London-based man who is stuggling to reconcile with his Israeli family, while finding a new ‘family’ in the London Gay Men’s Chorus.

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  45 Years

  A double prize winner at the Berlin Film Festival, Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years follows Kate Mercer (Charlotte Rampling) and her husband (Tom Courtenay) in the turbulent five days leading up to their 45th wedding anniversary.

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  Lady Macbeth

  A defiant, passionate young woman struggles against suffocating societal norms in this British debut starring the incandescent Florence Pugh.

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  A Syrian Love Story

  Filmed over five years, A Syrian Love Story charts an incredible odyssey to political freedom in the west. For Raghda and Amer, it is a journey of hope, dreams and despair: for the revolution, their homeland and each other.

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  Dark Horse

  Dark Horse tells the larger-than-life true story of how a barmaid in a former mining village in South Wales bred a racehorse on her allotment that went on to become a champion.

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  Iona

  A haunting story about a young woman and her teenage son who seek refuge from a violent crime among a tight-knit religious community on the island of Iona.

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  Innocence of Memories Orhan Pamuk's Museum & Istanbul

  A dreamlike wandering through the streets of Istanbul, Grant Gee's film recounts the tale of doomed love from Orhan Pamuk’s best-selling novel The Museum of Innocence.

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  The Levelling

  Writer-director Hope Dickson Leach delivered an impressive first feature about a middle-class farming family’s crisis, set against the backdrop of the Somerset floods.

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  The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers

  Part documentary, part fable, Ben Rivers’ film is shot against the dizzying landscape of the Atlas Mountains and the desert sands of the Moroccan Sahara.

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  High-Rise

  Tom Hiddleston stars in Ben Wheatley’s darkly subversive adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s cult novel.

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  X + Y

  Directed by BAFTA award winning filmmaker Morgan Matthews, X+Y is the uplifting and inspiring story of a teenager’s struggle to make sense of the world around him.

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  Control

  Photographer-turned-director Anton Corbijn turns the short life of his friend Ian Curtis, lead singer of Joy Division, into a mesmerising black and white elegy.

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  How to Change the World

  Using never before seen archive that brings their extraordinary world to life, How to Change the World is the story of the pioneers who founded Greenpeace.

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  Free Fire

  Ben Wheatley directs this all-guns-blazing bullet opera, starring Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy and Armie Hammer.

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  Love Is All

  Love Is All takes us on a journey through the 20th century, exploring love and courtship on screen in a century of unprecedented social upheaval.

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  Second Coming

  Jackie (Nadine Marshall) and her husband, Mark (Idris Elba) must come to terms with a seemingly miraculous pregnancy in this exciting feature debut from award-winning British playwright Debbie Tucker Green.

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  Hyena

  Michael Logan (Peter Ferdinando) is an anti­hero for our times: a natural predator and a complex mix of high­functioning addict and corrupt police officer.

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  My Nazi Legacy

  Three men travel together across Europe. For two of them the journey involves a confrontation with the acts of their fathers, who were both senior Nazi officers.

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  Spaceship

  British teen cinema gets an injection of hallucinogenic imagination, plus a few unicorns and aliens, in Alex Taylor’s debut feature.

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  Sunset Song

  Agyness Deyn and Peter Mullan star in Terence Davies' glorious adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel.

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  Slow West

  Set at the end of the 19th century, Slow West follows the story of 16-year-old Jay Cavendish as he journeys across the American Frontier in search of the woman he loves, accompanied by a mysterious traveller named Silas (Michael Fassbender).

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  God's Own Country

  A Yorkshire sheep farmer develops a relationship with a Romanian migrant worker with this acclaimed first feature by Francis Lee.