Emma Kayee

Highlighted works

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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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  I, Daniel Blake

  In Ken Loach's powerful drama, a middle-aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.

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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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  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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  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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  Free Fire

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

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  The Violators

  After testifying against her abusive father, Shelly finds herself rehoused on a sink estate in this powerful directorial debut from acclaimed writer Helen Walsh.

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  The Hard Stop

  George Amponsah’s documentary tells the story of Mark Duggan, who was shot and killed in Tottenham following a ‘Hard Stop’ police procedure in 2011, an event which led to several days of violent riots in London.