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'The Befuddled Box of Betty Buttifint' is a touching examination of a fractured memory. Janis Pugh's experimental film, made in collaboration with the Central School of Speech and Drama, portrays an elderly woman living within her own confused mind. Using the vivid landscape of her memories, Pugh's film blurs the line between reality and fantasy, and between real memories and symbols of Betty's past. Featuring a lead performance from Illona Linthwaite as a woman struggling to make sense of her life, it is a moving, poetic take on the life, loves, and losses of a person whose world is fading away.

'Conversations with my Aunt', by filmmaker Janis Pugh, is an intimate portrait of her relationship with her Aunt. A relationship bound by the past struggling to survive the present as the effects of Alzheimer's have transformed it to one of carer/patient. Shot over five days the film captures the repetitious routines and unpredictable behaviour caused by Alzheimer's and how coping with everyday care brings conflict, tears and humour to their intense and often surreal relationship.

A Beautiful Death is an intensely felt film taking us into the last moments shared by a family as they prepare for the death of a beloved mother. Poignant, playful, searingly emotional and at times surreal, we observe the final, ritualistic acts of tenderness towards the dying woman and the first tentative steps to come to terms with her loss as life's vital thrust reasserts itself.