When Daniel Edelstyn discovered his grandmother's journals in the attic of his family home, he was inspired. Born into a wealthy and privileged Jewish family in the Ukraine, Maroussia Zorokovich was a writer, dancer and painter before the Bolshevik revolution rewrote her destiny, and the irresistible romance of her life took a powerful grip on Edelstyn. Delving into his family history, he travels to the country of his forebears, and, in the depressed village of Dubouviazovka where his great grandfather's estate was situated, he discovers a vodka distillery his ancestors once owned. Edelstyn has the notion that he could best serve his family's legacy by re-branding the vodka made there in the hope of reviving the village's prosperity. How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire is a dizzying mesh of stories and techniques that ambitiously combines a documentary about entering the alcohol industry, an investigation of one family's history and a recreation of key historical events of the 20th century. It's sincere, charming and inventive filmmaking, with Edelstyn himself at its centre, a man striving to define what his role in all this is, flitting between genealogist, storyteller and businessman. Michael Hayden London Film Festival

A beautiful young escort, Paul, suffers from trip-like dreams he doesn't understand. These visions are shared by his clients, both scaring and exciting them. Paul is searching for his twin brother, whom he hasn't seen since childhood, and hooks up with enigmatic film director John Baxter. Desired by everyone but lost to himself, Paul is persuaded to make one adult film, which will help him discover himself, and in the process find his twin. But the journey he goes on is a dark one, involving dangerous clients, an unscrupulous rival producer, and unsafe sex. In discovering his true past, Paul is in danger of destroying himself