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Gesualdo

A mediocre - and murderous - Renaissance composer seeks to cheat his way to revenge, acclaim, and musical inspiration when he falls into the clutches of a chorus of supernatural entities.

Gesualdo is a co-production with Four Eyes Productions and Tedium Entertainment, and features Louis Cunningham (Marie Antoinette), Selina Jones (Kaos, Raised by Wolves), Miranda Mac Letten (Punchdrunk's The Burnt City), Jenny Walser (Heartstopper) and Simon Kunz (GoldenEye, The Parent Trap), as well as a BAFTA-winning and nominated crew.

Gesualdo is currently slated to screen at the following festivals:

Wimbledon International Film Festival, 7pm Saturday 11th October 2025, Polka Theatre, Wimbledon. Tickets available here.
London Breeze Film Festival, 2.30pm Friday 24th October 2025, Garden Cinema, London. Tickets available here.
Earls Court International Film Festival, 7.30pm Monday 17th November 2025, Electric Cinema White City. Tickets available here.

We are also delighted that Gesualdo has been nominated for the 2025 British Society of Cinematographer's Short Film Award (BSC Club), and for the Hollywood Music in Media Awards.

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A selection of the latest productions from the Raunkiaer team

COLOUR

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Loosely based on HP Lovecraft’s short story The Color Out of Space, Colour screened at the Ferrara, Night Terrors, and ECFF Film Festivals. You can find out more information about the film here.

CONFRONTATION

Confrontation is a ninety second semi-silent short film exploring what happens when a young man realises his friends are wrong for him.

Confrontation was selected by the Norfolk Film Festival, and the Birmingham Film Festival, where it was also nominated for the festival's Best Micro Short Film Award.

THE HEPTAMERON

The plague is ravaging Renaissance Florence. A surreal dinner party sets the scene for a young woman to reckon with her murderous actions and her love for another woman.

The Heptameron was shot in Villa Godi Malinverni, a UNESCO world heritage site in northern Italy, in February 2020, and has been featured in the New York Times, Politico and on the BBC, as well as screening at a selection of European film festivals. You can read more about this incredible production here.

A NIGHT IN THE WINTER OF THE REVOLUTION

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Produced with the support of the Trinity Filmmaking Society.

THE SPY BY THE SEA

Set against the backdrop of early 20th-century Cambridge and Denmark, The Spy by the Sea tells the story of Christopher Brythelwaite, an Englishman's Englishman who decides it would be awfully vogueish to become a spy after finishing university, and is quickly sent off on a nonsense mission into a world he does not understand.

The Spy by the Sea was made possible by the kind support of Inge Wodskou and 7-Kanten, Denmark's largest amateur theatre group.

THE SPIRIT OF THE PLACE

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