Known for Production
Farhana Bhula is the Head of Creative at Film4. She joined the company in 2022 as a Senior Commissioning Executive, overseeing projects such as How to Have Sex by Molly Manning Walker, Layla by Amrou Al-Kadhi, and Strangers by Andrew Haigh, starring Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal. Before Film4, she worked at the BFI as a Senior Development and Production Executive, where she served as Executive Producer on Scrapper by Charlotte Regan, Pretty Red Dress by Dionne Edwards, Nezouh by Soudade Kaadan, Pirates by Reggie Yates, Boxing Day by Aml Ameen, and ear for an eye by debbie tucker green. She was also involved in Ben Sharrock’s Limbo and Aleem Khan’s After Love. Before her time at the BFI, Bhula was Head of Development at Wildgaze Films (Brooklyn, An Education) and a Development Executive at Endor Productions.
Filmography
27 films
showing 23 of 24 films


Tender Loving Care
2026 · 1h 47m
country: United Kingdom
Amy is a devoted social service worker who puts her heart and soul into her job to care for those in need. At home, however, she finds herself confronting new challenges as her beloved father begins to show the early signs of dementia, and she and her mother must begin to make peace with their new reality. Through it all, Amy finds comfort, perspective, and plenty of laughter through sips of wine with her lifelong friend Rosie, whose warmth and wit become a vital anchor as both women navigate the shifting rhythms of approaching middle age.


A Long Winter
2026 · 1h 58m
country: United Kingdom
Set high in the mountains, fall comes to an end and a family prepares for the long winter ahead.


Wild Horse Nine
2026 · 1h 58m
country: United Kingdom
Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ. Amongst the Island's iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris's newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways.


Extra Geography
2026 · 1h 34m
country: United Kingdom
In an English girls boarding school, two teenage best friends grapple with the challenges of girlhood — friendship, boys, studies, and growing up — and embark on their school project, falling in love.


Filipiñana
2026 · 1h 41m
country: Philippines
While working at an elite country club outside Manila, a 17-year-old Ilocana worker uncovers the violent truths of her workplace, her country, and her own past after attempting to return a lost golf club to the club's president.


Surviving Earth
2026 · 1h 36m
country: United Kingdom
Years after fleeing military conscription during the Yugoslav conflict, Vlad is building a community in Bristol, working as a drugs counsellor and pursuing success with his riotous Balkan band. But integration isn’t as easy as he hoped, and the trauma of his past life is difficult to repress. Can he overcome his demons and create a new life for those he loves the most?


Rose of Nevada
2026 · 1h 54m
country: United Kingdom
When a fishing boat, the Rose of Nevada, lost with all hands 30 years ago, mysteriously reappears in the old harbour of a forgotten Cornish village, for those who remember, it’s surely a sign. The boat must go out to sea again and maybe then the luck of the devastated village will turn. Young father Nick and enigmatic newcomer Liam join captain Murgey, and they head to sea. But when they return, satisfied with their haul, something is amiss – they’ve slipped back in time, and the villagers greet them as if they are the original crew.


Sacrifice
2026 · 1h 43m
country: France
During a star-studded charity gala brimming with celebrities, billionaires and empty speeches, a movie star in the midst of an existential crisis is taken hostage by a radical warrior and her devoted followers. As the night descends into chaos, both an inward journey and an outward adventure ensue, where the line between performance and belief, salvation and sacrifice, begins to blur.


H Is for Hawk
2025 · 2h
country: United Kingdom
After losing her beloved father, Helen finds herself saved by an unlikely friendship with a stubborn hawk named Mabel. Through the bond, Helen rediscovers the beauty of being alive.


The History of Sound
2025 · 2h 8m
country: United Kingdom
In 1917, two young music students attending the Boston Conservatory bond over a mutual love of folk music. They reconnect a few years later, embarking on a song-collecting trip in the backwaters of Maine.


The Voice of Hind Rajab
2025 · 1h 29m
country: France
January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A five-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.


Hot Milk
2025 · 1h 33m
country: United Kingdom
Rose and her daughter Sofia travel to the Spanish seaside town of Almería to consult with the shamanic Dr. Gomez, a physician who could possibly hold the cure to Rose’s mystery illness, which has left her bound to a wheelchair. But in the sultry atmosphere of this sun-bleached town Sofia, who has been trapped by her mother’s illness all her life, finally starts to shed her inhibitions, enticed by the persuasive charms of enigmatic traveller Ingrid.


Layla
2025 · 1h 40m
country: United Kingdom
When Layla, a struggling Arab drag queen, falls in love for the first time, they lose and find themself in a transformative relationship that tests who they really are.


2073
2024 · 1h 23m
country: United Kingdom
Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominant police state where democracy and personal freedom have been well and truly obliterated.


Wicked Little Letters
2024 · 1h 40m
country: United Kingdom
When the denizens of Littlehampton – including conservative Edith – begin receiving letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime. Suspecting something amiss, the town's women band together to investigate.


All of Us Strangers
2023 · 1h 45m
country: United Kingdom
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life.


Eileen
2023 · 1h 38m
country: United Kingdom
During a bitter 1964 Massachusetts winter, young secretary Eileen becomes enchanted by Rebecca, the glamorous new counselor at the prison where she works. Their budding friendship takes a twisted turn when Rebecca reveals a dark secret — throwing Eileen onto a sinister path.


How to Have Sex
2023 · 1h 31m
country: United Kingdom
Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday—drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives.


Scrapper
2023 · 1h 24m
country: United Kingdom
A resourceful 12-year-old, who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working-class suburb of London, makes money stealing bikes with her best friend Ali and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending to live with an uncle. But when her estranged father turns up out of the blue, she's forced to confront reality.


Pretty Red Dress
2023 · 1h 50m
country: United Kingdom
Travis has just been released from prison and it quickly becomes apparent that much has changed while he’s been gone. While girlfriend Candice is on the up and auditioning to star in a Tina Turner musical, daughter Kenisha is struggling in school and her relationship with her mum is tense. So, when Travis buys Candice her dream dress for an audition, rather than smoothing over the family’s problems, it ends up creating even more. As secrets and desires left unsaid threaten to spill out, Travis is forced to re-examine who he is and how he wants to be perceived in the world.


Nezouh
2023 · 1h 44m
country: France
Even as bombs fall on Damascus, Mutaz refuses to flee to the uncertain life of a refugee. His wife, Hala, and daughter, Zeina, must make the choice whether to stay or leave.


Boxing Day
2021 · 1h 49m
country: United Kingdom
Melvin, a British author living in America, returns home to London for Christmas to introduce his American fiancée Lisa to his eccentric British-Caribbean family. Their relationship is put to the test as she discovers the world her fiancé has left behind.


ear for eye
2021 · 1h 28m
country: United Kingdom
From front rooms, Black families, friends, students and older generations navigate British and American society today.