In Dundedin Hospital staff are working to improve end of life treatment in pateints with COPD and other chronic conditions. Professor Robin Taylor wants to change the way that we care for people with long-term, but inevitably fatal medical conditions as they reach the end of their lives. Instead of writing another academic paper, he decided to take a completely different tack and commission a film about the issues. "We wanted to make this film because...

Near the end of his life, the renowned English composer Elgar composed some of the greatest music of his career. This film examines the idea that Elgar's deeply emotional Cello Concerto in Em was provoked by memories of his first great love, Helen Weaver, who emigrated to New Zealand after their relationship ended. After receiving word that Weaver's son had been killed fighting in France, Elgar was moved to write a war requiem. The film mixes interviews,...

After an ill-timed and very public marriage proposal, fiercely independent Sarah breaks up with her overeager boyfriend Kevin. When Sarah suddenly finds herself caught up in an intense rebound romance with the adorable Jonathan, she is forced to examine her own fears of commitment and vulnerability. With honesty, heart, and humor, she struggles with the trials, happiness, and pain of modern love. In the end Sarah must decide - is it better to stay...

GOD'S FOOL is a new story about an old saint. Our story begins as St. Francis of Assisi's life is coming to an end. His life and legacy send a ripple through time to present day New York City sending the son of a business tycoon on a quest to follow in Francis's footsteps. As he begins a mystical journey he follows St. Francis right into the heart of Jesus, where he falls head over heels in love with God after discovering God is head over heels...

A dark world much like our own. A fabulously wealthy family. A troubled daughter, social media icon. A dark underworld of criminals and estranged youth. Everything collides in a dramatic tale of wickedness and greed. Romance, love, violence. Who will get away with all the stolen gold? Power crazed, savageness, and an ending that should fry your eyeballs after a central story that stabs you between the ribs. This movie is not for the faint of heart...

Andalucia, Spain. One of the world’s worst places to fight fire, where temperatures of up to 45º c meet with vast vegetation, creating 50 meter walls of flames that threaten the whole region. ‘Life in Flames’ follows a team of elite firemen over the course of a summer. Gustavo leads the team. He’s 41, at the peak of his career, and driven by one obsession - to keep his men alive. One mistake, one wrong choice and someone dies. But now he’s...

When her marriage falls apart, Agnès Le Roux moves back to the South of France from Africa to live with her mother, Renée (Catherine Deneuve), owner of a casino in Nice. There, Agnès falls in love with Maurice Agnelet, a lawyer and Renée's business advisor, who is ten years her senior. As a shareholder in the casino, Agnès decides to sell what should have been her inheritance to go it alone. After a failed suicide attempt, Agnès disappears and...

Shakespearean Drama of the Highest Quality Performed at an authentic recreation of The Globe. With performances by world famous award winning Shakespearean actors this series has recaptured the Elizabethan flavor of Shakespeare's own Globe productions by staging them just as they were seen in the 16th century. Shakespeare's tragic story of young love thwarted by a family feud. Two rival Veronese families, the Montagues and the Capulets, are warned...

After their award-winning collaboration in Wild Side, screenwriter Stephane Bouquet and screenwriter/director Sebastien Lifshitz come together again to create the sensual and meditative COME UNDONE, which explores a young boy’s homosexual awakening and the turbulence of first love. Taking place at a seaside town near western France, Mathieu (Jeremie Elkaim), a quiet 18-years-old spending the summer with his troubled family, meets the handsome and...

Olanna (Thandie Newton) and Kainene (Anika Noni Rose) are glamorous twins from a wealthy Nigerian family. Upon returning to a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria after their expensive English education, the two women make very different choices. Olanna shocks her family by going to live with her lover, the "revolutionary professor"Odenigbo (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and his devoted houseboy Ugwu (John Boyega) in the dusty university town...