Richard Lintern

Guests at a housewarming party are slipped a mysterious drug. When ugly truths start to emerge, chaos reigns and threatens the relationships of old friends.

Clare, a woman struggling with her dance career, accepts her Aunt Bridget’s invitation to come to England for the holidays. When Clare arrives, she meets Liam, a handsome historian who is determined to prove Aunt Bridget’s manor is a historical landmark. Realizing Clare can help Liam prove the manor’s historical value, Aunt Bridget proposes they work together to bring back the Christmas Ball from years ago. In the planning process, Clare and Liam begin to fall in love and realize their true passion in life is to be together.

Only the hardiest animals are capable of carving out a life in Siberia. Over a wild year, polar bears, reindeer, red-crowned cranes, cherry salmon and least weasels must endure a long unforgiving winter and take advantage of the brief abundance of spring.

For the first time, the inner secrets of the gunpowder plotters are dramatised using the actual words of their most senior captured leader Thomas Wintour, Guy Fawkes and state interrogators investigating the 18-month conspiracy in which a family circle of militant Catholic gentlemen tried to blow up King and Parliament. Wintour's insider account of this epic tale of faith, fanaticism, persecution and betrayal is told in detail, from his recruitment of both Fawkes and his own brother to his capture in a dramatic siege and bloody shoot-out on 8 November. The hopes, fears and plans for a Midlands rebellion, royal kidnap, the plotters' penetration of the king's bodyguard and Fawkes' attendance, sword in hand, at a wedding attended by the king in December 1604 are shown, as well as a dramatisation of the thrilling, forgotten story of the final days after 5/11 as the conspirators are hunted down and then face the terrible punishments reserved for traitors.

Dick Hurt - a broke, alcoholic, pill-popping private detective - is drowning his sorrows with whisky and snooker (and questioning his sanity with each repeated occurrence of his recently murdered girlfriend, Sophie) when he receives a phone call one night from a wealthy businessman, Mr. Fox, offering him a job...

Isaac Newton - brilliant rational mathematician or master of the occult? This innovative biography reveals Newton as both a hermit and a tyrant, a heretic and an alchemist. Magical images mix with actors and experts to bring alive Britain's greatest scientific genius in his own words.

A drama based on Jimi Hendrix's life as he left New York City for London, where his career took off.

Drama-documentary about Winston Churchill's extraordinary experiences during the Great War, with intimate letters to his wife Clementine allowing the story to be told largely in his own words. Just 39 and at the peak of his powers running the Royal Navy, Churchill in 1914 dreamt of Napoleonic glory, but suffered a catastrophic fall into disgrace and humiliation over the Dardanelles disaster. The film follows his road to redemption, beginning in the trenches of Flanders in 1916, revealing how he became the 'godfather' of the tank and his forgotten contribution to final victory in 1918 as Minister of Munitions. Dark political intrigue, a passionate love story and remarkable military adventures on land, sea and air combine to show how the Churchill of 1940 was shaped and forged by his experience of the First World War.

Lauren and her younger brother Harvey risk being taken into care when their grandmother, who is their legal guardian, becomes ill. Lauren accepts the offer of a scholarship to a prestigious sports academy on the understanding that she and Harvey stay together while living with Janice, her duplicitous and ambitious agent. It soon becomes clear that there are plans to split the pair up; when Harvey runs away to find their long-lost grandfather, who hasn’t been heard from for years, Lauren follows. En route the pair discover that, despite all their differences, when they are side by side they are strong enough to deal with anything. This beautifully shot British debut is part family drama, part coming of age story and a road trip that nods towards some of the greats of children’s literature. The young leads give compelling and moving performances that make for an emphatically British family film that’s refreshingly free of even the hint of a franchise. (Source: LFF programme)

Charles Dickens burns a lifetime of letters in one night and struggles with a desire that longs to make itself real.