The Last Words of Dolly Pentreath
"The first ever Cornish language film drama"
The 'last' Cornish speaker (who died in 1777) returns to contemporary Cornwall to investigate the state of the language.
"The first ever Cornish language film drama"
The 'last' Cornish speaker (who died in 1777) returns to contemporary Cornwall to investigate the state of the language.
Keri Jessiman
Dolly Pentreath
George Ansell
Grand Bard
Steven Calamy
Man in Shed
Julia MacLean
English Lady
Paddy Crawford
Surfer
Orlando Bishop
Language Enthusiast
Tom Newman
Surfer
Tony Kilmartin
Surfer
Paul Dunbar
Farmer
The 'last' Cornish speaker (who died in 1777) returns to contemporary Cornwall to investigate the state of the language.
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
Widower Tom, on the recent passing of his wife Mary, uses his free bus pass to travel the length of Britain from John O'Groats in Caithness to Land's End in Cornwall, their shared birthplace, using only local buses. It's an incident-fuelled nostalgia trip and his encounters with local people make him a media phenomenon. Tom is totally unaware and to his surprise on arrival at Land’s End he’s greeted as a celebrity.
An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
An aging Tennessee farmer returns to his homestead and must confront a family betrayal, the reappearance of an old enemy, and the loss of his farm.
A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.
The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose. A dark meditation on London under Thatcher.