Death Defying Acts

Director: Gillian Armstrong

Year: 2002

1942. The world is at war. Charlotte Gray, a young Scottish woman, is parachuted behind enemy lines into Southern France. Only she knows she has a dual mission. Officially, she has been recruited by the British Government on a special operation to liaise with the local resistance group, who are using guerrilla tactics against the occupying German Army. Unofficially, she is searching for her lover, Peter, an English airman missing in action after his plane is shot down. As Charlotte becomes more deeply involved with the resistance fighters, led by Julien Levade, she realises that her love of France and its people will change her life forever. Charlotte Gray is a thrilling romance set against the harrowing events of the dark years of the War in France.

Director: Gillian Armstrong

Year: 1998

OSCAR AND LUCINDA is a story of fate and chance in which the throw of a dice or the fall of a card can affect many lives. It is also the extraordinary love story of two orphans from opposite sides of the world. Both are gamblers but also innocents who gain experience, with difficulty and with joy, in the colourful times of the mid-nineteenth century.

Director: Anna Maguire, Kyle Greenberg

Year: 2026

What if you went on a holiday and the apocalypse happened? GALICIA! is a found-footage, hybrid-documentary following a couple through home video footage as they visit their friends at a winery in rural Spain and inadvertently capture the end of days. We live in a time where the sense of our impending mutually assured destruction is more real than it’s ever been. GALICIA! Takes the form of a holiday video - a document of a couple before - and after the great cataclysm. The film starts as something that feels unedited - an accidental video diary of an ordinary couple that feels somewhat ghostly as much as it is also pedestrian. As the film evolves and degrades, we are led to question the fragility of humanity, as well as its power to endure.