Carla Henry

Speak Like a Child, the feature film debut of documentary director John Akomfrah, explores the intense friendship that evolves between three troubled teenagers growing up in an isolated children's home on the Northumbrian coast. The desolate beauty of the coastline is captured in stunning panoramas, while strong performances by the young cast help to create a lyrical and poignant drama.

A childless woman is told that her longed for unborn baby is incompatible with life. Alone, with her conscience and unable to openly discuss her situation because of society’s stigma surrounding termination and the self- silencing of women concerning reproduction, she painfully decides the best way forward.

A politician learns just how quickly things can go terribly wrong when a career-defining live TV interview goes off the rails due to a surprise coughing attack.

A film adaptation of the 1606 satirical tragedy by Thomas Middleton, relocated to a post-apocalyptic Liverpool. Christopher Eccleston plays the revenge-obsessed Vindice, who has sworn to kill the evil Duke (Derek Jacobi) who murdered his one true love.

This is a forty-minute drama for schoolkids, broadcast by the BBC in Britain. There was an epidemic of Liverpool kids blowing up public telephone boxes with fireworks at the time, so we began with an incidence of that. (A.C)

La trentaine, les pieds sur terre, rigolote et franche, Rose attend davantage de la vie. Elle habite avec sa mère, dont elle ne peut supporter le soupirant, et fréquente Andy, un garçon bien sous tous rapports si ce n'est un brin trop gentil. Quand le hasard d'une nuit de fête place Bob, professeur, sur son chemin, le courant passe immédiatement entre eux et viendra même court-circuiter leur train-train quotidien. Si Rose a le cœur tourmenté, ce coup de foudre bouleverse davantage Bob qui jusque-là se considérait gay et menait une vie débridée. Devant la perplexité de leur entourage, ils s'engagent peu à peu dans une aventure amoureuse aux lendemains incertains...

Blue Murder is a British crime drama television series based in Manchester. Shown on ITV from 2003 until 2009 when it was cancelled by the network, it starred Caroline Quentin as DCI Janine Lewis.

Dans le quartier gay de Canal Street à Manchester, la vie de trois homosexuels... Stuart, le séducteur invétéré changeant de partenaires comme de chemises. Vince, son meilleur ami, sensible et plutôt timide qui n'assume pas réellement son homosexualité. Et enfin Nathan, un jeune garçon de 15 ans, décidé à découvrir sa sexualité.

Moving On is a British television series set in contemporary Britain consisting of standalone dramas all sharing the theme of someone going through some kind of change in their life and moving on.

Frankie is a British television drama series created by Lucy Gannon. The series stars Eve Myles as the eponymous character Frankie Maddox, a district nurse more emotionally involved with her job than her personal life. The series is both set and filmed in the English city of Bristol.

Policière à Leeds, Jo Gillespie est dévastée quand son mari, Ryan, un agent sous couverture, est tué dans des circonstances étranges. Alors qu’elle tente de rester forte pour sa fille, Melly et son beau-fils, Hal, ses supérieurs lui font comprendre qu’elle ne devrait pas s’impliquer dans l’enquête. Mais quand des secrets sur son conjoint commencent à faire leur apparition, la foi de Jo envers la police est mise à rude épreuve. Ne sachant désormais plus en qui elle doit avoir confiance, la jeune femme s’embarque alors dans sa propre enquête.

Big dreams, no qualifications and always herself. Mum’s been sectioned, Gran’s too busy, but after a messy break-up, wild child Alma aims to break free in Bolton.