Ian Handford

The true story of a 1920s Canadian jazz band who play their every performance gagged and almost completely immobilized by thick cords which bind them hand and foot. The music they produce - from a full range of instruments, yet without recourse to the usual limbs and orifices - is a moving triumph of courage over self-imposed adversity.

At the height of the October Revolution during the 1919 allied intervention in Arkhangelsk, the exploits of one-legged Canadian soldier Lt. John Boles are told, after he is taken in from the cold by a dysfunctional Russian family and mistakes a local woman for his presumed dead lover.

A la fin du siècle dernier une épidémie de peste bubonique s'abat à Gimli, une colonie islandaise. A l'hôpital, Einar, pêcheur solitaire, rencontre Gunnar, gentilhomme sympathique et grassouillet. Les deux hommes deviennent amis. Ils se racontent des histoires toujours plus enfiévrées et deviennent ennemis quand ces histoires vont trop loin, se faisaint mutuellement subir toute sorte de tourments.

Set in a blazing land where the sun ceaselessly shines, this dramatic fantasy examines love’s darker aspects.

Set in a blazing land where the sun ceaselessly shines, this dramatic fantasy examines love’s darker aspects.