Paul White

Some time after her death, film director Jill Craigie (1911- 99), re-opens an old suitcase, prompting memories of the extraordinary life and loves of this forceful, charismatic woman, whose work has been long neglected. Craigie was one of the first women to direct documentaries. Working outside the British Documentary Movement in the 1940s and early 1950s, her films such as To Be Woman (1951), on equal pay, and Out of Chaos (1944), the first film about artists at work, featuring Henry Moore and Paul Nash, tackled new subjects for the cinema through a unique blend of drama, polemic and humour. Independent Miss Craigie uses the director’s unseen papers, and her films, to reveal her energetic struggles to get her radical projects made and distributed, including her last one, on the Yugoslav conflict, made when she was 83, with her husband, former Labour leader, Michael Foot.

Deux étrangers, tout deux musiciens folk bloqués en Californie, font un voyage à New York dans les jours qui ont suivi le 11 septembre.

Piégée dans une vie de famille et de servitude, la femme du pasteur, Valerie (55 ans), souffre depuis longtemps et a passé sa vie à servir les autres. Seule et perdue, elle prie en silence une statue de la Vierge Marie, et la réponse à ses prières vient sous la forme d'une force étrange. Convaincue qu'elle est possédée, Valerie lutte contre elle-même, jusqu'à se rendre compte des avantages de la bienveillance envers soi.