The story of a unique collaboration between Britain's wartime Prime Minister and it's only ever movie mogul. During Churchill's "wilderness years", he was employed by the film producer, Alexander Korda, as a screenwriter and historical advisor. This film reveals how Churchill's life-long interest in storytelling influenced his approach to politics and ultimately his wartime strategy. Churchill played a pivotal role in one of the most defining dramas of the twentieth century and has been immortalised on screen many times since. The nature of that role is explored here through the prism of the moving picture industry and his role in it.
Set at the dawn of the modern age, Colette is the story of a woman who has been long denied her voice going to extraordinary lengths to reclaim it. Gabrielle Sidonie Colette, a young woman from a country village, marries a charismatic dominating Parisian, fourteen years her senior, known by the single name, 'Willy.' Through his auspices, she is introduced to bohemian Paris where her creative appetite is sparked. Ever quick to capitalize on talent, Willy convinces his wife to write novels - to be published under his name. The phenomenal success of her "Claudine" series makes Willy well known as a writer and 'Colette and Willy' the first modern celebrity couple. Over time, lack of recognition for her work frustrates Colette, and an affair with the gender-defying Marquise de Belbeuf inspires her to break free, but Willy is determined to maintain his hold over her, at any cost.
Destroyer follows the moral and existential odyssey of LAPD detective Erin Bell who, as a young cop, was placed undercover with a gang in the California desert with tragic results. When the leader of that gang re-emerges many years later, she must work her way back through the remaining members and into her own history with them to finally reckon with the demons that destroyed her past.