Sean Biggerstaff

A biography of the doomed monarch whose devotion to her cousin Elizabeth I, and her duty to her country left her executed. Through evocative visuals, the film examines her return to Scotland, the exhausting struggles between Catholics and Protestants, her marriage to Lord Darnley, and her relationship with the Earl of Bothwell. Thomas Imbach’s film presents a queen who lost three kingdoms, a wife who lost three husbands and, ultimately, her life.

Whisky Galore is the charming and heart-warming tale of a community of Islanders on a remote Scottish Island during WW2. Based on the true story of the cargo ship SS Politician running aground off the coast of Eriskay in 1941 and the ensuing battle between the Excise Men and the locals trying to salvage the lucrative cargo, “that of 50,000 cases of Whisky”.