Lia Williams

Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by the day and anxiety deepens, an idea emerges: why not stage a play. However the choice of King Lear only manages to plunge this disparate group of travellers into turmoil as they struggle to overcome both nature's wrath and their own mortality. In the heat of the desert, emotional and sexual tensions surge around the play's production, and they are forced to confront their most raw emotions. With all inhibitions stripped away, their individual fight for survival makes them perform the ultimate role in front of each other - their own lives. This indie offering from IFC is a Dogme 95 film directed by Kristian Levring.

In 1838, a governess agrees to bear the child of a anonymous English landowner and in return he will pay off her father's debt. Seven years later, she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate who turns out to be the daughter that she gave up.

In 1838 a beautiful Swiss governess and an English landowner, meet for three days to satisfy the terms of a secret business agreement. He will give her money to pay her father's debts and in return she will give him a child. The powerful desires awakened by this brief encounter draw them together seven years later when, without his knowledge and in his absence, she is hired as the governess to their daughter. Forced together under the same roof and held apart by the conventions of the time, they are freed only in the magic of the firelight.

In 1838, a governess agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner in return to pay off her father's debt. Seven years later, she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate who turns out to be the daughter that she gave up.