At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. But back then she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young girl who disarms and eventually drives her boss Helena to suicide. Now she is being asked to step into the other role, that of the older Helena. She departs with her assistant to rehearse in Sils Maria; a remote region of the Alps. A young Hollywood starlet with a penchant for scandal is to take find out more...

Derek Jarman's shock-horror-outrage account of the life of Saint Sebastiane who, according to the controversial director, was gay. Sebastian is played as a Roman soldier, posted to the back of beyond with a small platoon of bored colleagues, who gets selfishly absorbed in his own mysticism and then picked on by his emotionally crippled captain. This was the first offering in Channel 4's ever so tempting "red triangle" season, and is, in fact, a powerful, visually stunning and sensitively made tr find out more...