In 2022, Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her 70 years of reign; her “Platinum Jubilee”. Bringing together incredible archives, the director of the romantic comedy Notting Hill has created for this occasion – and just before his own death – a nostalgic, playful, fresh and modern chronicle of the woman who has spent the most time as a Head of State.
Taratoa Stappard’s brooding debut feature plunges us into the dour moors of 1859 North Yorkshire, where the British Empire’s reach casts long and twisted shadows. Mary Stevens (Ariāna Osborne), a young Māori teacher from Aotearoa (New Zealand), arrives in search of family truths, only to find the man who summoned her already dead and no clear path home. Stranded in an unfamilia...