The Story of Film: A New Generation

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham was a painter, visionary, and singular thinker. In 1949, Barns-Graham, then 36 years old, climbed the Grindelwald Glacier, where she had an aesthetic and spiritual epiphany that rewired her brain and transformed her art. She spent the rest of her life painting it. Diving deep into her art and life, the film explores themes of gender, neurodiversity, climate change, and the nature of creativity from youth to old age.

Lynda Myles, an influential connoisseur of cinema, reflects on her adventures in the film culture she helped establish. From 1973 to 1980, as the first female director of any festival, Myles transformed the Edinburgh Film Festival into a vibrant, iconoclastic mecca of discovery, championing the work of overlooked auteurs such as Hitchcock, Sirk, and Sam Fuller.

Mark Cousins embarks on a 1000-km road trip from London to Cannes to film and interview the Oscar®-winning British producer and filmmaker Jeremy Thomas, who has made an annual pilgrimage to the Cannes Film Festival for the past 45 years. This offbeat grand tour includes landmarks and people connected to the producer’s films and life.