Baron
Inglaterra, principios del siglo XIII. El 15 de junio de 1215 y, tras una dura negociación, el Rey Juan de Inglaterra, se ve obligado a firmar ciertas peticiones de los señores feudales que pretenden poner límites al uso despótico del poder por parte del Rey. El documento resultante es la Carta Magna. Un hecho insólito para un rey medieval, que veía cómo aquellos a quienes gobernaba y que debían serle fieles, le arrancaban sus prerrogativas reales. Sin embargoi, cuando hubo reunido un fuerte ejército, el rey Juan se negó a cumplir el acuerdo y se dispuso a eliminar a todos los que habían firmado la Carta Magna, poniendo a Inglaterra al borde de una guerra civil: la Primera Guerra de los Barones (1215-1217). Juan quiso castigar a aquellos que lo humillaron, entre ellos un grupo de caballeros templarios atrincherados en el castillo de Rochester, que lucharán para resistir el asedio de las tropas del rey Juan.
Josef
Shot entirely in Welsh, Endaf Emlyn's wry and gentle film captures the magic and innocence of a young boy's imaginative world as he grapples with demons that haunt his family life. Set against the wild, windswept backdrop of the Welsh coast, The Making of Maps charts Griff's journey into adolescence and his attempts to cope with the strife with in his own family. Pulled in different directions by his philandering father, reclusive mother and unloved sister, he tries to learn the secret that eats away at the fabric of his family life. His mother ran a dance academy, but during a picnic the school's star pupil, the beautiful, ethereal Alis, vanished. Afterward, Griff's mother took to her bed, fearful of leaving her darkened room. Griff's way of dealing with his life is to draw maps outlining his own attempts to comprehend a situation that everyone seems to want to forget. -Piers Handling
