On the sun-drenched palm-fringed paradise island of Haiti at the end of the 1970s, Brenda, Ellen and Sue, three North American women, look for flirtation, relaxation and respite from their mundane jobs and marriages. They find exactly what they are looking for in Legba, an enigmatic local Adonis, whose beauty and passion captivates them all. But Legba decides to show the women not just a world of pleasure but also a Haiti beyond the gilded cage of tourism, a poor and fearful society under the br find out more...

The story of Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, who became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989. This is a film that doesn't leave you: the images of gigantic waves and ice bergs and superhuman levels of courage and endurance are hard to process. If it were a work of fiction you would dismiss it as Hollywood hype: but it's not, find out more...