My Brilliant Career is an older Australian film (starring Judy Davis and Sam Neill) about a young woman, turn of last century, who wants to be a writer – at the expense of possible marriage and children. It was based on the life of Australian (female) writer Miles Franklin, and had a huge impact on me as a romantic (in the true sense of the word) 17 or 18 year old, young aspiring writer – who told myself I was prepared to give up marriage and children to chase the dream… and then unfortunately law got in the way… Three decades or so later, picking up the dream again (with a congenial bloke in tow!).

The other films are by Polish Director Krzysztof Kieślowski, are mainly in French (from memory) with subtitles, and are beautiful meditations on identity, self, memory, love and life. I saw them in my twenties, and they all engendered a space for dreaming…