HBO celebrates International Women’s Day on 8 March 2005 with five films that showcase women who discover their passions.

The action starts at 6:30 am with Charlotte Gray. Oscar winner Cate Blanchett The Aviator plays a young Scottish woman who joins the French Resistance during World War II to rescue her Royal Air Force boyfriend who is lost in France.

At 9 am Stepmom takes centre stage. A successful photographer does her best to make her boyfriend’s kids feel at home but also loves her work and does not plan to give it up. The film stars Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon. At 2:45 pm Tumbleweeds deals with the journey of a woman constantly running from town to town with her 12 year old daughter to escape failed relationships...

At 4:45 pm HBO will air its original movie Hysterical Blindness. Directed by Mira Nair the film deals with how women resort to desperate measures in unrelenting attempts to meet “Mr. Right”. Finally Blue Crush airs at 6:45 pm. As a hard-core surfer girl prepares for a big competition, she finds herself falling for a football player.