Director: Ryan Dewar
A Toast to Love pairs an underwater excavation with an unexpected love story, sending a marine archaeologist from the deck of a dive boat into the middle of a decades-old romance hidden inside a shipwreck's cargo.
What is A Toast to Love about?
The 2024 British romance follows a marine archaeologist assigned to a wreck site who, while cataloguing the ship's contents, uncovers a bottle of wine tied to a long-buried love affair. Piecing together letters and records connected to the find pulls her away from the dive site and toward a Spanish winemaker whose family history turns out to be tangled up in the very story she is trying to reconstruct. As the two spend time tracing the wine's origins together, professional curiosity gives way to a romance of their own, playing out against vineyard settings that mirror the old story unfolding on paper. Director Ryan Dewar keeps the 89-minute film breezy, alternating between the historical mystery and the present-day courtship it sparks.
Cast & crew
Brooke Burfitt plays the marine archaeologist at the center of the story, with Daniel Lundh as the winemaker whose past becomes entangled with her discovery. Caprice Bourret, Nicholas Farrell, Callum Kerr, and Peter Andre fill out the supporting cast surrounding the central pair.
Context & significance
A Toast to Love sits comfortably in the light romance genre that pairs a scenic European setting, here Spanish vineyard country, with a dual-timeline structure connecting a present-day couple to a story from the past. British productions of this type tend to favor warm, uncomplicated pacing over plot complexity, leaning on location and chemistry between leads to carry the film.
Where & how to watch
A Toast to Love streams on K-Time once you log in with a free account, and the film's page here is open to read without signing in first. K-Time is built around a Farsi-first browsing experience for Persian-speaking viewers abroad, so light international romances like this one are easy to find through Farsi search and category pages even though the film itself plays in English.