Browse 58 movies from Scottish Film Council
A short film by Simon Overton.
Jan 1997
A bagpiper plays under a motorway bridge in Glasgow.
Jan 1993
A story of unrequited love and the magic of the movies. Two lost souls trapped in the basement of a vast film studio. Thomas loves Ruby, Ruby just wants out.
Claymation short by Duncan Nicoll. A sculptor's creation comes to life...
Jan 1995
Harry is a small time gangster in hiding. Sheila is the ultimate femme fatale and they are stuck together like rats in a trap.
Apr 1996
The world's first French speaking goldfish, murder, mystery love triangle." or "Jules et Jim sleep wit da fishes".
Aug 1996
Experimental documentary.
An aspiring rock band decide that the best way for them to get ahead is for one of them to die.
Ethel Moorhead was one of the many active campaigners for the vote between 1912-1914. Her crimes against property and defiant stance towards the state created her notorious reputation. She was the first Scottish Suffragette to be force fed whilst on hunger-strike in Calton jail, Edinburgh. This film features dramatic reconstructions of her story.
A man receives a mysterious golden egg - and then it hatches...
A collection of five shorts by five different directors, each one based on one of the five senses.
A man does battle with a house fly.
Jun 1993
A bored housewife tries to dispose of two bodies that her husband has brought home from the dump.
Follows an expedition in 1994 to Kalimantan, Borneo and the work of Trekforce workers there as they construct a new visitor centre, a new research centre and care for the fragile ecosystem and animals such as orangutans.
An experimental film examining themes of loss, shot using hand-processed 16mm film.
Documentary reporting the plight of the people of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, campaigning for peace and an end to human rights abuses at the hands of the authoritarian state and army.
Jan 1992
Animation based on the painting by Hieronymus Bosch.
An insight into what goes on in the ladies loos of a nightclub as seen by the mirror on the wall.
On 6th April 1993, three men set out on a journey... Martin Morrison, Miles Tubb and Iain Riddick. This is a documentary about seven days on the motorways between Glasgow and London. Topics discussed by fellow hitch-hikers and drivers were politics, the state of Britain today, crime, and racism.
Four five-minute segments on theme of motorbikes.