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Browse 58 movies from Scottish Film Council
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.
Jan 1995
It's Saturday night. Downstairs are having a party and you weren't invited. Time for another smashing night in.
Oct 1998
The world's first French speaking goldfish, murder, mystery love triangle." or "Jules et Jim sleep wit da fishes".
Aug 1996
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.
Jan 1997
A man does battle with a house fly.
Jun 1993
A bagpiper plays under a motorway bridge in Glasgow.
Jan 1993
Claymation short by Duncan Nicoll. A sculptor's creation comes to life...
A collection of five shorts by five different directors, each one based on one of the five senses.
An aspiring rock band decide that the best way for them to get ahead is for one of them to die.
A film about the relationship we have with electrical light.
A short film by Simon Overton.
A man receives a mysterious golden egg - and then it hatches...
The wacky tale of a statue in the local park called Seymour Highup, and what happens when his head falls off, and a supergranny steps in!
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
A film which describes the contrasts between sentimental ideas of the weather, such as childhood memories and decisions, with the rational meteorological, scientific aspects of the climate.
How the female bust is perceived by women and the society around them.
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.
Stop-motion animated short inspired by the poem "Tinker Tailer Soldier Sailor".
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
An animated headspin of a journey using time-lapse photography, hand drawn and cut out animation techniques. Travels through the alphabet - this film features the journey from A to B and Y to Z.