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Browse 58 movies from Scottish Film Council
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
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 receives a mysterious golden egg - and then it hatches...
Jan 1993
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
It's Saturday night. Downstairs are having a party and you weren't invited. Time for another smashing night in.
Oct 1998
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.
How the female bust is perceived by women and the society around them.
A short film by Simon Overton.
A bagpiper plays under a motorway bridge in Glasgow.
An aspiring rock band decide that the best way for them to get ahead is for one of them to die.
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.
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
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.
A spoof study of a Scottish Asian entrepreneur who runs a marriage bureau using video instructions. The film examines the problems of traditonal Asian values set in a British context.
An experimental film examining themes of loss, shot using hand-processed 16mm film.
Experimental documentary.
Set in Australia, a little girl speaks about her pet called Sammy. All that is seen of the pet is the shoebox he was kept in.