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Browse 24 movies from The Scottish Film Production Fund
In 19th century Edinburgh, against her husband's wishes, Maria McKillop opens the first camera obscura visitor attraction, but to one man it is Maria herself who is the main attraction.
Jan 1995
Franz Kafka is working on his Metamorphosis, but he's suffering from writer's block; he can't get off on the right track. While trying to decide what Gregor Samsa is going to wake up as, he is constantly interrupted by door-to-door salesmen, young women, and his own inexplicable hallucinations.
Nov 1995
A young boy who has recently lost his mother finds new meaning when a shooting star lands in his garden.
Aug 1996
Peter Watkins' global look at the impact of military use of nuclear technology and people's perception of it, as well as a meditation on the inherent bias of the media, and documentaries themselves.
Feb 1987
A film about the tall actor who was most famous for playing the quintessential villain for Charlie Chaplin's Tramp character.
Jan 1996
A young Glaswegian prostitute in London tries to start a new life.
Nov 1997
A little boy's desire to meet Santa Claus takes a dark turn.
Aug 1997
The fates of four people are interwined over one night.
A postman has to face down a dangerous dog and an ex partner.
A man frantically searches for a pen while stuck on a train journey somewhere in Scotland.
Aug 1995
A young man must confront his family's past when he returns to his childhood home on the Isle of Skye for the funeral of his father.
Apr 1990
In 1990s Edinburgh, Barbara Thorburn reflects on memories of her poet mother, Greta, and her tragic death.
Aug 1992
Robert Louis Stevenson's supernatural chiller is updated to present day Edinburgh.
A nurse whose father left her many years ago takes a special interest in a psychotic killer suffering from amnesia.
The Hollywood musical is brought to a Glasgow street. Amidst the crush of city life, two street musicians provide the backdrop for a girl meets boy story, with a spark of purely Glasgow magic.
A psychiatrist makes a home visit to a patient.
A lone survivor in post-apocalyptic Scotland desperately seeks company.
Oct 1986
A girl seeks love in the Scottish fairground where she works on the candy floss stand.
Director Maureen Blackwood harnesses the distinctive style of the Sankofa Film Collective to sketch the Abrew family tree. The achievements of the unique showbiz family are celebrated using rich archive material, including footage of family members in supporting film roles alongside Paul Robeson and intimate fireside-style testimony. The existence of Black British communities before Windrush is foregrounded, with insights into the Abrews' imprint on British culture beginning in 19th century Scotland.
Jan 1992
This work is a retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in the style of a Greek vase. When his wife Eurydice dies, Orpheus descends into Hell and by charming the gods of the Underworld with his singing wins Eurydice back, only to lose her again at the threshold of the Overworld'.
May 1984