The Scottish Film Production Fund

A little boy's desire to meet Santa Claus takes a dark turn.

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.

A psychiatrist makes a home visit to a patient.

Willie has a hard head and a soft heart, and uses both to help him win the girl of his dreams.

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.

A lone survivor in post-apocalyptic Scotland desperately seeks company.

A young girl from a troubled family seeks to solve her problems through magical means.

A film about the tall actor who was most famous for playing the quintessential villain for Charlie Chaplin's Tramp character.

Robert Louis Stevenson's supernatural chiller is updated to present day Edinburgh.

One of a brood of school-age prostitutes working the streets of London, Stella is a virtual prisoner of her sleazy, paternalistic pimp, Mr. Peters. Realizing that she must make her escape, Stella hooks up with Eddie, a young junkie, to confront the ghosts of her past and make a clean start. She soon learns, however, that escaping a past such as her own is precarious. Forced to turn one last trick, Stella seizes a perfect opportunity to wreak revenge on her pimp and finally gain freedom.

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.

Bite is a film about Alistair Galbraith, a passive postman who tires of being a spectator in his own life and decides to take control. When Alistair’s wife, Alison, commits adultery on their wedding day and shortly afterwards he is savaged by a ferocious dog, Alistair hits rock bottom, unable to cope with even the most undemanding of life’s tasks. From the depths of despair, he is galvanized into action and in true anti-hero style sets out to take revenge on those who have wronged him. Through taking this action, he is re-born.

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.

In 1990s Edinburgh, Barbara Thorburn reflects on memories of her poet mother, Greta, and her tragic death.

A man frantically searches for a pen while stuck on a train journey somewhere in Scotland.

A young boy who has recently lost his mother finds new meaning when a shooting star lands in his garden.

The fates of four people are interwined over one night.

A nurse whose father left her many years ago takes a special interest in a psychotic killer suffering from amnesia.

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.