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Hallam's talent for spying on people reveals his darkest fears-and his most peculiar desires. Driven to expose the true cause of his mother's death, he instead finds himself searching the rooftops of the city for love.
Aug 2007
In Glasgow, Scotland, while a mysterious pandemic begins to spread around the world, Susan, a brilliant epidemiologist, falls in love with Michael, a skillful cook.
Sep 2011
Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.
Sep 2006
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.
Sep 2003
Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
Aug 2002
A local woman is hired to draw paparazzi away from a Hollywood actress who has come to Scotland to get married.
Jun 2011
Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remember, most recently arriving in a seaside Scottish town. Wanting to protect her deaf son from the truth that they've run away from his father, Lizzie has invented a story that he is away at sea on the HMS Accra. Every few weeks, Lizzie writes Frankie a make-believe letter from his father, telling of his adventures in exotic lands. As Frankie tracks the ship's progress around the globe, he discovers that it is due to dock in his hometown. With the real HMS Accra arriving in only a fortnight, Lizzie must choose between telling Frankie the truth or finding the perfect stranger to play Frankie's father for just one day...
May 2004
Missing examines the experience of those left behind when a loved one disappears without warning or explanation.
A typical day in the life of a not so typical old lady.
Jan 2002
An isolated and widowed fisherman discovers a hideous and frail mermaid in his nets and decides to nurse her back to health.
Aug 2005
A bricolage experiment inspired by a trip to Mexico to watch the Day of the Dead celebrations.
Jan 1997
After her boyfriend commits suicide, a young woman attempts to use the unpublished manuscript of a novel and a sum of money he left behind to reinvent her life.
Nov 2002
On a journey after a family shopping trip a young girl discovers that mum doesn't always know best.
A man has an unsettling experience while waiting in a train station.
Jan 2003
Jackie is a CCTV operator. One day, a man shows his face on her monitor, a man she hoped never to see again. Now she has no choice and is compelled to confront him.
Oct 2006
A Scottish street soccer team attempt to make it to the finals of the Homeless World Cup in Austria.
Jan 2004
7-year-old Sammy Gillanders mistakenly thinks he’s been bitten by a poisonous snake. For the rest of the afternoon he considers his slow and painful demise.
Jan 2006
The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other, Harbour, who tries to prevent this. When their father dies leaving them his bookstore they meet a woman who makes their lives a bit better yet with a bit more trouble as well.
The future. Bovey, Wilson and Stoichita are the crew of the Akhenaten, a tiny deep space research vessel experimenting with crop growth under alien sunlight. When Wilson, Stoichita and the wheat crops are unexpectedly exposed to an alien energy, their deeply repressed underlying urges come to the fore.
Aug 2006
First time filmmaker Robin Haig attempts to reconcile the relationship with her father Niall, a Highland deerstalker, forcing him to acknowledge the rift that has developed between them.
Jan 2007