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1980s Glasgow: As his family disintegrates around him, the only thing on eight-year-old Jonjo’s mind is getting his prized He Man figure for Christmas.
Jun 2019
A man and woman discover a severed bear's paw in a park and it unearths dark thoughts and strange perversions.
Aug 2003
Puffins mate for life, but are humans capable of the same. wonders troubled teenager Isla, who is stuck in the confines of a small seaside cottage with sexy mother Ali, boyfriend Gav, and their baby.
Jul 2006
Greer is a girl on the cusp of womanhood. Like some curious fabled creature she lives in a remote, rundown woodland farmhouse with her Dad, Ivan, a former gamekeeper whose mind has been ravaged by chronic mental illness. Father and daughter are suspected and ostracized by the nearby village. Greer spends her working days tending to elderly, failing residents of the local care-home and the rest of her time looking after her dad. But despite her loving devotion to Ivan, Greer imagines life beyond the narrow confines of her own and is troubled by the heavy burden she bears. Greer romanticises about a life lived in colour. The impossibly glamorous Francoise and Seamus crash into the care-home to visit his mother. Greer is entranced. They seem to epitomize everything she's dreamt of: beauty, success, sophistication and access to the world in all its glory. She attaches herself to them, flattered by their awareness of her and enraptured by the atmosphere of decadence they inhabit.
Oct 2010
Girls boarding school in the remote Scottish Highlands, 1986. Reg is a lonely 15 year old girl, who stares longingly out of her dorm window at the chainsaw wielding tree surgeon working in the school grounds. Reg and her classmates have to take part in a self defense exercise - The Attack Test. Alone, Reg must walk through the woods until she is attacked by her masked teacher, Mike, at which point she must defend herself using force. This is intended as real life preparation for these privileged and inexperienced women living in an isolated world where rape paranoia was rife. Full of trepidation, Reg walks into the woods where Mike is waiting, but the test does not go according to plan.
Jan 2014
A man driven to despair spends the last night of his life looking for some meaning in a city which has become alien to him. As he struggles to hold on to the last remaining threads of his dying marriage he seeks to lose himself to the darkness of the night finding solace on the streets of the city.
A son is caring for his dying mother, when a mysterious figure arrives one day calling out her name.
Jan 2012
Heather loves her mom, but does her mum know what love is?
Aug 2005
Filters and lines. Salty mouths. A family on the edge of the sea. Quicken is about an atmosphere of change within a family. There is loss and there is cruelty, but there is also the unequivocal grasping connections of love. Quicken is a film about legacy.
Mike picks up his teenage son on his birthday so they can spend a rare day together, but soon realizes that there is a lot they don't know about each other anymore.
Excluded from a Highland battle re-enactment, a middle-aged Warrior Queen must rediscover her courage and defend her family’s honour.
Jan 2018
Henry spends his days working in a Nursing home and his nights worrying about the girl he used to love.
Jan 2010
Drama centring on a grieving pharmacist and a trifle-loving methadone patient.
Jan 2020
A 60th birthday gathering goes horribly wrong when the hostess serves her sister and their husbands deadly wild mushrooms.
Jan 2016
A scruffy young man is about to arrive in a mysterious city by boat, when he finds himself lost in the labyrinthine hull of the ship.
Jun 2017
Ryan moves from one village to the next with a merry-go-round. It isn't easy to keep finding new friends.
Feb 2014
A bizarre love triangle between a boy, a girl and the boy's future self.
Forty-something mummy’s boy Neil Barrow attempts to make his mum proud. Living out his fantasy the attempt leads to a disastrous stand-off at his local school.
Feb 2012
When a Palestinian woman claims asylum in the UK, she faces the indifference of British bureaucracy and the disillusionment of an asylum officer on the verge of leaving the country for good.
Jan 2021
An anxious mother-to-be must confront a sinister presence in her new home and the growing cracks in her marriage.
Jan 2015