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A bittersweet tale, told entirely from his former girlfriend’s point of view, in which a man comes to terms with the end of a relationship.
Jan 2004
A bizarre love triangle between a boy, a girl and the boy's future self.
Aug 2005
A man and woman discover a severed bear's paw in a park and it unearths dark thoughts and strange perversions.
Aug 2003
A contemporary interpretation of the art of Baroque, inspired by the Italian painters of the period. Commissioned by Milan's Festival Delle Lettere and based on a letter about beauty, by Italian actor Vittorio Gassman.
Mar 2011
A young mum runs away with her son to a woodland hut community in Scotland.
Jun 2017
An 11 year old girl struggles to save herself as her world is suddenly torn apart by a deadly virus.
Feb 2012
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
13-year-old Nico is badly beaten by his brother while playing with fireworks. To gain revenge, he steals his brother's cat. Unable to return home, he meets up with some other kids, and they head to the railway track where two of the boys commit an act of mindless brutality. Nico is compelled by the frenzied horror of earlier events to join in. As the day draws to a close, the boys break up and head home and Nico is left to contemplate his actions.
Sep 2006
A teenage girl from a small Highland community has a crush on a local lobster fisherman and persuades him to take her out for the day.
Mar 2017
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 on a mission meets delays from a militant lollipop man, a boy on a scooter and a zimmerframe-toting pensioner before a waterside showdown and a date with destiny, tutus and Tchaikovsky.
Oct 2002
When Emily's quiet life is disrupted by a noisy musician moving in next door, the outcome is far from muted. After a terrible aural misunderstanding, the silence is deafening, and it's up to Emily to break the divide.
A dark rite of passage set in rural Scotland.
Jan 2016
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.
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.
Lou may have Down's Syndrome but is more than capable of looking after herself. She lives with her controlling sister Ashley, who always gets what she wants. When a new man comes into their lives, the sisters become love rivals, bringing their relationship to a head.
Jan 2011
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
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
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