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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
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
Coleen and Damien have spent a summer together working as chambermaids. As the summer comes to an end, after fumbling through hangovers and personal insecurities, they confront their unexpected attraction to each other.
Aug 2006
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
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
An anxious mother-to-be must confront a sinister presence in her new home and the growing cracks in her marriage.
Jan 2015
A bizarre love triangle between a boy, a girl and the boy's future self.
Aug 2005
Ryan moves from one village to the next with a merry-go-round. It isn't easy to keep finding new friends.
Feb 2014
Holed up in an LA hotel room, John Moffat has fanciful, deluded dreams about meeting his idol Steven Spielberg. When Moffat befriends an ageing hotel employee, a twisted struggle for power develops.
Jun 2010
Prison life in the build up to the annual Scottish Prison Service hairdressing competition. Winning the coveted prize is the ultimate goal, but Francis, the current champion has other objectives on his mind.
Dec 2011
Lucy thinks her brother, Luka, is broken. His obsessive, infuriating arrangements of sugar cubes and thimbles prove it. Lucy thinks he should be fixed, but not in the way she imagines.
Oct 2011
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.
Aug 2003
Henry spends his days working in a Nursing home and his nights worrying about the girl he used to love.
Jan 2010
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
Heather loves her mom, but does her mum know what love is?
A film crew document an episode in the life of an ageing Asian shopkeeper.
Jul 2007
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 son is caring for his dying mother, when a mysterious figure arrives one day calling out her name.
Jan 2012
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.
Oct 2010
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