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Browse 51 movies from The Scottish Arts Council
In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her friends and exiled from high society.
Oct 2000
A bricolage experiment inspired by a trip to Mexico to watch the Day of the Dead celebrations.
Jan 1997
A sudden tragic loss forces an apparently close-knit family to re-evaluate what is precious about their lives.
Oct 2001
Leonard is the victim of obsessive compulsive behaviour; meticulous and insular, his world is at home. When his long-lost son, Callum, turns up on the doorstep, seeming to be the epitome of Leonard's worst paranoias, their differences appear irreconcilable.
An animated cartoon of the Greek legend, which interprets the mood and style of Robert Garioch's poem.
Jan 1971
A young Glaswegian prostitute in London tries to start a new life.
Nov 1997
Scotland - the future. Democracy has evolved. Citizens vote in mandatory daily referenda and aspire to the ultimate prize - a place on IM: Heaven Above Earth.
Aug 2004
A chance reunion in a cafe; a remembrance of a childhood acquaintance set against a vivid landscape of recollection.
Aug 1997
In 1980, Jack Shae and Allen Moore, two ethnographic filmmakers from Harvard University, moved their families to the island of Berneray in the Outer Hebrides. Over the course of 18 months they documented the everyday lives and struggles of the crofters they lived among, whom were even then a vanishing breed. The film is in English and Gaelic. This carefully observed documentary by filmmakers Jack Shae and Allen Moore is a poetic ethnographic film in the style of their mentor, Robert Gardner (“Dead Birds”). It follows the rhythm of life on a wind-swept island in the Outer Hebrides through the four seasons and in the filmmakers’ observation of the day-to-day struggles of a vanishing society we see the deep-time legacy of their kind. The film is in English and Gaelic.
Oct 1981
A group of four siblings reunite in Glasgow on the eve of their mother's funeral, and the children mourn their mother's passing in a variety of ways—sometimes heartfelt, sometimes bizarre. As a potential thunderstorm threatens to damage the city, the situation compounds itself.
Sep 1998
Set in 1943 in Scotland during World War II. Janie is a young housewife married to a man named Dougal, 15 years her senior. As part of a war rehabilitation program, Janie and Dougal welcome three Italian POWs to work on their farm. Soon, Janie falls in love with one of them...
May 1983
Downtrodden Frankie is given an opportunity that is too good to refuse when a chance encounter gives him 24 hours to get his life back on track and revive his romance.
Jan 2004
At a hyponotist show, a woman is hypnotised and reveals all her family's dark secrets...
Aug 1996
Closet is a short film about the policing of 'cottaging'.
Nov 1994
In the wake of their mother's death, two small boys are held captive to their father's grief. But when their mother's last wish heralds the arrival of their estranged grandmother, their fierce independence sets in motion a household power struggle that threatens to confront the ghosts of the past.
Aug 2000
The life and work of the Scottish architect and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Jan 1968
A young mother’s trust in mankind is challenged when she decides to help a stranger while on a journey through the barren landscape of her conflicting emotions and perceptions.
A hybrid documentary which traces the musical influences on a Siberian boy from childhood through to present day.
Jan 2000
Unable to accept that she doesn't want to see him anymore, Joe threatens to shoot himself in the head at his ex-lover's apartment door, but is not expecting her to then attack him.
Davie is about to embark on his working life. Today is his first day at the local knackery.
Aug 1998