The Scottish Arts Council Movies

In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her...

Closet is a short film about the policing of 'cottaging'.

A bricolage experiment inspired by a trip to Mexico to watch the Day of the Dead celebrations.

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...

Four friends Sean, Vincent, Lenny and Jody find themselves at something of a deadend. Trapped in a twilight world of permanent night shift work, they...

In 1980, Jack Shae and Allen Moore, two ethnographic filmmakers from Harvard University, moved their families to the island of Berneray in the Outer...

Scotland - the future. Democracy has evolved. Citizens vote in mandatory daily referenda and aspire to the ultimate prize - a place on IM: Heaven...

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...

The life and work of the Scottish architect and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

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...

A sudden tragic loss forces an apparently close-knit family to re-evaluate what is precious about their lives.

A look at Edinburgh's New Town, on the bicentenary of its planning.

A portrait of the Scottish artist Sir William Gillies.

An interview with the Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid.

One of a brood of school-age prostitutes working the streets of London, Stella is a virtual prisoner of her sleazy, paternalistic pimp, Mr. Peters....

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...

The Scottish poet discusses his work with his fellow Scottish writer Iain Crichton Smith.

An interview with the acclaimed Scottish novelist.

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...

At a hyponotist show, a woman is hypnotised and reveals all her family's dark secrets...