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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

A portrait of the Scottish artist Sir William Gillies.

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

An interview with the Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid.

Paisley, Scotland, in 1957. Three likely lads look forward to the staff dance at the local carpet factory where they work

An interview with the acclaimed Scottish novelist.

Flying bin bags, missing sofas, broken lifts and a complete power failure make an interesting night for tenants of a council tower block.

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

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 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...

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

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...