British Film Institute Production Board Movies

The words to the Paul McCartney-penned Beatles classic Penny Lane are vividly illustrated in this short montage film, released in the same year as...

A rich and challenging account of the experiences of a German Jewish musician who settled in Britain to escape Nazi persecution. Two of his friends...

Song tells the story of the women who worked in Victorian London's clothing sweatshops, eschewing a conventional narrative in favour of a series of...

This chilling and provocative faux home movie presents the story of three dissidents and their plan to commit a revolutionary act on film....

Story of a girl from Surrey who visits Jozef, a Slovenian artist living in Poland, and embarks on an affair.

“Film questions whether the encouragement of very low paid jobs and schemes - both in general and specifically how they function in the area...

Sunflowers, seen as a life source, with their life cycle visually equated with that of humans.

The idyllic, rural past of a Suffolk village comes to life through the memories of an old man who tends a country graveyard.

Unemployed Anthony announces he is joining the police, much to the horror of his girlfriend and friends.

A distinctive animated short inspired by Irish folk tales, made with assistance from the BFI Production Board. Set “long ago when men lived in...

A Southern soldier in the American Civil War is sent to reconnoiter the enemy positions and becomes trapped beneath a huge pile of rubble by Northern...

A tragi-comic boat movie in which Beauty and The Beast live out their own particular fairytales.

Documentary which looks at the history of the welfare state in Britain, from the point of view of women. Using 1940's newsreels to examine the...

A series of non-dramatic tableaux representing scenes from De Sade's novel.

About animation itself, in which a live-action man's movements are mimicked by means of various animated techniques.

An artistic pioneer, Agnès Varda has never stopped looking for the next way to tell a story. Here the 90-year-old explains how Instagram, with...

European emigre Tanya moves to London to work as a family au pair. Still grieving for her recently deceased father and rejected by an old friend,...

Animated retelling of the story of Noah's Ark by political cartoonist Abu.

Inspired by Virginia Woolf, a young writer worries that marriage will hinder her literary ambitions. The film includes extracts from Virginia Woolf's...

A group of young friends convene in the countryside to shoot a horror movie. But an experiment with LSD sees normal boundaries between them...