British Film Institute Production Board Movies

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...

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

Traces the role of women in British television, from 1946 to 1997.

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

A marital breakdown is brought to life through a mixture of dramatisation, monologue, montage and animation. Through the perspectives of the husband,...

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...

A young man (Aidan Gillan) arrives in the midst of London's Soho. He's from Belfast, he's anxious and he looks like he's running away from something....

In and around the tenement blocks and rubbish tips of the Glasgow slums, this short film depicts a young boy’s perspective of his family, his...

A man lives in a forest, surviving through murder and deceit. When he finds himself drawn to two strangers, his strict code of self-preservation is...

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,...

Anna follows her absent Mother on her nightly ritual, as she walks round the family house, turning the house lamps on one by one. In the course of...

A girl takes her camera along to a rocky beach, but quickly becomes fascinated with a far stranger mechanical contraption that she finds there.

An anti-short short. On three occassions a man overhears a car accident while relaxing in his room. He reacts with less and less concern to each...

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

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

An old woman, her grandson, cabbage soup... A man arrives, bearing meat, setting in motion a situation which escalates beyond the point of barter.

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

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

A young woman enacts an imaginative revenge on her boyfriend for playing away. Director Chris Petit made this three-minute short to test a new super...

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...