The Scottish Arts Council Movies

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

The story of a young couple who manage to re-charge their wilting relationship when Rod accidentally becomes an electrifying lover!

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...

Black comedy about legs and why we need them.

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...

The misdaventures of a man who is forced to confront the realities of his life when he promises his estranged wife that he will get a pair of...

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

Duncan and George compete to be Alasdair's best man.

In the 1930s, the onset of puberty provokes alarm and confusion for a young girl, causing her Aunt to reflect on her own younger days at a village...

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

It's Laura's first job and she is anxious to do well, but her instinctive empathy with the elderly people in her care puts her in conflict with her...

Sonny, who has alcoholism, has to swallow his pride and plead to be allowed to return to the pub he has been banned from in order to take his son...

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.

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

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

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...

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...