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...

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

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....

Set in the wake of Britain’s first financial crisis, the South Sea Bubble of 1720, and based on the inferred prison encounters between the...

Davie is about to embark on his working life. Today is his first day at the local knackery.

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...

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.

A chance reunion in a cafe; a remembrance of a childhood acquaintance set against a vivid landscape of recollection.

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...

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

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...

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

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

Willie has a hard head and a soft heart, and uses both to help him win the girl of his dreams.

A study of the works of the Scottish architect Robert Adam.

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...

Black comedy about legs and why we need them.

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

A portrait of the Scottish artist Sir William Gillies.