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 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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

A young Glaswegian prostitute in London tries to start a new life.

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

An interview with the Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid.

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

The fates of four people are interwined over one night.

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