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 Glaswegian prostitute in London tries to start a new life.

The fates of four people are interwined over one night.

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 Hollywood musical is brought to a Glasgow street. Amidst the crush of city life, two street musicians provide the backdrop for a girl meets boy...

The story of an aspiring actor's adventures around the Scottish Borders and northern England with a travelling theatre group.

The acclaimed Scottish poet discusses his work.

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

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

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...

A portrait of the Scottish artist Sir William Gillies.

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

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

The Scottish writer Eric Linklater discusses his work.

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...

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...

Tribute to the work of Paul Klee, Taking a Line For a Walk is an exploration and expansion of the Swiss painter's ideas on color and movement, funded...

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