Initiation 1996
The relationship between a father and son is taken to the limit when the workmen at the family firm initiate the boy into his new job.
The relationship between a father and son is taken to the limit when the workmen at the family firm initiate the boy into his new job.
Inspired by the Wislaw Szymborska poem, ‘On Death, Without Exaggeration’, dawn breaks the spell for Billy and Andy when they stumble across a dying man as they walk through the park on their way home from an all night party.
A young Scottish man becomes a local celebrity... but to what end?
Summertime in suburbia and Emma is bored. Dad is no help and neither are the local kids. With the arrival of a new neighbour she finds friendship in a world of magic, music and milkshakes.
In Glasgow, Scotland, while a mysterious pandemic begins to spread around the world, Susan, a brilliant epidemiologist, falls in love with Michael, a skillful cook.
Two men have chosen to live a life of almost total solitude; shift- working a logging machine in a vast remote forest. Each resentful of the others presence, they refuse to acknowledge in full the existence of the other. Against the backdrop of some unspecified global conflict they cling to a monotonous, unyielding routine of work, eat, sleep. When one of the workers abruptly disappears without explanation the other is left alone, devoid of all human contact. He elects to carry on with his routine and becomes prone to increased fatigue, paranoia and experiences a strange visitation.
Hallam's talent for spying on people reveals his darkest fears-and his most peculiar desires. Driven to expose the true cause of his mother's death, he instead finds himself searching the rooftops of the city for love.
A young man is torn between the conflicting demands of his phlegmatic grandfather and his pub obsessed girlfriend.
Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.
Powerfully redemptive and darkly comedic revenge thriller set in the vicious world of stand-up comedy, starring Stephen McCole and Malcolm Shields.
Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remember, most recently arriving in a seaside Scottish town. Wanting to protect her deaf son from the truth that they've run away from his father, Lizzie has invented a story that he is away at sea on the HMS Accra. Every few weeks, Lizzie writes Frankie a make-believe letter from his father, telling of his adventures in exotic lands. As Frankie tracks the ship's progress around the globe, he discovers that it is due to dock in his hometown. With the real HMS Accra arriving in only a fortnight, Lizzie must choose between telling Frankie the truth or finding the perfect stranger to play Frankie's father for just one day...
Events conspire against a council driver who desperately wants to see the highlights of a Scotland match.
An uptight newspaper sub-editor and his teenage brother organise a Christmas homecoming for their convict father in this surreal tale of cowboys, prison and punctuation in the wild west of Scotland.
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.
Teenager Chris McMillan desperately tries to stop his older brother joining a Glasgow gang, only to end up becoming a part of his violent initiation.
A group of Greenpeace youths board an oil rig that's about to be sunk, planning to prevent it. Once on board they discover that they are not alone, something on board is making people act very strange... and what relationship do the rigs previous occupants have with the occult?
Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
Flying bin bags, missing sofas, broken lifts and a complete power failure make an interesting night for tenants of a council tower block.
After her boyfriend commits suicide, a young woman attempts to use the unpublished manuscript of a novel and a sum of money he left behind to reinvent her life.
Animated film that turns the viewer into a floating voyeur, snatching brief but compelling glimpses of peoples' private worlds beyond the window frame.