Scottish Screen Movies

A short film by Simon Overton.

On a sprawling estate on the outskirts of suburbia, Leanne 13, is a child who has had to grow up fast. With a mother who left years ago, her dad Jim takes it for granted that Leanne will continue the domestic duties where his wife left off.

Colin McBain loses his hair, his voice and his best friend.

An intimate portrait of a psychiatric patient tormented by the relentless clanging of the hospital bell.

Joseph is a man plagued by a violence and rage who is driving him to self destruction. As he falls further into turmoil, Joseph scours the landscape in search of a single grain of redemption that might restore hope to his fractured life.

A documentary exploring the life and work of experimental Scots-Italian filmmaker Enrico Cocozza through excerpts from his films and interviews with those who knew him. Cocozza gained recognition on the amateur film circuit during the 1940s and 1950s, but his...

Christmas is a battlefield for Rory and his divorcing parents.

It’s New Year - just another day at the office for Michael Wilson, stand-in weather man. The forecast looks good when he’s offered a shot at the big time. But there’s a small problem...

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 conflicting emotions and perceptions.

A motorway, a woman, a telephone, a man, a car, another man. A short film about love in the city.

If your job is to break up other people's relationships, what do you do if you fall in love with one of your victims?

Working the lonely nightshift, a tollbooth operator is haunted by a memory that won't lie still. Dawn brings a terrible realisation.

Eddy Maplethorpe wants to escape his suburban life without anyone noticing. He builds a clockwork dummy that can care for his family and go to work for him, leaving him free to pursue the life he always dreamt of. Unfortunately, his dummy also develops a desir...

A celebration of the country's performance poets, catching up on them as they perform in the streets and nightclubs of Glasgow and Edinburgh.

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 of their estranged grandmother, their fierce independence sets in motion a household power struggle that threate...

A love affair between a woman and a stranger has unusual consequences.

The film presents the workers of the Nevis range, a ski development in the North West Highlands of Scotland.

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

Since 1974, Glasgow has produced seven and a half million tonnes of waste. Total Rubbish follows the men who get their hands dirty in a never-ending cycle of collection and disposal.

13-year-old Nico is badly beaten by his brother while playing with fireworks. To gain revenge, he steals his brother's cat. Unable to return home, he meets up with some other kids, and they head to the railway track where two of the boys commit an act of mindl...