Projects in genres: Scottish

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Feeling alone at Christmas, a young girl in care convinces her key worker to take her on an unauthorised visit to see her estranged mother.

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School, gum and teddy bears collide in this disturbing kaleidoscopic tale about a nine-year-old girl trying to fit in.

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After attending a party Anna comes home with her boyfriend. Nothing much happened that night yet as they get ready for bed suddenly everything seems different. Did something happen he's not telling her about? Or has their relationship been in trouble for a while maybe and it only now becomes apparent? Anna spends the next week looking at her life and analyzing what is important to her. Is her life still in the shape she wants it to be? Should she try and shake things up a little? Has she already done something she shouldn't have? Or did he?

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Focusing on the final races of cyclist David Millar’s career, leading up to his last encounter with the Tour de France. The camera goes inside the peloton, is pushed up impossible climbs and forced down rapid descents, lies alongside David in his hotel room in post-race agony. The camera also rides in the support car, the source of comfort, supplies and fleeting relief from the cold. And all in the knowledge that every mile travelled is a mile closer to the end.
This film reveals how the human spirit is driven by a force deeper than success and glory.
Official Selection IDFA 2017 - World premiere

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Exploring the remarkable life and career of Bill Shankly, the legendary Liverpool Football Club manager.
A search for the soul of British football: a soul made human in the remarkable life of one man. Perhaps no-one before or since has personified the spirit of the working class culture that gave birth to the modern game. Bill Shankly’s passion for football was boundless to the point of obsession.

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On Christmas Eve, 1968, in a Scottish coastal town, a debt collector goes to work to avoid confronting his wife’s worsening psychosis at home.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2017 - World premiere

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A coming of age drama set in Edinburgh about the interwoven and unravelling lives of teenage daughter Violet, and her two mothers.
When Violet and her adoptive mum Cathy unexpectedly run into Violet’s estranged birth-mum Zoe, the mothers clash. As Violet struggles to navigate this complicated relationship, becoming increasingly confused and angry, Cathy struggles to help her.
The meeting also triggers something in Zoe, who decides to change the direction of her life. She returns to Edinburgh, not only a city that holds dark memories of a difficult past for her, but it’s the place where Violet lives.
Violet and Zoe reconnect secretly online, but Cathy finds out and brings all communications to an abrupt end. Violet rebels against her and as Zoe self-destructively spirals out of control, Cathy must urgently try to find a way back in to Violet’s life.

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Tom and Gertrude have been married for sixty six years. In the stillness of Nairnshire they live a life of routine pleasures. A lucid, sometimes funny, and profoundly compassionate study of extreme old age, death, grief and loneliness. This beautifully shot documentary is a portrait of old age passing by...

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Summer 1997 in a small Scottish village, where each day seems like the last and nothing ever happens. A strange, cosmic event will disturb Julianne's monotonous daily life.

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The sequel to 'The Big Gold Dream' continues the story of Scottish Independent music. This film focuses on Glasgow after the collapse of Postcard Records. This is the story of The Pastels, The Shop Assistants, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream, The Soup Dragons, BMX Bandits, The Vaselines and Teenage Fanclub.

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Scotland, 1982. The stars of Big Gold Dream had either split up or taken the Big Gold Road south to major label success in London. Glasgow was left with an 'indie label' void but the seeds sown in Big Gold Dream would lead to a new era of rebellion. Punk was reborn in the shape of a new type of independent music. No longer would bands look to tidy themselves up and sign to a major record label in the hope of appearing on Top of the Pops. Independent music in Scotland now meant 'No Compromise' and this is the story of those bands and the personalities involved.
This new documentary from the creators of 'Big Gold Dream' tells the story of what happened next in the uncompromising world of Scottish indie music. The Vaselines, BMX Bandits, The Pastels, The Soup Dragons, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream and Teenage Fanclub all appear. Bursting with new interviews, rare archive, untold stories along with some of the most amazingly difficult, scratchy, noisy, genius pop music ever given to the world. This is Teenage Superstars and you need to watch it

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Exploring a family’s dysfunction and their inability to communicate in a climate of hyped-up nationalism and an active distrust of the “other”.
Set in Scotland during the summer of the "Brexit" referendum, following a day in the life of Irene, a waning beauty married to a stringent member of the Orange Order, and a mother to a misanthropic teenage son.
Official Selection Locarno International Film Festival 2017 - World premiere