Projects in genres: Scottish

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Since 1995 The Really Terrible Orchestra has provided refuge for the cream of Edinburgh's musically disadvantaged. Who are these people? Why do they play? And why oh why do people listen?

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The Rest is Silence follows the course of an unclaimed body through its progress from discovery to burial. It focuses not on the body, but on those who guide it through the processes and rituals preceding its interment.

The characters of these people are explored visually, without commentary.

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In 16th-century Scotland, young Sawney Beane yearns to itch and scratch and buccaneer. So he bids farewell to his parents and their life of honest toil.

Forty years later, Betty Beane sets off with the family savings in a hankie and a secret suspicion in her heart, to fulfill the dying wish of her husband and find their long lost son.

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Set in the reign of King James VI of Scotland, The Witches tells the story of three fishwives who concoct a plan to save themselves from the threat of witch dooking.

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When Ujbaz Izbeneki descends into Hell, nobody is prepared for the chaos that follows in the wake of the man who has lost everything and anything!

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Untitled Composition #1 is a poetic and surreal study of identity, human relations and self analytical on the very subject of cinema and theatre itself as an artform. This is an experiment in minimalism rather than an attempt to entertain.

Two members of a disilllusioned generation, a man and a woman, get together one dark November night to discuss life, love, sex, politics and almost everything in between.

At first she is the more talkative of the pair. Using his silence and reluctance to reveal anything about himself, he gradually manipulates her into taking part of his darker agenda.

As they slowly start revealing their true identity to each other and decide to play Russian roulette, they begin a journey that will change their lives forever.

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On a Friday night in London, Alec, an enigmatic homeless man, sits across the street from a black-tie party at a posh hotel. A chance occurrence gives Alec the opportunity to enter this high society gathering, where the layers of his personality and his past are revealed to an unsuspecting audience.

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Flowers Don't Grow Here, told through the eyes of a gang of Ukrainian street children, offers an intimate and uncompromising portrayal of the young individuals paying the ultimate price for political reform. A life so at odds with 'New Europe': a childhood haunted by prostitution, addiction, crime, violence and murder.

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Euan MacInnes prepares to run for the Scottish Parliament. Standing in 2007 for Adam Lyal's Witchery Tour Party, if elected Euan promises to turn up to Parliament with a white face and a black cloak. Does he have a ghost of a chance or is he just a good dancer?

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About a business relationship.

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Fabia is insane from lack of sleep. She sets off to buy a large bottle of sleeping pills and a hat for the Easter Fancy Hat Competition. Every sound she hears is amplified and grates on her nerves but unknown to her, other people in the town are suffering too.

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A sensual story about the nature of obsessive love.
 
Michael, an astronomer, is on the brink of a new discovery, which he believes will explain what connects the irreversible and unavoidable consequences of fate in the Universe. When a chance encounter brings him into contact with the mysterious Caroline, a French photographer, an all-consuming love affair follows. But as the relationship becomes more intense and intimate, a series of events starts to make Michael doubt what is going on around him, forcing him to question what is real and what is not.
 
What happens to a relationship when love becomes an obsession?
 
What happens when you love someone so deeply that when they die you refuse to give them up?