Projects in genres: Scottish

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The tale of a badger who just wants the world to let him sleep.

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Mr and Mrs Leslie Presley arrive back at Leslie's house in a remote village in Scotland after meeting for the first time, five days earlier at the annual Scottish Elvis Convention where they got married as part of the Conventions Mass Wedding Ceremony. However, Leslie is a self-deluded and obsessed Elvis fan who believes that he is Elvis Presley reincarnated. But Leslie is not the only one to have a secret. Made by the makers of award-winning and critically acclaimed Black Coffee, Four Eyes and Two Donuts. Big Nose and Twinkle Toes is the fourth ultra-low-budget digital feature from Fin Scotland Films.

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A delicate portrait of a mother and daughter's strained existence together in the Scottish countryside. A birthday celebration is hampered by a crumbling life that is held together by a daughter's love.

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Five students fall in with a murderer while hill trekking. Isla, a university undergraduate, escapes to the hills for a few days before her finals. Meeting up with fellow students Pearl, Stephan, Tamara and Rory at a hillside bothy, they encounter loner Brendan crossing the hills on his mountain bike. Isla senses that there is something strange about Brendan, but the others dismiss her fears. The following morning, Stephan, Tamara and Rory go on ahead. Pearl, recovering from a hangover, is lectured by Isla about her lifestyle while Brendan stalks them, then bikes on ahead to stalk the other three. When Rory injures his ankle, Brendan offers to take him back to the main road on the back of his bike. Rory accepts, and when Brendan coldly murders him a little later, we know that the others are destined to suffer the same fate. A story about how a group of students, living in an academic bubble, can be so trusting that they make murder easy for a psychopath.

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Chris is having visions, nightmares and repetitive dreams. He seeks help from a therapist who employs a number of unusual techniques to get the root of the problem - including hypnotic regression - a method that seems to take Chris back to a disturbing past life.

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Gamerz is a new comedy movie from Scotland - an engaging love triangle with a strong twist of fantasy. The hero is Ralph, a young nerd from a bad neighbourhood who's on his way to university for the first time. Ralph is completely downtrodden in life, but he escapes from a cruel reality that he can't control by creating insanely detailed fantasy game worlds (as in fantasy games such as 'Dungeons and Dragons' and 'Tunnels and Trolls'), where he is firmly in charge, as 'Game Keeper'. When Ralph arrives at university he immediately takes over the fantasy role-playing society in a ruthless coup. His new players include neurotic risk management student Davy, metal-head theology student Hank and, most importantly, the beautiful Marlyn, a crazy Goth chick who believes she is an elf. She's the ultimate object of geek lust, and Ralph falls for her hard. But there's a fly in the ointment: Ralph's old enemy from the hood, minor dope dealer Lennie, who has undergone a near-religious conversion to all things fantastical, having watched a Lord of the Rings triple bill while on acid. Now he's desperate to take part in Ralph's game. Under pain of violence Ralph agrees to let him play, but soon regrets it when he notices a spark between Lennie and Marlyn. The seeds of a bitter love triangle are sown, and the story soon snowballs towards an inexorable apocalyptic explosion of freakish, geekish angst.  

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Bobby, a small dog, befriends Ewan, a young boy. The adventures that they share in 19th-century Edinburgh change their lives and the city forever. Based on the true story of 'Greyfriars Bobby'.

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When war breaks out in the lull of summer 1914, it surprises and pulls millions of men in its wake. Christmas arrives, with its snow and multitude of family and army presents. But the surprise won't come from inside the generous parcels which lie in the French, Scottish and German trenches. That night, a momentous event will turn the destinies of four characters: an Anglican priest, a French lieutenant, an exceptional tenor and the one he loves, a wonderful soprano and singing partner. During this Christmas Eve, the unthinkable will happen: rifles will be left at the bottom of the trenches as the soldiers go to see those opposite, shake their hands, exchange a cigarette and a piece of chocolate, and wish them 'Merry Christmas'.

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Night People takes us on a journey across the city of Edinburgh, introducing a cast of characters for whom there will be no sleep. Each of them is faced with a dilemma that ranges from the hilarious to the heartbreaking and they have until morning to make a decision that will change their lives forever. Night People is a powerful and thought-provoking film. It exploits the beauty and grandeur of the city of Edinburgh as a backdrop for tales of extraordinary moments in ordinary lives.

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A woman wants to make a baby with her husband. In the end she gets her way.

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Inspired by the work of Edgar Degas the film captures Scottish Ballet Corps stretching, chatting, improvising and preparing in the wings. We are presented with a palpable sense of not just what it looks like, but what it feels like to inhabit a dancer's body.

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Think Ambridge. Think The Archers. Then think again! Late 21st-century Scotland. Joe and Maddie, new techno-age farmers, are protecting their land from a 'rogue Pharm' - a genetically engineered commune of humans who meld their DNA with the latest biotechnology to form marauding, morphing amoeba-like collectives. And this monstrous moving Pharm is one of many, roaming the land looking to plant 'stage trees', ferment rocket fuel and blast off leaving the pull of gravity for a new life on Jupiter. An adaptation of Charles Stross's amazingly original science fiction piece and a groundbreaking animation, Japanese anime meets cyber Scotland.