Projects in genres: Scottish

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A Serbian hitman travels to Edinburgh to try and kill a couple of witnesses to a crime. His client has already tried once to have them killed, resulting in the slaughter of nine innocent people. When the hitman succeeds in killing the witnesses, Stan Miller, the detective in charge of their protection, is suspended but vows to hunt down their killer and his client, who as a result of the death of the witnesses is now free on remand. When the client fails to pay the hitman his second payment for the job it becomes a three-way battle leading to a dramatic conclusion.

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A man on a mission meets delays from a militant lollipop man, a boy on a scooter and a zimmerframe-toting pensioner before a waterside showdown and a date with destiny, tutus and Tchaikovsky.

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It's Christmas Eve and wee Charlie McGinley has been told the truth about Santa; unfortunately for Santa no-one has told him so when he is confronted by Charlie and his father's shotgun it is the boy who convinces Santa that in fact he is nothing but a myth with darkly comic and tragic results.

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Charlie's new phone is behaving strangely. It's almost like it knows him. Almost. Except Charlie's phone doesn't want to keep what it knows to itself. So it's telling. Everyone.

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A dramatic documentary biopic in which the drug addicted filmmaker tries a radical and frightening method of detox.

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Casim is a second generation Pakistani from Glasgow. Working as a DJ in Glasgow's coolest venues, he dreams of buying his own club. His parents Tariq and Sadia are devout Muslims and plan for him to marry his beautiful cousin Jasmine - who is soon to arrive in the UK. His proud father spends all his spare time supervising the building of an extension to the family home where the couple are to live. Casim's parents then arrange for his older sister Rukhsana to marry Amar, a promising young scientist from a good family. Life for Casim and his family is ticking along nicely. Until he meets Roisin.   A music teacher at his sister Tahara's school, Roisin Hanlon is sparky and intelligent. She and Casim soon fall deeply in love. But Casim knows all too well that, even if he wasn't due to marry, his parents would never accept a 'goree' - a white girl. And as a Catholic, Roisin finds that her own community aren't very supportive either. Then Casim and Roisin are discovered, and the repercussions of the scandal reach far and wide. When Casim's family find that their peaceful and ordered life is threatened, they decide to take action - bringing matters to a dramatic conclusion.  

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With Scotland in the World Cup in the summer of 1978 everything looks rosy but 13-year-old Stephen is more into Glam Rock than football. The clash between the world of his football-mad Dad and the lure of the high camp of Slade, Bowie and the Sweet is inevitable.

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An animated journey though the different stages of energy production and consumption. The film offers a closer look at the world of electricity, bringing annotated diagrams to life and highlighting the complex way in which we relate to and learn from our environment.  

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What do babies see when they dream? An animated exploration of the mind of the director's sleeping three month old boy. Watch out for those bunnies.

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Bellany - A Life, Death and Resurrection, this new film by St Cyrus based Eyeline Media profiles the work of acclaimed artist John Bellany, whose paintings once dark and often difficult to comprehend are now abundant with colour and joy - reflecting his inner happiness.

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Running from a dark secret, Danish backpacker Mike Hammershoi (Anders W. Berthelsen) arrives at Black's estate in the Scottish Borders, looking for work. Cut off from the outside world, Francis Black) Peter Mullan, the blind owner, lives there in a shuttered-up, decaying mansion, with his elderly mother Bella (Phyllida Law).   Francis reluctantly offers the traveller a low-paid job in the yard. Put off by the unsettling atmosphere, Mike declines the offer. But as he turns to go, he sets eyes on Rachel (Jodhi May), Francis' enigmatic young wife, and changes his mind. Mike starts work on the farm, dumping the debris of the Blacks' once-successful business into the mud pit - a bottomless vortex of quicksand at the end of the land.   Mike soon realises that Francis, increasingly embittered by his blindness, exerts a domineering power over Rachel. Rachel, emotionally suffocated by her husband, is increasingly attracted to Mike, whose presence awakens her pent-up sexual desire. Unable to resist each other, they become lovers. As the sexual tension increases, so too does Francis' jealousy rage. In a fit of anger, Francis sacks the traveller. The threat of Mike's departure forces Rachel to choose between her husband and her lover. Unaware of his dark past, Rachel decides to run away with Mike. Seething with fury, Francis stands, knife in hand, by the edge of the mud-pit waiting for the unsuspecting lovers as they prepare to make their escape.

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A rodent arrives in a box - a battle of wits between an old man and a mouse begins.