Screen Academy Scotland

Iain Syme returns to his family’s farmland in the Scottish Borders and attempts to sell it off to a mysterious local landowner. However, his brother Cammy, a hermit who still lives on the land, has different ideas...

In a society where the government predicts the genetic intellectual capacity of every newborn child, a pregnant woman's fetus is rated a perfect, but unusual 10.

In 1959, a new wonderdrug - Tesoteramide - is ready for testing, promising beauty to the unborn daughters of any woman who takes it. Pregnant housewife Audre heads straight to the clinic with her ecstatic Mother to sign up. But when Audre voices some last-minute doubts, it becomes clear that Tesoteramide - and so-called eternal beauty is no longer optional. Can she escape and maintain her individuality? Or is the cult of beauty standard conformity too powerful?

In response to hearing the news of Sam being dumped by her boyfriend Sam's mother, Ella, offers a solution to her situation- get prettier. Ella, inspired by a slimming ad from Facebook implements a strict low-calorie, slimming diet onto a helpless and isolated Sam. From here Sam grows hungrier and one night decides to sneak into the kitchen for some food but instead finds the carcass of a rat. Turning to her subconscious and dead rat for answers Sam learns to accept the tender and anamorphic act needed for her transformation into freedom.

Jeni, a mother of two, relives the memories of her son’s lifelong struggle with an undiagnosed condition. Spanning several years of Ben’s childhood, the film captures the memories of resilience and hope that led to the diagnosis, which gave the family a sense of control over their daily lives.

A short drama about feeling lost in your twenties and saying goodbye to your life in search of something else.

Keeper follows a young goalkeeper going along to his first trial at a local football club, holding the pressures of his parents and trying to gain some sort of connection in this “hyper” masculine environment, he must prove to the coach he deserves a place at the club. A club where you are considered more as a number than as a human being.

Four friends Phoebe, Harry, Sara and Jo, go on holiday in a small caravan site in the Scottish village of St Catherines. After a drunken night in the caravan Harry and Phoebe leave the others. Phoebe returns to the caravan. Something is wrong, her distress clear on her face. She goes to bed. The next morning, the group begins to unravel as Phoebe realises that Harry has sexually assaulted her, and the situation becomes clearer to Sara and Jo.

Moth! follows Sophia, a 15 year old girl struggling to come to terms with her first major breakup, and navigate her relationship with her mother now that she is getting older and experiencing more. With her best friend Caitlin, Sophia will explore these big new emotions, and do whatever it takes to get over her ex, no matter how drastic, far fetched, or idiotic that may be.

Daniele is a policeman with a strong moral code and for him the end justifies the means. Giovanni works as an entertainer at children's parties and is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Antonio is an old man who steals the coins that tourists throw into the fountains. The lives of these three men meet on the birthday of little Elisa, Daniele's daughter.

When James accepts a job as a live-in carer for the elderly Edith in a last-ditch effort to earn some cash, he soon realises not everything is right with the house or its owner.