British Film Institute Production Board

The idyllic, rural past of a Suffolk village comes to life through the memories of an old man who tends a country graveyard.

An old woman, her grandson, cabbage soup... A man arrives, bearing meat, setting in motion a situation which escalates beyond the point of barter.

European emigre Tanya moves to London to work as a family au pair. Still grieving for her recently deceased father and rejected by an old friend, Tanya draws closer to her employer's husband. The sights and sounds of the Capital at Christmas form a deceptively romantic backdrop, for this brief meditation on loneliness and love.

This chilling and provocative faux home movie presents the story of three dissidents and their plan to commit a revolutionary act on film. Bicât and scriptwriter Howard Brenton explore the consequences and co-option of political violence with hard, grubby directness and a pre-punk, semi-nihilistic attack on bourgeois values.

A Southern soldier in the American Civil War is sent to reconnoiter the enemy positions and becomes trapped beneath a huge pile of rubble by Northern cannon fire. His loaded gun is left pointing precariously at him and he is faced with imminent death.

Traces the role of women in British television, from 1946 to 1997.

A marital breakdown is brought to life through a mixture of dramatisation, monologue, montage and animation. Through the perspectives of the husband, the lawyer, the couple’s parents and their “home help”, a picture emerges of the transactional nature and economic fall-out of marriage, along with issues of class and gender politics affecting single mothers.

Unemployed Anthony announces he is joining the police, much to the horror of his girlfriend and friends.

A rich and challenging account of the experiences of a German Jewish musician who settled in Britain to escape Nazi persecution. Two of his friends are being sued by a former SS Kommandant, who denies their accusation that he was responsible for the genocide of 300 Belgians. Documentary interviews and archive footage merge with dramatised scenes to create a new way of representing history and memory.

A girl takes her camera along to a rocky beach, but quickly becomes fascinated with a far stranger mechanical contraption that she finds there.

A series of non-dramatic tableaux representing scenes from De Sade's novel.

The pressures of her job in a hospital forces a young doctor to abandon a colleague suffering from depression to treat another patient.

A young woman enacts an imaginative revenge on her boyfriend for playing away. Director Chris Petit made this three-minute short to test a new super 16mm Kodak film stock to be used on Peter Greenaway’s upcoming feature The Draughtsman’s Contract.

Song tells the story of the women who worked in Victorian London's clothing sweatshops, eschewing a conventional narrative in favour of a series of still photographs and acted reconstructions to show that this story has been rewritten/written-over many times before.

Cait, who has lost her boyfriend Marvin to another woman, sets herself a number of rituals to help overcome her loss.

Anna follows her absent Mother on her nightly ritual, as she walks round the family house, turning the house lamps on one by one. In the course of the lamp walk, Anna talks about being afraid of the dark and of the secrets that all families and lovers keep from one another.

A tragi-comic boat movie in which Beauty and The Beast live out their own particular fairytales.

An Englishwoman travels to a Normandy village to investigate her husband's disappearance.

A young man (Aidan Gillan) arrives in the midst of London's Soho. He's from Belfast, he's anxious and he looks like he's running away from something. Then, by chance, he meets Grace, a prostitute who happens to come from Belfast too. A connection is made and, for a brief time, she seems to offer the chance of a new future.

Captures a moment in 1970s Britain's immigration debate, focusing on new arrivals at Heathrow as they wrestle with immigration law.