Scottish film breakfast

Traditional Scottish breakfast is so substantial, that you can easily skip lunch, and around dinner start wondering if you’re really hungry. Imagine that on one plate you get fried eggs with a thick rasher of juicy bacon and a sausage, half a tomato broiled with cheese on top, sautéed mushrooms, baked beans, potato scones, haggis and black pudding (which is not so black as it is painted). If you top that with a portion of great Scottish films, you will get the best opening of even the hardest day!
Scotland is a nation on the periphery, and finds cultural expression in the playfulness that comes from political impotence. Scottish film is characterised by gritty subject matter, dark humour and occasional flashes of magical realism, finding beauty in the banal. Opening with a slice of social realism that veers into unexpected territory, this showcase of recent Scottish filmmaking subverts genres and confounds expectations. A hapless monkey dreams of space travel, a young filmmaker hands over control of his production to his reluctant grandfather and a tribe of ancient warriors face an unexpected foe.

Getting On, dir./reż. Ewan Stewart, 2012, 9’
Monkey Love Experiments, dir./reż. Ainslie Henderson & Will Anderson, 2014, 9’
Directed By Tweedie, dir./reż. Duncan Cowles, 2014, 17’
Stay the Same, dir./reż. Sam Firth, 2013, 14’
Spectators, dir./reż. Ross Hogg, 2013, 4’
Pulse, dir./reż. Ruth Paxton, 2014, 12’
Domestic Appliances, dir./reż. Lewis Firth Bolton, 2014, 3’
Tumult, dir./reż. Johnny Barrington, 2011, 13’