British Film Institute Production Board Movies

A marital breakdown is brought to life through a mixture of dramatisation, monologue, montage and animation. Through the perspectives of the husband,...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Inspired by Virginia Woolf, a young writer worries that marriage will hinder her literary ambitions. The film includes extracts from Virginia Woolf's...

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

This chilling and provocative faux home movie presents the story of three dissidents and their plan to commit a revolutionary act on film....

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...

An elderly man takes a hypnotic journey through his memories in the moments before his death.

A poetic young man crosses paths with a young runaway woman, and together they embark on an all-night journey through London’s sleepy...

An elegant film about one man's fears and fantasies regarding HIV testing.

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....

“Film questions whether the encouragement of very low paid jobs and schemes - both in general and specifically how they function in the area...

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

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

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

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

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

On 2nd August 1995, a woman in a red dress travelled from London to Blackpool. Did you see her? Do you remember her? Was she there?