British Film Institute Production Board Movies

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

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...

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

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...

Short film adaptation of Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis'.

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

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

A group of young friends convene in the countryside to shoot a horror movie. But an experiment with LSD sees normal boundaries between them...

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

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....

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...

Follows the day-to-day experiences of a deaf woman, as she encounters the hearing world.

An artistic pioneer, Agnès Varda has never stopped looking for the next way to tell a story. Here the 90-year-old explains how Instagram, with...

Set on a steam-shrouded railway station and shot in high-contrast black and white, Richard Kwietniowski's film lovingly twists David Lean's...

Vinko Globakar, a virtuoso trombonist, plays on a stage, alone, Luciano Berio's Sequenza for Trombone.

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...

An anti-short short. On three occassions a man overhears a car accident while relaxing in his room. He reacts with less and less concern to each...

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

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