British Film Institute Production Board Movies

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

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 1...

Story of a girl from Surrey who visits Jozef, a Slovenian artist living in Poland, and embarks on an affair.

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?

Horror story using stills. Based on the short story by Richard Davis.

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

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

A Kafkaesque story of the bureaucracy which governs our lives. A young man leaves his passport on a train and loses his identity in a mire of forms, d...

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

Dolly, an elderly widow who lives alone, has been hoarding coal since the deaths of her husband and son years ago in mining accidents. When Dolly real...

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

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...

A psychedelic film showing swirls and bubbles of colours to the music of Soft Machine.

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

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

Poplar's long tradition of political and social activism is on show in this community film. The East London district has been home to both grassroots...

A portrait of an ex-coalminer turned inventor of the horse jaquzzi and Morrissey fanatic.

A woman encounters her memories, explored through dance. Featuring Marguerite Porter, former Principal Ballerina at the Royal Ballet.

In and around the tenement blocks and rubbish tips of the Glasgow slums, this short film depicts a young boy’s perspective of his family, his friends...

An imaginative examination of the Superman myth, using animated collages of re-tinted photographs and featuring the world’s first superhero who’s par...