British Film Institute Production Board Movies

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

A wasp exterminator travels to a large stately home to deal with a wasp infestation problem. However when he arrives he is greeted by a dysfunctional,...

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...

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 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...

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...

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

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

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

The words to the Paul McCartney-penned Beatles classic Penny Lane are vividly illustrated in this short montage film, released in the same year as the...

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, Tany...

A rhythmic beat punctuates a solitary Asian woman’s life as she engages her inner goddess to turn trash into treasure. She creates a stunning oasis in...

In a hugely entertaining parody of her media persona, a pre-'Female Eunuch' Germaine Greer stars as a terrifyingly amorous woman who alternately cajol...

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

About animation itself, in which a live-action man's movements are mimicked by means of various animated techniques.

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?

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

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

Animated retelling of the story of Noah's Ark by political cartoonist Abu.