Movies: Morag McKinnon

Alfred is 64. He's lost touch with his family and a threat to his health makes him realise he wants to make amends. The more he tries to do right, the more he does wrong, and as his past comes back to haunt him, he is forced to face up to what his li...

Fantastic film about a graphic designer....

Comfort and discomfort: a couple having sex on a train....

On the last visit to her grandmother’s house before she moved in to a retirement home, McKinnon realised that nothing would ever be the same again. McKinnon looked at everything with the eyes that knew she was looking upon the things of her past, of ...

It's a special day for Annie, but things don't go to plan and a nasty incident with the pet budgie forces her to run away from home....

Two brothers travel from Edinburgh to the Scottish Highlands in an attempt to force one of them to kick his drug habit....

A film of the award winning live theatre production The List. A woman struggles to adjust to rural life with a young family in Quebec. Increasingly isolated, she keeps life in order through obsessive list making. As her marriage struggles she befrien...

A musical take on the story of the infamous Edinburgh graverobbers....

A singular old man is torn-faced and broken. In earlier photographs he's eight feet tall and makes a very poor doormat, affable with the hordes. Now, he's hit his anecdotage, busy fending off obituarists. His only recourse to dignity is language....

Coming-of-age tale detailing the difficulties of growing up with a chronic illness....

Breathing is about the thin space between life and death. 34-year-old Neil Platt plans his own funeral, muses about the meaning of life and the impossibility of terminating a mobile phone contract. With 5 months left to live, and paralyzed from the n...

Co-directed by filmmaker Morag McKinnon and composer Jim Sutherland, is a thought-provoking meditation on the climate crisis and humanity's relationship with nature. With a focus on Scotland's Flow Country, it blends art and science to reflect on pre...

Robert Louis Stevenson's supernatural chiller is updated to present day Edinburgh....

A local council worker inspects three homes....

An insight into what goes on in the ladies loos of a nightclub as seen by the mirror on the wall....