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  • Iona (2015)
    Review preview for Iona

    Director Graham is fantastic at allowing the underlying relational strain to simmer for most of the film, in quiet, unspoken Scots Calvinist passive-aggression.

    Robert Munro · 4.5 out of 5
    A woman and her teenage son return to the place she was born to seek refuge from a violent gang.
  • Native Son (2009)
    Review preview for Native Son

    This is one of my favourite performances of the year.

    Scott Macdonald · 4.5 out of 5
    Lonely farm-hand finds someone to be close to.
  • Shell (2006)
    Review preview for Shell

    The expectation of desperate passion, or bloody horror, is dashed.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    A girl, a truck stop, a long way away. Showing at EIFF 2007 - UK Shorts 1
  • Shell (2012)
    Review preview for Shell

    Isolation rules and comfort is cold in Scott Graham's gripping and emotionally tense feature debut.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    An intense story of two people who struggle to keep their longings for freedom under control, set against a beautiful and remote landscape that reflects their isolation back at them.

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