CineMasters

Bill Douglas was one of Scotland’s finest directors, celebrated by other great filmmakers including Lynne Ramsay, Lenny Abrahamson, Satajit Ray and Yuliya Solntseva. In his short career he made four films, an autobiographical trilogy My Childhood, My Ain Folk and My Way Home about his appalling childhood and Comrades, an epic about a momentous moment in English history. Every shot in these films is an art work and every sequence a poem. We're screening all four as part of this season, alongside the new documentary, Bill Douglas – My Best Friend, which tells the story of the extraordinary friendship between Douglas and his lifelong companion and collaborator Peter Jewell.