Movies: Shirley Henderson

After 35 years in Chicago, Donal reluctantly returns to the Scottish Highlands to make amends with his estranged older brother, Sandy. Sandy needs Donal to take over the family's whisky distillery or he will be forced to sell and give up on the famil...

A seal in water and human on land, the mythical selkie cannot return to their true home in the sea if their seal skin is stolen. In this modern adaptation a selkie woman trapped on land in human form, longing to return to her underwater realm, unwitt...

An unemployed misfit falls in love with Freddie, her goldfish and as her search for work flounders her love for Freddie deepens and she feels her place is at his side…...

Based on The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd and the performance project Into The Mountain by Simone Kenyon. A homage to Scotland’s Cairngorm Mountains, with a dreamlike voice over by Shirley Henderson and a polyvocal score by by Hanna Tuulikki....

The first of three contemporary love stories showing in the Love Bites 1997 season. A working-class Scotswoman tries to save her deeply indebted friend from Glasgow’s inner city loan sharks....