Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh in his own words, with Iggy Pop, Martin Compston, Danny Boyle and others paying tribute

The true story of the rise and fall of Creation Records and its infamous founder Alan McGee; the man responsible for supplying the “Brit Pop” soundtrack to the ‘90s, a decade of cultural renaissance known as Cool Britannia. From humble beginnings to Downing Street soirées, from dodging bailiffs to releasing multi-platinum albums, Creation had it all. Breakdowns, bankruptcy, fights and friendships… and not forgetting the music. Featuring some of the greatest records you have ever heard, we follow Alan through a drug-fuelled haze of music and mayhem, as his rock’n’roll dream brings the world Oasis, Primal Scream, and other generation-defining bands.

The true story of the rise and fall of Creation Records and its infamous founder Alan McGee; the man responsible for supplying the “Brit Pop” soundtrack to the ‘90s, a decade of cultural renaissance known as Cool Britannia. From humble beginnings to Downing Street soirées, from dodging bailiffs to releasing multi-platinum albums, Creation had it all. Breakdowns, bankruptcy, fights and friendships… and not forgetting the music. Featuring some of the greatest records you have ever heard, we follow Alan through a drug-fuelled haze of music and mayhem, as his rock’n’roll dream brings the world Oasis, Primal Scream, and other generation-defining bands.

Making their way across a busy Meadows at the height of the Edinburgh Festival, Renton and Sick Boy upset Spud when they start tormenting a squirrel. Their ever-sensitive pal points out that vermin status is very much in the eye of the beholder, as two passing posh wifies make abundantly clear.

SHANKLY: NATURE'S FIRE explores the remarkable life and career of BILL SHANKLY, the legendary Liverpool Football Club manager who came to leave such a legacy in his adopted home city. The film is a nostalgic journey into the origins of the world's favourite game, and how legends are born and transcend generations. Perhaps no one before or since has personified the spirit of the working class culture that gave birth to the modern game. Shankly's passion for football was boundless to the point of obsession. This unique feature length documentary is an exploration of the determination and commitment to community that emerged from Britain's industrial heartlands and manifested itself in this unstoppable game: creating a love affair still etched in the hearts of the generations that followed.

Primeiro foi a oportunidade, depois a traição. Vinte anos se passaram e muita coisa mudou, mas outras tantas não. Mark Renton volta para o único lugar que ele consegue chamar de casa. Spud, Sick Boy e Begbie estão esperando por ele.

Primeiro foi a oportunidade, depois a traição. Vinte anos se passaram e muita coisa mudou, mas outras tantas não. Mark Renton volta para o único lugar que ele consegue chamar de casa. Spud, Sick Boy e Begbie estão esperando por ele.

In this new documentary, Susan Kemp explores the life and work of the great British director Antonia Bird, who died in 2013. Bird blazed a trail from the radical hotbed of the Royal Court Theatre in the 70s, via the groundbreaking early days of EastEnders and Casualty in the 80s, all the way to Hollywood in the 90s and back again. She always had something urgent to say, but her career was a long struggle to get her voice heard. Featuring many of her close collaborators, including Robert Carlyle, Irvine Welsh, Kate Hardie and Mark Cousins, this documentary is the first to examine Bird’s legacy, and to place her where she belongs – among the most important British film, TV and theatre directors of her era.

In this new documentary, Susan Kemp explores the life and work of the great British director Antonia Bird, who died in 2013. Bird blazed a trail from the radical hotbed of the Royal Court Theatre in the 70s, via the groundbreaking early days of EastEnders and Casualty in the 80s, all the way to Hollywood in the 90s and back again. She always had something urgent to say, but her career was a long struggle to get her voice heard. Featuring many of her close collaborators, including Robert Carlyle, Irvine Welsh, Kate Hardie and Mark Cousins, this documentary is the first to examine Bird’s legacy, and to place her where she belongs – among the most important British film, TV and theatre directors of her era.

David e Alice reagem de forma diferente ao mundo do poliamor. O casal vai enfrentar as dificuldades de viver um romance em uma realidade como essa.

Documentary that outlines the 1990s and the decade the changed the world.

Bruce Robertson é um homem viciado em cocaína, misantropo, bipolar e obcecado por sexo.Ele também é um policial, responsável por investigar um assassinato brutal. Na verdade, Bruce deseja mais do que encontrar o culpado: ele pretende usar este caso para conseguir uma promoção, e conquistar novamente o afeto de sua ex-esposa e de sua filha.

A modernization of the classic western in which the Cowboys are a struggling local amateur soccer team, the Indians run a nearby Tandoori restaurant and the bandits are a group of menacing thugs led by a maniac known simply as 'American Bob'.

A cinematic snapshot observing the morning routine of a family in 1940s Britain. Mum makes breakfast. Dad reads the paper. Samantha tries to get ready for work but her sister, Rachael, is hogging the bathroom. Soon we see that Rachael is very young, but not as innocent as her parents might hope.

ECSTASY is a dark romantic comedy, based on the controversial book, “Ecstasy”, by Irvine Welsh. “Ecstasy”, was translated into 20 languages and was a number one bestseller in over 20 countries. Mr. Welsh’s first book, “Trainspotting”, published in 1993, (and voted by Waterstone, Europe’s largest bookstore chain, as one of the Ten Best Books of the Century), sold over 1 million copies in the UK alone, and has its own Cinematic Cinderella success story.

A darts player slides into depression after an heart attack spooks him so much he loses his skill.

A darts player slides into depression after an heart attack spooks him so much he loses his skill.

A darts player slides into depression after an heart attack spooks him so much he loses his skill.

The film was produced by Nick Higgins from Lansdowne Productions and Noémie Mendelle from the Scottish Documentary Institute and has 10 film-chapter directors for each of the 10 chapters of the film. The film's unifying theme is human rights in Scotland with each chapter illustrating one of the "New Ten Commandments" - 10 articles chosen from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The 10 film chapters of The New Ten Commandments 1. The Right to Freedom of Assembly - Dir, David Graham Scott 2. The Right not to be enslaved - Dir, Nick Higgins 3. The Right to a fair trial - Dir, Sana Bilgrami 4. The Right to freedom of expression - Dir, Doug Aubrey 5. The Right to life - Dir, Kenny Glenaan 6. The Right to liberty - Dir, Irvine Welsh & Mark Cousins 7. The Right not to be tortured - Dir, Douglas Gordon 8. The Right to asylum - Dir, Anna Jones 9. The Right to privacy - Dir, Alice Nelson 10. The Right to freedom of thought - Dir, Mark Cousins & Tilda Swinton.

Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.

Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.

A darkly humorous look at the lives and loves of four modern women, each with their own remarkable, intriguing and often tragic stories.

A darkly humorous look at the lives and loves of four modern women, each with their own remarkable, intriguing and often tragic stories.

A man infected with HIV exacts his revenge on the person responsible. Based on a chapter from Irvine Welsh's 1993 novel Trainspotting.

The compelling tale of how a group of sacked dockers got together with scriptwriter Jimmy McGovern and novelist Irvine Welsh to turn their unique story into a film. In September 1995, five men were sacked for walking off the job when their overtime agreement was ditched. Dockers: Writing The Wrongs tells how the dockers spent a year producing the script based on their own experiences of the dramatic two and a half year dispute.

Jimmy McGovern's depiction of the mid 90s Liverpool dockers strike. Featuring script contributions from Irvine Welsh and the real dockers themselves

Três histórias diferentes são contadas em "Vida Ácida": primeiro um rapaz, péssimo jogador amador de futebol, é expulso de seu time e tem, na sequência, o pior dia de sua vida, com uma série de decepções e fracassos, culminando em um encontro com Deus em um bar, que resolve se vingar de toda a humanidade, começando por ele; no segundo segmento, um rapaz apaixonado assume o filho e casa-se com uma mulher na esperança de constituir uma família feliz, mas um vizinho que se muda para o apartamento de cima vai perturbar a harmonia do casal; e por último, um jovem troca de corpo com um bebê recém-nascido e torna-se espião da vida de um casal com problemas conjugais. As histórias possuem como foco a miséria humana e a vida secreta de todo indivíduo.

Três histórias diferentes são contadas em "Vida Ácida": primeiro um rapaz, péssimo jogador amador de futebol, é expulso de seu time e tem, na sequência, o pior dia de sua vida, com uma série de decepções e fracassos, culminando em um encontro com Deus em um bar, que resolve se vingar de toda a humanidade, começando por ele; no segundo segmento, um rapaz apaixonado assume o filho e casa-se com uma mulher na esperança de constituir uma família feliz, mas um vizinho que se muda para o apartamento de cima vai perturbar a harmonia do casal; e por último, um jovem troca de corpo com um bebê recém-nascido e torna-se espião da vida de um casal com problemas conjugais. As histórias possuem como foco a miséria humana e a vida secreta de todo indivíduo.

Três histórias diferentes são contadas em "Vida Ácida": primeiro um rapaz, péssimo jogador amador de futebol, é expulso de seu time e tem, na sequência, o pior dia de sua vida, com uma série de decepções e fracassos, culminando em um encontro com Deus em um bar, que resolve se vingar de toda a humanidade, começando por ele; no segundo segmento, um rapaz apaixonado assume o filho e casa-se com uma mulher na esperança de constituir uma família feliz, mas um vizinho que se muda para o apartamento de cima vai perturbar a harmonia do casal; e por último, um jovem troca de corpo com um bebê recém-nascido e torna-se espião da vida de um casal com problemas conjugais. As histórias possuem como foco a miséria humana e a vida secreta de todo indivíduo.

Uma jornada selvagem ao obscuro submundo das drogas de Edimburgo, onde Mark Renton tenta largar a heroína. Ele e os seus amigos mergulham no vício para fugir das banalidades da existência mas logo começam a sentir as consequências do seu vício e a descobrir que não existem soluções fáceis para a solidão e a dor da vida. Sem moralismos e falsas mensagens, o filme acompanha a rotina alucinante dos jovens e traça um retrato da geração desesperançada dos anos 90.

Uma jornada selvagem ao obscuro submundo das drogas de Edimburgo, onde Mark Renton tenta largar a heroína. Ele e os seus amigos mergulham no vício para fugir das banalidades da existência mas logo começam a sentir as consequências do seu vício e a descobrir que não existem soluções fáceis para a solidão e a dor da vida. Sem moralismos e falsas mensagens, o filme acompanha a rotina alucinante dos jovens e traça um retrato da geração desesperançada dos anos 90.

It's the first day of April in 1945, the Axis shaken after a round of blockbusters decimate buildings around the Nazi occupied war-torn city of Kassel. A group of German soldiers huddle round to keep the heat, smoking cigarettes in buildings almost reduced to rubble telling tales of a one man wrecking ball who seems impervious to German bullets, striking fear into the hearts of Wehrmacht and Schutzstaffel alike. No, it's not the skull cracking, baseball bat wielding Bear Jew, it's not Stepan Petrenko the deadeye sharpshooting Russian, this man is those two combined and then some, It's the Nazi-crushing, Panzer-eating Dick Dynamite.

It's the first day of April in 1945, the Axis shaken after a round of blockbusters decimate buildings around the Nazi occupied war-torn city of Kassel. A group of German soldiers huddle round to keep the heat, smoking cigarettes in buildings almost reduced to rubble telling tales of a one man wrecking ball who seems impervious to German bullets, striking fear into the hearts of Wehrmacht and Schutzstaffel alike. No, it's not the skull cracking, baseball bat wielding Bear Jew, it's not Stepan Petrenko the deadeye sharpshooting Russian, this man is those two combined and then some, It's the Nazi-crushing, Panzer-eating Dick Dynamite.