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Title: ORPHANS

Reference number: 7916

Date: 1999

Director: d. Peter Mullan

Sponsor: Channel Four Films presents in association with The Scottish Arts Council National Lottery Fund and The Glasgow Film Fund [Development funded by The Scottish Film Production Fund]

Producer: Frances Higson

Production company: Antonine Greenbridge Production

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Certificate: 18

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 101.00 mins

Description: A funny and moving story of family rivalries and loyalties. After the death of their mother, a group of siblings go missing through the night in Glasgow. As a violent storm tears through the city, the brothers and their sister are torn apart during a long, dark night of mishaps and misunderstandings. Each must find their own way to come to terms with their grief through 24 hours of emotional and meteorological turbulence. As the city emerges from the storm battered and brusied, so too must the family emerge and unite to mourn at their mother's funeral. Orphans is a rare and powerful film, a devastatingly funny and tragic journey through the darker parts of family life.

Synopsis from paper records deposited. Screenplay held (2nd draft) at National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive.

Awards: 1999 Paris Film Festival - Grand Prix: Peter Mullan. 1998 Venice Film Festival - Cult Network Italia, Isvema Award, Kodak Award, Prix Pierrot: Peter Mullan.

Credits: w. Peter Mullan
exec. p. Paddy Higson
d. ph. Grant Scott Cameron
m. Craig Armstrong
film ed. Colin Monie
designer Campbell Gordon
costume designer Lynn Aitken
make-up designer Anastasia Shirley