From Glasgow comes One Life Stand, a truly fresh and strange movie about ordinary people written, directed, digitally photographed, and edited by May Miles Thomas.
Sombrely shot in black-and-white, this micro-budgeted drama revolves around Maureen Carr's astonishingly intimate performance as a weary working-class divorcee struggling to prevent her vain teenage son from being exploited as a gigolo, even as she herself is sucked into enterprise culture as a phone-line tarot-reader.
The mesmerising sequence in which she returns home after being sexually abused by her boss/boyfriend, lies down on her son's bed, where she is strafed by an ornamental strobe, and then confronts him with his moral self-deception is charged with anguish. One Life Stand is a peal of hope for Scottish - and Anglocentric - cinema.