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Frankie Corio becomes youngest-ever Bafta Scotland nominee.

Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun leads the nominations for the Bafta Scotland Awards 2023, recognised in five categories: actor film, actress film, director fiction, feature film and writer film/television.

The UK-us co-production has acting nominations for Paul Mescal and Frankie Corio, with Corio becoming the youngest-ever nominee at Bafta Scotland.

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Wells receives the other three nominations, with producers Mark Ceryak, Amy Jackson, Barry Jenkins and Adele Romanski nominated alongside her for feature film.

Aftersun previously received four nominations at the Bafta Film Awards earlier this year, winning...

Shaun Hughes' film is bleak. Not just David O'Connor's black and white camera, David McKeitch's visceral sound, but tone, direction. No less powerful for it, indeed potentially more harrowing for that level of artistic abstraction. We are given the luxury of looking away, but not everyone has that.

This is a struggle. Conor's specifically, a role of no small intensity by Conor McCarron. He's been a delight to watch in a variety of roles over the years, though he's nigh unrecognisable here. The same seam is struck that helped him carry For Those In Peril and others but beneath beard and bruise it shines differently. There are near enough no others, Chouffe Paws as the eponymous canine, Gsff prize-winning director James Price as "violent man". Price has directed McCarron on a few occasions, but the snarls and whimpers here surround implications of violence created in the edit. There's another role but.

Writer-director Alies Sluiter’s short film Ayaan took home five awards at the recent South Australian Screen Awards (Sasa), including the grand jury prize and best drama.

Produced Meng Xiong and Elspeth Trautwei, Ayaan tells the story of an escaped asylum seeker and her baby, who encounter an Aboriginal man on a rural Australian beach, and must decide whether to trust him or attempt the 400km journey to the nearest city, on foot and alone.

The film also notched Best Screenplay, as well as the awards for Best Male performance for Trevor Jamieson and Best Female Performance for Babetida Sadjo.

Ayaan was also recently recognised with Adelaide Film Festival’s short film audience award, and Sluiter won Best Direction in Student Film at the Adg Awards.

The annual Sasa ceremony, hosted by Mercury Cx, recognises outstanding talent in emerging Sa storytellers and craft professionals. This year, the event was held...

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit the interwebs. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.

Ant-Man (Peyton Reed)

Having continually proven that they can repackage the same general structure and archetypes into their cinematic universe for increasing box-office returns, Marvel’s impetus to think completely outside the box is not strong. With varying creative results, Guardians of the Galaxy proved that the right ingredients in the formula can result in an entertaining ride, while the over-stuffed Age of Ultron did little more then exhaust.

★★★★☆ The feature debut of British director Daniel Wolfe (co-written and co-shot with his brother Matt), Catch Me Daddy (2014) is a small film that has made an impressively big noise wherever it has featured. Making an impression on its world premiere 2014 Cannes Film Festival, its star Sameena Jabeen Ahmed won an award at last year's BFI London Film Festival for her portrayal of Laila, a young girl hiding out in a small Yorkshire town with her boyfriend (Connor McCarron).

A lurid meatgrinder of a movie in which the young-woman protagonist is reduced to a passive object of male rage, greed, and possessiveness. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

Laila (newcomer Sameena Jabeen Ahmed, whom I hope we see more of) has pink hair and painted nails and is living with her white boyfriend, Aaron (Connor McCarron), in a rundown camper outside a small rural Yorkshire town. She is not, we can see, a “good” Pakistani girl, and though life is hard and jobs are scarce and money is tight, she seems relatively happy. Until her brother, Zaheer (Ali Ahmad), shows up with two carloads of bounty hunters — and a trunk lined with plastic sheeting — to drag her home to their furious father in order to fix the “shame” she has brought the family with her deplorable self-determination.

Colin Firth shortlisted for best actor prize as George VI drama picks up eight nominations for British Independent Film awards

Oscar-tipped period drama The King's Speech is the early frontrunner in the British Independent Film awards after securing eight nominations.

Tom Hooper's film, which stars Colin Firth as King George VI and Geoffrey Rush as Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue, tells how the monarch overcame a stammer after unexpectedly becoming king in 1936 following the abdication of his brother, Edward VIII.

Firth picked up a best actor nod, while Rush, Guy Pearce and another co-star, Helena Bonham Carter, received best supporting actor and actress nominations. The film also won nominations in the best film, best director and best screenplay categories.

Other early leaders at the awards, which try to identify the best in British independent film-making, were the London film festival opener, Never Let Me Go, which garnered five nominations,...

Jason Solomons talks to Danny Boyle, and nominates his own London film festival awards

Elephant in hiding

Danny Boyle's mantelpiece must be groaning. He was characteristically gracious accepting his BFI fellowship last week, and carried away the handsome, emerald, deco-style sculpture in what looked like a cake tin. "I'll definitely be putting this one in the living room," he told me. "It's beautiful and apparently refracts the light in amazing ways." Will it go next to the Oscar, I asked. "Oh no, I keep that in a box," he said. "I just couldn't face seeing that every day. You couldn't get any work done if you had to look at it staring back at you. It's the elephant in the room. I'll put it out one day, when I'm old. We're all much better off with it in the box until then."

Overheard

A restored 1920s train carriage from...