Screen Two Season 10, Episode 1: Genghis Cohn

Skallagrigg

Back in the 'bad old days' when the physically and mentally disabled were locked away in institutions a legend grew of someone who could stand up to the authorities and help them. This charming story is how a group of disabled people went to chase that legend.

All Things Bright and Beautiful

A young boy's innocent observations leads the local priest to believe he has borne witness to a manifestation of the Virgin Mary. Set in an idyllic rural Northern Ireland in the 1950's.

The Reflecting Skin

In the 1950s, a young boy living with his troublesome family in rural USA fantasizes that a neighbouring widow is actually a vampire, responsible for a number of disappearances in the area.

O Mary This London

Three young Dubliners go to London in search of fun, fortune and, in the case of 17-year-old Mary Kelly, an abortion. Homeless and jobless, their adventures quickly turn sour.

Dirtysomething

A comedy that pits the hippy ideals of the New Age against the yuppy aspirations of suburbia. Dog and Becca meet at the Glastonbury Festival and trade life on the road for the relative security of a squat. But the squat becomes a home, and a home demands improvements -- and an income to support them. Can Dog and Becca remain true to their roots, or will colour charts and shelving units get the better of them?

59 min

Return to Blood River

Douglas Livingstone has direct experience of the tensions in South Africa. On a research visit there in the summer of 1993, he was mugged within 24 hours of arriving in Johannesburg. Over the following week. the East Rand riots claimed 600 lives.

Henri

A ten year old Protestant girl travels to Belfast to take part in a music festival, and is billetted with a Catholic family.

Zinky Boys Go Underground

In Moscow, veterans of the Afghanistan war live on the margin. Their leader is Andrei, their former sergeant, blind from drinking wood alcohol there, and attended in a wheelchair by his younger sister, Lena. Andrei and his pals have a black-market stall, paying off both the city's Mafia (Oblov comes by regularly to collect) and the cops. The cops are looking for a subway slasher; Andrei is in love with Oriolo, a stylish African; unbeknownst to Andrei, Oriolo is saving to leave for Paris; and, Lena wants to protect her brother. When new cops trash their stall, Andrei loses control of his gang; Oblov makes off with Oriolo, and the subway becomes the scene of a final showdown.

Ethan Frome

A new pastor arrives in a stark Vermont village and is intrigued by crippled, misshapen Ethan Frome living on an isolated, hardscrabble farm with his sickly wife Zeena.

Hope in the Year Two

In April 1794, Georges Danton, the hero of the French Revolution, is imprisoned in a Paris jail, awaiting his morning appointment with La Guillotine. His accusers are so afraid of the strength of his popular support that they have imprisoned a decoy to frustrate any attempt to rescue him. A young guard must decide if his prisoner is the real Danton - and whether it is too risky to help him.

Sin Bin

When a psychiatric patient dies after a violent assault, a nurse is forced to choose between self-preservation and justice.

63 min

Men of the Month

Tracey, a hyperactive, inarticulate bicycle courier who unsuccessfully woos his girlfriend, watches Star Trek (1966) videos and delivers packages for a women's erotic magazine, "Bad and Beautiful". As the female staff produce their new issue, they are watched by builders restoring their crumbling off ice block - each of them with an interest in the women within.

Sarafina

A Landing on the Sun

By special request of the Prime Minister, civil servant Stephen Summerchild and philosopher Elizabeth Serafin are given the unusual brief of finding the true meaning of happiness. Twenty years after Summerchild's mysterious death, a Cabinet officer investigates, and uncovers a secret world high in a Whitehall attic and a curious romance that disturbed Summerchild's superiors.

In the Cold Light of Day

It is the late 1930s and some British households still eagerly await the arrival of electricity. When a pylon is erected in the garden, Morris's mother can't wait to show off her Swedish lumbago belt and toaster. But Morris is gripped by a deeper passion that will change his life - one that will not be illuminated for 50 years.

Criminal

Teenager Simon Willerton's suicide in 1990 brought to six the number of young prisoners who hanged themselves in British prisons in just over six months. It prompted a public debate over conditions in remand prisons and Armley in particular, where overcrowding had reached such a level that prison officers refused to admit any new inmates. Simon faced a burglary charge over the theft of a hot-water bottle from an unoccupied flat.

Midnight Movie

American producer James Boyce and his airhead wife Amber rent an English country mansion where the British horror flick "Smoke Rings" was filmed twenty years previous. Amber's mother was model-actress Mandy Mason, who died mysteriously after her appearance in "Smoke Rings." The property rental to Boyce was arranged by middle-aged lawyer Henry Harris, who continues to live with his lovesick memories of the late actress. Boyce invites Harris to dinner, and "Smoke Rings" airs on TV that same evening. During the following days, Harris observes Amber's schizophrenic behaviour veering parallel to events once experienced by her mother and also to the movie's plotline.

The Blue Boy

A couple expecting their first baby spend a few days in the Highlands, hoping to make a fresh start to their relationship - only for the past to creep up on the present with devastating results.

63 min