1980s Glasgow: As his family disintegrates around him, the only thing on eight-year-old Jonjo’s mind is getting his prized He Man figure for Christmas.
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2019 - World premiere
Bircan has decided to learn Kurdish, her once-forbidden mother-tongue, with all the words her grandmother has forgotten and all the stories that have remained unspoken.
ROSALYN is about the fears, emotions and anxieties that arise with pregnancy. Our central character, Rose, feels threatened by, and resentful of the volatility of her own body.
Unable to show his true identity, Michael, a grieving tailor mouse, recounts and reckons with the memories of a past lover.
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2019 - World premiere
Augusto Alfredo Roggen better known as the lousiest spy ever meets a swimmer on the shore of a sea loch. The work pictures a friendly and musical encounter within an awkward setting where historical past meets fictional present.
A commercial diver is stranded on the seabed with only five minutes of oxygen supply, but with no chance of rescue for more than 30 minutes. With access to amazing archive, this is the true story of one man’s impossible fight for survival.
It is GRAVITY meets TOUCHING THE VOID – 100 metres underwater.
Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 - World Showcase - International premiere
A nightmarish contemporary vision. Two adult sisters exist dysfunctionally, each limited by illnesses affecting both body and mind – one physically and the other psychologically.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Cult Strand - World premiere
Alan, Stuart and Angela are inseparable teenage misfits. When Alan discovers Stuart and Angela are secretly going out, he deviously foils their budding union.
In 1928 at the age of eleven, Harry Birrell was given his first cine camera. ‘The greatest toy a child could ever receive’ he would say. His obsession with making movies would span the rest of the 20th century, despite the onset of blindness. In love, war and other adventures Harry recorded everything with a wonderfully cinematic eye on thousands upon thousands of feet of high quality 16mm film.
From commanding a battalion of Ghurkas in the Indian army at the start of the WWII, to dangerous sorties deep behind enemy lines in Burma at its end; from the ballroom dances of his youth in the 1930s to teaching his children to twist in the 1960s: Harry’s entertaining and errant adventures are filmed with the intimacy of home movies but on the scale of 'Lawrence of Arabia'.
Today, his granddaughter Carina, uncovers a lifetime of memories all spliced together in over 400 films, personal diaries (narrated by Richard Madden) and countless photographs that have previously lain undiscovered, along with the many cans of cine film, in rusting metal trunks in a garden shed.
It’s one man’s cinematic vision of the 20th Century and his own personal journey through it.
A hybrid documentary about the decommissioning of a nuclear plant in Scotland. Concerned with landscape and time, myth and technology, the film explores the nature of ruins, and asks what environmental scars our generation will leave behind for the future.
Official Selection Visions du Réel 2019 - World premiere
A documentary following shoes donated from children in the suburbs of Scotland to young Syrian refugees in the settlements in Lebanon. At its heart this a children’s story. It is as much about the children who donate as those who receive the shoes.
