A journey into the historical and tactile entanglements between sheep’s wool, migrant plant seeds and the River Tweed.
Official Selection Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2024 - World premiere
Archive footage, music and voice combine to explore the choreography of childhood and the possibility of childish autonomy.
In a world ruled by adults, how does the child in film resist oppression and control? The childish imagination escapes in flights of fantasy, both brief and absorbing. Energy is directed and contained. "I'm live as a battery. Who am I to you?"
After the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, a boy grew up obsessed with all the movies he couldn't see. He met a mysterious film collector who saved thousands of films from destruction by the new regime. Despite arrest and torture, the collector refused to give up his secret hoard. Together they forged a friendship based on passion for cinema and resistance against tyranny. The boy escaped to exile in London to become a filmmaker, and tells their shared story of obsession and celluloid dreams.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - Documentary Competition - World premiere
Political engagement spawned the wildest of wonderlands for Hong Kong’s creativity – but as a new law annihilates freedom of expression overnight, artists and creatives find themselves targets and their works disappeared. We race to preserve the creative uprising amid China’s crackdown.
In June 2020, the day after the National Security Law was imposed, the government started listing words, images, books, slogans, songs that were now deemed illegal - making so much that was ‘normal', forbidden.
Hong Kong Mixtape weaves in the personal story of San the director, as we immerse with these underground artists, including some of Asia’s most famous and iconic creators - rappers, dancers, performers, illustrators, stunt collectives - as they navigate this authoritarian new normal. We also follow San having to ask herself the same questions as the other artists; are you willing to risk a life sentence for your art? And if this the last time we can be home - what do we make now?
Official Selection Glasgow Film Festival 2023 - European Premiere
An observation of the benefits system, NEXT IN LINE centres a refugee doctor who is seeking government financial assistance. At her job centre meeting she faces a harrowing decision – either she works as a cleaner or gets sanctioned.
Three brothers return to the remote woodland where they killed their abusive father only to discover his shallow grave is now empty, forcing them to question one another's loyalty with devastating consequences, as fear and paranoia set in.
Official Selection Edinburgh International FilmFestival 2023 - World premiere
An unlikely creative partnership is formed between a young Deaf man and an embittered busker on the streets of Glasgow.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - Short Film Competition - World premiere
A personal short documentary about dancing as a plus size woman through the lens of pop culture. A radical and joyful reimagining of awesome dance scenes with the bodies that traditionally get pushed to the back taking up space front and centre.
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2023 Bridging the Gap - World premiere
FriendsontheOutsidetellsthestoryofan incarcerated man called Jamie who finds joy and comfort inside by foraging for weeds and caring for birds. It questions whytheUK prison system is currentlyinits biggest expansioninmore than a century, exposing naturalising language around this expansion.
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2023 Bridging the Gap - World premiere
During the Pink Moon season, a daughter revisits her childhood home to work the garden with her father as it blossoms in the politically and physically divided island of Cyprus. It once facilitated her nightmares of the conflict and now their conversations. The filmmaker unearths the inter-generational trauma and healing.
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2023 - Bridging the Gap - World premiere
Official Selection DOC NYC 2024
Yuliia has become a refugee in Scotland due to the war in Ukraine. She is fighting for the future of her children while trying to maintain her relationship with her husband, who is on the frontline.
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2023 Bridging the Gap - World premiere
