Projects in genres: Scottish

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An intimate portrait of a bio drag queen. Body dysmorphia takes centre stage in this highly visual examination of the selves we invent to navigate the world.
Official Selection BFI Flare LGBTIQ+ Film Festival 2021

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A young mother accidentally opens a window on her past self at a time when she was struggling and doubting everything in her life. How can she now help her past self through this distressing time and see hope in the future?

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Tolu, a toilet attendant, manipulates unsuspecting women for men behind the mirrors. Tonight, she is forced to choose between saving herself or harming a punter.

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Somewhere in the world there is a remote island. In a lodge by the sea, a Chinese writer immersing herself in reading and writing encounters a Japanese girl who is in a melancholic mood. What has happened and what the two girls are feeling, imagining or remembering starts to overlap.

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Alice, a grieving and disconnected pharmacist struggles with the knowledge that her husband was having an affair before his death. When she encounters ‘the other woman’ mourning her husband’s ghost-bike it forces Alice to confront her detachment, accepting compassion and understanding in the unlikely form of her trifle-loving methadone patient.

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The story of a young, lonesome man whose only friend and company is his beloved hoover Ziggy. Stuck in a grim cubicle serving as his home and work place, our friend rarely ventures out; only leaving to buy lunch before returning to his desk to eat it. But what happens to him when there's an "unexpected Item in the bagging area" and his whole world is shaken?

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Leading scientist and OCD-sufferer, Dr Beth Anderson breaks into a high security compound in the dead of night and risks losing everything to save a colleague from an out-of-date sandwich.

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The Hippies were a bizarre English punk band formed in '79 by the Hulse children, Toby (12), Matt (11) and Polly (8). Their cassette album 'A Sound for the Future' featured songs about disease, assassination and the Antarctic.
"Stop eating toast and singeing your legs by the gas fire. Get up and do something!" (Ruth Pendragon, Mother, Manager, Guru), 1979. The Hippies performed ticketed live shows for their mother’s kindly but chaotic group of Cambridge friends; the homeless, drunks, animal rights activists, junkies, cross-dressers and gay Franciscan friars.

The Hippies then and now. What truly happened back in the past and whose side of the story should be told? Especially as the film’s director was the band's 11-year-old drummer? Matt’s mum Ruth, maverick, mystic, manager, plays a pivotal role in the bigger picture, offering an insight into a time of personal and social upheaval, both for her and her family in Thatcher’s Britain.

Using music of the period, archive, animation and poetic reimaginings of key moments, Matt Hulse explores a part-remembered, kaleidoscopically fractured, family history, through an energetic, jarring, ride; part performance, part art, part process, post-punk.

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Edgar Combrink, a perpetual re-offender, is released back to the gang ridden Cape Flats to a family he hardly knows. To a forgotten suburb rife with unemployment and social decay in one of the most unequal cities in the world; Cape Town. Now that his daughter is starting high school, he needs to resist the ever present pull of crime, if he wants to see her graduate.

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Haunted by the ghost of war, a stoic Syrian Barber is trying to build a home for himself and his family on a remote Scottish island. He must find a way to survive this new unfamiliar life and protect the memory of Syria for his young children.
Official Selection Sheffield Doc/Fest 2021 - World premiere

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Kim has found the perfect new home, except for one detail: the basement - and the psychotic realter who wants to keep her locked in it. Her husband is blissfully unaware of the evils that lurk in that house, and he's due to arrive at any minute now.

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Florist Clara relies on touch, sound and smell.
She has recently been chatting with Art student Simon on a dating app.
Clara and Simon look forward to meeting in person.
However, Clara hasn't told him about her limited sight leading to an unexpected situation during their first date.