When a young showman visits a new town he struggles to fit in. Seagulls explores the subtle differences in the lives of these teenage boys and how cultural bonds that are deeply ingrained are never far from the surface.
Set in Glasgow, Scotland, the film is about a girl called Eve who is in the hospital dealing with some emotional problems and starts writing songs as a way of getting better. Songwriting becomes her way forward, leading her to the City where she meets James and Cassie, two musicians each at crossroads of their own. What follows is a story of renaissance over the course of a long, dream-like Summer.
A remote Scottish boarding school is home to Reg, a lonely and yearning teenage girl. The handsome chainsaw-wielding tree surgeon, and the sinister and unorthodox self-defence instructor, are the only men in this world. When Reg is required to fight in the woods, she knows what she must do.
Jamie adores his older brother Donald but begins to doubt his tales of their absent father. A short film exploring two brothers growing up in Scotland one summertime.
Josh, a man with learning difficulties, is ignored and mocked in his home town until he meets a girl called Sarah, during an unpleasant attack on him. She befriends him and then uses him to do a task for her that shocks a small village.
The story twists and turns over flashbacks and a police investigation until the shocking finale.
Recorded every day for a year at exactly the same time, in the same place Stay the Same is an experimental documentary about our relationship with time and the desire to capture experience.
A visually impaired photographer, Anne, is on the quest to set up a photographic exhibition. The eyesight's deterioration of a visually impaired photographer is a lifetime challenge but search for the necessary funding to organize exhibition becomes huge issue at this time. Would passion to art help overcome health limitations?
A story of a woman's struggle to find her biological parents and the decision when she finally has all the information required to take that next step.
In a small Scottish town in 1974, factory workers refuse to carry out repairs on warplane engines in an act of solidarity against the violent military coup in Chile. Four years pass before the engines mysteriously disappear in the middle of the night.
When Neil Platt is diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease at the age of 33, he makes the unusual decision to document his final months, not just in a blog (which he painstakingly dictates via frustratingly inaccurate speech recognition software) but by inviting a film crew into the home he shares with his tireless wife Louise and toddler son Oscar. The result is a heartbreaking, funny and tender portrayal of incredible fortitude and love (EIFF).
