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A Scottish-Palestinian filmmaker examines rare archive footage of Palestinian flowers and questions how it relates to the world of today.

Breathing is about the thin space between life and death. 34-year-old Neil Platt plans his own funeral, muses about the meaning of life and the...

A palpably rendered audiovisual essay draws together the distinct sensibilities of filmmakers Peter Mettler (The End of Time) and Emma Davie (I am...

In post-revolution Libya, a group of women are brought together by one dream: to play football for their nation. But as the country descends into...

The changing face of a pebble beach on the coast of the English channel serves as a backdrop to compare the long history of sea rescue with the...

Bill Drummond, once the most notorious man in pop music, now travels around the world baking cakes, building beds and shining shoes as part of a...

Cunenk grew up as a girl trapped in a boy’s body. She could not wait to leave her village and become a performer.

A woman grieving for the loss of her husband finds solace in the world of psychic mediums.

Livingston skateboard park became internationally legendary. Forty years on, the park is no longer a favourite. That is until a group of school...

Soon after her ‘big break’, Italian actress Nadya Cazan disappeared. Ottica Zero follows Nadya from her rejection of the monetary-based...

A filmmaker explores a neurological condition she has been diagnosed with and its relationship with an incident in her past.

A remote and wild island on the west coast of Scotland is home to a small group of people that live in deep connection with the land, the sea and the...

Work. Eat. Sleep. And back to work. For a long time skippers in the North East of Scotland could not find locals to work on their fishing vessels....

This rare and intimate portrait explores a young woman’s perspective about living with albinism – a condition which has often made her an...

Sean uses the Piano to navigate life on the Autistic Spectrum. As he is drawn into new musical collaborations he must learn to balance his enthusiasm...

A unique point-of-view insight into a day in the life of Jimmy McIntosh, a wheelchair user living with cerebral palsy who on a daily basis fights for...

Untung and Nesti really love their 6 year old son who has autism. Their daily life becomes more challenging because both of their parents are...

As a family from a politically and physically divided island, Meray and her father developed extremely opposite views to each other. She travels from...

MIEZI KUMI (TEN MONTHS) is a short documentary of the love between Zacharia Mutai, his family and the last two northern white rhinos, which he has to...

Our bodies store memories. The body does not forget. A childhood in Damascus, OCD, the revolution, falling in love with a woman. My body remembers,...