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  • 2019
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    Best Before Death

    Best Before Death

    7.50 2019 HD

    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...

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  • 2018
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    Becoming Animal

    Becoming Animal

    6.40 2018 HD

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

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  • 2024
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    Seeking

    Seeking

    1 2024 HD

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

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  • 2018
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    Freedom Fields

    Freedom Fields

    7.50 2018 HD

    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...

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  • 2017
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    Libya in Motion

    Libya in Motion

    1 2017 HD

    From Tripoli to Benghazi, meet a grandmother sowing the national flag with relish, a young woman determined to become a film director, a fisherman...

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  • 2021
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    Baby Girl

    Baby Girl

    1 2021 HD

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

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  • 2024
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    The Flowers Stand, Silently Witnessing

    The Flowers Stand, Silently Witnessing

    1 2024 HD

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

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  • 2021
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    Falhan's Love

    Falhan's Love

    1 2021 HD

    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...

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  • 2012
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    Polaris

    Polaris

    1 2012 HD

    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....

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  • 2007
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    Ottica Zero

    Ottica Zero

    1 2007 HD

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

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  • 2024
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    Roll Down the Window

    Roll Down the Window

    1 2024 HD

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

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  • 2022
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    TEN MONTHS

    TEN MONTHS

    1 2022 HD

    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...

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  • 2024
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    Headland

    Headland

    1 2024 HD

    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...

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  • 2021
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    Harmonic Spectrum

    Harmonic Spectrum

    1 2021 HD

    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...

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  • 2011
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    Jimmy

    Jimmy

    1 2011 HD

    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...

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  • 2023
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    Pink Moon

    Pink Moon

    1.00 2023 HD

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

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  • 2021
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    Against the Tide

    Against the Tide

    6.00 2021 HD

    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...

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  • 2020
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    Long Live Livi

    Long Live Livi

    1 2020 HD

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

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  • 2007
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    Butterfly

    Butterfly

    1 2007 HD

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

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  • 2020
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    Let My Body Speak

    Let My Body Speak

    1 2020 HD

    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,...

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