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When a Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland unearths a rarely-seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wild flowers, he decides to reclaim the...

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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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Cast: Miss Cunenk

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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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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Cast: Gill Lowing

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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Cast: Tam Dean Burn

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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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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Alan Sinclair aspires to be a human popsicle, literally. For this film is about the weird and wacky world of cryonics. Instead of burial or cremation...

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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...

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Cast: Neil Platt

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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Cast: Jimmy McIntosh

Fitting explores the relationship between the director, an amputee, and her prosthetist, by their contrasting experiences during the making of a...

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Cast: Caitlin McMullan

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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Cast: Falhan

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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Cast: Zacharia Mutai

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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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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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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Sebastién is a gay acrobat living for the thrill of the circus. Now the oldest acrobat in the troupe, he fears each show could be his last, as...

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At a unique Edinburgh bakery, a community of workers with learning disabilities makes a variety of organic breads for daily delivery to local shops...

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In the Suburbs of a Scottish Town, the life of a family quietly revolves around one of their sons’ passion for football. 13 year old Darren...

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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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