Short Docs: Final Draft
Friday 07 November, 11:00 am
In 1973, the threat of nuclear attack was ever-present. The UK government needed to prepare its citizens for nuclear war, but how? A secret government committee looked to a...
Short Docs: A Film is A Film is A Film
Friday 07 November, 11:00 am
Digital projection is taking over movie screens worldwide. As the material of celluloid film slowly disappears from her workplace, the director, who has worked as a movie projectionist for...
Short Docs: A Time of Freedom
Friday 07 November, 11:00 am
A Time For Freedom follows two young people from the Souss Valley in Southern Morocco as they prepare for the ‘Boujloud’, an ancient pagan masquerade which is organised around...
Short Docs: Sightlines
Friday 07 November, 11:00 am
In the mid-Twentieth Century, Britain sent surveyors out to map the world. Using their aerial photographs and the super 8 film they took of their expeditions, we explore colonialism...
Short Docs: Directed by Tweedie
Friday 07 November, 11:00 am
Making a film when you’re 87 is less than convenient. As granddad Tweedie reluctantly takes up his new role as a filmmaker, we’re invited to examine the difficulties of...
Short Docs: Touch Life
Friday 07 November, 11:00 am
Agata is living the life of the modern, independent, blind woman when she meets Matt who is attentive and loving. Agata ponders on what it means to be in...
Short Docs: Cailleach
Friday 07 November, 11:00 am
Morag is 86. She lives alone at the end of a track looking out to sea on her croft on the Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides. Morag was born...
No Hope for Men Below
Friday 07 November, 2:00 pm
Falkirk Poet Janet Paisley re-imagines the Redding Pit disaster of 1923 from a female viewpoint. Narrated in the Broad Scots language and shot in stunning black and white....
Salt in The Air
Friday 07 November, 2:00 pm
A portrait of rural melancholia, Salt In The Air exhumes the spirit of salt from a 3,500-year-old salt mine in a foggy and hardscrabble Carpathian Mountain village in Ukraine....
Passion
Friday 07 November, 3:30 pm
With breathtaking landscapes of Mongolia as its backdrop, Passion follows Mongolian director Binder Jigjid as he roams from village to village to promote his zero-budget film. Along the way,...