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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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  • 2019
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    Altsasu

    Altsasu

    1 2019 HD

    In the Basque town of Altsasu, the beds of seven young men lie empty. As the town celebrates its annual festival, Altsasu follows Igone as she copes...

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  • 2024
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    The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing

    The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing

    6.00 2024 HD

    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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  • 2007
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    How to Save a Fish From Drowning

    How to Save a Fish From Drowning

    1 2007 HD

    A portrait of America as told by three old men fishing on a frozen lake.

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  • 2006
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    Mentiras

    Mentiras

    1 2006 HD

    Mentiras is a visually stunning but profoundly unsettling journey through the world’s largest city. Based on one man’s confession to...

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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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  • 2009
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    Unearthing the Pen

    Unearthing the Pen

    1 2009 HD

    A young Ugandan goat herder dreams of being able to read and write but must oppose his elders.

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  • 2009
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    Arcadia

    Arcadia

    1 2009 HD

    A wind turbine development threatens a hunting estate in the Scottish Highlands.

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  • 2007
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    Breadmakers

    Breadmakers

    1 2007 HD

    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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  • 2006
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    The Truth About Tooth

    The Truth About Tooth

    1 2006 HD

    A look at the day to day job of the Tooth Fairy.

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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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  • 2010
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    Twinset

    Twinset

    1 2010 HD

    An Essex church community react to the arrival of a transvestite.

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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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  • 2017
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    We Are Here

    We Are Here

    1 2017 HD

    Two friends reflect on their twenty year friendship after an accident leaves one of them with a life changing brain injury.

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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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  • 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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  • 2013
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    I Am Breathing

    I Am Breathing

    7.00 2013 HD

    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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  • 2018
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    Stretch

    Stretch

    1 2018 HD

    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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  • 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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  • 2014
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    Chappin'

    Chappin'

    1 2014 HD

    Following a politically engaged schoolboy from Easterhouse, Scotland in the lead-up to the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.

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