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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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

An exploration of the power of music and words, looking at a blues musician recovering from a stroke.

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

A look at the array of mysterious, quirky objects received by fashion designer Paul Smith and the effect they have had on his life.

Breaking from daily reality, a man transforms into Plastic Man – armed with chemicals, ready to set landscape on fire. Is he the destroyer of...

A filmmaker based in Scotland travels to Caracas to investigate claims of a weeping statue of the Virgin Mary.