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- A documentary based on five years of research into a Michigan auto town where tens of thousands were drinking water into which poisonous lead had leached, and how officials failed to respond.
- 23 years ago, Bill Drummond ceased activities as part of the enormously successful pop group The KLF. Since 2014 he's been on a World Tour, travelling the world with his show - The 25 Paintings - visiting a different city each year. In December 2016 he based himself in Kolkata, while in the Spring of 2018 he was in Lexington, North Carolina. In each place he carries out his regular work, setting up a shoeshine stand in the street, building a bed in order to give it away, walk across the longest bridge he can find at dawn banging his parade drum, start knitting circles with whoever wants to join him, baking cakes and offering them to people whose houses sit on a circle he's drawn on a map of the city. He's not rich and he's deliberately designed his actions so they can't be monetized. He's mostly been ignored by the art world. So what is he doing it all for? Director Paul Duane shadowed Bill Drummond for three years before starting this film in order to achieve some level of understanding about what he's at. Best Before Death is named after Drummond's belief that the World Tour, scheduled to end when he's 72, is a race against his own mortality. It's a film about life, death, art, money, music and cake. And some knitting.
- The film was produced by Nick Higgins from Lansdowne Productions and Noémie Mendelle from the Scottish Documentary Institute and has 10 film-chapter directors for each of the 10 chapters of the film - Kenny Glenaan, Douglas Gordon, Nick Higgins, Irvine Welsh, Mark Cousins, Sana Bilgrami, Alice Nelson, Tilda Swinton, Doug Aubrey, David Graham Scott, Anna Jones. The film's unifying theme is human rights in Scotland with each chapter illustrating one of the "New Ten Commandments" - 10 articles chosen from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The 10 film chapters of The New Ten Commandments 1. The Right to Freedom of Assembly - Director, David Graham Scott 2. The Right not to be enslaved - Director, Nick Higgins 3. The Right to a fair trial - Director, Sana Bilgrami 4. The Right to freedom of expression - Director, Doug Aubrey 5. The Right to life - Director, Kenny Glenaan 6. The Right to liberty - Directors, Irvine Welsh & Mark Cousins 7. The Right not to be tortured - Director, Douglas Gordon 8. The Right to asylum - Director, Anna Jones 9. The Right to privacy - Director, Alice Nelson 10. The Right to freedom of thought - Directors, Mark Cousins & Tilda Swinton.
- The incredible story of the Scots who managed to ground half of Chile's Air Force, from the other side of the world, in the longest single act of solidarity against Pinochet's brutal dictatorship.
- The story of Jimmy Ellis, an unknown singer plucked from obscurity and thrust into the spotlight as part of a crazy scheme that had him masquerade as Elvis, back from the grave.
- Dole Food Company wages a campaign to prevent a pair of Swedish film-makers from showing their documentary about a lawsuit against the company.
- A palpably rendered audiovisual essay draws together the distinct sensibilities of filmmakers Peter Mettler (The End of Time) and Emma Davie (I am Breathing) and philosopher David Abram (The Spell of the Sensuous) to forge a path into the places where humans and animals meet.
- 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 the rights of others.
- An intimate look at post-revolution Libya through the eyes of an aspiring all-female soccer team, whose struggle to gain mainstream acceptance mirrors the broader challenges facing women in contemporary Libyan society.
- A film about love and utopia.
- A personal female centred documentary about addiction, and long-term recovery from it. This film weaves together observational and lyrical elements to take us into the challenging, deeply personal, and relatively unknown world of recovery.
- Rab and Danny have been rivals for over 25 years. They battle it out on the wing to become the reigning Doo Fleein champ.
- A documentary follows the last months of Neil Platt, a young father with terminal and debilitating motor neuron disease (MND).
- Pablo needs to stop smoking. Why? Because his wife, family and doctor say he should. But Pablo is a stubborn man. He has worked in the mercury mines of Almadén, Spain, risking his life daily. He has had five severe heart attacks and smoked 20 Winston's a day since he was 12. Now in his seventies, Pablo spends most of his day in front of the TV, surrounded by a cloud of smoke, with his back turned firmly towards a village that has lived through better times. Pablo represents the last generation of Almadén mercury miners, an age-old profession with over 2,000 years of history. Through a straightforward depiction of life's everyday moments, Pablo's Winter explores the decay of the local mining culture, but above all, pays homage to its real protagonists: the miners and their families.
- After ten years apart, a Scottish filmmaker tries to reconnect with her closest cousin. Once so similar, their paths were separated by war. As they piece together memories of Syria, they begin to wonder - 'What happened to our family?'
- A personal and intimate journey exploring the repression experienced by the filmmaker during her childhood when she faced sexual control in Damascus while experiencing a growing socio-political repression in the late 80s - early 90s.
- A group of former factory workers are reunited to tell the story of how they played their part in standing up to the military coup in Chile in 1974 while carrying out their job in Scotland.
- A day in the life of the passengers and crew of the MV Hrossey, a Scottish ferry making the 14-hour trip from Aberdeen to Shetland.
- A personal insight into the changing relationship between a young woman and her transgender parent. Looking back on their relationship, they share their own experiences of coming out and begin to think about what the future might hold for their family now the decision to transition has been made.
- An elderly Palestinian couple has a final standoff against Israeli authorities to maintain their natural lifestyle in Roshmia; last natural valley in Haifa.
- As a battle rages in the highlands of Scotland, two unlikely allies unite to defeat an invading army.
- A Scottish scientist seeks to answer one of the greatest questions by creating new life in a lab.
- When Paul suffers a massive brain injury the long-lasting effects are bizarre and frustrating, leaving him caught in a perpetual loop of joke telling. Paul's wife Lindsay is left to pick up the pieces, shouldering all the responsibilities within the household.
- Prosopagnosia uses expressive animation to investigate intimacy, communication and memory. Prosopagnosia means face-blindness and to understand this neurodiverse behaviour, the contents of a memory box are intricately explored. Sketchbooks, photographs and diaries unravel to tell a unique and personal story.
- 15-year-old Taylor Borthwick is a stock car racer, like her father and her grandfather before her. As she turns 16 she will move into the adult leagues, racing bigger, faster cars against men twice her age. Does she have what it takes?
- A Scottish Documentary Institute production for the Edinburgh International Festival. The World In One City weaves together rare archive footage with interviews, conducted by Sir Jonathan Mills, with Festival directors, artists and audience members. It traces the story of the International Festival over seven decades of profound social, cultural and political change in Scotland and across the world.
- Bircan desires to learn Kurdish, the mother-tongue her grandmother left behind when she moved from her childhood village to Istanbul. The two attempt to find common ground in a language that holds both the promise of legacy and the memory of loss.
- Isabel, 58, like many other Spaniards, migrated to Edinburgh looking for a new opportunity. After her business in Spain collapsed following years of financial crisis, she left her husband behind with one goal in mind: saving enough money to recover. However, she did not count on so many obstacles: Brexit, the Covid-19 pandemic, her language barrier and a growing joint and muscle pain caused by her physical jobs. She cleans in the mornings and delivers in the evenings, and when she gets home she has five hours to sleep. Isabel wants to be part of the Scottish culture, but how can she when she has no time to learn English, no time to socialise and when her body aches so much at the end of the day?
- In rural Spain, where increasingly villages are left without inhabitants, Cari (79) and Vicente (80) get a second chance at teenage love, feeling free to play loud music and dance their lives away. However, the baggage of the past comes in the shape of grief sometimes.
- A daughter's journey to find her estranged, alcoholic father's grave.
- Every crooked lateral incisor or overzealous premolar tells a story. Teeth explores the relationship we have with these dental companions and how they impact our lives.
- In 2015 the Bishop of Aberdeen wrote to the Bishop of Aba in Nigeria with an urgent request - do you have any spare priests? Father Maximilian Nwosu and Father James Anyaegbu are the answer: two Nigerians sent on a mission to serve the Scottish Highlands. But from preaching to packed congregations back home, they find the Highlands scattered with empty, closing churches and an ageing population. Based in Inverness-shire, they drive relentlessly from one remote church to another trying to keep a feeling of community alive. Will their good humour and Igbo songs make a difference?
- For most Londoners, home is here but also somewhere else, at the other end of a phone line. This short documentary, entirely shot inside phone booths in cheap international call centers, is a gripping, emotional portrait of long distance relationships between immigrants and their families in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and South America.
- The story of Scott Shand, the only commercial buffalo farmer in Scotland.
- This documentary follows the day to day life of Filipino immigrants working on fishing vessels off the North East coast of Scotland.
- A comedic look at the arrival of two Chinese pandas at Edinburgh Zoo.
- Behind the stereotypes surrounding Iran, to witness the life of an extraordinary 65-year-old woman.
- An intimate look at the daily happenings in a registrar office in Edinburgh.
- Farewell to Adventure follows Bob Shepton's emotional journey, giving up his adventurous life of sailing not because he is 85 but in order to look after his wife, Kate, as she battles Alzheimer's. Even by Bob's own admission, his unsettled and at sometimes chaotic upbringing, combined with the loss of his father, left him with some undefinable character deficiencies, creating a lifelong obsession for travel, sailing and adventure, which he has pursued relentlessly for the last six decades. The film explores where Bob's drive to go on expeditions comes from, and why he has been willing to forego a stable home life and financial security in order to pursue difficult and often unattainable objectives. Having spent most of his life focused on his own goals, the past year has seen a huge shift in that focus, with Bob now having to accept a likely end to this way of life following his wife's Alzheimer's diagnosis. The film looks at how Bob and Kate's lives have changed as Bob moves into the role of full-time carer, and the resulting sale of his boat in order to fund Kate's care. With his final summer of ownership of his beloved boat upended by the Covid-19 pandemic and Kate's condition worsening, Bob struggles to adapt. Kate goes into a care home for ten days to give Bob a respite from this new challenge. He goes for a day trek in the Highlands to reflect on his situation, their 55-year marriage, how their fierce independence has sustained their relationship and the inner turmoil of sending Kate to a care home. How will this affect his final trip? Bob also sets out on one final trip onboard the Dodo's Delight - a two day journey exploring the islands of the Scottish Hebrides. Is this his last taste of adventure and freedom as he once knew it?
- A visual journey through Scotland's skies and the mind of Rudolf Hess, who flew to Scotland in 1941 to 'negotiate peace' with Britain.