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Desperately building against the inevitability of time, a restless young woman is awaiting another upcoming loss. But maybe more important things never seem to be told. Soon after the director moves into her 22nd house, she gets a phone call that her Grandma, who lives far away, is in a critical condition. Elsewhere, a huge apartment made of sand is being constructed as the tide rolls in, while she belatedly tries to build a relationship with her Gran. As the camera sensitively observes how we wait for the upcoming days, the film embraces the fragility of life, full of uncertainty.

A group of crazed factory workers become obsessed with a hill. They let loose on the marshy earth, succumbing to strange desires. The hill watches them closely, commenting on their activities like a deranged poet.

Directed by Jennifer Paterson, Lewis Gourlay & Abby Warrilow.

This intimate story chronicles the relationship between musicians Faith and Branko over 7 years. In 2011, Faith travels from England to Serbia to learn gypsy accordion. She meets Roma violinist Branko and despite language barriers, they fall in love through music. Captivated by their musical chemistry, they marry and take their duo abroad. Their relationship is tested when they realize their differences and that music may be all they have in common.

A gut reaction to the Coronavirus apocalypse, made in the first weeks of isolation and confusion in March-April 2020, echoing the shocking, eerie and surreal experience of the pandemic. Reworking the classic Zombie public-domain film from 1968 'Night of the Living Dead' by a mix of deep-learning AI coloring technology, datamosh techniques, re-cutting and sound work. Visions of the invisible found in the horror film images get broken apart and reassembled to become a haunting kaleidoscopic experience.

Can you be Muslim and gay? A bereaved fiancé goes on a deeply personal journey to prevent the tragedy from ever happening again.

Prompted by the death of his grandfather, a filmmaker comes to terms with his feelings of loss by focussing on something smaller.

1300 SHOTS is a single-take portrait film that returns two ex-patrons of Dundee cinema 'The Steps' to their favorite seats, 20 years after the cinema was decommissioned, to observe them watching one last film.

All the parts of life from the smallest atom to the meaning of life converge and form into a feeling of completeness within Joe. We share in this journey. Produced by Solar Bear Theatre company through their digital arts programme, Solar Flares.

Commissioned for Art in Romney Marsh, "With Silver Bells" dives into Whitebread’s past and present interactions with nature using photograms and both her and her mother’s video footage to try and grasp how we as humans can rethink our interactions with non-humans. The work was created during Whitebread’s self-initiated residency on the Marsh, a place that she often returns to in her work both physically and mentally. Heavily influenced by Derek Jarman’s writings on gardening, Whitebread tries to open up a wider discourse on our role as humans on planet Earth. The film is an experimental video focused on unhinging our commonplace connections between language, images and perceptions of nature by exploring her own sensual and somatic feelings towards the Marsh, experiencing the geography as an important site of creative and ecological insight. Using photograms as a tool enables the artist to play with slow/non-human time and to imagine her own ecological existence.

The incredible story of one of the most radical ideas of the entire second world war. Operation Market Garden was the plan that caused over 10,000 paratroops to be whittled down to just 2000. (Amazon Prime)

Our crime documentary delves into the case of the Suffolk Strangler, who terrorized Ipswich, Suffolk by targeting sex workers and brutally murdering five women between October and December 2006. We take an extensive look into how police finally captured the killer by exploring the details of the case from start to finish. We believe this documentary will provide new insight into this notorious criminal case.

The story of a young man who “got in touch” with himself over lockdown.

A tribute to the Royal Mail.

Two sisters are held captive in a secret psychic development facility, where they must demonstrate their abilities or risk lifelong containment. Both are confident as they navigate the latest assessment and make swift progress. However, the biggest challenge they come to face is not one they had imagined and sisterly love is pushed to the limit.

There is almost no one who doesn't dream of building their own house one day. But it takes a lot of time and money to make this dream come true. These hurdles can easily be overcome with a Scandinavian wooden house. The so-called Swedish bullerby houses are inexpensive and turnkey within a few months. This documentation accompanies planners and builders at work and shows how a prefabricated house in Scandinavian design is created.

In the Port of Tilbury—a place which historically was the point of entry for migrants to the UK—filmmaker Maria Anastassiou worked collaboratively with a group of people who had recently arrived in the town to paint a portrait of life in the transient space of the Thames Estuary.

A troubled young teenager discovers he has a fascination for lights.

A small group of LGBTQI+ activists in Tbilisi, Georgia attempt to conduct the first Pride march in the country. They face overwhelming opposition from far-right groups, the government, and the Georgian Orthodox Church who have a history of inciting violent attacks on the community. With membership of the European Union, and anti-Russian sentiment firmly on the political agenda, Georgians are at a turning point in history where they must choose to fight for progress and human rights, or concede to greater Russian influence.

Jack, Sharon and Keith claim that they were attacked by a shotgun-wielding cowboy as they went to retrieve their football from a nearby house in their suburban neighbourhood. A naive, low budget Production Company pick up their story and attempt to make a documentary about their frightening ordeal. As the events of that fateful night are retold through a series of interviews and dramatic re-enactments, it appears there might be much less to the trio's tale than we first anticipated.

With a return to Scotland, Kate Foster and Pantea Shabahang's "Mending the Blanket" is a playful illustrative and animated exploration of peatbog restoration in Southern Scotland. As a step-by-step educational guide to the history and use of peat, this Scottish-Iranian collaboration promotes the importance of preserving and replenishing the wetlands around us for sustainable and fruitful futures.

Rodney goes on the run after losing money belonging to Bojack Horseperson in a race.

Dr Frankenstein's hunchbacked assistant sneaks in the lab to reanimate the Doctor's latest creation - a nude woman. 8mm film from the 60s.

Tiget, a 16-year-old black South London teenager, is worried a boy she met via social media has infected her with an STD. When trying to get a check-up she miserably fails to do the self-testing kit and ends up in the Sexual Health clinic, where the only person still there to see her is middle-aged grumpy Dr Mark Mackenzie. While her friends wind her up more and more via text about what she might have picked up, Mark is trying to get her out of the door as quickly as possible. Their consultation is interrupted by NHS messaging apps pestering Mark to get to the ward round and a test ordering system that doesn't let Tiger be checked for "everything". Anxiously awaiting the bedside test result for HIV, Tiger connects with Mark over the difficulties the digital world poses for both of them in different ways.

Dr. Chris Sinkinson presents in a thoughtful, accessible and engaging manner, demonstrating through on site location and interviews with experts, that archaeology affirms that the Bible is reliable and fits with important events that occurred in the ancient world. He cites Jerome who considered Israel the “fifth gospel” and his avid interest and expertise in the land and history is clearly evident. Indeed if we visit and study Israel, that will illumine and enrich our understanding of the Bible. Interestingly and additionally, when Blaise Pascal was asked by Louis XIV for evidence for the existence of God, he simply similarly responded, “The Jews, your majesty, the Jews.”

The Hanoi New Music Festival 2018 was an historic event. It was the largest festival of exploratory forms of new music that has ever been held in Vietnam, and artists from countries across Southeast Asia and Japan came to Hanoi to participate. The film Make a Silence - Musical Dialogues in Asia showcases the diverse, multimedia performances that took place at the Festival, including sound art for theatre and video, underground music and free improvisation. Like the Festival itself, Make a Silence is a sensory feast of musical and visual exploration. Combining vivid artistic images, conversations with musicians and footage of concerts, the film meditates on transnational dialogue in the contemporary music scene in Asia.

Kevin Magee investigates the true story behind rumours of a Nazi spy in Donegal in 1937. Investigative journalist Kevin Magee uncovers the work of Nazi party member and Irish scholar Dr Ludwig Mühlhausen. Mühlhausen spent six weeks in the Gaeltacht hamlet of Teileann in South Donegal in 1937, collecting folklore and improving his Ulster Irish, but that was not the only work he carried out while he was there. As Kevin reveals, in reality he was working as a Nazi spy, gathering information and passing it on to the Third Reich.

Not only cheese spaetzle and Kneipp baths come from the beautiful Allgäu in Germany. The world's largest agricultural machinery has been produced in Marktoberdorf in Swabia since 1930. With 3,000 employees, the Fendt company is the German market leader in the manufacture of tractors, combine harvesters and harvesting machines. The WELT reporters follow the path of a “1000 Vario” tractor from construction to sale to the farmer and show how Bavarian high-tech makes life easier for farmers in this country and worldwide.

A newsletter meets home movie, made by an experimental filmmaker who was constructing a papier mâché skeleton but whose leg (the filmmaker’s) suddenly went wrong. It got fixed, but (spoiler alert) that’s just kind of incidental. Possibly a diary but probably not a documentary: this is a play with form, animated with glee, edited with joy.

A poetic animation documentary to foster hope, change and self-development.

Robbie and her close friend ’T’ drive out to a secluded forest and experiment with self-hypnotism. The name of an estranged friend arises and triggers memories and serpentine hallucinations.

This films follows the emotionally intense experience of Saghari staying in her mother’s room, sleeping on her death bed, and trying to experience her point of view by going through her mundane objects. "Ghazal no 884" by Poet Bidel Dehlavi is read by a friend, sent as a voice message on Whatsapp as soothing company to calm the grieving moment. Mirza Abdul-Qader Bidel (Bidel Dehlavi) was born in 1644 in (Azim Abad) Penta, India. The themes of his poems are influenced by multitudes of philosophies including Hindu, Sufi and Islamic traditions. Following the ideas of Ebn al-ʿArabī, he considered air (an aspect of nafas-e Raḥmānī, the breath of the Compassionate) to be the foundation of the world and spirit. Everything else –minerals, plants, animals –are viewedas the product of nature, which itself emerged from a single word brought into being through the articulation of “the breath of the Compassionate”.

An elderly couple and their experience with dementia; one living with the condition and the other witnessing its effects and learning how to accept it.

A frustrated relationship between a father and daughter who are always 2.35 metres apart from each other.

Juna is a rebellious girl living in a post-apocalyptic world. She finds herself reborn in a different part of the universe after being killed by a ruling religious sect on Earth. As she comes to accept her new disposition in an unknown and frightening place, Juna makes several unexpected encounters with both herself and her surroundings.

I asked a few people how they would feel about masturbating or having group sex when other guys are involved, and some of them got very angry and made homophobic comments. So I made an animation celebrating sexual curiosity – if it feels good for everyone, do it and have a good time.

The 24 Hours of Le Mans (French: 24 Heures du Mans) is the world's oldest active sports car race in endurance racing, held annually since 1923 near the town of Le Mans, France. It is considered one of the most prestigious automobile races in the world[2] and has been called the "Grand Prix of Endurance and Efficiency". The event represents one leg of the Triple Crown of Motorsport, with the other events being the Indianapolis 500 and the Monaco Grand Prix. Unlike fixed-distance races whose winner is determined by minimum time, the 24 Hours of Le Mans is won by the car that covers the greatest distance in 24 hours.

A man observes the sea. Inspired by the true story of Miss R L Halverson.

A tribe of cartoons are being taken by force from their natural habitat, only to fulfill the voracious intentions of humans. Green and Red are in love, but are their emotions stronger than reality?

Dedicated to Bruce Baillie and Hollis Frampton.

In Garment/Movement, Lily Ashrowan explores space, physical response and time. Ashrowan depicts two women playing and performing amongst industrial debris, likening human arms and non-human levers in Hawick’s derelict Peter Scott mill, a site imbued with the past labour of women. A tense countdown booms out as the site’s discarded present is explored through the female body and entrancing gestures of the passing of time. Ashrowan challenges notions of play as simply jovial or as pastime, and fixes it firmly in real human experience, a method to understand the world.

In Elizabeth Junor, Ashanti Harris expertly maps a kind of settlement, recounting the life of the Guyana-born daughter of a Scottish carpenter and timber estate shareholder from the Black Isle – deploying voiceover, superimposition, frames within frames and onscreen text to highlight the modes of narration by which a life is catalogued.

Julia Parks' The Girl Who Forgets How to Walk offers up precise descriptions – and the poems of Cumbrian writer Kate Davis, which diligently recount the process of learning to walk following a childhood diagnosis of polio.

"Phytography" dives into the rich and varied world of plant chemistry. This collection of organic objets trouvés demonstrates how nature generates multiple creative solutions, each one structured intricately. Through the application of a simple chemical process, the selected leaves, petals and stems have imprinted their own images on the film's emulsion. Shapes, colours and rhythms whirl across the screen drawing the viewer into a world beyond language and speech.

During the pandemic that is taking place as I write, and the circumstances of being in lock down, making a film about freedom seems like a brilliant thing to do. And through making this film I have found that freedom is found in a place that I didn't expect it to be. I thought that freedom was found on the hills and in the valleys of the national park near where I live, but when I really looked at myself and my thoughts on the subject, I realised that, for me, freedom comes from within.

A group of film and TV students go missing searching for the Stubermensch. Based on true events.

"Fabula" is an experimental film by Jordan Baseman that asks questions about our dreams and dream experiences during the coronavirus pandemic of 2020. The film is narrated by the Harvard Medical School Dream Researcher, Dr. Deirdre Barrett. We hear Dr. Barrett discuss various dreams that she has collected through her research into Pandemic Dreams, their collective commonality, their significance and meanings, and their relevance to our times. Dr. Barrett also comments on the uniqueness of the Pandemic and the unusual dreams that have arisen as a result. The film was recorded entirely in London during Lockdown, using 16mm film and 6k digital film cameras. Time-lapse footage of clouds, are super-imposed with footage of the Thames and threaded through, layered with various shots lit by infra-red light. Fabula muses on our relationships with ourselves, one another, our environments and the meanings of our dreams while living with Covid-19.

In 1999 in a high school in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a teenage girl casts a spell to make her best friend fall in love with her.

Isaac dreams of pigs encircling. He departs the security of his home town and voyages beyond the realms of dreams to an underbelly of stone magic, rogues, pirates, sea monsters, storms and the occult.

An English-style garden, a plot of earth in New York’s Central Park, a garden and a cemetery in Maastricht: Plantarians asks, 'what does it mean to have a garden?' Divided into episodes, the film studies the capacity of garden plants to respond to the particularities of their surroundings; at the same time, it tracks the lives of the contemporary men and women who cultivate, enjoy, eat, obsess over, and even grieve with and for these plants.

Diamond Frances’s daughter has a rare chromosomal deletion. She is without speech, is on the autistic spectrum and has severe learning disability. These aspects of her life clearly have a big influence on Frances’s life, which is why her artistic practise often deals with issues about her daughter. The video is called "Deletion," and is about the fact that some of her daughter’s chromosomes have gone missing when she was created, and the impact this has on her life.

A visual portrait of a boy with autism, told by his mother.

In the world of money and sex, this emotionally engaging documentary gives rare insight into the reflective personal struggle of sex workers. Using animation for anonymity, real questions are deliberated by real women.

Avant Kinema’s Flow State is inspired by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi’s theories of flow, and takes full enjoyment in the process of scratching, animating and hand-processing Super8 film partnered with an improvised soundtrack of guitars and percussion. In this immersive trip, process is key.

A working iteration of the project "business as usual : hostile environment". Originally co-commissioned with Glasgow Sculpture Studios as part of Event Scotland’s Year of Coasts and Waters, the project was conceived to explore Glasgow’s Forth and Clyde Canal as both a literal and poetic route through which to reflect on the role of waterways in the voluntary and involuntary movement of people. Reworking aspects of the new film at speed and in light of the Covid-19 outbreak, Whittle powerfully incorporates archival footage relating to the UK’s Windrush scandal as well as material highlighting the role of immigrants in the NHS as they tackle the virus, foregrounding how political and ecological climates intersect and shape one another.

In a homage to The Deer Hunter, a war veteran in 1980's Yorkshire is plagued by the torture he suffered fighting in Japan.

An exploration and celebration of the strength and beauty of women as they age, endure and transform. The menopause should not signify the end of femininity or erase female performers and dancers from the stage or screen.

Live from Download UK 2019

A fly on the wall comedy drama observing a myriad of authentic London lives being led - their only common thread being their interactions with a delivery app driver, also moonlighting as a drug dealer.