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The Daily Record Pride of Scotland Awards, with TSB, celebrate Scots who are transforming the lives of the people around them. Nominated by the public, the winners are from all walks of life, of all ages, and from all over the country. Their achievements are awe-inspiring and a lesson to us all.
Diplomats, politicians and Afghan evacuees tell the real story of what was happening behind closed doors during the UK's chaotic exit from Afghanistan.
Inside Oxfordshire-based Bicester Village, a unique retail hub attracting royalty and celebrities with the promise of massive savings. Revealing where some of the stock really comes from - and the surprising truth about some of those bargains.
Join Susan Calman for a celebration of the British seaside at its best.
On April 8, 2022, hundreds of thousands of global citizens came together to Stand Up for Ukraine, resulting in billions of dollars pledged for refugees. We can't stop here, we must keep taking action today to create a better world for all of our tomorrows.
Explores the alterations caused by human-centered industry and the immense forces of nature; destruction, extraction, habitation, construction, harvests, growth, and erosion.
Charlie's in love. They go on a not-so-ordinary date, but what's so good about ordinary anyway?
The passage of time told from the perspective of a used pair of glasses, showing the permanence of everyday objects compared to the ageing bodies of their owners.
A student film made entirely within 48 hours about a man whose reality changes after experiencing love at first sight.
Tarry, for a while, in the realms beyond the screen - in landscapes of spacial and temporal estrangement. See moons hang suspended in rain-soaked grottos and watch golden-winged creatures flit through the improbable dream-spaces of an adjacent world.
A narrator reads a poem as a frustrated young Cameroonian migrant smashes an oddly shaped object in a British field whilst having flashbacks of intimate scenes of joy, family, community and acceptance.
A young woman, confused by her sexuality, is enticed by the sea's call and views it as an opportunity to embrace her own identity and take the plunge into coming out.
In this storybook satire, a Butterfly seeks a flower as a wife, although, as pickiness gets the best of him he ends up paying the ultimate price.
Rather than a matter of carbon reduction, City Reindeer considers the climate crisis a relationship problem. This series of interspecies picnics aims to begin restoring relationships with the nonhuman, starting with our relative, the Reindeer.
On her late-night shift, an oblivious cleaner gets ready to clean and to bust some moves in a lawyer’s office. She cleans up the bad deeds of an intruder that has ravaged the office.
A poet reflects on their experience of of love, loss and visibility - a childhood in seaside suburbia, a changing relationship with place and self identity and queering the narrative of being assigned coastal at birth.
A film made entirely during the UK coronavirus lockdown. As we follow a young adult girl's hands during the Covid-19 pandemic, we witness the build-up of the harsh realities lockdown of 2021 brings.
A modern reimagining of the story of Achilles and Patroclus as a tale of love, death, and faith.
“Sex does strange things to people!” This sentence reverberates from her childhood. What did her mother mean? What fears did she pass on to Emma? The budding filmmaker sets up the camera in her mother’s apartment, invites mum’s friends, creates an open atmosphere. Coby opens up more and more, talks about a repressed topic. At the same time, she gets to show a wholly different side of herself, performing song and dance numbers in front of her daughter’s lens.
What’s an IKEA table breaking point at the weight of a crumbling friendship? A cubist short about two friends, a lost table and its replacement.
For some women to gain freedom, they must forget to remember.
A social worker gets in over his head on a visit to an isolated farmhouse where a young boy has been left alone.
When a young gay couple discovers that one of them has been declared dead by mistake, rather than reporting the error they decide to fake a funeral and flee the country with the money instead. After staging a failure of a funeral cover up, and bribing a doctor they soon learn there was more than a clerical mistake, and there is in fact a body in the casket. Now on the run the pair find the tensions in their own relationship rise, and one has to prove their dedication to their relationship in a final sacrifice.
In this nostalgic and joyful one-off special, we tell the stories behind the greatest ABBA covers of all time by some of the biggest artists in the world. This features Cher, Andy Bell of Erasure, Neil Arthur of Blancmange, Carla Bruni, Adrian Utley of Portishead, Dannii Minogue and William Orbit, who talks about a lost cover by Madonnna.
In 1822 the poet Shelley was drowned and cremated on an Italian beach. 200 years later his wife Mary, the mother of Frankenstein, sears our consciences and troubles our souls with her husband’s haunting ‘Mask of Anarchy’, the greatest Human Rights poem of them all.
A Butch / Femme Lesbian love story between two pickpockets.
Veteran British mountaineers Mick Fowler and Victor Saunders reunite to tackle Chombu, the last unclimbed 6,000 metre peak in Sikkim, overcoming cancer, old age and a thirty-year falling out.
On March 6, 2022 during the anti-war protests in Russia more than 5000 people were detained. At the «Brateevo» police station in Moscow at least 11 girls were subjected to physical and psychological violence at the hands of an unnamed police officer dressed in all black. This documentary by BBC tells the story of how the girls were able to find their torturer and his supervisor.
A CELEBRATION OF CAROLINE FLACK’S LIFE WITH COMEDY, DANCE AND MUSIC - RAISING AWARENESS OF MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES AND FUNDS FOR MENTAL HEALTH CHARITIES
Steptoe And Son: Secrets & Scandals brings revelations about a Labour leader asking the BBC for a big favour, a Met Police vice squad operation actively targeting celebrities, and a descent into alcoholism that almost tore apart the biggest sitcom in Britain. This revelatory documentary uncovers eye-opening stories about the significance of the show and the truth of what went on behind the scenes.
In 2022, lesbians and queer people converse through black and white with their 1967 predecessors. Featuring footage from landmark BBC documentary ‘Consenting Adults: The Women’, this tribute to yesteryear’s queers blends struggle and joy, old and new, back and front.
Behind-the-scenes stories of how Only Fools and Horses was made, and how the cast could have looked very different. The secrets behind the hilarious visual gags are revealed, and there's a look at the lost episodes of the show. Featuring interviews with Sue Holderness, who played Marlene, comedy actor and fan John Thomson, alongside cast and crew who made the series.
A euphoric record of Sheffield-based Studio Electrophonique, which nurtured a generation of superstars such as ABC, The Human League, Heaven 17, Clock DVA and Pulp.
Documentary that follows the electronic music and soundtrack project Mollusk King.
The end of a Friday night late shift at Curzon Soho. A madcap mishap plunges trusting punters into the depths of the cinema.
Four separate people get more and more frustrated by the things happening to them
This mini-opera, animated in charcoal, reimagines Georges Bizet’s Carmen and its enduring relevance to issues of sexuality and conflict. In this new work, Carmen is stripped of her usual associations, including gender, race, place and time, leaving only a universal human figure and Bizet’s oiseau rebelle (rebel bird), two alter egos competing for love. This struggle leads to rebirth and a new future.
A reflection on the sweetness of a quiet exchange. Flowers bought from a shop, 45 years expired film and an afternoon in a garden in spring. This film is processed by hand. Narration by Rosie Thomas.
As Steve follows a series of clues to find his best friend, he risks losing himself in the process.
Luwi is rushing to the health centre. He's heard that contraception is dangerous, and he must warn his wife before it's too late! A high-impact TV ad that reached millions across East and Central Africa.
Undercover in Ghana, Antony Barnett investigates Britain's best-loved chocolate brand and reveals for the first time child labour in its supply chain
A futuristic morality tale: when robots are what you desire, who are you going to love?
Step into the shoes of another sick and twisted blood bath as Indie Horror shock specialists White Raven films shoot their latest gruesome release Hate Little Rabbit. Blood, Sweet & Gimp Masks goes behind the scenes and reveals the personalities involved in this psychological gore fest.
Margot has been waiting in her house for 40 years. Her waiting morphs into desperate attention seeking. But she does not wait alone. Marie is becoming. Malleable, she tries to fit, slipping through her body and sliding around corners, picking up cues of who and how to be. Marjorie shines effortlessly. Her dream life, her golden exterior, her pretty performance, prove impossible and impermanent. Mother Flower is everything, the beginning and the end. Hers is a body of pure bounty, longed for, nourishing, sheltering. The four women are joined by a chorus of body parts, hands and tongues, mouths and babies, across grandiose performances, staged death scenes, fledgling steps, and displays of fertility and futility, as they reveal how hard it is to be in a body, to be a body.
The first part of the 'Matter of the Heart' trilogy. Set to a personal recount of events, a series of vignettes reveal the paradoxically mundane build up to open heart surgery.
New music combined with archive recordings brings to life the memories and traditions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
Seals’kin is a sonic and choreographic meditation on loss, longing, transformation and kinship, shot on location in coastal Aberdeenshire in January 2022. At the mouth of the river Ythan, where the freshwater meets the North Sea, hundreds of grey and common seals haul out on the estuary banks. Here, Tuulikki explores with her body what it might mean to become-with-seal, drawing on myths of human-seal hybridity and folkloric musical practices to offer alternative forms of mourning through sensuous identification with more-than-human kin.
The Pissed Off Trannies: Zap 1 video witnesses the action of the group when they placed and spilled over 60 bottles of Trans* urine outside the Equality and Human Rights Commission on 2 September 2022, following their repeated attempts to ban Trans* people from men-only and women-only spaces nationwide.
"The Clifton Rapist" stalked the Bristol Downs during the 1970s carrying out a series of sex attacks on women, but it was a young female police officer who caught him and sent him down in a ground-breaking decoy operation.
Inspired by tarot imagery and concepts in alchemy, this video series features the figures of Death, Judgement and the World, and marks the transitional journey from a state of chaos to the birth of a new paradigm.
Cold Summer by Wesley Joseph
Inhuman experiments give sight back to a boy born without eyes. But vision can be a terrifying thing to get used to. Overwhelmed by the horror in his home, he charges into the arms of a murderous kidnapper. Now his formerly distant father must embark on a journey to save him – and bring their family back together. A modern-day silent film, The Eyes in the Box is a story of pride, parenthood, and love, made in the style of German Expressionism.
This film starts from a personal journey by gathering shared experiences of other queer Chinese people living in the UK, offering a look at the wider context of these important issues as the director tries to understand the possible definitions of home and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Chinese lives through voice over, intimate letter changes, archives & news, interviews, and the use of digital mappings. We see how queer identities intertwined with diaspora are bound up by rejection from the home country, the struggle of racism in the host country, and the confusion of cultural assimilation in the context of ethnocultural transformation. Finally, the work delves into the reality that for people who are marginalised, either culturally, geographically, or socially is always a state of exile.
Despite a dark history and only 5% speaking the native language, a local Hawaiian hero fights to save his culture by teaching traditions, sustainability and life skills to disadvantaged indigenous kids.
A husband and wife, Harold and Mary, become seriously disturbed after repeatedly discovering unknown flesh in their garden bin. With their worry whether the flesh could be of human origin, the couple assigns a detective to help them to uncover the truth.
A policeman interrogates a man on the contents of Shakespeare's book.
A film about female pleasure in a lesbian context. The narration explores the spectrum of sexuality—active to passive—without essentialization; instead, each woman moves fluidly between both libidinal impulses.
Told through a lens of movement vignettes and no dialogue, this film explores a once real life relationship of a queer couple and the brief but meaningful moments of tenderness they shared. This project is part of the 9 part dance film series "Turbulent Kingdoms."
Mary, a single mother, places an all or nothing bet on the 2009 Grand National for her daughter Millie, but when a hotheaded loan shark comes looking for money in her local shop chaos ensues.