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Long ago, Geamăna was a Romanian village in the Apuseni Mountains, home to about 1000 people. Today, only the church spire rises from the poisonous mud of a neighbouring copper mine. Almost all the houses have sunk and their inhabitants fled. Only a few people held on to their home. On the edge of the past, Valeria Praţa strives for her present - and is threatened by the future.

On the 80th anniversary of D-Day, a turning point of World War II, extraordinary archive materials reveal contrasting stories from the Allied Normandy beach landings of 6 June 1944.

Michael Mosley transformed the lives of millions of people. In this programme, we look back at an extraordinary broadcasting career which spanned almost 40 years. Fronting series such as Trust Me I’m a Doctor and the hit podcast Just One Thing, Michael used his warm, often funny approach to deliver important, life-changing health messages. He started behind the scenes as an award-winning science journalist and producer, before becoming a much-loved presenter. His programmes have made a lasting impact on the nation’s health habits, from intermittent fasting to the benefits of a cold shower. Michael also shared his own struggles with audiences worldwide. As a chronic insomniac, he made programmes about sleep and, ever curious, he would also go to extremes in the pursuit of science, even infecting himself with a tapeworm. Celebrating Michael’s career, this programme marks the enormous impact he made, touching the lives of so many

Special needs pupil Justin has had another fight and his principal wants to get rid of him: Inclusion in the comprehensive school. Justin panics: To school with the normal kids? Without him! His friend Hendrik has a plan: kidnap the principal's dog and swap it for Justin's freedom.

Double bassist, singer, composer and arranger Avishai Cohen is renowned for his virtuoso playing and emotional live performances. And he's unrivalled at finding the musicians who have the potential to take over from the jazz greats.

After receiving a bike as a birthday present from her older brother, 14-year-old Alicia is accused of theft at school. Confronted with a moral dilemma, she must decide whether to betray her brother, who already has a criminal record or take the blame for a crime she did not commit.

María del Mar Rodríguez, better known as Mari de Chambao, opens the door to an intimate cocktail of sounds with an aroma of chill flamenco. In this documentary, not only do we see the most intimate side of Mari, but also her role as a woman in music and its industry. We're also welcomed to participate in a fantastic concert in her hometown of Málaga as part of her 20th anniversary tour.

This documentary explores how Madrid, under Franco’s regime, became a crucial nexus for numerous German Nazis and Italian Fascists fleeing the Second World War. They found not only the protection of the regime, but also a network of sympathisers who provided them with spaces and businesses where they could meet discreetly.

A documentary that revolves around the lives of three surf enthusiasts, each facing their struggles with European norms and ideals. Majid, a kitesurfer in Tarifa, battles visa issues to unite his family from Morocco. In Biarritz, Margaux organizes Europe's first LGBTQ-friendly surf festival to challenge gender norms. Rosy, a surfboard shaper in Northern Ireland, navigates post-Brexit turbulence. The film explores the promise of freedom in Europe and the enduring challenges that threaten it.

A short film that explores our dependency on smartphones and the emotional disconnection they create. Endless scrolling isolates us, shatters our well-being, and traps us in a stream of empty content. When we trade real experiences for digital noise, we give up on living.

Documentary examining the rise and fall of the UK's greatest ports. The programme spans the first international traders arriving on the coasts of Devon and Cornwall, through the arrival of the Romans, Elizabeth I's extension of British territory, and the huge impact of the tea trade and the Industrial Revolution.

A youngster writes a letter to his grandmother about his last trip to Donosti (Spain). This city inspires him to ponder about the language of cinema, time, cities, and sharing memories with our loved ones.

This beautifully crafted documentary short paints a vivid portrait of Ruaridh Lever-Hogg, a Deaf artist from the Scottish Highlands. As Lever-Hogg describes his creative process and personal background, we gain a better understanding of how his Scottish Highlands identity has informed his work.

After 50 years in theatre, film and television, Carme Elias is diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. Together with Claudia Pinto, a director and friend, they decide to record her last conscious voyage. The characters played by Carme accompany this difficult period, while the borders between fiction and reality disappear. While You're Still You is a constant game of mirrors, a pact of love and friendship.

Lucía faces the complicated situation of caring for her husband after a recent accident.

Film student Jay is currently planning his graduation film, which follows a simple premise: he films himself and his friends, who are hiding something from him, on a boat trip. He wants the truth to come out and the camera to capture it all. The trip leads the group into a tunnel shrouded in mystery, from which there is suddenly no escape and where things are clearly not right. And it soon becomes clear that anyone who speaks the untruth will feel the tunnel's fury.

After spending four years in jail, Rafik has only one plan, take his son behind the mountains and show him his amazing discovery.

Documentary short following the story behind Zau, the main character in the game Tales of Kenzera: Zau, from Abubakar Salim.

Football offers bitter disappointments, but equally powerful and infinite emotions. Napoli rises again on May 4, 2023, winning the championship with five days to spare, an epochal result destined to remain forever in history. A joy awaited for 33 years and told through the eyes of the players, such as captain Giovanni Di Lorenzo, of personalities from the world of sport, entertainment and journalism, of Napoli's sporting directors and staff, including coach Luciano Spalletti.

The debut comedy special from actor and comedian Matt Green, recorded in London in March 2024. The show is in two halves, with an opening set from a Tory Minister (The Rt Hon Geoffrey Geoff-Geoffrey) who acted as Matt's warm up on tour. Matt Green is well known for his comedy sketches on X (formerly Twitter) in which he plays a news reporter interviewing various Tory ministers (all played by himself), as well for his roles in comedy sitcoms, including appearances in shows like Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. 0:00:00 Start 0:00:07 Intro Video 0:03:20 Part One - opening set from The Right Honourable Geoffrey Geoff-Geoffrey 0:38:48 Interval 0:38:50 Part Two - stand up comedy from Matt Green 1:30:42 Outro Video and Credits

Saskia has just moved into her first house, but the dream is tainted by an unexpected arrival.

A fencer, molded from childhood to chase after success, and devoted to the dream of reaching the top of the world. A father who serves as both her mentor, and her harshest critic. A legendary trainer, in a cutthroat competition. A rollercoaster ride, filled with thrilling ups and downs that even a screenwriter would hesitate to come up with. Touché is the larger-than-life story of fencing world champion Nathalie Moellhausen, a ten-year course featuring the participation in three Olympiads as a representative of two different countries, generous doses of drama on and off the field, and above all else a bright personality transcending the noble sport’s finite popularity by far.

Seweryn, a 30-year-old musician, is about to sign a contract with a small music label. His life takes a radical turn after a concert when he becomes the victim of rape by Michael, a wealthy businessman.

It’s a guy who’s going to refuel.

Three American paratroopers get shot down over Holland. Three German infantrymen become part of the effort to find them. All will discover that the flag they salute matters little to the gods of war.

In the racially turbulent UK of the early 70s, a group of black musicians came together in South London with a common love of rhythms and a message of peace. Cymande – with the dove as their symbol – combined jazz, funk, soul and Caribbean grooves to form a unique sound. Despite success in the USA they faced indifference in their native Britain, becoming disillusioned and disbanding. But the music lived on, as new generations of artists imbibed and reworked their pioneering sounds in fresh ways. From Soul II Soul to De La Soul, MC Solaar to The Fugees, the Dove had spread Cymande's message far and wide, prompting their return after forty years. This is their story.

The film focuses on three male and one female soldier. They represent the challenges that the German army is currently facing: the Bundeswehr has too few personnel, too little equipment and for many years was not prepared for the type of war that it must now prepare for in the future. The film reflects the dramatic change from the perspective of those who have to shoulder the task of "national and alliance defense" in a very concrete and personal way in their everyday lives, at their location, in their unit.

In the near future, A.I. decides to destroy humanity, after reading and assimilating endless man-made stories in which A.I. annihilates humanity. How to prevent the prophecy of the apocalypse from self-fulfilling?

Public Administration Office. 10:00 a.m. Every day, civil servants get ready to have their usual breakfast at La Mari... Small privileges that can be lost.

A legendary city everyone dreams of visiting, Paris has retained all its authenticity, resembling more a collection of villages rather than one major metropolis. From the Eiffel Tower to Notre Dame de Paris, we discover the French capital's most emblematic monuments, and the vibrant life of its boulevards

Matthew Goodwin went missing on the 17th of February 2017. It’s been 7 years, an independent investigation into the case is opened. Three investigators dig deep into the long dormant case hoping to discover new truths.

A young man walks through the winter in search of a love encounter with another man, and in search of the presence of Christ. Signal GPS perdu tells the story of his inner journey by combining the snowy landscapes of the Jura, a medieval courtly text, and a gay dating application on a smartphone.

On the night Danny is due to look after his daughter he is forced to do a job for a local criminal.

A watch with history helps Theo write his own story.

While a young woman sleeps unawares in her bed, three creatures emerge from her dreams and playfully wreak havoc on her room. Before the woman wakes up, they disappear again.

A former communist leader and activist for Moroccan independence, Edmond Amran Elmaleh left behind a vast body of literary work that masterfully articulates personal and collective memory. This cinematic letter, addressed to Elmaleh by director Simone Bitton, weaves together excerpts from the writer’s texts, testimonies, and archival images, and the filmmaker’s own words to illustrate the memory of a captivating and erudite man haunted by the parallel tragedies of the departure of Jews from Morocco and the exodus of Palestinians uprooted from their land.

Building her hour-long set around a 16,000-word note kept over time on her phone, Rose Matafeo leans into her insightful and self-deprecating humor to share candid takes on relationships – from dating in her 20s vs. 30s to supporting friends through breakups and the stark differences between herself and her parents at the same age.

A young Italian director encounters Nigerian musician and revolutionary Fela Kuti and for years chases the dream of making a film about him. He will never succeed but he will discovers something more important: a new idea of existence.

In Glimmering, Vadim Kostrov captures fleeting afternoon light in his backyard. Shot on miniDV and without sound, the film is a silent meditation on impermanence, where glimmers on leaves, fabric, and reflections become a visual poem on time, light, and transience.

Three couples arrange a dinner between friends. But no one is really in the mood for a reunion, as there are still some unspoken conflicts in the room.

Alex and Chiara die in a car crash just after getting married. In the purgatory where they are now trapped, they are asked to make a decision : stay together or split up for good, as they are slyly advised in the afterlife.

Starting from the discovery of a propaganda film from 1927, L’Estate Silana, made when King Victor Emmanuel III visited Calabria, the film Sons of No-one focuses on the unused fragments in the film, and digs into the edges of the shots pointing a finger at how history, and cinema, is staged. The texts, from the book Calabria grande e amara by Leonida Repaci, seek in these reels what propaganda excluded and deliberately kept in the side-lines. Sons of No-one is a short film made during a workshop conducted by Gaetano Crivaro and Margherita Pisano for The Memories Film Fest, organized by the Cineteca della Calabria Association.

Against the backdrop of the Women, Life, Freedom protest movement in Iran, filmmaker Elahe Esmaili is helping her parents to pack up the family home. As the boxes stack up, discussions flare between the generations: Elahe does not wear the hijab, embodying the courage of her generation's struggles. But can changing a society be as simple as moving house?

750,000 sexual predators are permanently connected worldwide, 71% of 12-year-olds use at least one social network, and 1 in 5 children have already received sexual proposals online. In the face of this scourge, a number of volunteers have decided to give up their time to fight online pedo-crime. Together, they have formed the association Les Enfants d'Argus. With offices in France, the French overseas departments and territories, and Belgium, the 30 or so volunteers work day in, day out towards the same goal: to flush out child criminals before they make victims.

Lisa matched with Xuân through a dating app, and she is to meet her for the first time. But there is a problem : to appeal to Xuân, Lisa lied and told her that she is fluent in Vietnamese, her native language, despite not understanding a single word. Getting deeper into her lies, there is only one week left before the date for Lisa actually to learn vietnamese. Otherwise, Xuân will find out she’s a fraud.

Forty years on from the release of the hit single by charity supergroup Band Aid, this documentary unearths 75 minutes of rare and previously unseen film footage from the day of recording

The story follows Kevin, a young man classified as problematic due to his inability to control his impulses. After an incident, Kevin must attend therapy for teenagers, but his father refuses to accompany him. Don Andrés, his stepfather, assumes the role of companion, revealing a relationship that is more fraternal than paternal.

Glasgow Film Crew's submission to the 48 Hour Film Project, 2024.