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Browse 33 movies from The University of The West of Scotland
A dark comedy short film. As the days and nights in lockdown start to merge, Gerry’s paranoia increases as a 5g tower is due to be switched on in his local area. Spurred on by his fellow conspiracy theorist friend Rosie, Gerry must overcome his agoraphobia and take down the tower.
Nov 2021
A woman tries to give up smoking and takes up a worse habit.
Apr 2019
At his father’s funeral, a young man wrestles with his impulses with the arrival of a last minute replacement organist.
Nov 2025
Two deadbeat photocopier technicians discuss their recently deceased boss, who has been found dead the morning of. The conversation turns sour and some sinister and bizarre truths are revealed.
Apr 2022
Margot's overwhelming experience of miscarriage.
Aug 2023
An emotionally detached fruit farmer confronts a heinous act from her past during a promotional video for her award winning jam.
Sep 2021
A father grieves for his deceased daughter and meets an old friend of hers.
Veronique is a social realist drama picturing a day in the life of a teenage girl and her mentally ill mother. How does the mother’s borderline personality disorder affect their relationship and how does it feel for a teenage girl to be the person in charge?
Aug 2021
A superstitious widow looks at the stars every night in the hope of understanding her late husband's last words to her. Meanwhile a homeless man discovers some interesting items discarded in a bin.
After falling in love with Mhairi online, Jon travels from the USA to Scotland to meet her. When he gets there however, things don't go quite as he imagined.
Mar 2020
In September 1954 in Gorbals, Glasgow, rumours had spread among the school children of a terrible, 7 foot tall vampire with iron teeth. Rumour had it that this vampire had kidnapped and murdered two young boys and feasted on their corpses. Despite the adults and the police trying to calm the hysteria, the children decided that action had to be taken to bring this terrible ‘Gorbals Vampire’ to justice.
Following a break up, a young woman decides to take the plunge and move to a new planet, Sileo.
After years of estrangement, two brothers encounter their father living in a mysterious Scottish community.
Aug 2020
"Straight Girl" paints a colourful, three-dimensional portrait of Leeds-based electronic musician Remy Enceladus, also known as Straight Girl. Through the close relationship that develops between Remy and the camera, the line between home life and stage persona blur; forming an intimate exploration of identity, feminism, mental health, sexuality and gender - ultimately amalgamating into a visually explosive finale of acceptance, freedom and expression.
Apr 2023
An obsession with storytelling and writing, a novelist named Mia gets inspired by a crush a stranger has on her beloved husband, Mark. Mark is affable and Mia decides to bring Freya in between their marriage. Being fascinated with an outcome, Mia gets carried away and imagines her biggest nightmare that possibly becomes a reality.
Aug 2019
Facing a problematic creative block, Harrison embarks on a journey to Glen Coe with his best friend in order to reignite his artistic imagination.
Mar 2019
A documentary following retiree Frank Dorrans, and his love for the Scottish hills, which he can no longer climb.
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White smoke will explore the confused nature of teenage love and the struggle to understand the difference between real attachment and obsession, getting the audience hooked into the protagonist´s destructive and unpredictable relationship.
The exploration of a long distance relationship during the COVID-19 pandemic using an assemblage of archival footage.
Dec 2024
After fleeing for his life, a gay refugee files for asylum in Scotland. Lacking evidence, he decides to photograph himself in the dark techno world of a queer underground scene. Based on accounts of real-life African LGBT refugees and the challenges they face during the asylum process, Crypsis is a raw depiction of a grim reality obscured by vitriolic public debate about refugees and the broken system that surrounds them.
Oct 2019