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Browse 33 movies from The University of The West of Scotland
Margot's overwhelming experience of miscarriage.
Aug 2023
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.
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
An emotionally detached fruit farmer confronts a heinous act from her past during a promotional video for her award winning jam.
Sep 2021
An abstract video-poem on the mystical power of nature and the forces that govern our universe.
Nov 2021
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
A.I. Chloe wants a little more respect from her latest customer.
Apr 2022
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
"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
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.
After years of estrangement, two brothers encounter their father living in a mysterious Scottish community.
Aug 2020
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.
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
Claire is in an emotional and creative pause, until she finds her old projector and, with it, a way to reconnect with her childhood self.
Jun 2026
A young woman who struggles to sleep, decides to go outside in a desperate attempt to tire herself out. While losing track of the border between dream and reality.
Oct 2022
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.
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.
A documentary about Cystic Fibrosis
Jan 2024
Following a break up, a young woman decides to take the plunge and move to a new planet, Sileo.
It is a personal film in which Gareth Malone examines his relationship with his identical twin brother John.
Nov 2024