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Browse 34 movies from The University of The West of Scotland
After years of estrangement, two brothers encounter their father living in a mysterious Scottish community.
Aug 2020
It is a personal film in which Gareth Malone examines his relationship with his identical twin brother John.
Nov 2024
Margot's overwhelming experience of miscarriage.
Aug 2023
A father grieves for his deceased daughter and meets an old friend of hers.
Apr 2022
Gavin built a giant volcano sculpture that's now in his dad's shed. Gavin seeks his dad's understanding but he's uninterested in modern art and refuses to participate in the documentary.
Aug 2024
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.
Apr 2019
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.
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
On Burns Night, a lonely young man from Glasgow, bumps into Scotland’s most famous bard who turns out to be a terrible flirt advisor.
Nov 2022
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
An emotionally detached fruit farmer confronts a heinous act from her past during a promotional video for her award winning jam.
Sep 2021
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.
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
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
Following a break up, a young woman decides to take the plunge and move to a new planet, Sileo.
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 short documentary feature looking at the decline of the herring gull in Scotland.
Jan 2024
A.I. Chloe wants a little more respect from her latest customer.
A woman tries to give up smoking and takes up a worse habit.
House of Light is an intimate portrait of one family’s daily life when forced to remain together in their apartment in Dhaka, Bangladesh during the Covid-19 health crisis. Filmed by the director on his mobile phone during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, the documentary transcends the quotidian and illuminates the every day with moments of aesthetic simplicity and ultimately, the spiritual sublime.
Sep 2020