Browse 33 movies from The University of The West of Scotland
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 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
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
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
A woman tries to give up smoking and takes up a worse habit.
A father grieves for his deceased daughter and meets an old friend of hers.
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
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 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
An abstract video-poem on the mystical power of nature and the forces that govern our universe.
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
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
At his father’s funeral, a young man wrestles with his impulses with the arrival of a last minute replacement organist.
Nov 2025
After years of estrangement, two brothers encounter their father living in a mysterious Scottish community.
Aug 2020
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
Following a break up, a young woman decides to take the plunge and move to a new planet, Sileo.
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
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
A.I. Chloe wants a little more respect from her latest customer.