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  • 2007
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    How to Save a Fish From Drowning

    How to Save a Fish From Drowning

    1 2007 HD

    A portrait of America as told by three old men fishing on a frozen lake.

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  • 2007
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    Breadmakers

    Breadmakers

    1 2007 HD

    At a unique Edinburgh bakery, a community of workers with learning disabilities makes a variety of organic breads for daily delivery to local shops...

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  • 2019
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    Altsasu

    Altsasu

    1 2019 HD

    In the Basque town of Altsasu, the beds of seven young men lie empty. As the town celebrates its annual festival, Altsasu follows Igone as she copes...

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  • 2024
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    The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing

    The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing

    6.00 2024 HD

    When a Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland unearths a rarely-seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wild flowers, he decides to reclaim the...

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  • 2013
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    I Am Breathing

    I Am Breathing

    7.00 2013 HD

    Breathing is about the thin space between life and death. 34-year-old Neil Platt plans his own funeral, muses about the meaning of life and the...

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  • 2006
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    Mentiras

    Mentiras

    1 2006 HD

    Mentiras is a visually stunning but profoundly unsettling journey through the world’s largest city. Based on one man’s confession to...

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  • 2019
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    Best Before Death

    Best Before Death

    7.50 2019 HD

    Bill Drummond, once the most notorious man in pop music, now travels around the world baking cakes, building beds and shining shoes as part of a...

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  • 2021
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    Baby Girl

    Baby Girl

    1 2021 HD

    Cunenk grew up as a girl trapped in a boy’s body. She could not wait to leave her village and become a performer.

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  • 2018
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    Becoming Animal

    Becoming Animal

    6.40 2018 HD

    A palpably rendered audiovisual essay draws together the distinct sensibilities of filmmakers Peter Mettler (The End of Time) and Emma Davie (I am...

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  • 2018
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    Freedom Fields

    Freedom Fields

    7.50 2018 HD

    In post-revolution Libya, a group of women are brought together by one dream: to play football for their nation. But as the country descends into...

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  • 2016
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    Swan

    Swan

    1 2016 HD

    April loves music, dancing, trampolining and swimming, but with sensory difficulties faces challenges in the search for independence as her 16th...

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  • 2007
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    Ottica Zero

    Ottica Zero

    1 2007 HD

    Soon after her ‘big break’, Italian actress Nadya Cazan disappeared. Ottica Zero follows Nadya from her rejection of the monetary-based...

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  • 2023
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    Fitting

    Fitting

    1 2023 HD

    Fitting explores the relationship between the director, an amputee, and her prosthetist, by their contrasting experiences during the making of a...

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  • 2022
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    TEN MONTHS

    TEN MONTHS

    1 2022 HD

    MIEZI KUMI (TEN MONTHS) is a short documentary of the love between Zacharia Mutai, his family and the last two northern white rhinos, which he has to...

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  • 2024
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    Roll Down the Window

    Roll Down the Window

    1 2024 HD

    A filmmaker explores a neurological condition she has been diagnosed with and its relationship with an incident in her past.

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  • 2018
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    Stretch

    Stretch

    1 2018 HD

    Sebastién is a gay acrobat living for the thrill of the circus. Now the oldest acrobat in the troupe, he fears each show could be his last, as...

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  • 2021
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    Against the Tide

    Against the Tide

    6.00 2021 HD

    A remote and wild island on the west coast of Scotland is home to a small group of people that live in deep connection with the land, the sea and the...

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  • 2012
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    Polaris

    Polaris

    1 2012 HD

    Work. Eat. Sleep. And back to work. For a long time skippers in the North East of Scotland could not find locals to work on their fishing vessels....

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  • 2009
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    Unearthing the Pen

    Unearthing the Pen

    1 2009 HD

    A young Ugandan goat herder dreams of being able to read and write but must oppose his elders.

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  • 2012
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    Night Shift

    Night Shift

    1 2012 HD

    Anne Wallace once had a dream to help Glasgow's street working women. Soon after, a double-decker bus materialised along with the Ministry of Salt...

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