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Keerti Gedela
Trust explores the vital relationship between trust and healthcare. Through personal stories and expert insights, it examines the historical injustices and systemic barriers that marginalised communities face in clinical research. It highlights the transformative potential of inclusive research to heal, unite, and address pressing health issues, from sickle cell disease and maternity health disparities to youth mental health and complex medical needs.
The film is a call to action, especially given the divisive, misleading narratives in global politics; we need a bold, defiant path forward.
Health inequity driven by poor research inclusion is not simply about social justice but an issue of bad science.
Mistrust is a major global challenge that needs to be addressed with transparency, understanding, compassion, and far better communication.
This is essential for modern healthcare to do what it’s meant to do—work for everyone, not just some.
Molly Hill
Chirpy is a bright blue bird in a nest full of grey siblings—and he sticks out in more ways than one. While the others seem to have everything figured out, Chirpy’s wild and wobbly attempts at flying usually end in a crash. From makeshift inventions to bold leaps of faith, he’ll try anything to get off the ground.
The director, Molly Hill, embraces her ADHD as a source of creativity and drew from that experience to shape Chirpy’s endless enthusiasm, unpredictable problem-solving, and refusal to give up. Her goal was to create a character that reflects neurodivergent traits in a positive, joyful light – one that children and adults can all relate to and root for.
Full of heart, humour, and a whole lot of bumpy landings, First Flight explores the messy and magical path to finding your wings.
Florence Bell
When the results of her study into same-sex parenting aren’t as she expected, Sociologist Shanny Adams abandons her professional ethics in favour of a positive outcome for her test subjects.
Vanessa Nicholson
A hypnotic exploration of femininity, defiance, and emotional survival, this work confronts the weight of expectation — and the unrelenting pursuit of self beyond it.
A visual performance that shifts between grounded struggle and dreamlike dissociation — including a luminous, near-mythic pole sequence where Astroid Woman briefly transcends the constraints imposed on her. As the piece spirals into a frantic nighttime climax, the boundaries between performance, panic, and identity dissolve.
Nima Shahmalekpur
Shaheen, an Afghan refugee, has lost contact with his brother who is travelling the perilous migration route to England. To cope, he makes and flies colourful kites. But when his kite crashes with a neighbour’s drone he is forced to face the purpose of his migration and consider how to rebuild a shattered life.
Maria Trevis
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Hardworking mum, Katy, is frustrated with the institution responsible for her future career and is determined to take her formal complaint to the top, to the Complaints Officer. Through a bizarre and archaic turn of events, the world she knows unravels around her, causing her to question her reality.
Scheanel Ness King
A rapper gets stuck in music video and has to sign contract.
Alice Panerai
Dreams is a poetic exploration of women’s experiences in prison. The film was made in partnership with RIFT Enterprises and the WISE project, with the support of Media Trust, to highlight the huge gap in opportunities for women with convictions to enter self employment upon their release.
The film is made up of the real voices of women at HMP Eastwood Park, reading their own creative writing. These poems or narratives were products of a workshop poet and activist Leah Thorn and filmmaker Alice Panerai held at the prison. They explore the themes of a future outside prison.
Images were filmed using actors due to the sensitive nature of the content.
This film was made on an ultra low budget by an all female cast and crew.
Ievgen Koshyn
A Scottish-Pakistani dad’s life spirals into chaos as he battles his orthodox father’s ultimatum to circumcise the grandson.
Ewan McPherson
What exactly goes in a queer disabled comic’s head when his stammer kicks in while performing? Is the stammering related to being queer and facing a heterosexual audience? And what the hell makes him want to perform in the first place?
This short documentary, funded by SQIFF (the Scottish Queer International Film Festival), features ‘in the moment’ action as Ewan McPherson tries to perform and the – er- worker inside his brain tries to prevent an onstage meltdown by recalling interviews with other performers living with conditions and promoters who are queer allies.
Joe Warner
HOUSE HUNTERS paints a twisted picture of an all-too-believable future, where prospective tenants are prepared to go to just about any lengths to secure a place to call home.
In this festering world, the scarcity of houses has created a market where money alone is no longer enough. Landlords rule, and one particularly blood-thirsty Estate Agent will not give up until she makes that commission – whatever the cost…
Grace Morgan
Sienna nurtures her younger sister’s dreams of playing in a professional girl’s football team, whilst facing the realities of a crumbling home life.
Linda Cairns
Password: password
Dani leaves Romania for London in search of freedom. As they fall for the vibrant and captivating Mada, they must confront the challenge of revealing their true identity.
Hayden Mclean
When Fox’s “LA Bar” is hit with a compulsory purchase order, a cornerstone of Caribbean life in 90’s East London is threatened. As the city begins to forget, the community remembers. In defiance and longing, a last dance ignites—one that will be remembered for the ages.
Ray Jacobs
A group of climate refugees, most of whom have disabilities, have made a home of an abandoned house.
They live, cook, laugh, cry, eat, dance and work the land together, feeling like a family while feeling vulnerable to the hostile outside climate.
A wild storm arrives and one of the group has to leave.
Charles Strider
Robin, heartbroken and tending her garden, is confronted by an unexpected visitor whose presence threatens to unearth the past.
Nayoung Kim
Steve McPherson, a UK-based artist, has been collecting discarded plastic objects from Kent’s coast since 2007. Over 25 years, he’s amassed wave-worn debris, exploring their transformative potential through assemblage, sculpture, and installations. Despite color blindness, he organizes finds by type and color, turning them into multidisciplinary artworks. Through his practice, McPherson delves into personal and collective narratives, highlighting the ecological impact of marine waste. His work intersects with themes of memory, temporality, and change, underscoring the paradoxical nature of plastic as both material and idea. The aim of our documentary is to highlight Steve’s unique artistic creations and raise awareness about the urgent need to address oceanic environmental concerns, urging viewers to reflect on this pressing issue.