Magnet Fishers

Chris Leslie

United Kingdom, 2025

During the Covid lockdown, Mark McGeachin founded Glasgow Magnet Fishers. Using high-powered magnets to scour the riverbed for hidden treasures, they champion opening the River Clyde for recreational use.

 English
 3 min 55 secs

Mallen Streak

Ruby Cedar

United Kingdom, 2025

A paramedic with a gambling addiction is being tormented by a loan shark, but when fate deals her a good hand, she makes a morally questionable choice.

 English
 12 min 40 secs

Manal Issa, 2024

Elisabeth Subrin

United States, 2025

Presents a haunting interview with acclaimed Lebanese French actress Manal Issa, filmed in Beirut on September 22, 2024, just hours before bombing escalated throughout the country.

 English
 10 min 31 secs

Medina Wasl: Connecting Town

Gelare Khoshgozaran

United States, Iran, 2018

Traces the Middle Eastern landscapes in the California desert back to histories of violence and colonization through agriculture, architecture and military intervention. 

 English
 31 min 2 secs

Men of my Dreams

Gelare Khoshgozaran

United States, 2020

A personal history of the artist through the men who surrounded them while growing up in Tehran and moving to the US, Men of My Dreams unfolds a series of vignettes that toy with the unstable ground between fact and fiction. 

 No dialogue
 9 min 30 secs

Miisufy

Liisi Grünberg

Estonia, 2023

Digital pet cat Miisu gets tired of her owner and starts to revolt. Inspired by Tamagotchi, Miisufy observes the world through the eyes of digital pets.

 No dialogue
 10 min 28 secs

Missed Connections

Jack Gray

United States, 2023

On an online forum, ‘Missed Connections,’ people from cities across the United States seek to reconnect with someone they shared a passing moment with.

 English
 5 min 3 secs

Momentum

Nada El-Omari

Canada, 2025

A reflection on memory, place, and the quiet persevering strength of images to bear witness, then and still now — even when the world chooses to move on.

 English
 19 min 9 secs

Monogamy

Daniel Kelly

United Kingdom, 2025

A polyamorous couple’s relationship is tested when they each go on separate dates.

 English
 12 min 28 secs

Monster (van Hollandabad)

Gelare Khoshgozaran, Hande Sever

United States, The Netherlands, 2025

In 1880 the Netherlands’ consul Richard Keun sent a stone sarcophagus from the the Persian Gulf to Netherlands' National Museum of Antiquities, which contained human (sic) remains from a cremation. Monster examines the ideological and material processes through which West Asian artefacts were “collected” and institutionalized in the Netherlands. 

 Persian (Farsi), Dutch
 29 min

Morgenkreis

Basma Alsharif

Canada, United Arab Emirates, 2025

Follows a father and son in their intimate rituals as they prepare to start the day and head to kindergarten.

 Arabic, Armenian, German
 20 min 30 secs

Mother’s Influence

Meg Wriggles

2025

Growing up with an unconventional single mother – an influencer navigating aging and body dysmorphia, Meg admires her but questions how it shaped her own self-image. 

 English
 14 min 25 secs

MRI

Dougal Vecqueray

United Kingdom, 2025

Tom goes for an MRI scan only to be transported into a psychedelic space odyssey halfway through. 

 English
 3 min 47 secs

Murewa

Ché Scott-Heron Newton

United Kingdom, 2025

Two boys form a close friendship in a quiet coastal town, sharing passions for skateboarding and photography. As they grow up, life takes them in drastically different directions-one to university, the other to prison.

 English
 13 min 48 secs

Neil Armstrong and the Langholmites

Duncan Cowles

United Kingdom, 2025

Everyone knows Neil Armstrong came back from the moon in 1969 – but it wasn’t until three years later, when the people of a tiny Scottish town stepped in, that he finally got home.

 English
 17 min 48 secs

The New Policy Regarding Homeless Asylum Seekers

Dennis Harvey

Sweden, 2025

In contemporary Dublin, Olivia and her group of volunteers try to find safe places to sleep for the thousands of men seeking asylum.

 English
 14 min 28 secs

No Mean City

Ross McClean

Ireland, United Kingdom, 2025

Two workmen and an apprentice navigate Belfast at night, replacing old sodium street lights with LED. Beneath their glow, the city grapples with change, as progress marches on.

 English
 14 min 33 secs

nobody’s word

Camara Taylor

United Kingdom, 2025

500 years after Charles V granted permission to Lorenzo de Gorrevod ‘to import 4000 Africans into New Spain’, a filmmaker digitises and disintegrates their family archive in order to reframe accounts, destabilise claims and inhabit the spaces between fact and fiction.

 English
 12 min 38 secs

Notes from Brook House

Alex Nevill

United Kingdom, 2025

A contemplation on the ways migration is perceived and controlled across the United Kingdom.

 English
 27 min 45 secs

Off the Hook!

Alfie Watson-Brown

United Kingdom, 2025

When Theo resigns himself to the arduous task of seeking a refund over the phone, the obstacles blocking him from doing so become increasingly bizarre. 

 English
 11 min 0 secs

On Dreams, the Surreal and the Liberation of Syria (and Homs)

Julie-Yara ATZ

Syrian Arab Republic, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Syria, 2025

In Syria, after the fall of the Assad regime, surrealism takes over and gives way to a moment of dreams, hopes, and uncertainty.

 Arabic
 8 min 40 secs

On the Backburner

Krisztián Kajtár

United Kingdom, 2025

Kitchen porter Yusuf and his colleague Abiola inspire a winning dish. But their undocumented status costs them their jobs, and now they face the future together.

 English
 11 min 7 secs

On the Battlefield

Little Egypt Collective, Theresa Delsoin, Lisa Malloy, Ray Whitaker, JP Sniadecki

United States, 2024

In the Southern Illinois region of Little Egypt, a sound recordist revisits the flat fields where once stood Pyramid Courts—the housing projects that formed the heart of the Black community of his hometown, Cairo.

 English
 16 min 40 secs

On The Twelfth Day of Findom

Caitlin Black, Joanne Thomson

United Kingdom, 2025

From the confines of the supermarket staff room, a Christmas temp dips her toe into the little known world of Financial Domination.

 English
 15 min 50 secs

One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean

Yuyan Wang

France, 2020

Comprising online ‘satisfying video’ clips put to trance and minimal music, an abstract narrative reflects on the filmmaker’s lack of depth perception and interrogates the entropy of today’s information societies.

 English
 None
 11 min 30 secs

Panic in Nowhere

Adrian Flury

Switzerland, 2024

Drifting through videoclips online can leave you lost and distracted. What if you found a series clips that collapsed time and evoked a shared sense of fate?

 English
 26 min 39 secs

Peace Of Heart

Ana Songel

United Kingdom, 2025

After remembering a family-woven island tale, young Ailsa ventures into a dreamlike world, in search of her absent father and a way to heal their hearts.

 English
 11 min 28 secs

Pen Mari

Siôn Marshall-Waters

United Kingdom, 2025

In the desperate search for a horse’s skull to lead an ancient folk procession, a man is drawn into the black market for animal body parts.

 English, Welsh
 12 min 36 secs

Peninsula

Presqu’îles

Angèle Vergoni, Sarah Vanhoeck

Belgium, 2025

After waking up in a forest where she towers over the trees and inhabitants, a woman searches for a place of self-exile.

 No dialogue
 5 min 39 secs

Perfected Grammar

Andrea Suwito

Indonesia, 2024

A mother’s turbulent relationship with her homeland is unearthed when she teaches her Hungarian-speaking daughter her native language, Bahasa Indonesia. Everyday moments narrate Indonesia’s dark history and a longing for a place once called “home”.

 Hungarian, Bahasa Indonesia
 English
 10 min 52 secs

The Planner's Approach (extract)

United Kingdom, 1970

Produced by Jordanhill College, a survey of city planning and development in Glasgow around 1970. The extract features an interview with architect Geoffrey Jarvis concerning the renovation of Carlton Place and plans for redevelopment of the Clyde riverside area.

 English
 6 min

Postscript

Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko

Iran, Canada, 2024

An Iranian archivist speculates on the death of French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse – killed when his helicopter crashed into Iran's Karaj Dam in 1970 – and the restoration and circulation of his final footage.

 Persian (Farsi)
 30 min 28 secs

Prime

Meagan Coyle

United States, 2025

A trauma victim joins a utopian farming community only to find she's bitten off more than she can chew.

 English
 16 min 3 secs

Prout

Marc-Henri Wajnberg

Belgium, 2025

Obsolete household appliances and waste of all kinds are sent to the planet Prout, Earth's dumping ground. Workers Bean and Spaghet go on an emergency mission to save their friend who has been crushed by debris falling from the sky.

 No dialogue
 7 min 45 secs

Reading Between the Lines

Jochen Rall

Switzerland, 2025

A train full of passengers, each absorbed in their reading.
Between the lines, another story is taking shape.

 No dialogue
 6 min 36 secs

Regarding Our Previous Conversation

Thomas Sainsbury, Paul Scantlebury

New Zealand, 2025

Tom and Susan disagree when he shows up at her house with a car that she insists she never asked for. 

 English
 6 min 54 secs

Remember Me

Lisa Kelly

United Kingdom, 2025

An intimate insight into the life of Emma, a deaf BSL user who lives with her Father, who is also deaf.

 British Sign Language
 14 min 46 secs

The Retreat

Gelare Khoshgozaran

United Kingdom, France, United States, 2023

A process-based film that interweaves recorded fragments from the artist's 'exile retreat' with dream-like scenes which explore the connections between exile, desire and antifascism. 

 English
 21 min 15 secs

rial and tERROR

Gelare Khoshgozaran

United States, 2011

Pre-revolutionary Iranian TV commercials, psychedelic rock music, and pirated tapes of American music videos distributed as contraband in post-revolutionary Iran form a fragmented, cross-generational narrative of the Iranian diaspora.

 English, Persian (Farsi)
 15 min

Ritchie

Anton McPhilemy

United Kingdom, 2025

A young dreamer from Alloa becomes fixated on a long shot football bet he’s convinced will fund his dream move to Stirling.

 English
 19 min 30 secs

The River Clyde: A Survey of Scotland's Greatest River

Stanley L. Russell

United Kingdom, 1939

The River Clyde is traced from its source down to the Firth of Clyde, with a review of its industrial life from Glasgow to Dumbarton.

 English
 19 min 20 secs

Royal Debris

Gelare Khoshgozaran

United Kingdom, Canada, United States, 2022

Deteriorating due to ongoing sanctions on the country, but protected by its 'foreign mission' status, Iran's former embassy in the US is an abandoned building that embodies a contradiction.

 No dialogue
 35 min

Run River Run

Chris Leslie

United Kingdom, 2025

Poet Tawona Ganyamatopé Sithole performs a specially commissioned poem celebrating the River Clyde. The piece reimagines the river as alive, beautiful, and full of purpose. “Remainder, reminder of living nature. Run river run. Flow river flow.”

 English
 3 min 31 secs