William Aikman

A young man, born and raised in the vastness of the galaxy, lands on an unknown planet. As he surveys the landscape, he recognises fragments from ancient stories. Driven by a quiet urgency, he contacts his ship’s command to retrieve archival recordings of the last humans to abandon earth. Slowly, it dawns on him that he has returned to his ancestral home.

In a highly controlled smart city in the year 2084 two climate migrants try to connect through old-fashioned letters.

A disillusioned successful businesswoman struggling to find meaning in her privileged life, finds unexpected love in a forbidden affair.

After being released, a reformed serial killer moves into his family's ancestral estate and is haunted by his past -- both the living and the dead.

Paul wakes up from a wild New Year's Eve, with little memory of the night before spent at his Mum's social club. When it's revealed that the prize money from the Annual New Year's Eve Karaoke Competition has gone missing Paul fears his good name and reputation are at stake. This whodunnit parody gets to the bottom of a crime where everybody is a suspect.

Two shoplifters recount the day they were caught and held in supermarket prison, and the lifelong ban which followed.

On a Saturday night in Glasgow, a bassist pursues a teenage boy through the streets for a stolen guitar, but ends up finding what she really needs – a sincere human connection.

In the remote Scottish countryside, a downtrodden woman finds herself entangled in a newly discovered influencer culture, whilst in search of respite from the humdrum of rural living and the impending weight of her care-giving duties.

A young mother is forced to face the truth of her past life as her daughter approaches adolescence and strives for new freedom.

Juliet awakens from a fever dream. How did we get here? The lines between hallucination and memory blur as cinema and dance collide in a kaleidoscopic journey of queer belonging, defiance, and self-discovery. A vivid retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet brought to life by Scottish Ballet.

As You Leave is a tender and poignant coming-of-age drama that explores vulnerability and the bittersweet process of letting go. The short film follows two flatmates, Ash and Freya, over the course of a day as they pack up their shared life together, while simultaneously navigating the weight of an unexpected confession from one of them the night before.

Sel, an isolated escort and young mother, undergoes an unnerving transformation after learning that an Oedipal creature, the Milkgum, has been ensnaring the men in her life.

Follow Phoebe, her older sister Becks, younger brother Perry and their mum who are living a comfortable life in Glasgow when suddenly they are uprooted from their lives and moved to the remote highlands of Scotland.

On a farm in County Wicklow, Lindsay is caring for her husband Paul, who, after suffering a brain aneurysm, is left in a perpetual loop of memory loss and repeating the same jokes over and over. Supported by the Scottish Documentary Institute, director Hannah Currie presents a truly moving portrait of caring, dedication and love.

Cairo, a city of more than 20 million people, has recently gone through multiple political, cultural and economic upheavals, forcing Egyptian society to reinvent itself. In Egypt, people don't live on their own and it's only after they get married that they can leave their parent's home to create their own household. Whatever their intimate feelings might be, marriage is an inevitable step towards independence.

In a small provincial Iranian town, the children work hard to support their families. One day nine-year-old Yahya and his friend Leyla find a precious statue. Sharing a passion for cinema, Yahya's boss Naser Khan decides to help them find the owner.

In 1960, American dancer and actor Gene Kelly created for the Paris Opera Ballet an original choreography that was highly acclaimed at the time, yet rarely performed thereafter; a genius work that the Scottish Ballet, accompanied by the stirring and evocative score by composer and pianist George Gershwin, epitome of orchestral jazz, brings back to life sixty years later.

Tolu has a choice: save herself or save her friend. As a nightclub toilet attendant, she is both overlooked by and integral for a group of depraved men set on a hideous act.

Using only archive film and a new musical score by the band Mogwai, Mark Cousins presents an impressionistic kaleidoscope of our nuclear times – protest marches, Cold War sabre-rattling, Chernobyl and Fukishima – but also the sublime beauty of the atomic world, and how x-rays and MRI scans have improved human lives. The nuclear age has been a nightmare, but dreamlike too.

When a narcissistic tattoo artist tries to get a selfie with a world-famous client, his refusal to take no for an answer embroils him in a nightmarish battle of wills that threatens to destroy his business, his personal life, and his sanity.

A coming-of-age story rooted in an electric subculture, SOUL deals with the loss felt by Mia's loved ones when she leaves her small hometown to study in the city. Brought together by their love of the Northern Soul scene, loss becomes acceptance, and hope as Mia begins a new chapter.

Farang is an artists' moving image work that traces a semi-fictional journey across Iran.