In the Várzea Queimada community in northeast Brazil there is a high rate of deaf population. Access to the learning of Libras - the official Brazilian sign language - is scarce, so the Várzea Queimada’s deaf community have created their own language. This film will be preceded by Miranda Pennell’s short film You Made Me Love You (2005, UK, 4 mins).

An online screening of Gideon Koppel’s Sleep Furiously, a meditative study of the rhythms of life in a small farming community in mid-Wales. Followed by a live Q&A with Gideon, hosted by Glasgow-based filmmaker Margaret Salmon.

Four old friends, all Sudanese filmmakers with passion for film, attempt to bring cinema-going back to Sudan by reviving an outdoor cinema

Shot in Kyrgyzstan on richly saturated Super-8, this mesmerizing film is a search for Jamilia, the title character in the country's famous novel by Chinghiz Aitmatov, about a young woman who rebels against the strict rules of her society

Shot over the advent season of December 2018 to New Year’s day 2019, Echo comprises 65 single-shot vignettes that together draw a jigsaw-like portrait of modern day Iceland at Christmas time

An experimental portrait of a family amidst change, Big Boy is photographer and filmmaker Shireen Seno’s lovingly lo-fi, Super 8 tale of a young boy, pressured by his family to “grow” — not emotionally but physically.

Watch the recording of our conversation with Director Shireen Seno, hosted by Dr Philippa Lovatt.

When Lloyd Aereo Boliviano, one of the world’s oldest airlines, went bankrupt in 2008, many of the employees decided to continue working. Seven years later, they still check life vests, stitch covers for plane seats and manage their books despite their planes remaining grounded.

A BSL response to the film screening by Glasgow-based artist Klarissa Webster

Somewhere in inland Spain, a shepherd dreams of visiting Lake Titicaca, two sisters — the only two children left in their town — search for Pokémons without any luck, and an old man counts the empty houses of the village in order to fall asleep at night.

'birha' is the grief, agony and anguish of separation, derived from Punjabi Sufi Poetry. Guided by Shiv Kumar Batalvi's birha poetry, the film captures the pain, lamentation and yearning caused by separation.

Justino, an Indigenous widower in Brazil, lives his life according to set patterns. He works long shifts as a security guard, then returns to his family in the Amazon. His life becomes disrupted when his daughter wants to study medicine, manifesting itself in the form of a mysterious fever.

Set and shot in Treaty 1 territory in Vermette’s native Manitoba, Ste. Anne centres on a long-missing young woman’s unexpected return to her indigenous Métis community

'Some time ago, the entire country of Georgia witnessed a surreal scene – a large tree floating in the sea. That was when we learned that the most powerful man in the country had a new passion – to own century-old trees on his private estate...' - Salomé Jashi