TEIKO//RESIST are two short films directed by Emma Dove and Susan Christie, featuring paired conversations in Japanese and English. One of the conversations takes place between acclaimed traditional Japanese painter Fuyuko Matsui and one of Japan’s most prominent feminist thinkers,…
A ROWAN WARDS OFF WITCHES (2019) directed by Natsumi Sakamoto is a short artist’s film which focuses on investigating traditional beliefs and connections between Scotland and Japan and was inspired by a conversation by her grandmother. The rowan tree, native…
Ryota is a successful workaholic businessman. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another boy after birth, he faces the difficult decision to choose his true son or the boy he and his wife have raised as…
BATTLE ROYALE (2000) is an influential Japanese cult thriller film based on the 1999 dystopian novel by Koushen Takami. Written by Kenta Fukasaku and directed by Kinji Fukasaku, this was the final film Fukasaku directed before his death in 2003.…
14 short films with an animated end-title sequence by young directors born in late ’80s to ’90s.
Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-year-old daughter, Warda. When Samia, a young pregnant woman knocks on their door, Abla is far from imagining that her life will change…
Nishijima Hidetoshi is a stage actor and director happily married to his playwright wife. Then one day she disappears.
An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.
The lives of three women are connected by a box that resurfaces containing notebooks, photographs and audiotapes.
An inspiring and encouraging documentary about the peaceful uprising of a nation against injustice and the brutal oppression of their democracy movements.
100 years old Aslan, the head of a death squad in his youth, is living with his other single old fellows in a remote village in the northern-west of Iran. Since he came to the village 45 years ago, no…
The Cinema is also excited to host special events, a highlight has been the screening and Q&A with Mike Webster, a Scottish filmmaker. Our audiences and volunteers relish connecting directly with people in the film industry who offer their own…
