BAFTA Nominated - best feature documentary

“Brilliantly evokes the flavour of 20th century Scotland” The Herald; “hypnotic” The Independent; “hugely affecting” The Guardian; “spellbinding” Radio Times

Festivals: Edinburgh International Festival, Barbican (Live), Celtic Connections, Vancouver, Chicago, Dublin, New Zealand, Hanoi, Buenos Aires. Play trailer below

A journey into our collective past, with transcendent score by King Creosote, the film explores universal themes of love, loss, resistance, migration, work and play. Ordinary people, some long since dead, their names and identities largely forgotten, appear shimmering from the depth of the vaults to take a starring role.  Brilliantly edited together, these silent individuals become composite characters, who emerge to tell us their stories…