RIG Film School Films - Bad Batch (10 minutes) & Lost But Not Found (10 minutes) Shown First

Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.

Featuring Punching Above Our Weight Rig Arts ( 44 minutes)

Made entirely of Scottish film archive, a journey into our collective past, 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, given voice by King Creosote's poetic music and lyrics

A band of soldiers is dispatched to war games deep in the woods. When they stumble across a rival team slaughtered in camp, they realize they're not alone.

Featuring Hold Me to the End (Director Arla Piacentini) Trans writer/director with themes of mental health

 (47 minutes)

In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.

During a stormy night in the Scottish Highlands, two criminal brothers on the run seek refuge in a desolate farmhouse. But after taking the resident family captive, they find the house holds even darker secrets of its own.

Sour Tooth Scott McIntosh (8 minutes)  & Poly Baggage (Director Emma Ramsay) (15 minutes) via Rig Arts Shorts shown first

When David, Juliet, and Alex find their new roommate dead with a large sum of money, they agree to hide the body and keep the cash. However, this newfound fortune gradually corrodes their friendship.

Featuring Heartache Souvenirs Rig Arts (25 minutes)

Chronicling Scottish girl bands from the 1960s to present, a scrapbook of pop music unveils challenges faced in a male-dominated industry. A colourful mixtape of unheard demos, lost archive and rare performances.

In February 1981, amid fears the Lee Jeans factory was to close, 240 members of staff barricaded themselves inside while negotiations regarding their jobs took place. The sit in lasted 7 months, during which the community banded together to support workers and their families. Local eateries delivered food and shipyard workers donated money and other supplies and attended a rally at the factory the day staff were to be forcibly removed. The event made national news and finally in August 1981 the firm was bought out and all 240 jobs were saved.

The documentary features interviews with workers, their families and local historians, a reconstruction of sit in events (script written during workshops with Greenock Writer's Club), songs commissioned by local singer/songwriters, photographs, letters and other artefacts.

Part of the Lee Jeans Sit-In Heritage Project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, gathering stories to inform creative outputs such as original songs, a documentary film and visual arts working with the community.

Rig Arts Shorts shown before (27 minutes)

Ella Blake, a stop-motion animator struggling to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother, embarks upon the creation of a film that becomes the battleground for her sanity. As Ella’s mind starts to fracture, the characters in her project take on a life of their own.

RIG Arts Shorts Shown Before Film  (22 min)

When an unsuspecting town newcomer is drawn to local blood fiends, the Frog brothers and other unlikely heroes gear up to rescue him.

A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.

With Q&A with the Filmmaker Ciaran Lyons

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.