Document New Scottish Voices

Greenfingers
Dir. Gary Marshall, UK 2014, 14m

Exploring the transition from asylum-seeker to refugee through the story of one man, Greenfingers follows Ako Zada - an engineer and human rights activist from Kurdistan, now living in Glasgow - in the weeks after gaining refugee status and leave to remain in the UK. A meditation on the desire for a place to call home and the search for identity in a new land.

Untold Story
Dir. Pawel Grzyb, Scotland 2013, 30m, World Premiere

Director Pawel Grzyb returns to Poland to investigate the first 24 years of his grandfather’s life - a significant period of which was spent in Auschwitz. Through interviews with family members, Grzyb pieces together the missing years: is it possible his grandfather could himself have been one of the experimental test subjects of the infamous SS Doctor Josef Mengele?

Followed by panel Q & A.