Braziers International Film Festival

Siôn Marshall-Waters, Forest Coal Pit (2022)

Two elderly brothers live together on a small farm where they have been since childhood. This super 8mm portrait explores the mundanity, vibrancy and intimacy of their relationship and hyperlocal world.

As they feed their livestock, tend to their garden and piles of scrap metal, the brothers discuss their views on elephants in China, lobster fisherman, ghosts and each other.

Mariana Castiñeiras, Exoskeletons (2022)

A filmmaker who struggles with her fear of insects meets a neurologist with a peculiar obsession for beetles. Curious about what his passion can teach her, she decides to join him on his expeditions into the Hungarian woods.

Exoskeletons is a sensorial close-up to an unlikely encounter.

Julia Parks, Seaweed (2022)

Seaweed explores the folklore, ecology, and history of seaweed in north Scotland. Voiced by seaweed harvesters, workers in the alginate factories, environmental activists, archaeologists, seaweed farmers behind the miracle resource. The film includes archive footage, oral histories and contemporary documentary footage of people working with seaweed.

Helen McCrorie, We know a better word than happy (2021)

We know a better word than happy captures children’s delight in the possibilities for fun and learning in an urban green space established by community activism in Maryhill, Glasgow. A quarter of households in this area have no access to a private or shared garden and, following lockdown, the children express their rights to outdoor play, for learning, togetherness and resilience.