Magilligan + The Weavers

In a Northern Irish prison, young inmate Ryan finds some calm working with sheep on the prison farm but, on release, the burden of family history, grief and addiction threatens to be overwhelming. Sometimes dark and frustrating, sometimes bucolic and calm, this is a non-judgemental portrait of a man caught between two worlds.

Rob Beaton has been weaving tartan and tweed in the Scottish Borders since he was 14. Now 84, he is Scotland’s oldest and longest-serving mill worker, operating 100-year-old traditional shuttle looms in a mill threatened by closure. But elsewhere in Scotland, a different story is unfolding.