It’ll Never Work and X Trillion

CR X Enivronment It’ll Never Work & X Trillion Double-bill (12A) 57min (2024) TBC | Follow fisherman Hans Unkles' attempts to build the UK's first Carbon Zero, solar-powered fishing boat. With the help of his fellow fishermen, he dismantles his old vessel and spends almost a year reassembling it as he learns and tests the latest technology. It's a real story, a drama, a documentary, a thriller, a comedy, a snatch of real life, a tragedy, a feel-good story and an environmental statement all set in the West Coast of Scotland's fishing industry.

(12A) 68min (2024) TBC | One thousand miles from land. The closest humans orbit above in the space station. A lone boat awakens to calm. Then, a fragment. Followed by a toothbrush, a washing basket, a garden chair. Surface samples bring up handfuls of tiny microplastics. Looking out over the ocean, a few pieces of plastic float visibly in sight. But a realisation dawns – we’re looking at a dense soup of tiny pieces. The crew record an average of half a million pieces of microplastics per square kilometre here, and that is only on the surface. Who knows how much is in the 5000 metres of water beneath.

Total runtime approx 125min