Where You’re Meant To Be

DIRECTED AND PRODUCED BY PAUL FEGAN

This warm-hearted documentary follows Scottish pop raconteur and Arab Strap frontman Aidan Moffat as he tours Scotland, performing his modern re-interpretations of folk songs.

Just before he hit the road, Aidan met Sheila Stewart: a 79-year-old force of nature, the last in a line of travelling folk royalty, and a balladeer whose life – and unexpected death, in 2014 – upturned his folk assumptions, and diverted the course of the film.

A moving journey through music, mortality, landscape and time, it’s also a wry and enlightening depiction of two of Scotland’s most distinct musical voices, as they cross paths (and words): Aidan believes Scotland’s oldest songs are ripe for re-working against a contemporary urban backdrop. Sheila however… does not.

‘the film is affectionate, playful and irreverent in spirit. But it becomes something else altogether, something affecting and profound, when folk legend Sheila Stewart appears.’

Wendy Ide, The Guardian

This film has a 15 rating.

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