Music became a key part of the film after patients started singing to the camera
A new film following the lives of patients at an end-of-life care centre is set for its premiere in Stirling.
Seven Songs for a Long Life, based on patients at the Strathcarron Hospice, is to be released across the UK after its first screening at the MacRobert Arts Centre.
The film was shot over three years and follows six patients receiving palliative care from hospice staff.
More than 50 UK hospices have signed up to show the film in their areas.
Music is a key part of the film, as the patients deal with their terminal diagnosis through humour and a passion for song.
Director Amy Hardie, who spent a year as a filmmaker in residence at the hospice near Denny, said the film came about when patients started singing to her camera.
She said: "The songs that came from the patients at Strathcarron were so full of passion, dreams, anger, regret, acceptance - I felt it was their whole lives tunnelling into the camera microphone.
"I learned an interesting thing - when you've been told you have a disease that is going to kill you, you don't waste time. You want pleasure, to receive it and to give it.
"Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a community to help face your own mortality, making the process of dying itself safe, individual and as gentle as possible."
The film follows patients at the Strathcarron Hospice
