Beats

Beats (2019) is a Scottish drama you can watch online on iFILM, shot entirely in black and white by director Brian Welsh. Set in the summer of 1994, it follows two working-class teenagers — Lorn Macdonald and Brian Ferguson — whose friendship is about to split apart for good.

Johnno is moving away with his family. Spanner is getting left with nothing. Their last night together ends at an illegal rave in a field — the kind the UK government banned just months later under the Criminal Justice Act. Welsh shoots monochrome not as a nostalgia trick but as a formal statement: these are the moments teenagers carry forever, already half a memory while they're still happening. Stream Beats (2019) online on iFILM.