ABOUT THE FILM

Don’t Be Alarmed is an intimate portrait of a generation in crisis. It is a coming-of-age story and an exploration of friendship, defiance, and the mental toll of living one step away from arrest. 

The film follows a tight-knit group of young activists in Scotland fighting against environmental and social collapse. As disaster looms, they turn to activism, but civil disobedience comes at a cost. Arrests, sleepless nights, and creeping doubts test their loyalty and mental resilience. 

Can their group survive the strain? Drawing strength from Scotland’s rebellious history and ancient myths, they face a system that criminalises dissent, forcing them to confront what it really means to grow up when fighting for the people and the planet’s future might cost them their own.