Kaleidoscope Entertainment is thrilled to announce that Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough will be in available on DVD, Blu-ray and Digital from 10th November.
From award-winning documentary filmmaker Paul Sng (Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché, Tish), Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough is an illuminating documentary offering a rare glimpse into the mind of a prolific artist at work and play.
Irvine Welsh is at a crossroads. After experiencing the huge success of several film adaptations and six million books sold worldwide, he has become acutely aware of his own mortality. Now, with his hedonistic days drawing to a close, the outspoken author decides to explore the boundaries of consciousness through a psychedelic DMT trip.
Through this unique lens, join Welsh on a brutally honest examination of his life: how his creativity was fostered by his childhood in Edinburgh; the influences he gained living amongst 70’s London counterculture; and how groundbreaking work such as Trainspotting and Filth pulled him out of a self-destructive cycle, but also led him to heights of fame he never could have imagined. And still one burning question remains – what will come next?
This captivating piece of autobiographical filmmaking combines intimate observational footage with readings from his novels narrated by Liam Neeson (Taken, Batman Begins, Star Wars), Maxine Peake (The Theory of Everything, Shameless), musician Nick Cave, Ruth Negga (Ad Astra, Passing) and Stephen Graham (Adolescence, The Irishman).
Following it’s World Premiere closing the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the film received critical acclaim with Filmhounds praising the documentary as “an impressive feat in the execution of documentary filmmaking“. The Guardian‘s Peter Bradshaw awarded the film 4 stars saying “Paul Sng’s documentary finds the Trainspotting author as funny, sharp and unrepentant as ever”. The Herald Scotland remarked that Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough is “Artful, considered, imaginative, rewarding, though-provoking and pleasingly high concept, it avoids dwelling too much on past glories to foreground its subject in the present.”
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough also went on to win Best Scottish Film at the 2025 The List Festival Awards.
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough will be available on DVD, Blu-ray & Digital from 10th November
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