“Make it to Munich”
Winner of the SAFF audience award
Synopsis: Hot from closing Glasgow Film Festival 2025 and shot in the run-up to Euro 2024, Make It To Munich follows Ethan Walker, a promising teenage footballer from Aberdeenshire who, just months into a football scholarship at a New York State University, suffers life-threatening injuries (including multiple fractures, two brain haemorrhages and the complete dislocation of his right knee) in a road traffic accident. Aided in his recovery by pioneering Glasgow surgeon (and former Rangers footballer who was signed by Graeme Souness and worked with Ally McCoist) Professor Gordon Mackay, Ethan decides to cycle from Hampden to Munich for Scotland’s opening match against Germany in Euro 2024 -just nine months after his accident. Entrusted by the Scotland National team to carry the match pennant on his back for the whole journey and deliver it in time for kick off, Ethan is accompanied in this epic quest by Gordon, Tartan Army foot-soldier Stephen Collie and Martyn (filmmaker) himself. Make It To Munich is an uplifting story of human willpower, scientific ingenuity and the questionable wisdom of making a film with one hand while the other one grasps the handlebars for a 1200 Kilometres cycle.
Martyn Robertson is a BAFTA New Talent award winning and BIFA Nominated Director based in Scotland. He has worked on a wide range of independent film and projects over his professional career. Martyn began his filmmaking within communities and worked in areas of multiple deprivation to make short films for and with local people.
He then produced and directed shorts through a variety of schemes and completed his debut funded-feature documentary which premiered at BFI London Film Festival and screened at Glasgow Film Festival and Cannes Great8 winning several best feature awards. Make it to Munich is Martyn's second feature doc and was made on a shoe string budget, with one hand on his bicycle in-between two funded feature docs that he's currently shooting.