SHORT FILMS

 

Houston's Whitebeam

Gall-uinnseann Houston Stiùirichean: Alex Darby, Jake Morris. 2024 RA. 13mion. Cànan: Beurla Aig 80 bliadhna dh’aois, tha Libby Houston fhathast a’ sreap na creagan 300 troigh a dh’àirde aig Avon Gorge am Bristol (RA), a’ rannsachadh lusan annasach an roinn. Seo sgeulachd a beatha leis an àrainneachd. Ràinig Libby am Bristol sna 1970an, a’ caoidh call an duine aice agus gun an sealladh beòthail de bhàird is luchd-ealain beatnik Breatannach an Lunnainn ris an canadh i dhachaigh. Ri linn an dealasach aice airson sreap chreagan agus sùil bàrdach agus an ùidh ùr airson luibh-eòlas, lìon a tabhartas na chaill i agus lean seo air adhart gu iomadach nuadh-lorgan, a’ stèidheachadh na sgìre am measg nan làraichean luibh-eòlasach as cudromaiche san RA. Ach mar a tha e an-dràsta, chan eil ach aon bhall aithnichte den lorg aice leis an ainm aice – Gall-uinnseann Houston. Tòisichaidh Libby air a dìleab fhèin a smaoineachadh fhad ’s a tha i a’ meòrachadh air a dhol à bith do-sheachanta fhèin. Tro chall pearsanta duilich, lorgas i bòidhchead agus brìgh ann am blòighean de dh'eòlas. Houston's Whitebeam Dirs: Alex Darby, Jake Morris. 2024 UK 13 Min Language : English At 80 years old, Libby Houston still climbs the 300-foot cliffs of Bristol's Avon Gorge (UK), studying the region's rare plant life. This is the story of her life's entanglement with the environment. Libby arrived in Bristol in the 1970s, grieving the loss of her husband and without the vibrant scene of British beatnik poets and artists in London she'd come to call home. Her enthusiasm for rock-climbing and her poet's eye combined with a newfound love of botany. This dedication filled her sense of loss and led to a host of new discoveries, establishing the area among the most important botanical sites in the UK. But as it stands, there is only one known member of her namesake discovery - Houston's Whitebeam. Reflecting on its inevitable extinction prompts Libby to contemplate her own legacy.

An Lanntair Kenneth Street Stornoway HS1 2DS

Tarbert Community Centre Tarbert Isle of Harris HS3 3DG

Carinish Village Hall Isle of North Uist HS6 5EJ

An Taigh Ceilidh 16 Church St Stornoway HS1 2DH

Seaforth

Sìophort Stiùiriche: JM MacAmhlaigh, Riochdaire: Sorcha Groundsell, Àrd-riochdaire: Dùghlas MacFhiongain, Uair: 15:30 mion, Dùthaich: Alba, Cànan: Gàidhlig, le fo-thiotalan Beurla, Seòrsa: HIFF:12 Thèid fear leis an dà-shealladh air a tharraing dhan sìreadh bean-uasail airson an duine aice a tha air call, ach cuiridh an fhìrinn a tha e a’ sealltainn dàn brònach ann an gnìomh. Suidhichte an aghaidh an àrrainneachd garbh nan Innse Gall, leanidh Sìophort Coinneach Odhar, aonragan dìomhaireach leis an dà-shealladh a chaidh a shumanachadh le Bean-uasal Shìophort gus an lorg an duine air call aice. Na thachair le iarraidh simplidh ag atharrachadh gu lìn làn farmad, brathadh agus measadh spioradail, fhad ’s a tha na lèirsinneachdan Choinnich a’ sealltainn tuilleadh ‘s a chòrr na tha duine sam bith deaseil a’ seasamh ris. Duaisean: Fèis Film Eadar-Nàiseanta Rhode Island (Roghainn) Seaforth Director: JM MacAulay, Producer: Sorcha Groundsell, Exec Producer: Douglas Mackinnon, Duration: 15:30min Scotland, Language: Gaelic with English Subtitles HIFF classification:12 Set against the rugged backdrop of the Hebrides, Seaforth follows the Brahan Seer, a solitary mystic gifted with second sight, who is summoned by Lady Seaforth to locate her missing husband. What begins as a simple request unravels into a web of jealousy, betrayal, and spiritual reckoning, as Coinneach's visions reveal more than anyone is prepared to confront. Awards: Rhode Island International Film Festival (Selection)

An Lanntair Kenneth Street Stornoway HS1 2DS

Taigh Dhonnchaidh 44A Habost Port of Ness HS2 0TG

An Taigh Ceilidh 16 Church St Stornoway HS1 2DH

Tarbert Community Centre Tarbert Isle of Harris HS3 3DG

Bernera Community Centre Breacleate Great Bernera HS2 9JG

An Lanntair Kenneth Street Stornoway HS1 2DS

Carinish Village Hall Isle of North Uist HS6 5EJ

The Last of the Hand

Am Fear mu dheireadh de na Breabadairean-làimhe Stìuriche: Sìm Barr, Uair; 18mion, 2025, Èireann Tha Eddie Doherty a’ cumail air an tradisean breabadaireachd-làimhe an clò-mòr Dùn na nGall. ‘S duine sèimh is iriseal a th’ ann an Eddie Doherty. Aig aois 84, tha e fhathast a’ cumail air an tradisean a’ figheadh an clò mòr Dùn na nGall sa bhùth bheag an Andara, Co. Dùn na nGall, Èireann. Tha e ag innse a sgeulachd nuair a thòisich e breabadaireachd-làimhe sna 1950an, ciamar an gnìomhas aig aon àm beòthail air crìonadh ri linn gnìomhachas ùr agus a-nis, chan eil ach glè bheag de bheabadairean fhathast ann. Bheir e lèirsinn dhan t-saoghal an latha an-diugh, na atharrachaidhean a chunnaic e tro na bliadhnaichean agus dè a bhios ann san àm ri teachd dha tradisean breabadaireachd. The Last of the Hand Weavers Dir: Simon Barr, 18 min 2025 Ireland Language: English Eddie Doherty carries on the tradition of hand weaving the Donegal tweed. Eddie Doherty is a modest and humble man who, at the age of 84, still carries on the tradition of hand weaving the Donegal Tweed fabrics at his small shop in Ardara, Co. Donegal, Ireland. He tells his story of starting hand weaving in the 1950's, how the once booming trade declined due to modern industrialisation and now only a few hand weavers remain. He gives his insight into the modern world, the changes he has seen over the years and what the future holds for the weaving tradition.

An Lanntair Kenneth Street Stornoway HS1 2DS

Soul

Anam Dir: Eilidh Loan, UK 2025 15 min Language: English Sgeulachd mun tighinn gu aois freumhaicte ann an fo-cultur beòthail, Tha Anam a’ dèiligeadhh ri bròn nuair a dh’fhàgas do phàiste an dachaigh agus an cionta a bhios daoine clas-obrach a’ faireachdainn nuair a tha iad a’ fàgail am baile aca gus am beatha fhèin a' tighinn air adhart. Soul Dir: Eilidh Loan, UK 2025 15 min Language: English A coming of age story rooted in an electric subculture, Soul deals with the grief of letting your child leave home and the guilt working class people feel when leaving their town behind to better themselves.

Stoneybridge Hall Staoinebrig HS8 5SD

Castlebay Hall Castlebay, Isle of Barra HS9 5XD

Taigh Dhonnchaidh 44A Habost Port of Ness HS2 0TG

Stoneybridge Hall Staoinebrig HS8 5SD

Little Brown Bird

an t-Eun Donn Beag Stiùiriche: KT Bryden, 33mion. Aon uair, chaidh na àireamhan sporaig Grasshopper am Florida air a dhol sìos gu 80 san fhàsach. Tha e ann an cunnart a dhol à bith. Bidh am bith-eòlaiche Fabiola ‘Fabby’ Baeza-Tarin agus sgioba nach robh dùil aice ag obair còmhla gus na sporagan a dhìon, an àrainneachd a bhios a’ teannachadh, agus cinn-uisge nan Everglades. The Little Brown Bird: United States, 2025 Dir KT Bryden 33 min Once down to 80 in the wild, the Florida Grasshopper Sparrow is at risk of extinction. Biologist Fabiola ‘Fabby’ Baeza-Tarin and an unexpected teamwork together to protect the sparrows, their shrinking habitat, and the headwaters of the Everglades.

Tarbert Community Centre Tarbert Isle of Harris HS3 3DG

An Lanntair Kenneth Street Stornoway HS1 2DS

Boundary Layers

Sreathan Crìche Stiùiriche: Amanda Thompson, RA 16mion. ’S e obair film sgrìn-dùbailte agus aiste labhairteach a th’ ann an Sreathan Crìche. Tha am film seo mun ath-bhuannachadh le nàdar aig an seann muillin-stàillin Ravenscraig, Tobar na Màthar a chaidh a dhùnadh le riaghaltas Thatcher sna 1990an. Nach tòisich sinn a’ coimhead air na còinneachan, na bryophytes. Glè thric, ‘s iadsan a’ chiad lus-stèadheachail a bhios a’ ruighinn. Thathar den bheachd gu bheil na còinneachan seo coltach ris an fheadhainn a thàinig air tìr bho chionn còrr is 400millean bliadhna. Às aonais freumhan, bidh ribeagan an acrachadh air uachdar chlachan, sameant, craobhan, logichean, brèigean - dad sam bith as urrainn dhaibh a lorg. Tha iad a’ tarraing am beathachadh às an àrrainneachd mun cuairt. Bha an obair seo mar phàirt den A Fragile Correspondence, taisbeanadh co-thaobhach na h-Alba airson an Venice Architecture Biennale 2023. Boundary Layers Dir: Amanda Thompson, UK, 16min Boundary Layers is a dual-screen film work and spoken-word essay about nature’s reclamation of the former steelworks at Ravenscraig, Motherwell, closed by Thatcher's government in the 1980s. Let’s start with the mosses, the bryophytes. They’re often the first colonist species to arrive, and it’s thought these mosses are not dissimilar to the first plants that came out of the water onto land, more than four hundred million years ago. Without roots, tiny hairs anchor them to the surfaces of rocks, cement, trees, logs, bricks, anything that they can find, and they pull their nutrition from the atmosphere around them. The work was part of A Fragile Correspondence, Scotland’s collateral exhibition for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023

An Lanntair Kenneth Street Stornoway HS1 2DS

Castlebay Hall Castlebay, Isle of Barra HS9 5XD

Taigh Dhonnchaidh 44A Habost Port of Ness HS2 0TG

Breathna nan Eilean

Beatha nan Eilean RA, Film Tasglann 17mion Uist Film. Film co-chruinneachadh air ùr-digiteachd a thàinig bho FAODAIL /Film a chaidh a lorg sna h-Eileanan Thoisich Film Uibhist Taigh Chearsbhagh air Pròiseact Tasglann Film Innse Gall /FAODAIL ann an 2015. Gu 1979, ‘s e glè bheag, film às na h-eileanan, no mu dheidhinn na h-eileanan a tha ann an Tasglann Film Gluasadach ann an Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba, a chaidh a cruthachadh ach, le filmichean neach-clàraidh bho taobh a muigh na sgìre.  Dh’fhàg sin, eadar cinn beachd nan tùsanaich, fiosrachadh nach robh buileach ceart, gun eòlas air an dòigh beatha, cleas romansach agus coimhead sìos air eileanaich, gu robh tric sealladh air beatha nan eilean gun a bhith buileach mar a bha e ann an da-rìreabh. Thoisich Faodàil airson sin a chur ceart, agus thathas air cruth-dhigiteach a chur air 25 uair a thìde de film 8mm. Chaidh na filmichean a bha a’ cuimseachadh air an àrainneachd mu na 70an agus na 80an, a clàradh le Anna Dhòmhnallach Chnoc na Luib Uibhist a Tuath. Beatha nan Eilean | Life in the Islands UK, 2025 Uist Film Freshly digitised footage compilation from the FAODAIL | FOUND Outer Hebrides Film Archive, 17min The FAODAIL | FOUND Outer Hebrides Film Archive project was initiated by UistFilm at Taigh Chearsabhagh in 2015. Up until as late as 1979, very little, if any, film created in or about the Outer Hebrides available in the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive was made from anything other than an outsiders' perspective. This lack of an indigenous viewpoint led, at best, to an uninformed, and often romanticised or patronising, representation of island life. The FAODAIL | FOUND project seeks to address this imbalance and so far has digitised, through crowdfunding, over 25 hours of 8mm home movies. This compilation of 8mm film from the 70s and early 80s focusses on the natural environment mainly filmed by Annie (Chnoc na Luib) MacDonald of North Uist.

Bernera Community Centre Breacleate Great Bernera HS2 9JG

Stoneybridge Hall Staoinebrig HS8 5SD

Tarbert Community Centre Tarbert Isle of Harris HS3 3DG

Taigh Dhonnchaidh 44A Habost Port of Ness HS2 0TG

Carinish Village Hall Isle of North Uist HS6 5EJ

An Taigh Ceilidh 16 Church St Stornoway HS1 2DH

An Lanntair Kenneth Street Stornoway HS1 2DS

Whats up with the Sky

Dè tha ceàrr air an adhar?(Què li passa al cel?) An Spàinn 2023, beò-dealbhadh, 10mion, gun chòmhradh Tha a’ ghrian ag èiridh gu sona thar na fàire agus tha fàilte air cur leis an t-sealladh-tìre as bòidhche. Tha na daoine a’ dùsgadh agus iad a’ dèanamh na bhios an-còmhnaidh: a’ geàrradh chraobhan, a’ togail gun amas agus a’ truailleadh gun nàire am measg na rudan eile. Thèid am beachdan agus gnìomhan, mar is tric a’ dèanamh dìmeas air a’ planaid, a chur an àrrainneachd slan ann an cunnart. Rud nach eil iad a’ tuigsinn, ’s e gu bi dè a nì iad, bidh buaidh orra, luath no mall. Chan eil an cosmas cho foidhidinneach ged-tà... What’s up with the sky (Què li passa al cel?) Spain 2023 animation, 10min, no dialogue The sun rises happily over the horizon and is welcomed by the most beautiful landscape. The humans also wake up and do what they always do: cut down trees, construct aimlessly and pollute without shame. Their ideas and actions, usually very disrespectful to the planet, are putting in jeopardy the whole environment. What they do not realize, is that whatever they do, it will affect them sooner or later. However the cosmos is not that patient...

Stoneybridge Hall Staoinebrig HS8 5SD

Castlebay Hall Castlebay, Isle of Barra HS9 5XD

Carinish Village Hall Isle of North Uist HS6 5EJ

Bernera Community Centre Breacleate Great Bernera HS2 9JG

An Lanntair Kenneth Street Stornoway HS1 2DS

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