Last chance to try out one of our VR headsets today in An Lanntair!
Dive into the abstract world of FLOW: Floating like leaves we witness a turbulent day in a life through the most vital element surrounding us. Brushstrokes of air in all its subtle, gentle, powerful and inner manifestations paint our fragile existence in the most unpredictable stormy ways. Follow wind in its unpredictable pirouettes along different natural and urban backgrounds.
Interact with the narrative in OTO’S PLANET. Discover the peaceful existence of Oto and Skippy, the only inhabitants of their treasured planet, until it is disrupted by a spaceship collision and cosmonaut Exo emerges. Cohabitation between them
proves to be tricky…
Book a slot between 11am & 4pm → https://lanntair.com/events/event/immersion-at-hiff/
or just come to the venue between those times!
#HIFF2024 is proud to present ISLA a stunningly beautiful short film about the Highland Clearances directed by Hector Hilleary
ISLA
Hector Hilleary, 20 min, Scotland 2023
Isla focuses on the aftermath of the Scottish Highland Clearances, when tens of thousands were forced to emigrate from their homeland. The story highlights psychological effects of family division, displacement and its damaging consequences. This was first due to over-population, unemployment and famine, and later, they were forcibly removed by Landlords. Villages were burnt to the ground and Highlanders were forced onto ships headed to the “New World”.
Talla na Mara 3 Oct 2pm
Carinish Village Hall 5 Oct 7.30pm
Castlebay Hall 5 Oct 4:30pm
Tarbert Community Centre 2 Oct 2pm
Castlebay Hall 5 Oct 7pm
#HIFF2024 is pleased to have secured two special UK screenings of Mike Day’s lyrical documentary Cowboys Poets:
COWBOY POETS
Mike Day, UK/USA 85min, 12+
As cowboys meet at the national Cowboy Gathering, they confront myths, old and new, to try to save the land they love. The image of heroic American cowboys riding through wide-open country dominates movies to this day. In Cowboy Poets, we learn about a lesser-known passion of cowboys and cowgirls. Poets, songwriters, and musicians come together at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Nevada. The film accompanies them as they record their unique way of life in poems and songs and consider their place is in today’s world. It shows their rough and ready everyday life as well as their creative work and combines this with breathtaking nature shots to create a piece of nostalgic “Americana.” Special Screening thanks to Mike Day.
Check out the trailer and join us:
in Lewis at An Lanntair on Tuesday 1st October 7.30pm
in Uist at Carinish Village Hall on Friday 4th October 2pm
Today’s programming spotlight is director Seàn Breatnach's promising first feature film, a complex and emotionally-charged drama set in the beautiful rugged hills of Connemara.
FOSCADH (2021)
Language Irish with English subtitles / 15+
Foscadh (Shelter) is a well-performed and visually striking film that touches upon isolation, neurodiversity, and letting go. It was chosen as Ireland’s entry for the Oscars’ Best International Feature Film category (formerly Best Foreign Language category) at the 94th annual Academy Awards. Based on characters in Donald Ryan’s novel The Thing About December, Foscadh tells the story of naïve recluse John Cunliffe who is suddenly propelled into manhood at 28 years old. When his overprotective parents pass away, friendless John inherits mountain land that is in the way of a lucrative wind-farm development, and he is forced to navigate the choppy waters of romance, trust, and vengeance for the first time.
An Lanntair Arts Centre 4 Oct 2pm
Taigh Dhonnchaidh. 3 Oct 7.30pm
Cnoc Soilleir 3 Oct 5.30pm
Introducing IT'LL NEVER WORK
Don't miss Joe Osborn's brilliant new documentary set and shot in Tayvallich.
The film follows the real-life struggle of converting the UK’s and possibly the world’s first fishing boat to solar and electric power to fish at a competitive and commercial level. Over the course of almost a year it follows the highs, lows and challenges related to the venture as well as the determination and skill set of the builder and skipper Hans Unkles. The young local director Joe Osborn has skillfully ingrained the seasonal moods, the strong local community spirit and the Argyll way of doing things into a comfortably paced compelling story of our times. One fisherman’s conviction towards the carbon free future we all need to embrace. A small film, but a powerful one. It is a true story, a drama, a documentary, a visual spectacular, a thriller, an action movie, a comedy, a snapshot of real life, a feel good as well as tragedy and an environmental statement all set in the West Coast's fishing industry.
An Lanntair Arts Centre 1Oct 11am
Bernera Community Centre 5 Oct 2pm
Taigh Dhonnchaidh 2 Oct 2pm
Cnoc Soilleir 3 Oct 12.30pm
Carinish Hall 3 Oct 2pm
Castlebay Hall 4 Oct 2pm
Book your tickets now:
https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/hiff2024-film-screenings-3647459
FAODAIL: ‘A lucky find’ (Scots Gaelic) UistFilm
Outer Hebrides Archive Film Compilation 15min. 2024
Cruinneachadh Tasglann Fhilm Innse Gall 15mon. 2024
The Hebrides International Film Festival is proud to present Faodail: a compilation of newly found 8mm film collections from the Outer Hebrides. The treasure trove of rare 8mm cine films has been recently digitised by UistFilm, through crowdfunding.
The compilation will include footage of St Kilda, tulip growing at Paible, Northern & Scottish Airlines airstrip at Sollas, Flamingo on Barvas Loch, Lochmaddy Hotel from 1930s and much much more. Up until as late as 1979, very little, if any, moving image created in or about the Outer Hebrides was made from anything other than an outsiders’ perspective. This lack of an indigenous viewpoint led, at best, to an uninformed, and often romanticised, representation of island life. In 2021 the Scott collection of Berneray footage from the 60s and 70s was digitised and featured in the award-winning feature documentary Dùthchas produced by UistFilm. Since then we have been inundated with new collections donated by local people inspired by the realisation that these 8mm ‘home movies’ have a great cultural value.
Screenings of Faodail will take place @
• An Lanntair Arts Centre 3 Oct 7.30pm
• Bernera Community Centre 4 Oct 2pm
• Talla Na Mara 3 Oct 2pm
• Taigh Dhonnchaidh 3 Oct 7.30pm
• Tarbert Community Centre 2 Oct 2pm
• Carinish Village Hall 5 Oct 5pm
• Cnoc Soilleir 4 Oct 6.30pm
