HIFF – In Our Hands
SAT 22 SEPT
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In Our Hands: Food and farming is in crisis. In just over a decade we’ve lost more than 33,000 farms from our countryside, and alongside this, bad diet is now causing more health problems than smoking! The fundamental link between people, food and the very land we stand on is being broken. Yet it need … Continue reading HIFF – In Our Hands
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HIFF- Tongue Cutters
SAT 22 SEPT
In search of winter vacation work, nine-year-old Ylva from Oslo goes to stay with her grandparents in a fishing village in the north of Norway. The fish factory there offers a traditional job for children: cutting out cod tongues. From age six, children are taught how to take heads from a barrel and to use … Continue reading HIFF- Tongue Cutters
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HiFF – Falcons
Sat 22 Sept
Dir. Bragi Thor Hinriksson, Iceland, 1 hr 30 mins, 2018, Icelandic with English Subtitles Every year, on a large island just outside of Iceland, there is a huge football tournament for kids. This year ten-year-old Jon goes with his team to compete and will have to grow up faster than he expected, both on and … Continue reading HiFF – Falcons
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HIFF – Blue Fin
SAT 22 SEPT
Something strange is going off Prince Edward Island, Canada. Why are normally fearful giant bluefin not scared of humans anymore? Why are they swarming fishing boats, desperately seeking to be hand-fed? Are these “endangered” tuna stocks rebuilt as the fishermen claim? Or are we actually hunting down the last of them like the buffalo as … Continue reading HIFF – Blue Fin
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HIFF – The Rider
SAT 22 SEPT
After a tragic riding accident, young cowboy Brady, once a rising star of the rodeo circuit is warned that his riding days are over. Back home Brady finds himself wondering what he has to live for when he can no longer do what gives him a sense of purpose, to ride and compete. In an … Continue reading HIFF – The Rider
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HIFF – Leave No Trace
SAT 22 SEPT
Will (Ben Foster) and his teenage daughter, Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), have lived off the grid for years in the forests of Portland, Oregon. When their idyllic life is shattered, both are put into social services. After clashing with their new surroundings, Will and Tom set off on a harrowing journey back to their wild … Continue reading HIFF – Leave No Trace
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HIFF – Albatross
Sat 22 Sept
Dir. Chris Jordan, USA, 1 hr 37 mins, 2017, HIFF recommended 12, English ALBATROSS, a film by artist Chris Jordan, is a powerfully moving love story about birds on Midway Island in the Pacific whose bodies are filled with ocean plastic. The journey of ALBATROSS began in 2008 as a collaboration between activist/photographer Manuel Maqueda … Continue reading HIFF – Albatross
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Eileanaich Phagastain (The Pakistan Islanders)
Mon 24 Sept
A portrait of Lewis & Harris’s Pakistani community
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The Escape
Tue 25 Sept
She should want for nothing. But she does want.
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Ant-Man And The Wasp
Fri 28 Sept - Wed 3 Oct
Scott must once again put on the suit and learn to fight alongside The Wasp.
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Christopher Robin
Sat 29 Sept & Tue 2 Oct
Christopher Robin has grown up and lost his way.
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Make Me Up by Rachel Maclean
Thur 18 Oct
In Make Me Up, multimedia artist Rachel Maclean has created a world that is both seductive and dangerous; a place where surveillance, violence and submission are a normalised part of daily life. She tackles these contradictions head-on and never balks at pushing boundaries. This darkly-comic film takes a satirical look at the contradictory pressures faced … Continue reading Make Me Up by Rachel Maclean
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Faclan: Village of the Damned
Wed 31 October
Demonic children take over in this 1960 horror classic
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Faclan: The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
Wed 31 October
A hypnotist uses a sleep walker to commit murders.
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Faclan: Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
Wed 31 October
1922 classic with live piano accompaniment
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Faclan: Rosemary’s Baby
Thurs 1 November
A pregnant woman suspects that a cult want to use her baby in their rituals
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Faclan: Psycho
Thurs 1 November
Hitchcock classic that birthed the slasher movie
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Faclan: Schalcken the Painter
Fri 2 November
A terrifying ghost story from 1970s BBC
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Faclan: Frankenstein
Fri 2 November
The original film adaptation, with Boris Karloff
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Faclan: The Babadook
Sat 3 November
A boy’s dreams are disturbed by a monster from a strange storybook.
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THA THU AIR AIGEANN M’ INNTINN
17 Dec
World premiere of Iolaire animation by Catriona Black
