Hebridean International Film Festival Listings Uig Community Centre – Saturday 27th September Uig Community Centre, Timsgarry, Isle of Lewis HS2 9JG 2pm FROM SCOTLAND WITH LOVE Dir: Virginia Heath| 75 minutes | UK | Documentary | 2014 | Thanks to Park Circus Made entirely of Scottish film archive, From Scotland With Love is a feature film by award-winning director Virginia Heath with a transcendent score by Scottish musician and composer King Creosote. A journey into our collective past, the film explores universal themes of love, loss, resistance, migration, work and play. Ordinary people, some long since dead, their names and identities largely forgotten, appear shimmering from the depth of the vaults to take a starring role. Brilliantly edited together, these silent individuals become composite characters, who emerge to tell us their stories, given voice by King Creosote’s poetic music and lyrics. North of the Sun (Nordfor sola) (8+) Dir: Inge Wegge, Jørn Nyseth Ranum| 46 minutes | Norway | Norwegian | Documentary | 2012 Inge Wegge (25) and Jorn Ranum (22) spent nine months of cold, Norwegian winter in the isolated and uninhabited bay of a remote, arctic island by the coast of Northern-Norway, facing nothing but the vast Atlantic Ocean. There they built a cabin out of driftwood and other cast-off materials that washed up on shore, and ate expired food the stores would otherwise have thrown away. But the boys brought with them two items of utmost importance: Their surfboards - perhaps their biggest motivation for the arctic adventure. Because the remote bay holds a well-kept secret; some of the worlds finest surfing waves. 5pm HOW I BECAME AN ELEPHANT (12+ HIFF ) Dir: Tim Gorski, Synthian Sharp | 82 minutes | USA | Feature | 2012 | At the age of 14, Juliette is on a mission to save elephants. After single-handedly raising funds, she embarks on a life-altering journey to Southeast Asia to meet and work with her hero, Lek Chailert, known as “The Elephant Lady,” who has risked her life and freedom for more than three decades to protect elephants from illegal trade and abuse. This is the story of two women, one from the East, one from the West, coming together on common ground to save elephants. Its also the coming-of-age story of a passionate young woman joining forces with a wise and experienced animal advocate on an enlightening journey of compassion, action and hope. The message: no matter what your age, your ethnicity, or disposition, no matter what the cause, you can make a difference, The film is one girl’s story that led to a movement that became a comprehensive plan…to save a species. howibecameanelephant/ A SEA TURTLE STORY (6+ HIFF) Dir: Kathy Shultz | 9 minutes | Canada | Animated short | 2012 During the night a sea turtle digs a hole on a tropical beach and lays her eggs in the sand. So begins the treacherous journey that is the life of a sea turtle among predators such as crabs, birds and sharks, depicted in this stop-motion animation. 7:30pm WATERMARK (U) Dir: Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky | 92 minutes | 2013 | Canada | A feature documentary of astonishing beauty and perspective from filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nick de Pencier, and photographer Edward Burtynsky, who collaborated on the 2006 film, Manufactured Landscapes, Watermark transports us all over the world, revealing the extent to which humanity has shaped water, and how it has shaped us. We see the construction site of the biggest arch dam in the world in China, the barren desert delta where the Colorado River no longer reaches the ocean and the water-intensive leather tanneries of Dhaka. We witness how humans are drawn to water in the mass Hindu pilgrimage called the Kumbh Mela, when 30 million worshippers bathe in the Ganges in a single day. Using incredible imagery, the film transforms water—a resource often taken for granted—into something spectacular and compelling. burtynsky-water/watermark/trailer/ CABO PULMO (8+ HIFF) Dir: Manuel Mendieta, Juan Pablo Maturana | 16 minutes | USA | Documentary short | 2013 | With the only coral reef in the sea of Cortez, the Cabo Pulmo National Park offers an inspiring success story about the rejuvenation and conservation of an ocean ecosystem. Now the reef is threatened by a mega-hotel complex.
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