As the Tide Comes In / Fhad’s tha an làn a’tighinn
Dirs: Juan Palacios & Sofie Husum Johannesen, 2023, Denmark, 89 min, Language: Danish with English Subtitles. HIFF classification: 12
The 27 residents of the Danish Wadden Sea island of Mandø experience the forces of climate change in the form of severe weather and the risk of flooding. But climate change and increasingly extreme weather now pose a serious threat to the eight-square-kilometer island. Its last farmer, Gregers, bravely faces the inevitable catastrophe. He refuses to build a life elsewhere and instead hopes to find a wife to manage the farm with him. Air eilean Mandø anns a’mhuir Wadden san Danmhairg tha na 27 neach a tha a’fuireach ann, mar thà, a’fulang feart atharrachadh na gnàth-thìde agus gealltanas air tuiltean mòra millteach. Ach tha an atharrachadh clìomaid agus fior dhroch thìde a-nis a’bagairt a bhith na chunnart sgrios air an eilean nach eil ach ochd-cilemeatair a dh’fhad’s a leathad. Tha an tuathanach mu dheireadh, Gregers, gu calma a’feitheamh ris an uabhas. The e a’diùltadh togail air a dh’àite eile agus tha e an dòchas bean fhaighinn a chuidicheas e leis antuathanas
Winner of Best Environmental Documentary at the Sedona International Film Festival2025
Houston's Whitebeam / Gall-uinnseann Houston
Dirs: Alex Darby, Jake Morris. 2024 UK13 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. 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.
