Sau (Woolly)
Dir:Rebekka Nystabakk, 2024, Norway, 1hr 23min, Language: Norwegian with English Subtitles HIFF: 12A
A small farm is about to change hands into a new generation, from father to daughter. A film about traditions, knowing when it's time to go on, to inherit, and other of life's big questions. Rakel’s father, a farmer for 40 years, knows what lies ahead: years when spring never arrives, summers of significant losses, poor harvests, and sheep on the run. Parts of the hayfield are too steep for tractors. Many would probably claim that this homestead belongs to a bygone time. But Rakel is convinced this is the future: "I know how to make food by using the resources I have around me. That will never be old fashioned." Tha ginealach eile a’ gabhail a-null tuathanas athar ga thoirt dha nighean. Film mu traidiseanan, fhios a bhith aig duine cuine a dh’fheumas gluasad air adhart, dìleab a thoirt seachad, agus ceistean mòr na beatha. Tha athar Rakel air a bhith na thuathanach 40 bliadhna, tha fhios aige dè tha roimhpe: bliadhnaichean nuair nach tig earrach, samhraidhean a chall tòrr bheathaichean, foghair bhochd agus caoraich ma sgaoil. The earrainn den achadh fheòir ro chas airson tractairean. Canaidh gu leòr gum buinn an tuathanas anns na laithichean a dh’ falbh. Ach tha Rakel cinnteach gur e seo an t-slighe air adhart. "Tha fhios agam mar a gheibh mi biadh bhon talamh a tha timcheall orm. Cha bhi sin a chaoidh seann-fhasanta"
Beatha nan Eilean / Life in the Islands
UK, Archive film 17min Uist Film.Freshly digitised footage compilation from the FAODAIL | FOUND Outer Hebrides Film Archive
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-digiteach 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.
