Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2019
The Scottish Documentary Institute celebrates the art of documentary filmmakign through the lens of international female directors. The short films are grouped into two programmes: Celebrating 15 Years Of Bridging The Gap and Syrian Stories, Female Voices - both marked in italics below.
19 films · 5 reviews
The problem is, you are left wanting to know far more than Fedda tells you.
(Country: UK; Year: 2007; Director: Yasmin Fedda) , Official site
Celebrating 15 Years Of Bridging The Gap
Beautifully shot, aided by beautiful country, there's mist and rain, birds on a wire, and real humour too.
(Year: 2014; Director: Rosie Reed Hillman)
Celebrating 15 Years Of Bridging The Gap
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2018; Director: Camille Budin; Writer: Marianne Brun)
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Isa Rao)
Celebrating 15 Years Of Bridging The Gap
(Country: UK, Sweden; Year: 2012; Director: Maja Borg)
(Country: Lebanon, UK; Year: 2017; Director: Tima Abdul)
Syrian Stories, Female Voices
(Country: Turkey, UK; Year: 2017; Director: Bayan Agha)
Syrian Stories, Female Voices
(Country: Turkey, UK; Year: 2017; Director: Lamia Aboukhair)
Syrian Stories, Female Voices
(Year: 2018; Director: Elizabeth Mirzaei, Gulistan Mirzaei)
(Country: Turkey, UK; Year: 2017; Director: Douncia Alatwa)
Syrian Stories, Female Voices
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Mattar Ismaeel)
Syrian Stories, Female Voices
(Country: Turkey, UK; Year: 2017; Director: Hala Al Sayasneh)
Syrian Stories, Female Voices
Ishaq's exploration of what the situation means for women in general is a strength and much more fleshed out than in similar documentaries.
(Country: Egypt, Syria, UK, Yemen, United Arab Emirates; Year: 2013; Director: Sara Ishaq; Writer: Sara Ishaq)
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Johanna Wagner)
Celebrating 15 Years Of Bridging The Gap
It takes a special kind of documentarian to look behind the right curtain.
(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Tali Yankelevich)
Celebrating 15 Years Of Bridging The Gap
(Country: Jordan, UK; Year: 2017; Director: Hiba Zaheer Hamdi)
Syrian Stories, Female Voices
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Lindsay Brown)
Celebrating 15 Years Of Bridging The Gap
Theresa Moerman's film is a deeply personal, deeply moving portrait of grief.
(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Theresa Moerman Ib)
Celebrating 15 Years Of Bridging The Gap
(Country: UK; Year: 2006; Director: Hazel Baillie)
Celebrating 15 Years Of Bridging The Gap
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