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Hebrides International Film Festival

13 September – 16 September 2017

Brothers Of The Wind
Brothers Of The Wind

Back after a successful debut year in 2016, the Hebrides International Film Festival has a packed programme of features and shorts which will screen in locations across Uist, Barra, Lewis and Harris.

The festival runs from 13 to 16 September.

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  • Brothers Of The Wind
    Review preview for Brothers Of The Wind

    This simple story of the relationship between a boy and an eagle speaks to cinema at its most magical.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    The story of Lukas, a lonely child who lives with his father, and baby eagle Abel.
  • The Red Turtle
    Review preview for The Red Turtle

    Some of the art is truly breathtaking, especially the star-filled skies, and the movement of the various animals we meet is beautifully observed.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    The life of a castaway on a desert island.
  • Pecking Order
    Review preview for Pecking Order

    Though it finds humour, and may even be poking fun on occasion, it never feels disrespectful.

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    Documentary investigates the world of New Zealand chicken breeders.`
  • Sami Blood
    Review preview for Sami Blood

    This is a powerful film that not only resonates with the recent cycle of films concerning rebellious girls, but with films made by indigerous peoples.

    Sarah Artt · 5 out of 5
    A Sámi girl experiences racism in the 1930s.
  • How To Let Go Of The World (And Love All The Things Climate Can't Change)
    Review preview for How To Let Go Of The World (And Love All The Things Climate Can't Change)

    A sensitive and well-produced account of a complex situation.

    Seph Shewell-Brockway · 3 out of 5
    Climate change documentary.
  • KEDi
    Review preview for KEDi

    Torun, who spent much of her childhood in the city, lets us get supremely close to seven exquisitely different felines.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    A documentary following seven different cats through the streets of Istanbul.
  • Wind River
    Review preview for Wind River

    The film is well-served by its genre action sequences but it's the traces of grief that linger longest, like footsteps in the snow.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
  • The Olive Tree
    Review preview for The Olive Tree

    What the film lacks in allegorical subtlety it makes up for in depth of emotion.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A woman sets out to recover her grandfather's tree from the company who bought it.
  • Angry Inuk
    Review preview for Angry Inuk

    Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, presenting as well as producing, paints a bleak portrait of the impact of pressures on the seal trade.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    An Inuk filmmaker takes a close look at the central role of seal hunting in the lives of the Inuit.
  • An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power
    Review preview for An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power

    This documentary feels confined by constraints that should have been stripped away in the filming process.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    Al Gore continues his crusade to stop climate change.

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