Welcome to the
HEBRIDES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Welcome to the Hebrides International Film Festival.
Festival Dates : 24th to 27th September 2025.
The Hebrides International Film Festival is a unique pan island Film Festival created to deliver access to independent international film - drama and documentary - for the people of the Outer Hebrides. The festival presents screenings in community venues across the islands of Lewis, Harris, Uist and Barra and in An Lanntair Arts Centre in Stornoway. The festival champions high quality independent features and short films from Scottish, National and International independent film makers.
HIFF also undertakes outreach activities which are linked to the content of the film programme, this year we will be presenting industry masterclasses with visiting UK film makers, Discussion events, Film Q&A’s, outdoor wildlife lectures and walks, whale watching and beach cleans.
Our theme in 2025 is: Sustainable Remote Lives -International Film Narratives and Inspiring Climate Action Documentaries.
Over the next few weeks we will gradually relveal our unique curated film programme for the Hebrides. Our funding confirmations were quite late this year but we are working hard to get all the films booked in from national and international distributors.
Some films from the programme include:
As the Tide Comes In, Dirs: Juan Palacios & Sofie Husum Johannesen, Denmark 2023, 89 min, Language: Danish with English Subtitles.
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.
Muriel Ann Macleod Creative Producer & Film Programmer Hebrides International Film Festival 2025
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Last years bi - lingual film programme is available here:
HIFF 2024 programme Download
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The Hebrides International Film Festival is a curated Festival, meaning we hand pick all of the films shown in collaboraton with our local island promoters. We are a small, passionate team, and each of the films we screen connects in some way to island culture the climate change crisis and relevant island issues.
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HIFF 2024 was funded and supported by:
