Sea Change 2024 has a big heart
This year’s festival celebrates stories of humanity and community, with a spotlight on documentary film. Everyone is welcome to experience the works of women filmmakers from Scotland, the UK and across the globe on the big screen, in our intimate island setting.
Opening and Closing Night Events
Opening Night Film: Your Fat Friend – a frank and funny documentary calling us to rethink body image with empathy. The film’s award-winning director, Jeanie Finlay, joins us on Tiree for a post-screening Q&A.
Closing Night Film: Kim Carnie Out Loud – with live music by Kim and her band Share the Scottish singer’s powerful journey from secrecy to self-acceptance, as she meets others who have hidden their sexuality, as well as LGBTQ+ activists. Director Maureen MacLeod and Kim Carnie will attend the screening – and Kim and her band will play the festival out.
Preview Screenings
The Taste of Mango is Chloe Abrahams’ multi-award winning directorial debut, centred on what connects three generations of women in her family from Sri Lanka to London.
Notes From Sheepland – from director Cara Holmes – candidly documents outlier Irish artist and sheep farmer, Orla Barry. (Best Documentary, Dublin International Film Festival).
Celebrating Scottish and UK Film
The Eel Fisher isa documentary short exploring the ancient tradition and uncertain future of Lough Neagh’s fisher-people. Director Méabh Ní Dhoibhlin returns to Tiree to host a Q&A with her parents, who helped to make this mesmerising film.
White Horses follows Emily Grimes and two horses embarking on a surf and camping trip along the northern coast of Scotland. Director Meg Wriggles will attend in person.
Republic and the multi-award winning 2014 short Cailleach (which screened at our first Sea Change) span a decade of filmmaking from Rosie Reed Hillman.
One Bum Cinema Club bring small-scale spectacle to Tiree with their tiny ‘one bum at a time’ cinema. Take your turn to enjoy home-grown animations from the UK.
Scrapper – Charlotte Regan’s debut feature film – is a joyful comedy. After her beloved mum dies, 12-year-old Georgie reunites with her absent dad in this tale of fresh starts.
Global Cinema
Dust and Metal is an evocative documentary presenting Vietnam past and present, using old and new footage. Stories of ‘freedom’ are told through the lens of the country’s ubiquitous mode of transport: the motorbike. Director Esther Johnson joins us for a Q&A.
Banel and Adama from director Ramata-Toulaye Sy, explores community, a woman’s place and climate crisis. Romantic drama about a young couple living in remote Senegal.
Paradise is Burning (Paradiset brinner) – Mika Gustafson’saward-winning drama – tells the story of three Swedish sisters left to their own devices by an absent mother.
Girls Will Be Girls is Shuchi Talati’s debut feature. At a strict boarding school in the Himalayas, 16-year-old Mira’s rebellious romantic awakening is disrupted by her mother. Lead actor Preeti Panigrahi will join us to introduce the film.
Film Maker Sessions
Along with daily swims and walks, our film maker sessions hold space for film makers at any level to develop knowledge, skills and networks, and share the expertise ‘in the room’.
Our film maker sessions include:
An Introduction to Screenwriting and a Script Surgery with Eirene Houston (Screenwriter, Director and Festival Director/Curator of Havana Glasgow Film Festival)
What happens to an idea? – where director Maureen MacLeod will take us through the journey of an idea and how it makes it to our screens
‘In Conversation’ with broadcaster and renowned UK film critic Anna Smith (also host of the Girls on Film podcast) – and film curator and cine-activist Melanie Iredale (from Reclaim the Frame, who champion marginalised perspectives in cinema).
For Families
Join us for films, arty activities and creative workshops for all ages across the weekend.
One Bum Cinema Club offer a selection of family-friendly animations in their tiny ‘one bum at a time’ cinema.
Oink is a tale of 9 year old Babs’ love for her pet pig – and a battle to avoid the sausage machine. Female-directed Dutch stop-motion animation.
Mamma Mia! – gets an upgrade! Make your own wedding attire to wear to the film in our pre-screening workshop – and an unmissable Tiree community project will accompany the screening.
Our Gaelic Book Bug sessions invite very young children and their families to speak, sing and celebrate Gaelic language and culture.
For Everyone
Enjoy the landscape of Tiree with our daily swims, pilates on the beach, a Gaelic walk or a Seaweed Foraging walk from Mull-based artist Jemima Hall. Jemima will also screen her short film Seaweed Shelter / ‘Fasgadh Feamad”
Learn how to Ceilidh with Tiree’s own Jessie Gray!
Look out for our collaboration with Iodhlann, Tiree’s Historical Centre, celebrating Tiree women from their archive.
See you at Sea Change!
Be part of the whole weekend. Individual tickets for screenings, events and industry workshops will go on sale in August.