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.
The Mulberry House and The Third Dad
Breadmakers
(Country: UK; Year: 2007; Director: Yasmin Fedda),
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A day in the life of a bakery staffed by people with learning disabilities. Showing as part of Bridging The Gap and the Short Scottish Documentary Awards (which it won) at EIFF 2007.
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Cailleach
(Year: 2014; Director: Rosie Reed Hillman)
Portrait of a crofter.
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Children Of The Universe
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2018; Director: Camille Budin; Writer: Marianne Brun)
Children in the Swiss mountains take part in a workshop to discover the universe, guided by astrophysicist Stephanie Juneau.
Crannog
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Isa Rao)
Nobody should have to die alone. A contemplation on life, death and kindness.
Celebrating 15 Years Of Bridging The Gap
Future My Love
(Country: UK, Sweden; Year: 2012; Director: Maja Borg)
A poetic ‘experimental documentary’ which explores, in the light of global economic collapse, alternatives to monetary capitalism and, in particular, the work of sprightly 93-year-old futurist and social engineer, Jacque Fresco.
Breadmakers and Cailleach
Homeland
(Country: Lebanon, UK; Year: 2017; Director: Tima Abdul)
Syrian Stories, Female Voices
Home From Home
(Country: Turkey, UK; Year: 2017; Director: Bayan Agha)
Syrian Stories, Female Voices
I Feel It Too
(Country: Turkey, UK; Year: 2017; Director: Lamia Aboukhair)
Syrian Stories, Female Voices
Laila At The Bridge
(Year: 2018; Director: Elizabeth Mirzaei, Gulistan Mirzaei)
A former child bride-turned-campaigner who is trying to tackle the crisis of heroin addiction in Afghanistan.
Loss
(Country: Turkey, UK; Year: 2017; Director: Douncia Alatwa)
Syrian Stories, Female Voices
The Perfect Fit and Future My Love
Love During The Siege
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Mattar Ismaeel)
Syrian Stories, Female Voices
My Other Half
(Country: Turkey, UK; Year: 2017; Director: Hala Al Sayasneh)
Syrian Stories, Female Voices
The Mulberry House (Bayt al toot)
(Country: Egypt, Syria, UK, Yemen, United Arab Emirates; Year: 2013; Director: Sara Ishaq; Writer: Sara Ishaq)
After 10 years in Scotland, Sara Ishaq travels back to her childhood home of Yemen and takes her camera along.
Peter In Radioland
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Johanna Wagner)
Observational documentary about the filmmaker's father and his love of analogue technology.
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The Perfect Fit
(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Tali Yankelevich)
A look at the craft of making ballet shoes and the damage done in the pursuit of art.
Celebrating 15 Years Of Bridging The Gap
Suspended Lives
(Country: Jordan, UK; Year: 2017; Director: Hiba Zaheer Hamdi)
Syrian Stories, Female Voices
Swan
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Lindsay Brown)
An autistic teenager approaches adulthood.
Celebrating 15 Years Of Bridging The Gap
The Third Dad
(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Theresa Moerman Ib)
A filmmaker sets out to find the grave of her estranged father.
Celebrating 15 Years Of Bridging The Gap
The Truth About Tooth
(Country: UK; Year: 2006; Director: Hazel Baillie)
In a mixture of live action and animation we follow the journey of a child’s milk tooth through the course of one night.
Celebrating 15 Years Of Bridging The Gap
