Making Waves: Sea Change 2025 preview
Beach walks, wild swimming, fantastic films directed by women – welcome to Sea Change, the Tiree film festival returning this September
Sea Change has been a breath of fresh air to the Scottish festival calendar. Taking place on the Hebridean island of Tiree, it’s an innovative and intimate celebration of female filmmaking. As well as showcasing a programme of films made by women, the community-minded festival also breaks out the cinema space with wholesome beach walks, group yoga and wild swimming.
Maybe New Zealand actor Kerry Fox will join audiences for an Atlantic dip? She’s helping close the festival with a rare screening of her underrated 90s rom-com Fanny and Elvis, followed by a conversation with GFT’s Allison Gardner. Fox will also lead a workshop on working with actors and present a screening of Jane Campion’s wonderful An Angel At My Table.
Author Amy Liptrot will also be on Tiree to discuss the adaptation of her celebrated memoir The Outrun, and to introduce a screening of the film. And the festival opens with 1934 classic The Rugged Isle: A Shetland Lyric, a poetic 'story documentary' about crofting life by pioneering Scottish filmmaker Jenny Gilbertson, with a live score by Inge Thomson and Catriona Macdonald.
Sea Change, various venues, Tiree, 19-21 Sep; full programme at screenargyll.co.uk/sea-change-film-fest