In pictures: Festival to celebrate women of Tiree
Archive images of Hebridean women are to be shown before films at the Sea Change Festival
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Screenings of historical images of women from the Hebridean island of Tiree are to form part of this year's Sea Change Festival.
The festival is Scotland's only annual celebration of female film-making.
It is taking place on Tiree from 20-22 September.
The photographs go back decades and are held in the care of the island's historical centre, An Iodhlann.
Dr John Holliday, a former Tiree GP who know helps run the centre, curated the selection of images.
They highlight the roles played by women in island life, and the images will be shown before screenings of each film.
This year's programme includes Jeanie Finlay’s My Fat Friend, which challenges people's relationships and attitudes to the word "fat", and their own bodies.
Closing the festival will be new documentary Kim Carnie Out Loud.
Oban-born musician Carnie, who performs with the band Mànran and was 2021's Gaelic Singer of the Year, spent six years in a secret same-sex relationship.
The film follows her as she travels around the world meeting members of the LGBTQ+ community who have also had to hide their sexuality.
It won best LGBT film at the Swedish Film Awards.
Sea Change will also have a screening of Dublin Film Festival's best documentary winner Notes From Sheepland, which follows Irish artist and sheep farmer Orla Barry as she prepares for a livestock competition in Wexford.
The festival was first held in 2016 and is run by Screen Argyll.
