Film

FAODAIL | FOUND

Edinburgh Tradfest 2026

(Sat 2 May: 8pm)

This live score archive film screening event featuring the acclaimed accordionist and composer Padruig Morrison, with fiddler and Gaelic singer Claire Frances MacNeil will celebrate the launch of the FAODAIL | FOUND Outer Hebrides Film Archive website, funded by the British Film Institute.

Until as late as 1979 very little, if any, publicly-available film created in or about the Outer Hebrides came from anything other than an outsider's perspective. This lack of an indigenous viewpoint led, at best, to an uninformed, and often romanticised or patronising, representation of island life in the twentieth century.

The FAODAIL | FOUND project seeks to redress this imbalance and has so far digitised over 25 hours of 8mm home movies through crowdfunding. The archive is a unique and important documentation of social history of the Outer Hebrides that has gained recognition already through documentaries produced by UistFilm such as Dùthchas, Faodail - Found Film and Beatha nan Eilean. Presented by the Folk Film Gathering.