July 16, 2025
Five fearless Scottish directors. Five powerful short documentaries. Five uncompromising artistic visions. As part of DokuFest’s cross-border collaboration with the Scottish Documentary Institute, the latter has curated a special programme spotlighting some of the nation’s most exciting talents to emerge from their training programme, Bridging the Gap. Here, we showcase these bold entries, the programme running concurrently with our own Future Is Here selection.
Part of the programme is a pair of Glasgow Short Film Festival award winners: Annabel Moodie’s experimental, grain-saturated Friends on The Outside, which tells a refracted tale of an incarcerated man in search of comfort, and Daniel Cook’s The Bayview, presenting a fresh portrait of fishermen in constant flux, centered around the titular hotel.
Eilidh Munro’s A Long Winter, which won BAFTA Scotland 2023’s Best Short Film Award, offers an unflinching study of humans interacting with their environment from the perspective of a deer hunter, while Holly Márie Parnell’s "hole in the stone" is an enigmatic, exquisitely photographed depiction of the psychological landscape of various independent farmers.
Meray Diner’s Pink Moon completes the lineup with a tender documentation on inter-generational trauma that flits from Scotland to Cyprus, lingering far past its final images.
For a more detailed look at the lineup, click here.
