Bridging The Gap Shorts

15+
104 mins

Run Time

104 minutes

Enhanced Access

Audio Description, BSL, HOH Captions

Overview

Part of the Shorts Programmes strand

EIFF is delighted to present the World Premieres of the most exciting new short form documentaries coming from Scotland, supported by the Scottish Documentary Institute through the Bridging the Gap training programme. – Emma Boa

15+

Amongst Men

World Premiere

Amongst Men

Amongst Men follows Brendan Holland, a man living with giantism, as he reflects on the life and contested legacy of his ancestor Charles Byrne, the “Irish Giant.” Through Brendan’s voice, the film asks who has the right to decide how...
World Premiere
Katie McFadden
2026
15 mins
15+

Cherry Picker

World Premiere

Cherry Picker

Part experimental documentary, part visceral horror, this quasi-autobiographical account of renting and housing precarity digs under the skin of the dynamic between landlord and tenant, mixing in humour, wordplay and a fiercely feminist perspective. - Emma Boa...
World Premiere
Olive Jones
2026
10 mins
15+

Feral

World Premiere

Feral

A young feral cat is caught and her kittens taken away to be tamed. A story which reflects on our own discord with the natural world....
World Premiere
Miranda Rose Carter-Watson
2026
11 mins
15+

No Place Like Home

World Premiere

No Place Like Home

Writer and filmmaker Michael Lee Richardson revisits a childhood favourite film and finds a secret hidden inside all along. Part biography, part personal essay, the film blends 80s nostalgia and camp aesthetics to reclaim the narrative of North East queer...
World Premiere
Michael Lee Richardson
2026
13 mins
15+

Hidden Trees

World Premiere

Hidden Trees

A poetic observational documentary set within the remote Scottish therapeutic community ‘Lothlorien’, where residents with severe mental health difficulties learn to sit with their inner turmoil through nature, routines and peer support. But as the seasons shift, the pressure rises:...
World Premiere
Sophie van Bree
2026
18 mins
15+

When the Fires Stop

World Premiere

When the Fires Stop

After over a century of operating a local refinery is closing, plunging the town of Grangemouth into limbo. A static camera observes the factory, the town and its people in this elegant study of industrial decline and uncertainty. - Emma...
World Premiere
Matthew Dunsmore
2026
17 mins

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Amongst Men

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Feral

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Miranda Rose Carter-Watson
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