A haunting, wordless hymn to our burning, beautiful world.
Synopsis
A haunting, wordless hymn to our burning, beautiful world. An audio-visual odyssey paired with Afterlands’ soundtrack.Through flickering landscapes and historical echoes, it reveals how destruction, complicity, and devotion burn together, inviting us to feel climate grief and spark the hope that emerges when we face the flames.
Director: Virginia Heath | Country: UK | Year: 2025 | Running Time: 15 min | Language: English | Rating: PG
Distributor: Faction North
Screening Details
- Festival Screening: 13 September 2025
- Premiere: World Premiere
- Festival Guests: director Virginia Heath and producer Grant Keir; Live music with Afterland’s Rick Anthony.
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About the filmmaker:
Virginia Heath is a BAFTA-nominated writer/director known for award-winning documentaries and dramas. Her feature From Scotland With Love (2014) screened with live performances at the Edinburgh International Festival, Barbican, and Celtic Connections. She won the Berlinale Short Film Prize for Relativity (2002) and and received a European Film Academy nomination. Virginia has directed arts documentaries for Channel 4 and the BBC and won a National Film Board of Canada/Sheffield Doc/Fest award. Recent works include Cigar Box Blues (BBC1/BBC4, 2021) and Three Chords and the Truth, which screened at Woodstock and Nashville. Her drama Lift Share won Best Short at Copenhagen Film Festival in 2019.