Film Night: Refugee Festival Scotland

Date: Friday, 19th June 2026

Time: 6.30PM – 9 PM | Doors/bar opens: 5.45PM onwards

Venue: An Crùbh, Sleat

Entry is free but please book here

The Refugee Festival Scotland is coming to the Isle of Skye for the first time. To celebrate, we’re screening 2 films; The Old Oak and The Magnolia Grows at Night. The event will explore the themes of class solidarity and migration.

Films information

THE MAGNOLIA GROWS AT NIGHT, dir. Fransisca Angela, Netherlands (11m) – presented in multiple languages (often incorporating English, Dutch, and Indonesian) with English subtitles

This documentary and experimental short film tracks the generations-long relationship between the director’s Chinese-Indonesian grandmother and a Dutch missionary nun. After her grandmother’s passing, Angela traced a convent in Maastricht, Netherlands, where a community of Indonesian nuns tenderly care for elderly Dutch nuns, all under the shadow of a large, symbolic magnolia tree.

THE OLD OAK, dir. Ken Loach, Britain (113m) – English with English subtitles

The Old Oak is the last pub standing in a once thriving mining village in northern England, a gathering space for a community that has fallen on hard times. There is growing anger, resentment, and a lack of hope among the residents, but the pub and its proprietor TJ are a fond presence to their customers. When a group of Syrian refugees move into the floundering village, a decisive rift fueled by prejudices develops between the community and its newest inhabitants. The formation of an unexpected friendship between TJ and a young Syrian woman named Yara opens up new possibilities for the divided village in this deeply moving drama about loss, fear, and the difficulty of finding hope.