With spotlights on cinematography and on Poland this year, Docs Ireland has lots of treats in store. It opens with the world première of The Negotiator, which addresses the Norther Irish peace process and is introduced by former US senator George Mitchell. A special screening of Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man will be accompanied by life commentary from editor Joe Bini and there will be a night of live music, poetry readings, talks and DJing to raise money for displaced and starving people in Palestine.

The festival runs from 23 to 29 June.

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Docs Ireland Latest Reviews

Strange Journey: The Rocky Horror Story
Strange Journey: The Rocky Horror Story
The story of the cult musical phenomenon, its transfer from stage to screen and its enduring liberatory legacy.
A State Of Passion
A State Of Passion
An account of a British-Palestinian surgeon who has become a vital witness to the devastation wreaked by Israel’s bombing of Gaza.
Operation Bogeyman
Operation Bogeyman
An essay film that navigates the intersections of folklore, horror, and psychological warfare during the Troubles and encompasses a bizarre propaganda operation in which the British army staged fake black magic rituals to smear the IRA as ‘Satanists’.
From Ground Zero
From Ground Zero
A collection of 22 short films made in Gaza, giving Gazan filmmakers the chance to tell the untold stories about the current war.
Bogancloch
Bogancloch
Documentary sequel about a former sailor and his off-the-grid life.
Grizzly Man
Grizzly Man
Werner Herzog examines the psyche of Timothy Treadwell, a man who lived and died with bears.

Docs Ireland Features

Ancient heritage, new materialities
Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian on alien aesthetics, music and Doppelgängers
An education
Eloïse King on exploring the international essay industry in Shadow Scholars
The explorer
Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian on reimagining space exploration in Doppelgängers
The old man without the sea
Ben Rivers on Jake Williams and making Bogancloch
The land remembers
Simon Aeppli on the folk horror landscape of 1970s Northern Ireland
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