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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
Three Doppelgängers meet in outer space to imagine diasporic and queer eco-feminist futures in this innovative documentary.
When her mother goes missing somewhere in Ireland, an artist returns from London to find her. Her search takes her into a feuding family, a contested house, and a history that threatens to take everyone down, including herself.
Amid the failing counteroffensive, a journalist follows a Ukrainian platoon on their mission to traverse one mile of heavily fortified forest and liberate a strategic village from Russian occupation. But the farther they advance through their destroyed homeland, the more they realise that this war may never end.
Oxford professor Patricia Kingori uncovers Kenya's hidden essay mills where highly educated yet underemployed writers produce academic papers for wealthy Western students.
The story of the cult musical phenomenon, its transfer from stage to screen and its enduring liberatory legacy.
An account of a British-Palestinian surgeon who has become a vital witness to the devastation wreaked by Israel’s bombing of Gaza.
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’.
A collection of 22 short films made in Gaza, giving Gazan filmmakers the chance to tell the untold stories about the current war.
Documentary sequel about a former sailor and his off-the-grid life.
Werner Herzog examines the psyche of Timothy Treadwell, a man who lived and died with bears.
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