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Programme announced for IFI Documentary Festival 2024
Festival runs from September 25th – 29th
Discover intriguing and hidden stories from across Ireland and around the world
5 days of screenings, panel discussions,... Read More
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IRISH PREMIERE
Japanese journalist Shiori Itō embarks on a courageous investigation of her own sexual assault to prosecute her high-profile offender; her quest becomes a landmark case, exposing the country’s outdated judicial and societal systems, and has been credited with... Read More
November, 2021. Twenty-six royal treasures of the Kingdom of Dahomey are about to leave the vaults of a Parisian Museum to return to their country of origin, the present-day Republic of Benin. Along with thousands of others, these... Read More
Against the backdrop of the Cold War, the US State Department sends ‘jazz ambassadors’ Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, and Duke Ellington to Congo, a newly independent, resource-rich African nation, to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup that would... Read More
Belfast’s New Lodge is a Catholic neighbourhood violently affected by the Troubles. Many of the men who live here engaged in paramilitary activity in their youth and now suffer from disillusionment, unemployment, and poor mental health. The women work to... Read More
In 1988, following a wave of IRA atrocities, the British Government introduced a Broadcasting Ban, silencing Sinn Féin and other loyalist and republican paramilitary groups by forbidding broadcasters to allow anyone affiliated with these bodies to speak on television or... Read More
Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films as his community of Masafer Yatta is gradually eradicated by the destruction and forced displacements of the Israeli occupation. Adra builds an unlikely alliance with Yuval, an Israeli journalist who reports on what his... Read More
WORLD PREMIERE
An impressive cast of heavyweight contributors examines the impact of America’s most contagious export – cultural and political vitriol – on global society. The film investigates how nefarious elements of rhetoric and conspiracy are seeded though paranoia and... Read More
Between 1969 and 1995, women all over Ireland competed to win the Housewife of the Year, a competition celebrating “cookery, nurturing, and basic household management skills”. Broadcast on RTÉ from 1982, the programmes featured not just the competition itself but... Read More
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: CONSERVATION CONVERSATIONS (PROGRAMME 1) 13:00
CLOSE TO YOU 13:50, 18:00
KNEECAP 16:10, 20:40
MRS ROBINSON 13:40, 16:00, 18:30
PULP FICTION 4K RE-RELEASE 20:10
SING SING 13:10, 18:10
TOUCH 15:30, 20:30
The IFI is supported by The Arts Council
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