IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2015

IFI DOCFEST: STEVE MCQUEEN: THE MAN & LE MANS

This film screened on Wednesday 23rd September 2015. Irish Premiere The films Steve McQueen made in the 1960s (Bullitt, The Thomas Crown Affair) not only defined him as an icon of the…

Wednesday 23rd Sep 2015 20.00

IFI DOCFEST: RADHARC RESTORED A CASE STUDY IN DIGITAL PRESERVATION

This event took place on Thursday 24th September 2015. This panel will present the results of the first phase of the Radharc Archive Project, which has restored and digitally preserved 15 from…

Thursday 24th Sep 2015 11.00

IFI DOCFEST: A TURNING TIDE IN THE LIFE OF MAN

This film screened on Thursday 24th September 2015. Loïc Jourdain’s first feature documentary follows John O’Brien, a fisherman from the island of Inis Bó Finne and his lengthy campaign to regain his ancestral right…

Thursday 24th Sep 2015 18.00

IFI DOCFEST: 3 1/2 MINUTES, TEN BULLETS

This film screened on Thursday 24th September 2015. Irish Premiere In 2012, during the consumerist clamour that has become known as Black Friday in America, a black teenager named Jordan Davis died after…

Thursday 24th Sep 2015 20.30

IFI DOC FEST: DOCUMENTARY INDUSTRY DAY

This film screened on Friday 25th September 2015. FRIDAY 25TH, 10AM – 6PM IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BORD SCANNÁN NA hÉIREANN/IRISH FILM BOARD The IFI will host a day of…

Friday 25th Sep 2015 10.00

IFI DOCFEST: CHAMPS

This film screened on Friday 25th September 2015. Irish Premiere Focussing on Evander Holyfield, Bernard Hopkins and Mike Tyson, fighters who emerged from impoverished backgrounds to become heralded champions, Bert Marcus’ absorbing film presents…

Friday 25th Sep 2015 18.30

IFI DOCFEST: SPEED SISTERS

This film screened on Friday 25th September 2015. Irish Premiere A speed car racing scene has flourished in the West Bank recently, providing release and distraction in the volatile region. Though a sport…

Friday 25th Sep 2015 20.30

IFI DOCFEST: WOMEN IN FILM AND TELEVISION IRELAND – WOMEN TELLING TALES

This event took place on Saturday 26th September 2015. The panel, presented by WIFT, will discuss the role of women in documentary filmmaking – internationally and in Ireland – and will ask why…

Saturday 26th Sep 2015 11.00

IFI DOCFEST: CINEMA: A PUBLIC AFFAIR

This film screened on Saturday 26th September 2015. IRISH PREMIERE Naum Kleiman, director of the Moscow Film Museum, has a reputation such that when the Russian Minister of Culture fired him, the latest…

Saturday 26th Sep 2015 13.00

IFI DOCFEST: WAR IN EASTERN CONGO

This film screened on Saturday 26th September 2015. WORLD PREMIERE There will be a post-screening Q&A with director Dearbhla Glynn Over 6 million people have been killed in the ongoing war…

Saturday 26th Sep 2015 15.00

IFI DOCFEST: REALITY BITES & DOCUMENTARY SHORTS PROGRAMME

This event took place on Saturday 26th September 2015. A centrepiece of the Festival in recent years has been the world premiere of the Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film…

Saturday 26th Sep 2015 17.00

IFI DOCFEST: IN TRANSIT

This film screened on Saturday 26th September 2015. IRISH PREMIERE There will be a post-screening Q&A with Executive Director of the Maysles Documentary Center, Erika Dilday. Documentary pioneer Albert Maysles’ wonderful…

Saturday 26th Sep 2015 19.00

IFI DOCFEST: ORION: THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING

This film screened on Saturday 26th September 2015. IRISH PREMIERE There will be a post-screening Q&A with director Jeanie Finlay. Struggling musician Jimmy Ellis was regularly dismissed by record companies for sounding…

Saturday 26th Sep 2015 21.30

IFI DOCFEST: I AM DUBLIN

This film screened on Sunday 27th September 2015. IRISH PREMIERE When filmmaker David Aronowitsch cast Ahmed as an asylum seeker in a short film he was making, he became fascinated with how the…

Sunday 27th Sep 2015 13.00

IFI DOCFEST: THE PEARL BUTTON

This film screened on Sunday 27th September 2015. IRISH PREMIERE Master filmmaker Patricio Guzmán’s (Nostalgia for the Light) latest inventive documentary presents itself as a film fascinated with water and how Chile, with…

Sunday 27th Sep 2015 15.00

IFI DOCFEST: BARGAINTOWN

This film screened on Sunday 27th September 2015. DUBLIN PREMIERE Director David Jazay will be in attendance. Bargaintown is a prescient meditation on urban decay made by a young German filmmaker in…

Sunday 27th Sep 2015 17.00