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IFI STRANGER THAN FICTION DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2008
Pleasure at Her Majesty’s
Roger's Graef's first documentary with Monty Python member John Cleese was an Amnesty International comedy benefit gala, the forerunner of Comic Relief. Cleese, along with Amnesty's Assistant Director Peter Luff…
Saturday 15th Sep 2007 11.15
sleep furiously
sleep furiously, set in a small farming community in mid Wales, explores a landscape and lifestyle strangely familiar to the Irish viewer. The film takes us on a poetic and…
Thursday 25th Sep 2008 20.30
Route Irish
Make no mistake, Route Irish is a protest film. Made from what many would consider to be a radical point of view, Route Irish is certainly not the kind of…
Friday 26th Sep 2008 13.00
The Blue Tailor
An Tailliuir Gorm looks at the unique struggle for survival on the small, marginalised Gaeltacht island of Inis Bigil off the Mayo coast. As the only island in Ireland to…
Friday 26th Sep 2008 13.15
About Beauty
An artist of exceptional talent who has permanent collections in the Tate Modern, IMMA and Hugh Lane Gallery, Dorothy Cross is one of Ireland's most eminent artists. Featuring extensive interviews…
Friday 26th Sep 2008 14.30
Forbidden Love
Have we Irish harboured a secret fondness for the British Royals? The Queen is due to visit Ireland next year. How will the nation react to the first visit by…
Friday 26th Sep 2008 14.45
Greendale, Death of a School
Aoibheann O'Sullivan documents the final months before the closure of Greendale Community School in Kilbarrack. Known to many as the school associated with novelists and playwrights, the school was established…
Friday 26th Sep 2008 16.00
The Order of Myths
Margaret Brown's The Order of Myths provides a fascinating insight into century old traditions preserving racial segregation in the union's southern states. A native of Mobile, Alabama, Brown takes us…
Friday 26th Sep 2008 17.30
Jesus Camp
A powerful and absorbing documentary from film-makers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (who made 2005's brilliant film about inner-city children's lives, The Boys of Baraka). Jesus Camp delves into the…
Friday 26th Sep 2008 19.00
PATTI SMITH: DREAM OF LIFE
This is a documentary about Patti Smith, the writer, artist, poet, photographer, singer and musical heroine of Joseph O'Connor. As Molly Allgood was muse and collaborator to JM Synge, so…
Friday 26th Sep 2008 20.45
Please Vote for Me
Is democracy a universal value that suits human nature? Do elections inevitably lead to manipulation? Please Vote for Me is a portrait of a society and a town through a…
Saturday 27th Sep 2008 11.00
The John O’Conor Beethoven Project (Working Title)
Two hours south of Naples, clinging to the rugged Amalfi Coast, sits the town of Positano, the perfect place to get married, fall in love or just go shopping. But…
Saturday 27th Sep 2008 11.30
CHIPPERS
Screened to great popular acclaim at the IFI Stranger Than Fiction and IFI Reel Ireland festivals, Chippers now makes a welcome return to our screens. For almost 100 years, a…
Saturday 27th Sep 2008 12.00
Inishark, Death of an Island
This beautifully crafted film looks at life on the West coast island of Inishark, an island whose resilient community had survived for centuries until its evacuation in 1960. The story,…
Saturday 27th Sep 2008 12.45
Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037
Filmmaker Ben Niles follows the painstaking year-long process of building and fine-tuning a handmade nine-foot concert grand piano in the Steinway company's factory in Queens, New York. From the very…
Saturday 27th Sep 2008 13.30
I see a Darkness
Following on from the highly acclaimed series The Asylum and The Hospice, Alan Gilsenan's I see a Darkness is the opening documentary in a new series about suicide in Ireland.…
Saturday 27th Sep 2008 14.15
Gabriel Byrne Stories from Home
A revealing and moving insight into the life and creative impulse of one of Ireland's foremost actors. Blending home movie films and contemporary footage, director Pat Collins' craft engages fully…
Saturday 27th Sep 2008 15.15
Waiting for the Light
An intensely moving portrait of 85-year-old Irish film auteur George Morrison; pioneer and innovator of Irish Cinema, maker of Mise Eire, Ireland's first feature documentary. His time in the spotlight…
Saturday 27th Sep 2008 17.00
Tory Island
Tory Island, nine miles off the coast of Donegal, is the most remote inhabited island off Ireland. Its notorious inaccessibility and unforgiving landscape has not deterred 150 people from making…
Saturday 27th Sep 2008 19.00
The Upsetter The Life & Music of Lee Scratch Perry
The Upsetter tells the fascinating story of Lee 'Scratch' Perry. A visionary musician and artist from rural Jamaica, he journeyed to the big city of Kingston in the late 1950's…
Saturday 27th Sep 2008 20.45
Short Film Selection
Sunday 28th September, 12.00 The Cemetery People Director: Alessandro Molatore Duration: 4' Country: Ireland This film explores the unimaginable world of The Cemetery People, where families live, eat and sleep…
Sunday 28th Sep 2008 12.00
The House
20 Harelawn Grove, Clondalkin was the Doyle family home. In 2007 the house was sold, 8 years after the death of their mother, an alcoholic. In the time between their…
Sunday 28th Sep 2008 12.00
A Bloody Canvas
Three unrelated events a civil war, a black heavyweight champion without a challenger, and a journeyman Irish fighter down on his luck conspire to produce the most bizarre…
Sunday 28th Sep 2008 14.00
Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go
Internationally acclaimed director Kim Longinotto is one of the pre-eminent documentary filmmakers working today, renowned for creating extraordinary human portraits. Longinotto's latest multi-award winning film is a moving observational documentary…
Sunday 28th Sep 2008 15.45
Corridor#8
The mighty wheels of bureaucracy grind to a halt in this, perhaps the world's first 'non-road' movie. Corridor#8 was planned by the EU as an extraordinarily ambitious rail and road…
Sunday 28th Sep 2008 17.30
Football Undercover
Tehran, April 2006: The first official friendly match takes place between the Iranian women's football team and a local Berlin girls' team, in front of more than 1000 cheering female…
Sunday 28th Sep 2008 19.00
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
Photographer Annie Leibovitz has produced some of the most memorable and iconic images of the last 30 years, from her work with Rolling Stone magazine through to her Hollywood cover…
Sunday 28th Sep 2008 20.30