STRANGER THAN FICTION DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2009

THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD

IRISH PREMIERE Sporting thrift-store suits, armed with nothing but their wit and imagination, Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno are The Yes Men. Pranksters, activists, culture jammers they infiltrate the…

Thursday 18th Jun 2009 18.15

BECAUSE WE WERE BORN

IRISH PREMIERE The state of Pernambuco, in northeastern Brazil. A huge service station in the middle of an arid landscape provides Cocada and Nego, two young teenage friends, with dreams…

Friday 19th Jun 2009 12.00

IRISH COMMUNITIES ON FILM: Irish Communities Abroad

Goodbye to Glocamorra Radharc 1968 27 mins The suburb of Inwood, NY, has been called the last of the Irish ghettos. Irish accents can be heard, Irish newspapers…

Friday 19th Jun 2009 12.15

With IFI Stranger Than Fiction Documentary Film Festival just around the corner, we're delighted to offer a taste of things to come with a special screening of Gary Hustwit's Objectified,…

Friday 19th Jun 2009 14.00

IRISH PREMIERE After 30 years of war and Taliban rule, pop culture is returning to Afghanistan. Afghan Star, a Pop Idol-style TV series, has captured the public imagination, and each…

Friday 19th Jun 2009 15.45

After a seemingly harmless car accident, Richard Minnich, a California based father of five, wakes up with total amnesia. Doctors are baffled, there is no evidence of brain damage or…

Friday 19th Jun 2009 17.45

DEAR ZACHARY: A Letter To A Son About His Father

IRISH PREMIERE On the evening of November 5th 2001, Dr. Andrew Bagby, 28, was murdered in a parking lot in western Pennsylvania. The prime suspect, his ex-girlfriend Dr. Shirley Turner,…

Friday 19th Jun 2009 20.00

BEST WORST MOVIE

IRISH PREMIERE In 1989, a number of unwitting Utah actors starred in what was soon to be regarded as the worst movie in history. The film in question? Troll 2.…

Friday 19th Jun 2009 22.00

IRISH COMMUNITIES ON FILM: Alternative Communities

The Silent Order George Fleischmann 1948 10 mins The silent order of Trappist monks from the Monastery of the Holy Cross, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary go quietly about their…

Saturday 20th Jun 2009 12.00

THE QUEEN AND I

IRISH PREMIERE Director Nahid Persson Sarvestani is an Iranian filmmaker and former revolutionary who helped to overthrow the monarchy in Iran's 1979 revolution. Having made two anti-Islamist documentaries highlighting her…

Saturday 20th Jun 2009 12.15

IRISH PREMIERE India has always been praised for her idyllic standard of beauty, from women's saris to her skin and hair. But now, even she has undergone a Western makeover.…

Saturday 20th Jun 2009 14.30

IRISH PREMIERE Official selection of Hot Docs Documentary Festival Eva is a young, beautiful and smart overachiever with a loving family and a great sense of humour. She also shares…

Saturday 20th Jun 2009 17.00

BEAUTIFUL LOSERS

IRISH PREMIERE In New York in the early '90s, a group of like-minded outsiders found themselves at the heart of an arts movement born out of skateboarding, punk, hip-hop and…

Saturday 20th Jun 2009 19.00

ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES

IRISH PREMIERE In an out-of-season holiday camp on the coast of England, cult music festival All Tomorrow's Parties has, since 1999, served up a heady combination of alternative music, film…

Saturday 20th Jun 2009 21.00

Short Film Programme

Interested in seeing the future generation of documentary filmmakers? The short film programme is the place to go. Featuring a selection of the finest short documentaries from across Ireland, interspersed…

Sunday 21st Jun 2009 12.00

THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES

IRISH PREMIERE At 101, Rose is a former journalist, sex-therapist and counsellor, and is now the oldest newspaper columnist in the world. Hetty, 102, is a veteran Stop-the-War campaigner and…

Sunday 21st Jun 2009 12.15

IRISH PREMIERE Unlike anything else you will see in this year's festival, The Liberties is the film equivalent of a portrait gallery. A series of 12 beautifully crafted short films,…

Sunday 21st Jun 2009 14.15

THE BEACHES OF AGNES

IRISH PREMIERE Beaches have always been important to Agnes Varda. Whether as the location of the plentiful and sunny summer holidays of her childhood, or in her temporary exile as…

Sunday 21st Jun 2009 16.45

VICTOIRE TERMINUS

IRISH PREMIERE Tata Rafael Stadium, Kinshasa. It was here in 1974 that Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the legendary 'rumble in the jungle'. Now, in the summer of…

Sunday 21st Jun 2009 19.00

IRISH PREMIERE This is the story of Martin Strel, the four-time world record holding endurance swimmer, and his absurdly ambitious attempt to be the first person to swim the world's…

Sunday 21st Jun 2009 20.45