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IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2022
The
IFI
Documentary
Festival
is back, September 21st - 25th!
IFI Documentary Festival returns from September 21st to 25th, showcasing the best of new Irish and international non-fiction cinema with multiple director Q&As. Among the Irish premieres are
All that Breathes
, winner of the Golden Eye Award for Best Documentary at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival,
Sirens
, and
In The Court of The Crimson King: King Crimson at 50
. Three time Oscar-winner Walter Murch will be present for a public interview, and a Q&A with director Taghi Amirani for the gripping
Coup 53
. Notable new Irish films include
Nothing Compares
, the stunning new biopic of Sinead O Connor,
Atomic Hope
, and
Million Dollar Pigeons
.
Multi-film bundles available: 5 films for €50; full 5-day festival pass for €100. Available from the IFI Box Office or over the phone on (01) 679 3477. View the festival brochure
here
.
IFI Documentary Festival: ALL THESE SONS
Irish Premiere Chicago’s exceptionally high level of gun violence has made national headlines for decades. While the city responds with aggressive policing, two community members from the disadvantaged South and…
Wednesday 21st Sep 2022 18.20
IFI Documentary Festival: MUCH ADO ABOUT DYING
World Premiere Filmmaker Simon comes to London to look after his dying uncle David, an eccentric, cantankerous, ‘luvvie’ obsessed with King Lear. David has been given months to live but…
Wednesday 21st Sep 2022 20.45
IFI Documentary Festival: A HOUSE MADE OF SPLINTERS
Irish Premiere In a war-torn and impoverished corner of Eastern Ukraine, where drug addiction casts a long shadow, sits a safe haven for at risk children temporarily removed from their…
Thursday 22nd Sep 2022 18.20
IFI Documentary Festival: GIRL, TAKEN
Baby Zephany Morne was stolen from hospital three days after her birth in Cape Town, April 1997. For 17 years, her devastated parents Morne and Celeste Nurse searched for her,…
Thursday 22nd Sep 2022 20.20
IFI Documentary Festival: COUP 53
While making a documentary about the CIA/MI6 coup in Iran in 1953, Iranian director Taghi Amirani and editor Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, The English Patient) discover never seen…
Friday 23rd Sep 2022 18.00
IFI Documentary Festival: SIRENS
Irish Premiere On the outskirts of Beirut, Lilas and Shery, co-founders of Slave to Sirens, the Middle East’s first all-female thrash metal group, wrestle with friendship, sexuality, and the destruction…
Friday 23rd Sep 2022 20.50
IFI Documentary Festival: WALTER MURCH MASTERCLASS
IFI Documentary Festival in partnership with Screen Ireland is delighted to welcome Walter Murch for a masterclass presentation in which he will explore his editing and sound design work for…
Saturday 24th Sep 2022 13.00
IFI Documentary Festival: IRISH SHORTS PROGRAMME
This year’s shorts programme showcases boundary-pushing films that span the full spectrum of documentary form. Wielding observational, poetic and participatory modes of storytelling, the programme demonstrates innovation and excellence in contemporary,…
Saturday 24th Sep 2022 15.00
IFI Documentary Festival: MILLION DOLLAR PIGEONS
Pigeon racing is now a multi-million dollar industry, attracting high-stakes competitors from all around the globe. Pigeon fanciers register their prize racers, box them up and dispatch them to faraway…
Saturday 24th Sep 2022 16.00
IFI Documentary Festival: ATOMIC HOPE – INSIDE THE PRO-NUCLEAR MOVEMENT
Atomic Hope follows a tiny global movement of unpopular pro-nuclear activists, who strongly believe we need nuclear power in order to decarbonize our energy systems and avoid calamitous climate change.…
Saturday 24th Sep 2022 18.00
IFI Documentary Festival: NOTHING COMPARES
At the peak of Sinéad O’Connor's rise to worldwide fame her iconoclastic actions resulted in her exile from the pop mainstream. Focusing on her prophetic words and deeds from 1987-1993,…
Saturday 24th Sep 2022 20.40
IFI Documentary Festival: ALL THAT BREATHES
Irish Premiere Against the backdrop of New Delhi’s worsening environmental crisis and escalating violence, brothers Saud and Nadeem devote their time to protecting one victim of the turbulent times, the…
Sunday 25th Sep 2022 13.20
IFI Documentary Festival: THE ARTIST & THE WALL OF DEATH
When Glaswegian performance artist, Stephen Skrynka, learns that a life-long obsession with building and riding a ‘Wall of Death’ was shared with Michael Donohoe and Connie Kiernan (who built a…
Sunday 25th Sep 2022 15.30
IFI Documentary Festival: IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING: KING CRIMSON AT 50
Irish Premiere Prog rock icons King Crimson have, over the past 50 years, cycled through 20+ members, the one constant being band leader and guitar impresario Robert Fripp, a sartorially…
Sunday 25th Sep 2022 18.00
IFI Documentary Festival: THE PECULIAR SENSATION OF BEING PAT INGOLDSBY
This creative documentary investigates the idiosyncratic world of Irish writer Pat Ingoldsby. Ingoldsby’s poems and candid anecdotes bear witness to a visceral relationship with his beloved Dublin and its many…
Sunday 25th Sep 2022 20.00