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IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2024
The
IFI
Documentary
Festival
returns, September 25th – 29th 2024!
From the streets of Egypt, where an all-female theatre troupe stands in defiance of patriarchal oppressions, to New York City’s Staten Island where Amazon workers strive to unionise, to the cities of Ukraine, where efforts are underway to rescue pets trapped in abandoned buildings, IFI Documentary Festival returns to bring a bracing crop of long and short form non-fiction film to audiences. Our Irish slate again offers a wide sweep of documentary practice. Our opening film by Tom Burke provides a wholly engaging primer on documentary ethics; a meticulously choreographed essay by Declan Clarke sits alongside Nick Kelly’s memory-laden road-trip; Mike Sheridan’s urgent interrogation of the far-right is counterpointed by Alessandra Celessi’s haunting portrait of post-conflict trauma in Belfast; television archives provide much food for thought in Roisin Agnew’s study of the British Broadcasting ban and in Ciaran Cassidy’s decades-spanning celebration of Irish women. The GALPAL Collective curate an illuminating array of international shorts. With a bumper array of guests for post-show Q&As, the programme is guaranteed to satisfy.
See also our IFI@Home Documentary programme.
Multi-film bundles available: 5 films for €55. Available from the IFI Box Office or over the phone on (01) 679 3477.
IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2024: THE GAP IN CONSENT + Q&A
WORLD PREMIERE This extraordinary anthology of interviews with 14 leading Irish filmmakers represents a new body of knowledge in the field of documentary studies. Filmmaker and PhD candidate Tom Burke…
Wednesday 25th Sep 2024 20.30
IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2024: US, OUR PETS AND THE WAR + Q&A (SOLD OUT)
IRISH PREMIERE Amid violence and war, Ukrainian citizens are coming together to rescue animals that have been left behind by those forced to flee the country following Russia’s full-scale invasion.…
Thursday 26th Sep 2024 18.30
IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2024: THE BRINK OF DREAMS
IRISH PREMIERE In a remote village in southern Egypt, a group of girls protest the conservatism of their culture by forming a street theatre troupe. They dream of becoming actresses,…
Thursday 26th Sep 2024 20.45
IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2024: THE SONG CYCLE + Q&A
Veteran musician and filmmaker Nick Kelly sets off to cycle from his home in Dublin to Glastonbury, carrying all his gear on his bike and playing in pubs and clubs…
Friday 27th Sep 2024 18.20
IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2024: UNION
IRISH PREMIERE In April 2022, a group of ordinary workers made history when they successfully won their election to become the first unionised Amazon workplace in America. This feat would…
Friday 27th Sep 2024 18.30
IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2024: HOW I BECAME A COMMUNIST + Q&A
IRISH PREMIERE The life of an elderly woman running a farm in the countryside between Northern Ireland and the Republic is observed in a portrait marked by stillness and a…
Friday 27th Sep 2024 20.40
IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2024: IFI SPOTLIGHT & IN REAL LIFE PANEL – WATCHING DOCS – A CONVERSATION
Following their successful events at the Dublin Film Festival, Docs Ireland and Electric Picnic, In Real Life partners with IFI Spotlight to present a special IFI Documentary Festival event exploring…
Saturday 28th Sep 2024 12.00
IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2024: BLOSSOMING: TALES OF GROWING UP
This selection of short documentaries from Ireland and around the world focuses on issues affecting young people today. Universal themes of adolescence, identity, and self-discovery are explored in a diverse…
Saturday 28th Sep 2024 13.40
IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2024: HOUSEWIFE OF THE YEAR + Q&A
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…
Saturday 28th Sep 2024 15.30
IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2024: AMPLIFIED: THE EXPORTATION OF THE CULTURE WARS + Q&A
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…
Saturday 28th Sep 2024 17.50
IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2024: NO OTHER LAND
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…
Saturday 28th Sep 2024 20.20
IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2024: THE BAN + Q&A
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…
Sunday 29th Sep 2024 13.10
IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2024: THE FLATS + Q&A
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…
Sunday 29th Sep 2024 15.20
IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2024: SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT
IRISH PREMIERE 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…
Sunday 29th Sep 2024 16.30
IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2024: DAHOMEY
IRISH PREMIERE 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…
Sunday 29th Sep 2024 18.20
IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2024: BLACK BOX DIARIES
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…
Sunday 29th Sep 2024 20.10