A documentary musical travelling the length of Dublin’s fabled North Circular Road evoking narratives from the history of the city and nation, from colonialism to mental health, to the struggle for women’s liberation and gentrification
The life and work of comedian, writer and civil rights activist Dick Gregory is brought to the screen in IMPACT, featuring an extraordinary and wide-ranging conversation with Gregory himself.
Members of a quintessentially British working-class amateur filmmaking club, ‘BRADFORD MOVIE MAKERS’ grow old together amid flickering memories and challenging final years.
‘In different places, different thoughts emerge.’ Irish artists, Desperate Optimists (aka Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor) have spent three decades in England – raising their now nearly-adult daughter Molly, and putting down creative and personal roots.
The final months of America's 20-year war in Afghanistan are captured up close by director Matthew Heineman, who films not only with departing US Special Forces, but on the ground with the Afghan soldiers who remain, as the Taliban move closer to Kabul.
Two Mexican men - the filmmaker Rodrigo Reyes, and an undocumented migrant called Sansón imprisoned on a life sentence - come together to tell Sansón's story, in an unforgettable film that pushes the boundaries of cinematic imagination.
This cinematic tapestry of contemporary Hong Kong weaves together the memories of older generations' historical experiences with the struggles of the younger generation striving to preserve their freedom today.
There are very few people today who know the secret language of Nushu. Written in poems or songs on paper-folded fans and handkerchiefs, the historical language was developed by Chinese women, who were forbidden to read or write for thousands of years.
This observational epic, winner of the Silver Bear at Berlinale, meets 64-year old teach Mr Bachmann, and his class of 12-14 year olds in the German town of Stadtallendorf.
A short piece of found film becomes a fascinating journey into the past in Bianca Stigter’s haunting and moving essay film about the inabitants of a Polish village in 1938.
Lynch/Oz explores one of the most fascinating puzzles in the history of motion pictures: the enduring symbiosis between America’s primordial fairytale, The Wizard of Oz, and David Lynch’s singular brand of popular surrealism.
Join us for a special screening of the award-winning documentary As I Want followed by a panel discussion and reception. Presented by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in partnership with Movies That Matter.
Far Beyond The Pasturelands
In a remote Himalayan region, the villagers of Maikot are preparing for the harvest of a mysterious aphrodisiac caterpillarmushroom worth more than gold.
Award-winning filmmaker Ondi Timoner focuses on her family for this astonishing and poignant portrait of her father’s last days.
The antithesis of a rock biography, Anonymous Club paints a raw and intimate picture of enigmatic singer-songwriter, Courtney Barnett, a powerful voice for our times.