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2019 IFI Documentary Festival Programme Announced
19 Aug 2019 : News Desk
Irish Film Institute
The Irish Film Institute (IFI) has announced the programme for the 17th IFI Documentary Festival, showcasing the very best of Irish and international documentary filmmaking.

The festival runs from Wednesday, September 25th to Sunday, September 29th, featuring 15 features as well as the perennially popular shorts programme. The documentary festival will open with the Irish premiere of Benjamin Berman’s The Amazing Johnathan Documentary.

This year’s line-up will also include the world premiere of Peter Kelly’s Journey to the Edge, Paul Duane’s Best Before Deathfeaturing a live performance from Bill Drummond and Tam Dean Burn, plus a host of invited guests and panellists.

Opening film The Amazing Johnathan Documentarysees the lines between illusion and reality become blurred for director Benjamin Berman, when he films the comeback tour of magician-comedian The Amazing Johnathan who, given a year to live in 2014, retired from public life, only to find himself still alive three years later. With filming underway, Johnathan drops a bombshell which forces Berman to choose between giving up on the project, or embracing the unconventional possibilities it affords.

Peter Kelly’s Journey to the Edgefollows the epic voyage of Galway businessman Enda O’Coineen, the first Irishman among an elite group of sailors aiming to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe as part of the arduous Vendée Globe Race. As O’Coineen sets out on the 50,000km, two-month-long race, his physical and psychological stamina is tested as he battles storms, failing equipment and himself. This world premiere screening will be followed by a Q&A with O’Coineen and Peter Kelly.

The IFI also welcomes renowned musician and artist Bill Drummond for a screening of his second collaboration with director Paul Duane, Best Before Death. The film focuses on Drummond’s visits to Kolkata and North Carolina to build beds, bake cakes, make soup and shine shoes. The screening will be bookended by a short play in two parts, White Saviour Complex, written by Drummond and performed by him and actor Tam Dean Burn.

Other guests scheduled to appear during the festival include Alan Leonard and Niall Carver, directors and producers of Heyday, a portrait of late musician Mic Christopher featuring contributions from Sharon Horgan, Josh Ritter, Lisa Hannigan and Glen Hansard; director Ziad Kalthoum will take part in a Q&A following the screening of Taste of Cement, a look at the lives of Syrian labourers working on skyscrapers in the searing heat of Beirut; and Renaud Barret, director of the festival’s closing film, Système K, which examines the emerging art scene in Kinshasa amid social and political unrest.

As always, the IFI Documentary Festival will present films that engage with today’s burning issues: Push, directed by Fredrik Gertten, examines the global commodification of housing through the eyes of Leilani Farha, the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing; Gods of Molenbeeklooks at the lives of two six-year-olds who live in the Brusselian district that has become synonymous with terrorist cells and social unrest; while Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaiche’s Advocatefollows Lea Tsemel, an Israeli lawyer who has defended the human rights of Palestinian prisoners for five decades.

Award-winning photographer Seamus Murphy chronicles the creative process of award-winning musician PJ Harvey in the breath-taking A Dog Called Money. Travelling together on some of his worldwide reporting trips to Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Washington DC, Murphy collects images of vast and varied landscapes while Harvey collects words which will form the basis of her album, The Hope Six Demolition Project. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Seamus Murphy.

Elsewhere in the programme, five students travel throughout Europe as they embark on the Erasmus programme in the Irish premiere of Angeliki Aristomenopoulu and Andreas Apostolides's Citizen Europe; a group of retired Sudanese filmmakers try valiantly to bring the movies back to the people of their homeland in Suhaib Gasmelbari’s award-winning Talking About Trees; a pair of stray dogs rule a Chilean playground in Iván Osnovikoff and Bettina Perut’s beguiling Los Reyes; director Mads Brügger examines the mysterious circumstances behind the death of the former Secretary-General of the UN in Sundance hit Cold Case Hammarskjöld; and an idyllic public pool, and a way of life for its regulars, comes under threat in Hristiana Raykova’s The Pit.

Finally, the highly anticipated Irish shorts programme, where the audience award is supported by Screenscene, will return on Saturday afternoon with films from Michael MacBroom, Sean Mullan, Dianne Lucille Campbell, Peter Kilmartin, Nodlag Houlihan, and Ronan Cassidy.

Click here to purchase tickets for the 2019 IFI Documentary Festival

Individual screening tickets are €11.50. Tickets for the opening night film, The Amazing Johnathan Documentary, which includes a post-show reception, cost €15. Tickets for Best Before Death, including Bill Drummond and Tam Dean Burn performing White Saviour Complex, cost €18. A special multi-film pass is available in person only from the IFI Box Office: 5 films for €50.

 

FULL SCHEDULE

 

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th

20.30 The Amazing Johnathan Documentary

 

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26th

18.15 Advocate

20.30 A Dog Called Money + Q&A

 

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th

18.30 Los Reyes

20.20 Best Before Death + White Saviour Complex performance

 

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28th

13.30 Irish Shorts Programme

14.10 Gods of Molenbeek

15.40 Citizen Europe + Q&A

15.50 Talking About Trees

18.00 Push + Panel discussion

20.30 Heyday + Q&A

 

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29th

13.00 Journey to the Edge + Q&A

15.10 Taste of Cement + Q&A

15.20 The Pit

17.30 Cold Case Hammarskjöld

20.00 Système K + Q&A





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