Director: Seamus Murphy Starring: Pat Ingoldsby Running Time: 96 minutes One of Dublin’s most recognisable faces gets a moment in the spotlight in The Peculiar Sensation of Being Pat Ingoldsby. The poet, a fixture on the streets of the city for decades, is interviewed along with close friends and family in Seamus Murphy’s documentary. It…
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How to Tell A Secret to release in Irish cinemas on World AIDS Day 2022
One of the most stirring Irish documentaries this year will be getting a wide cinema release across the island early next month. Innovative and illiuminating, How to Tell A Secret has shown throughout the year at the Galway Film Fleadh, GAZE and more, and on 1st December, even more audiences can see its vital message…
The documentaries giving voice to how Ireland has failed women
Ireland has a self-image as a place where we don’t talk about our problems, a label we can find ourselves earning too often. Even more specifically, it can be a place that doesn’t talk about the problems, the pain, the suffering that Ireland causes its women, be it from shame, or guilt, or in too…
Award winning documentary Lyra gets Irish cinema release
A film highlighting the life and work of Lyra McKee is coming to screens this autumn. The award-winning Irish documentary Lyra will open in Irish and UK cinemas on Friday 4th November. Directed by BAFTA-winning Alison Millar and executively produced by Hillary Rodham Clinton’s HiddenLight Productions, Lyra is a beautiful and heartfelt film about the life and death of the…
The IFI Documentary Festival returns this week
This week sees the return of the IFI Documentary Festival for another year. Taking place from from September 21st to 25th, the Doc Fest will show some of the best new Irish and international non-fiction cinema. Screenings and Director Q&As alike will provide plenty of insight, with Irish premieres including All that Breathes, winner of the Golden…
Director Tara O’Callaghan calls the shots in sex work doc Call Me Mommy
Tara O’Callaghan is a director on the up, working with the rising Motherland and directing eye-catching docs like Call Me Mommy. With Motherland and sister company Event Junkies recently merging in an effort to create one of Ireland’s most progressive production companies for production, post-production, delivery of film, commercials, online content and music videos, their…