WORLD DOCUMENTARIES

Thurs 10 July | 13:30 | Pálás Screen 3  | 87’

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This documentary programme features Irish premieres from Iran, the UK, the Netherlands, the USA, and Sweden. These films spark vital conversations while pushing the boundaries of the documentary form.
Films in our programme can include mature themes/adult content. Viewer discretion is advised.

with ‘Confidentiality’

The “Women, Life, Freedom” movement in Iran has inspired courage in women of the patriarchal village of Abroo. Aware of the life-threatening risks, they united secretly to write complaint letters against their husbands to the president.

Directors/Writers/Producers: Shervin Vahdat, Payam Azizi

Endolife

Endolife is a short, hybrid documentary that combines the experiences of over 120 people with endometriosis into a single, scripted narrative.

Director/Writer/Producer: Lisanne van Ingen

The Miracle of Life

A Palestinian mother-to-be navigates pregnancy’s upheavals in the Netherlands. She confronts societal norms and identity crises, while questioning her right to feel pain as Palestinians endure unimaginable horrors in Gaza.

Director/Writer/Producer: Sabrine Khoury

Freeman Vines

82-year-old artist Freeman Vines hand-carves guitars, a few using the wood from trees linked to the lynching of a young Black man in a small eastern North Carolina town.

Directors: Tim Kirkman, André Robert Lee
Producer: Gill Holland

Sit.Play.Stay.

Snow White is about to be staged by a troupe like no other – in the lead roles… are dogs. Seen from a dog’s perspective, Sit. Play. Stay. reflects on love, longing, and the complex bonds that connect us.

Director/Writer: Cecilie Flyger Hansen
Producer: Line Aas Sørensen

We Were the Scenery

The story of Hoa Thi Le and Hue Nguyen Che, who, in 1975, after fleeing the Vietnam War by boat and docking in the Philippines, were utilized as background extras in the filming of Apocalypse Now.

Director: Christopher Radcliff
Writer: Cathy Linh Che
Producers: Cathy Linh Che, Jess X. Snow