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Renaud Barret Paul Duane Peter Kelly Système K Système K Best Before Death Journey to the Edge Renaud Barret started Paul Duane has been Peter Kelly is an his career as a making films, drama award-winning graphic designer and and documentary for producer-director photographer and has been interested twenty years. His most recent filmWhat with credits on scores of documentaries in African culture since his 20s. He Time Is Death? follows the return of the filmed in over 50 countries. Productions moved to Kinshasa in 2003 and since Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, otherwise include documentary series for Irish and then has produced and directed several known as The KLF, after their self-im- international television embracing a range documentaries including La Dance le posed 23-year silence. He produced the of subjects; development and social Jupiter, Victoire Terminus, and Benda 2015 IFTA-award-winning documentary issues, history, science, faith, human Billi! which have screened and won In A House That Ceased To Be, and the rights and the Irish abroad. He regularly Sunday 29th (20.00) awards at festivals around the world IFTA-nominated documentary Barbaric contributes to conferences and periodicals Kinshasa, a city of eleven million people, is home to an emerging wave of street including BFI London Film Festival, Hot Genius. His documentary on rockabilly on aspects of the international audio- artists whose vibrant, disturbing works function as political commentary on Docs Toronto and Berlinale. In addition to bankrobber Jerry McGill, Very Extremely visual industry. the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country plagued by civil unrest, poverty his filmmaking activity, Renaud produces Dangerous, was called “a riveting ride and corruption. French director Renaud Barret follows the exploits of one Congolese musicians through his agency to the wrong side of the tracks” by The Alan Leonard such group, the titular Système K, a wildly inventive collective whose artists in Kinshasa. Sunday Times. His 2013 filmNatan , Heyday – The Mic employ waste products, fire, paint, wax and blood to make arresting, taboo- screened at some of the world’s most Christopher Story breaking installations and kinetic performance pieces, in spite of the constant Bill Drummond prestigious film festivals: Edinburgh, Alan Leonard is one harassment of the authorities, and the risks posed to their lives. (DOM) Best Before Death Telluride, Lumière and Pordenone. He of Ireland’s foremost DIRECTOR: RENAUD BARRET / 94 MINS / FRANCE-CONGO / 2018 / DIGITAL / SUBTITLED Bill Drummond was co-created and co-produced the IFTA- cinematic talents, with an extensive This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Renaud Barret. born in the Transkei, winning drama series Amber, and before background in production design and South Africa and began that was a co-creator of TV series Secret film production. He has worked on such his music career in the 1970s with punk Diary of a Call Girl. titles as The Count of Monte Cristo, and band Big In Japan and managed two of The Medallion. He has consolidated Tickets the more successful bands from that era, Ziad Kalthoum this experience with his love for movies, Echo & the Bunnymen and The Teardrop Taste of Cement screen writing, special effects and ▶ Tickets Tickets cost €11.50 except ▶ Special Package Price 5 films for €50. The F-rating is a classification Explodes. During the late 80s with Jimmy Ziad Kalthoum is a lighting, making him one of the most for the opening film (€15) which Available in person at the reserved for any film which is Cauty, he formed half of The Justified Syrian filmmaker creative directors in the country. includes a post-screening reception, IFI Box Office only. directed and/or written by a woman. Ancients of Mu Mu, also known as The currently living and Best Before Death (€18) which KLF. They became the biggest selling in Berlin. His first documentaryOh Seamus Murphy is bookended by a short play. ▶ IFI Café Bar Enjoy a delicious meal Programme notes by: singles act of 1991 with hits such as What My Heart (2009) portrays a group of A Dog Called Money Free list suspended. in the intimate surrounds of our fully David O’Mahony (DOM) Time Is Love? and Justified & Ancient. Kurdish women who have chosen to Seamus Murphy is licensed IFI Café Bar. Sunniva O’Flynn (SOF) They left the music business after an live in a society without men and was an award-winning ▶ Daily Membership costs €1.50 (which Reservations: (01) 679 8712. Dean Kavanagh (DK) incendiary live show at the 1992 Brit banned from screening in Syria due to photographer, will be added to the individual ticket awards, and formed the K Foundation, political reasons. In 2012, during the filmmaker and author. His work has been price). dedicated to provocative art activities, outbreak of the Syrian revolution, he published and exhibited widely and is Booking Get social... before burning a million pounds of their began working on his first feature film in the collections of The Getty Museum, ▶ Become an IFI Member! own money on the Isle of Jura in 1994, The Immortal Sergeant while serving a The Imperial War Museum and Stanford Membership is required for all festival www.ifi.ie/docfest #IFIDocFest after which Cauty and Drummond agreed a compulsory military service. The film University. He has made films for Channel films. Daily membership of €1.50 will 23-year moratorium on working together. had its premiere at the Locarno Film 4 Television in the UK and The New be added to the price of your ticket IFI Box Office @IrishFilmInstitute More recent art activities, carried out Festival in 2014 and, in 2015, he won Yorker in the US. Darkness Visible, a if you are not a member, so why not 01 679 3477 under Drummond’s chosen banner of the Best Feature Documentary award film he made about his photographic become an IFI Member for only €35 @IFI_Dub the Penkiln Burn, include making and in the BBC Arabic Festival. Kalthoum work in Afghanistan, was nominated (€20 for concessions) per annum! 6 Eustace Street distributing cakes, soup, flowers, beds and deserted from the Syrian Army in 2013 for an Emmy. He has made music films 25–29 September 2019 Enjoy fascinating and award-winning Temple Bar, Dublin 2 @IrishFilmInstitute shoe-shines. Drummond has announced and started to work on Taste of Cement, for musician PJ Harvey for her albums Système K cinema all year round for less and a a twelve-year World Tour, during which he which has been travelling to festivals Let England Shake and The Hope Six

host of other benefits. Sign up at the will carry out these activities in locations around the world, and winning various Demolition Project. As a continuation of Cover IFI Box Office or online. such as Papua New Guinea, and Port-au- awards including the Golden Sesterce their artistic collaboration Murphy and Prince, Haiti. Drummond is the author of for Best Feature Documentary at Visions Harvey collaborated on the book The

several books about art and music. He du Réel in 2017. Hollow of the Hand (Bloomsbury, 2015). Verso.ie would rather be known as an ex-milkman

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Best Before Death Irish Shorts Programme Gods of Molenbeek Heyday – The Mic Journey to the Edge Taste of Cement The Amazing Friday 27th (20.20) Saturday 28th (13.30) Saturday 28th (14.10) Christopher Story Sunday 29th (13.00) Sunday 29th (15.10) In 1992, Bill Drummond’s group The KLF 2019’s satisfyingly varied programme The Molenbeek district of Brussels has Saturday 28th (20.30) Every four years, an elite group of sailors In Beirut, Syrian construction workers disbanded and since 2014 he’s been of short Irish documentaries includes: become famous as a centre of suicide Celebrating the legacy of prodigiously attempt a solo circumnavigation of are building a skyscraper while their own Johnathan on a World Tour – in Kolkata (2016), Michael MacBroom’s portrait of bombings and social unrest. Reetta talented singer-songwriter Mic Christopher, the globe in wildly unpredictable and homes are being bombed. The Lebanese North Carolina (2018) and elsewhere legendary B-movie director Roy Spence Huhtanen captures the area through the Heyday charts his journey from Grafton perilous conditions. The Vendée Globe is war is over but the Syrian one still rages – performing his ‘work’: building beds, in It Came From Comber; Michael innocent eyes of Aatos and Amine, two Street busker to The Mary Janes and rock one of the world’s most challenging and on. The workers are locked in the building Documentary baking cakes and making soup, to the Barwise and Sean Mullan’s Billy Willy; imaginative six-year-olds who live in the stardom to the near-fatal accident that dangerous sporting events where lone site, with a night time curfew imposed amusement or bewilderment of onlookers. Dianne Lucille Campbell’s experimental same building block. Aatos is of Finish- refocused his world view and spurred the sailors battle waves and weather, ice and by the Lebanese government. Tormented Wednesday 25th (20.30) He estimates that he will live until 74, exploration of the sighthound in El Hor; Chilean descent, while Amine comes creation of a brighter, more uplifting body of isolation. In 2016, Galway businessman by anguish and anxiety, they suffer the The lines between illusion and reality become hopelessly blurred for director allowing time to complete his World Tour Peter Kilmartin’s romance against the from Brussels’ notable Muslim migrant work before his untimely death in 2001. His Enda O’Coineen became the first Irish deprivation of the most basic human and Benjamin Berman when he films the comeback tour of The Amazing Johnathan, by the age of 73. Best Before Death is odds in The Sunny Side Up; the challenge community – together they ponder enormous contribution to Irish music is told skipper to compete when he set sail workers’ rights. These are lives disrupted a celebrity magician-comedian who, given a year to live in 2014, retired about life, death, art and cake. (SOF) of teenage motherhood in Nodlag existential questions of God, religion through personal and performance archive in the Kilcullen Voyager. But his grand by years of conflict, and the continuous from public life, only to find himself still alive three years later. With filming DIRECTOR: PAUL DUANE Houlihan’s Reality Baby; Paul Webster and the meaning of life. With refreshing and recollections of family and friends adventure did not go according to plan. cycle of war, construction and demolition is underway, the mercurial Johnathan drops a bombshell which forces Berman EVENT DURATION 120 MINS / IRELAND-UK- narrates on church, state and vigilantism clarity, the inquisitive children strip – Sharon Horgan, Josh Ritter, Rónán Ó (SOF) conveyed with great visual poetry. (DOM) to choose between giving up on the project, or embracing the unconventional USA / 2019 / DIGITAL in The Vasectomy Doctor. (DK) spirituality down to its basic principles Snodaigh, Glen Hansard and others. (SOF) DIRECTOR: PETER KELLY DIRECTOR: ZIAD KALTHOUM possibilities it affords, resulting in an unclassifiable, meta-textual puzzle, that The screening is bookended by PROGRAMME DURATION 79 MINS and question knowledge itself. (DOM) DIRECTOR: ALAN LEONARD 68 MINS / IRELAND / 2019 / DIGITAL 85 MINS / LEBANON-SYRIA-GERMANY- deconstructs and questions the principles of documentary filmmaking. (DOM) Drummond’s play White Saviour The Irish Shorts Programme Audience DIRECTOR: REETTA HUHTANEN 100 MINS / IRELAND / 2019 / DIGITAL This screening will be followed by a QATAR-UAE / 2017 / DIGITAL / SUBTITLED DIRECTOR: BENJAMIN BERMAN / 91 MINS / USA / 2018 / DIGITAL Complex, which he performs with actor Award, presented at the screening, is 73 MINS / FINLAND-BELGIUM-GERMANY / This screening will be followed by a Q&A Q&A with director Peter Kelly and This screening will be followed by a This screening will be followed by a wine reception in the IFI foyer. Tam Dean Burn. kindly supported by Screen Scene. 2018 / DIGITAL / SUBTITLED with director Alan Leonard and guests. Enda O’Coineen. Q&A with director Ziad Kalthoum.

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Advocate A Dog Called Money Los Reyes Citizen Europe Talking About Trees Push The Pit Thursday 26th (18.15) Thursday 26th (20.30) Friday 27th (18.30) Saturday 28th (15.40) Saturday 28th (15.50) Saturday 28th (18.00) Sunday 29th (15.20) Lea Tsemel is a Jewish-Israeli lawyer Photographer Seamus Murphy chronicles Black Labrador Chola and older Five young students leave the comfort of Four retired Sudanese filmmakers try Housing prices are skyrocketing in In the town of Varna, Bulgaria, an idyllic who has defended the human rights of the inspiration, writing and recording of an crossbreed Football are two inseparable their homes to embark on transformative valiantly to bring the movies back to cities around the world; Incomes are public pool by the sea, affectionately Palestinian prisoners for five decades, album by writer/composer PJ Harvey in a stray dogs that live in the Los Reyes Erasmus journeys overcoming their fears the people of their homeland in Suhaib not. Private equity firms have become referred to as “the pit” by regular from feminists to fundamentalists, from work that is as creative as the process it skateboard park in Santiago, Chile. and adapting to new cultures in Lithuania, Gasmelbari’s award-winning debut feature. the biggest landlords in the world, and bathers, is under threat of closure. Cold Case non-violent demonstrators to armed documents. Travelling together on Murphy’s Teenagers from different social and Finland, Greece and Ireland. With Europe at Led by the indefatigable Ibrahim Shadad, the extent of the high-end land grab Hristiana Raykova’s observational study militants. For Palestinians she is more reporting trips to Afghanistan, Kosovo, and cultural backgrounds congregate in the a crossroads marked by Brexit uncertainty, the Sudanese Film Club’s founding member, goes well beyond gentrification. Fredrik of the characters that frequent “the pit” Hammarskjöld than just an attorney, she is an ally. Washington DC, Harvey gathers inspiration, park, and fragments of their conversations the refugee crisis and unprecedented and undeterred by mounting red tape, Gertten’s probing documentary follows – taxi driver Dimtscho, retired musician Advocate follows Tsemel’s caseload Murphy gathers cinematic landscapes are overheard, yet the focus remains on youth unemployment, the film presents censorship and intimidation, they begin Leilani Farha, the UN Special Rapporteur Alexander, caretaker Genadi and Bobi, a in real time, including the high-profile and captures intimate encounters between the subtle interaction between the two a continent in transition, contrasting the by hosting free screenings of classics on Adequate Housing as she travels the homeless man – is a touching study of a Sunday 29th (17.30) trial of a 13-year-old boy, her youngest Harvey and local musicians. Back home, dogs as they play with a ball, a stick, a experiences of today’s Erasmians with such as Chaplin’s Modern Times in town world in an effort to understand why we diverse community on the edge of Europe In 1961, United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld’s plane mysteriously client to date, while also revisiting her the words become an album, The Hope stone, and each other. The camera takes those from the first wave in the 1980s, squares, before taking on the formidable are being pushed out of our cities, and where a traditional way of life is coming crashed in Zambia. With the case still unsolved, Danish journalist, filmmaker and landmark cases and reflecting on the Six Demolition Project, which is recorded a forensic interest in their bodies with who reflect on how the programme helped task of revitalising an outdoor cinema why affordable housing isn’t defined as to an end. Raykova creates a human provocateur Mads Brügger leads us down an investigative rabbit hole to unearth the political significance of her work, and as a live sound-sculpture, laying bare the extreme close-ups of wagging tails, lolling define them as citizens of Europe.(SOF) venue in the town of Omdourman, near a fundamental human right. (DOM) mosaic of personal and political stories, truth. Scores of false starts, dead ends, and elusive interviews later, Brügger begins the personal price paid for championing creative process. (SOF) tongues and dripping snouts, inviting us DIRECTORS: ANGELIKI ARISTOMENOPOULOU & Khartoum, which has been derelict for DIRECTOR: FREDRIK GERTTEN conflicts and debate which coheres into to uncover something more monumental than anything they’d initially imagined. the Palestinian cause. (DOM) DIRECTOR: SEAMUS MURPHY to consider the animals anew. (DOM) ANDREAS APOSTOLIDIS many years. (DOM) 92 MINS / SWEDEN / 2019 / DIGITAL / a multifaceted whole. (DOM) With a hint of irony and a taste for the absurd, he casts himself as both filmmaker DIRECTORS: PHILIPPE BELLAICHE & RACHEL 90 MINS / IRELAND-UK / 2019 / DIGITAL DIRECTORS: IVÁN OSNOVIKOFF & 70 MINS / IRELAND-GREECE-FRANCE- DIRECTOR: SUHAIB GASMELBARI SUBTITLED DIRECTOR: HRISTIANA RAYKOVA and subject, challenging the very nature of truth by ‘performing’ the role of the truth LEAH JONES / 108 MINS / CANADA-SWITZER- This screening will be followed by a Q&A BETTINA PERUT / 78 MINS / CHILE-GERMANY / BULGARIA / 2019 / DIGITAL 90 MINS / SUDAN-FRANCE / 2019 / DIGITAL / This screening will be followed by a 73 MINS / BULGARIA-GERMANY / 2018 / seeker. (DOM) LAND-ISRAEL / 2019 / DIGITAL / SUBTITLED with director Seamus Murphy. 2018 / DIGITAL / SUBTITLED This screening will be followed by a Q&A. SUBTITLED panel discussion. DIGITAL / SUBTITLED DIRECTOR: MADS BRÜGGER / 128 MINS / DENMARK-NORWAY-SWEDEN-BELGIUM / 2019 / DIGITAL