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Worth a visit if you are talking about this weekend.
A few weeks ago, JOE's Rory Cashin provided an excellent overview of some of the movies that fans should try to find at the Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival. However, given the growing popularity of documentary, we think documentaries – short and feature films – are worth seeing.
In recent years, Irish documentaries such as I, Dolours, A Mother Brings Her Son to Kill, No Unturned Stone, Making the Grade, The Oscar-nominated Detention, and countless others have all been hailed and this year, a healthy mix and foreign features.
On this note, we have selected seven features that are well worth your time.
Note: Tickets for some of these documentaries are about to sell, so it's worth checking availability.
The doctor in vasectomy
Ground: Andrew Rynne was the first physician to perform a vasectomy in Ireland. He estimates that he has practiced more than 35,000 now. This is a distinction that did not come without controversy in the extremely Catholic Ireland of the seventies and eighties, but Rynne persevered at the opposition of the church.
In the 1980s, he challenged restrictive contraceptive laws by selling nonprescription condoms. He spent his day in court and forced the government to change his policy. In 1990, Rynne was about to perform a vasectomy on a patient when an armed man came in and shot him. After surviving this badbadination attempt, Rynne will meet her abuser and forgive her.
Where and when is it lit ?: This is part of the Virgin Media DIFF Shorts 1 screening on Saturday, February 23 at 6:00 pm at Light House Cinema.
The trailer of Vasectomy doctor Paul Webster on Vimeo.
Gaza
Ground: The documentary by Garry Keane and Andrew McConnell is a portrait of the resilience of people in the most difficult circumstances. Established in communities living in Gaza, the documentary aims to go beyond the televised news and politics in its story of these people and their daily lives. It is the story of eloquent, funny and especially ordinary people who strive to live rewarding lives in the shadow of perpetual conflict.
Where and when is it lit ?: Saturday, March 2 at 14:00 at Cineworld.
Clip via Continuum Films
Floating structures
Ground: The film by Feargal Ward and Adrian Duncan follows a researcher traveling across Europe, exploring a range of buildings and structures that seem to be from another world. Skeptical of the ideas and visions of the great Irish engineer Peter Rice, they explore the hinterland behind these structures. Far away from a quiet Bavarian town, in the streets of Paris, in the city of Seville, our past is sifted and interconnected with precision and wonder.
Where and when is it lit ?: Monday, February 25 at 18:30 at the Irish Film Institute.
What time is death
Ground: In 2017, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, formerly of KLF, returned after 23 years of silence – but they were no longer a pop band. They were now a funeral, planning to build a monument, the pyramid of the people, on 34,952 bricks made from the remains of dead people. Their most famous action took place in 1994, when they burned a million pounds of their earnings in a disused boathouse on a Scottish island after being one of the most successful pop bands of the early years 90 in the United Kingdom.
Where and when is it lit ?: Tuesday, February 26 at 6:30 pm at the Irish Film Institute.
Mafia shooting
Ground: Kim Longinotto's documentary denies the glamorous image of the Sicilian mafia and shows the harsh reality of life, death and business in the hands of those who handle it. This is done through the eyes and lens of the photographer Letizia Battaglia, who captured their brutality on their own terms. Fear and threats have not prevented her from documenting what has been described as her "blood archive" in all her raw power.
Where and when is it lit ?: Saturday, March 2 at 20:20 at Cineworld.
Here is a brief overview of what is in store.
SHOOTING THE MAFIA by Kim Longinotto (Ireland), promoting European films on Vimeo.
When Hitchbad met O. Casey
Ground: It was a collaboration between one of the most famous Irish authors and the greatest film directors. Yet June's release of Juno and Paybad is often overlooked in the repertoire of the two men. Brian O'Flaherty's documentary seeks to find out why. Offering in-depth and incisive interviews with family members, academics, directors and actors, including Shivaun O. Casey, Professor Charles Barr and Peter Sheridan, he tells how these two iconic characters met and the legacy of the film.
Where and when is it lit ?: Thursday, February 21 at 18:15 at the Light House cinema.
There is no place like at home
GroundIn this short documentary, young film students in Dublin are asking why there is a homelessness crisis in their country and what can be done. The film includes moving testimonials of homeless and captures the feeling of anger of a country. He asks the question: how can four thousand children be housed in emergencies when Ireland is the 14th richest country in the world?
Where and when is it lit ?: There are two projections of this feature 'Dublin on Screen'. The first is Friday, February 22 at 18:30 at the Light House Cinema. The second screening will take place on Friday March 1st at 11:00 am at the Light House cinema.
Curved glbad
Ground: Paddy Dignam, a glbad bender, a man who used the streets as a gallery, illuminates neon Ireland, one room at a time.
When and where is it lit?: This is part of the screening of Virgin Media DIFF Shorts 1 which will take place on February 23 at 6:00 pm at Light House Cinema.
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