Spanning eight years, this long-term documentary is about Adrian, who wants to be a ballet star, and his father, who works as a heavy equipment operator on a construction site.

The film tells the life-affirming stories of five senior athletes between 80 and 100 years old across the world who all have one goal ­ to take part in the track and field World Masters Championships.

This story is centred on Valdis, Latvian entrepreneur extraordinaire, who saw a goldmine in the rocks of north Dublin’s coastline and recruited an army of Latvians to harvest the seashells all year round, in the most abysmal conditions.

Writer/director Kaleo La Belle challenges his hard-core hippie Dad, who has proudly been stoned for 40 years, to a gruelling 500 mile bike trip. On the road, they struggle to reconcile their vastly different outlooks and fathom the complicated love they share.

Colony documents a time of unprecedented crisis in the world of the honeybee seen through the eyes of veteran beekeeper, David Mendes, as he tries to save America’s collapsing hives, and Lance and Victor Seppi, two brothers getting into beekeeping when most are getting out.

Cooking History is a film about army cooks, and about how the everyday needs of thousands of armed stomachs affected the victories and defeats of statesmen.

Orissa, India - where tribal people fight with their bows and arrows against multinational mining moguls from London. The filmmaker, aided by two endearing, bumbling local guides, searches for answers amongst a spiralling conflict of allegations. But the truth becomes more and more elusive as the humour descends into darkness.

The British acclaimed documentary-maker Kim Longinotto teams with Iranian co-director Ziba Mir-Hosseini to create this fascinating and surprising look at Iran's divorce laws.

In the early 1970’s, Waterford-born Gilbert O’Sullivan was top of the international pop charts.  But in the mid 70’s his career began to wane and by the time he came out of a long legal dispute with his manager Gordon Mills, he had drifted into relative obscurity.

A 90-year-old love story told through the collective voice of 70 ladies at different stages of their lives.

A beautifully detailed and exciting documentary film following a year in the lives of three Irish racehorses, keeping as close to the horses as possible.

Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storages, which are vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and to societal changes. In Finland the world's first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock - a huge system of underground tunnels - that must last 100,000 years as this is how long the waste remains hazardous.

Filmed over seven years, Mario and Nini tells the moving and shocking story of two young boys coming of age in a world of street gangs and crime.

A provocative, compelling and highly visual film-poem by Alan Gilsenan, "Ó Pheann an Phiarsaigh" is a strange and darkly contemporary re-imagining of national icon and artist manqué Patrick Pearse. The film explores Pearse's inner world in a contemporary setting through his own artistic writings.

When Jesse discovers that his youngest daughter, Priscilla, can rap and perform, He sees redemption for his own failed music career and financial salvation for his Family and commits his life to making her a star. We follow the father-daughter duo through the grit and glamour of the music industry, capturing the daily  struggles of a single parent raising his two children alone, and the sacrifices achild makes in order to make her daddy proud.

In this dark and expressive black and white documentary, Kim Longinotto exposes a repressive school from the students' perspective.

A special screening showcasing a selection of Irish short documentaries from the last year.

Naked Finnish men in saunas speak straight from the heart and in the warmth of rusty stoves cleanse themselves both physically and mentally.

Filmmakers Ayala and Fallshaw's journey of discovery amongst Saharawi refugees turns into a political thriller.

Online lies lead to murder in real life, as a teenage vixen (screen name 'talhotblond') lures men into her web, with deadly results.

Neuroscience, family life, dreams and death collide in this engrossing investigation into the human subconscious. Told over one extraordinary year, it is a fascinating, intimate story, high in visual pleasure.

Carleton Gajdusek was one of the world's greatest genius', and also a man who has been convicted for having sex with a foster-son.

An unusual and nuanced perspective on the Ulster Scots language and culture in a documentary for Irish language television directed by an Irish language activist, in which he challenges his own and his communities' perceptions of Ulster Scots.  Free screening as part of the Ulster Scots on Film event.

An intensely personal yet epic spiritual journey, The Horse Boy follows one Texas couple and their autistic son as they trek on horseback through Outer Mongolia in an attempt to find healing for their son.

A film about gambling, winning and, based on the director’s memories of his father. Childhood memories of innocent fun and games give way to depictions of later high-risk ventures, life-threatening antics and inveterate gambling addiction.

The incredible story of how the mummified corpse of a 40-year-old man was discovered by a hunter in one of the most remote parts of the country.

A poignant fly-on-the-wall film about two Ulster Scots hill-farming bachelor brothers in County Antrim, Northern Ireland - a way of life that will probably vanish when people like these two brothers have passed away. Free Screening as part of Ulster Scots on Film event.