Films (Listed Alphabetically)

51 Birch Street USA, 88 mins 51 Birch Street is Doug Block's personal tale of what can happen when our most fundamental assumptions about family are suddenly called into question. More Info... Screening Times: 9:00pm Friday 19th May & 4:00pm Sunday 21st May Venue: Ostán Loch Altan

Australia/Ireland, 52 mins After Maeve This 52 minute documentary explores the most painful experience that can befall a parent - the loss of a child. More Info... Screening Times: 7:00pm Saturday 20th May & 11:00am Sunday 21st May Venue: Ostán Loch Altan

The Angelmakers Scotland/Hungary/The Netherlands, 33 mins The Angelmakers is a portrait of the inhabitants of the sleepy village of Nagyrev in rural Hungary. We learn about the extent of the 'arsenic murders' which took place in 1929, when a group of women poisoned their husbands. More Info... Screening Times: 12:30pm Friday 19th May & 5:00pm Saturday 20th May Venue: Ostán Loch Altan

Israel/USA, 78 mins Another Road Home The Personal story of an Israeli woman's quest to find her Palestinian caregiver, this film places a human face on a situation that most of us are acquainted with only through troubling headlines. More Info... Screening Times: 2:00pm Friday 19th May & 9:00pm Saturday 20th May Venue: Ostán Loch Altan

An Báthadh Mór Ireland, 52 mins On the night of October 28th, 1927 a storm of incredible fury hit the Irish coast. Fishermen in small row-boats were caught and 45 lost their lives within shouting distance of their homes. Screening Time: 4:00pm Friday 19th May Venue: Teach an Cheoil

Sweden, 57 mins Belfast Girls The story of a year in the life of teenage girls growing up in Belfast. Two strong, young women share the legacy of 30 years of conflict but live in different worlds. In this year, their lives take turns they could never imagine. This screening is a sneak preview of a work in progress from swedish director Malin Andersson. More Info... Screening Times: 11:00am Friday 19th May Venue: Teach an Cheoil

Black Gold Under Notecka Forest The Netherlands, 57 mins Under Notecka Forest, Poland's biggest oil field is discovered. The poor inhabitants of the forest don't seem to care much even if the oil could make them rich. More Info... Screening Time: 11:00am Saturday 20th May Venue: Teach an Cheoil

South Africa, 74 mins Born into Struggle Rehad Desai takes us on a journey mapped out by the scars etched into his family from having a father who was a political hero during South Africa's struggle, yet emotionally absent. More Info... Screening Time: 8:00pm Friday 19th May Venue: Teach an Cheoil

The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan Afghanistan/UK, 96 mins In March 2001, the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan destroyed the tallest stone statues in the world, the 'Buddhas of Bamiyan'. This film follows the story of an 8 year-old boy who now lives among the ruins. More Info... Screening Time: 2:00pm Friday 19th May Venue: Cinemobile

Canada/Kyrgyzstan, 51 mins Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan When a Kyrgyz man decides to marry, he often takes several friends, hires a car, sakes out his bride-to-be's movements, and snatches her off the street. More Info... Screening Time: 9:00pm Saturday 20th May Venue: Teach an Cheoil

Bruce and Me Australia, 82 mins Filmmaker Oren Siedler's exploration into her troubled, unusual relationship with her brilliant, charming, criminal father. Oren's big questions take a backseat to the weird and wonderful world of life on the road with Bruce. More Info... Screening Time: 11:00am Saturday 20th May & 2:00pm Sunday 21st May Venue: Ostán Loch Altan

Ireland, 52 mins Concerto (do Chaitín Maude) In five cinematic movements, this film chronicles the life of Chaitlín Maude, the enigmatic singer and poet from Galway who died in 1982 at the age of 41. Screening Time: 2:00pm Saturday 20th May Venue: Teach an Cheoil

An Craiceann mar Chanbhas Ireland, 25 mins Filmed around Ireland and continental Europe, the origins of bodyart are traced from its ritualistic and mystical beginnings to the commercial and competitive art form it has become today. More Info... Screening Time: 10:00pm Friday 19th May Venue: Teach an Cheoil

Ireland, 25 mins Na Deoraithe Na Deoraithe (The Exiles) considers the similarities between the experiences of the thousands of migrant workers living in Ireland at present with that of workers living in Britain during the 1950s. More Info... Screening Time: 4:00pm Saturday 20th May Venue: Teach an Cheoil

Explication des Salamandres France, 52 mins Maria Pinto returns to Portugal to question the origins of her family story. She discovers the suppression and loss of tangible references through coming and going between the dream images of her childhood and places of exile. More Info... Screening Time: 11:00am Sunday 21st May Venue: Teach an Cheoil

Ireland, 52 mins Faiscthe as an Talamh Filmed on Séamus and Máirín de Búrca's small farm in Connemara, we capture the last fleeting moments of the small Irish farmer, what was once the way of life of a nation, before it disappears forever. More Info... Screening Time: 11:00am Friday 19th May Venue: Teach an Cheoil

Father to Son Finland, 58 mins Through a mix of interviews, illustrated psychotherapy material, and cinéma vérité, this film examines the painful relationship between fathers and sons through four generations. More Info... Screening Time: 4:30am Saturday 20th May Venue: Cinemobile

Spain, 57 mins Forasteros Many of the original inhabitants of this poor mountain region in the south of Spain have moved to the city. Well-to-do Europeans now settle there. They are fleeing the very same world that the destitute villagers dream of. More Info... Screening Time: 2:00pm Sunday 21st May Venue: Ostán Loch Altan

Foreland The Netherlands, 70 mins On the banks of the Nederrijn River in the Netherlands is a beautiful stretch of water meadow. This is a film in 7 poetic chapters in which the breathtakingly beautiful Dutch landscape is given the space to tell its own story. More Info... Screening Time: 2:00pm Saturday 20th May Venue: Cinemobile

Northern Ireland, 25 mins Idir Dhá Chomhairle ‘Idir Dhá Chomhairle’ provides a unique insight into the life of the, often controversial and enigmatic bi-lingual Belfast poet, Gearóid Mac Lochlainn, who has been hailed as one of the saviours of Irish language poetry. More Info... Screening Time: 10:00am Friday 19th May & 4:00pm Saturday 20th May Venue: Teach an Cheoil

La Vie Comme Elle Va France, 93 mins Jean-Henri Meunier chronicles the lives of an ensemble of very real and colourful characters in the village of Najac in the South of France. This is a group portrait of provincial life that can be at times lyrical, surrealist or comical. More Info... Screening Time: 2:00pm Friday 19th May Venue: Teach an Cheoil

France, 90 mins March of the Penguins This is he story of one year in the life of an emperor penguin flock as they trek across the Antarctic on an annual journey that invokes just about every major life experience. Screening Time: 11:00am Saturday 20th May Venue: Cinemobile

Me and My Parents - My Parents and I The Netherlands, 75 mins In 1975, director Gerrit van Elst made a documentary about his relationship with his parents. In this sequel, we see the way parents and their only son deal with old age, and the approach of death. More Info... Screening Time: 7:00pm Saturday 20th May Venue: Teach an Cheoil

USA, 60 mins Nobody's Business Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this poignant and graceful study of family history and memory. More Info... Screening Times: 4:15pm Friday 19th May Venue: Ostán Loch Altan

Philip and His Seven Wives UK, 75 mins Six years ago God told Philip that he was a Hebrew king. Philip decided to take seven women to be his wives and created a new Godly family. Now they all live together in a quiet English sea-side town. More Info... Screening Time: 7:00pm Friday 19th May Venue: Ostán Loch Altan

USA, 83 mins The Real Dirt on Farmer John The epic tale of a maverick Midwesterner farmer. John bravely stands amidst a failing economy. Through 50 years of beautiful footage, Taggart Siegel captures what it means to be wildly different in a rural community. More Info... Screening Time: 11:00am Friday 19th May & 2:00pm Sunday 21st May Venue: Cinemobile

The Self-Made Man USA, 58 mins 77 year-old man Bob Sern, a successful businessman, husband and father believes that taking his own life in the face of a possibly terminal illness is what an all-American hero should do. He videotapes his proposal. More Info... Screening Time: 12:00pm Saturday 20th May Venue: Teach an Cheoil

Indonesia/The Netherlands, 92 mins Shape of the Moon In this film, the audience is transported to the heart of the almost unknown landscape of Indonesia through the life of one family who are struggling to build a bridge between hope and faith. More Info... Screening Time: 11:00am Sunday 21st May Venue: Cinemobile

Tarnation USA, 88 mins Jonathon Caouette has been documenting his life since he was eleven. With Tarnation, he creates an epic portrait of an American family torn apart by dysfunction and reunited through the power of love. More Info... Screening Time: 7:00pmSaturday 20th May Venue: Cinemobile

Northern Ireland, 85 mins The Uncle Jack John T. Davis' most personal film charts a spiritual journey through the landscape of memory dealing with the circular motion of generations, the power of unshakable obsession and the legacy of his Uncle Jack. More Info... Screening Time: 7:00pm Friday 19th May Venue: Cinemobile

Wide Awake (opening Film) USA, 90 mins Alan Berliner has composed a deliriously intimate portrait of himself, and his inability to sleep, creating a mesmerizing picture of a lifelong struggle with sleep deprivation and the elusive search for a cure. An examination of insomnia and a window into the filmmaker's creative process, the film allows us to look inside a mind that can't find tranquility. More Info... Screening Time: 9:00pm Thursday 18th May & 9:00pm Saturday 20th May Venue: Ostán Loch Altan

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