• UK, USA
• 2006
• 95 mins
• English
• Shellshock

Candid interviews and unseen footage make up this riveting and rare documentary on the visionary 20th century musician and songwriter, Scott Walker.

• Germany
• 2018
• 82 mins
• English, French, German
• Shellshock

Chilly Gonzales is a Grammy-winning composer, virtuoso pianist and entertainer. Criss-crossing between rap, electro and solo piano music, he became the outrageous pop performer who invited himself to the ivory tower of classical music. The eccentric artist inspires and collaborates with the likes of Feist, Jarvis Cocker, Peaches, Daft Punk and Drake.

• English
• Shellshock

Docs Ireland are delighted to welcome Don Letts, award-winning director, to receive the Shell Shock award for outstanding contribution to music documentary and talk about his career in documentary film.

• Ireland
• 1934
• 76 mins
• English
• Shellshock

Docs Ireland in association with Gradam Ceoil, TG4 has commissioned a new live soundtrack performance by Úna Monaghan, Ceri Owen and Síle Denvir to this classic Irish documentary. The event will take place in the wonderful St. Josephs church in Sailortown.

• Syria, UK
• 2019
• 95 mins
• English
• Irish Premiere
• Maysles - New Observational

FOR SAMA traces the journey of a young woman, Waad al-Kateab, through love, marriage and motherhood across five years of the revolution in Aleppo, Syria.

• China, USA
• 2019
• 124 mins
• Mandarin
• Irish Premiere
• Maysles - New Observational

This insightful found-footage documentary sheds light on the live-streaming scene in China, which has become hugely popular and an industry worth billions. In 2017, more than 422 million people regularly shared streamed films in China.

• Russia
• 2018
• 97 mins
• Russian
• Irish Premiere
• Maysles - New Observational

Alina Makarova is a mother of six children, five of her own and one adopted. Her ex-husband is from Ethiopia, which is why all her own children are of mixed origin.

• USA
• 2018
• 80 mins
• English
• Maysles - New Observational

In the Kenyan bush, a small-time ivory dealer fights to stay on top while forces mobilize to destroy his trade. When he turns to his younger cousin, a conflicted wildlife ranger who hasn’t been paid in months, they both see a possible lifeline.

• France
• 2018
• 105 mins
• French
• Irish Premiere
• Maysles - New Observational

After suffering a life-threatening embolism, celebrated documentarian Nicolas Philibert found himself under the care of nurses and other health professionals.

• Brazil, Netherlands, Germany
• 2018
• 140 mins
• Portuguese
• Irish Premiere
• Maysles - New Observational

In August 2016, Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s first female president, was impeached and removed from office by the senate, after a series of corruption scandals and allegations of nepotism.

• UK
• 2019
• 89 mins
• English
• Irish Premiere
• Maysles - New Observational

Freddy is 30 and yearns to start a family but for him this ordinary desire comes with unique challenges. He is a gay transgender man. This is the story of the dad who gave birth.

• USA
• 2018
• 76 mins
• English
• Maysles - New Observational

This film by Ramell Ross is a beautifully realised poetic and empathetic study of African American lives that expands the frame of documentary cinema.

• UK
• 2018
• 90 mins
• English
• Maysles - New Observational

The process of dying is captured in this percipient film, shot over the course of 12 months on the Isle of Wight.

• Ireland, UK
• 2019
• 62 mins
• English
• New International

The Art of Ubuntu shines a light on artists and activists around the world who are using or have used art to explore love reconciliation and healing. Each of the storytellers collaborated with different puppeteers or puppetry companies to share their story.

• China, USA
• 2019
• 85 mins
• Mandarin, English
• Irish Premiere
• New International

After becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of China’s one-child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by it.

• India
• 2019
• 109 mins
• Hindi
• Irish Premiere
• New International

Aamir Khan’s Rubaru Roshni features stories of forgiveness that leave a lasting impact. Three families, who lost their loved ones to the hands of another human, open up on their ordeal.

• USA
• 2018
• 50 mins
• English
• New International

One of the fastest rising documentary sources in 2019 is YouTube, with hundreds of films being uploaded every day, covering every conceivable topic.

• USA
• 2019
• 94 mins
• English
• Irish Premiere
• New International

Johnny Cash stands among the giants of 20th century American life. But his story remains tangled in mystery and myth.

• USA
• 2019
• 120 mins
• English
• Irish Premiere
• New International

Academy Award winner Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, HBO's Emmy-winning Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief) directs a documentary investigating the rise and fall of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar healthcare company founded by Elizabeth Holmes.

• UK
• 2019
• 79 mins
• English
• Irish Premiere
• New International

The problematic underpinnings of the romantic comedy genre are highlighted in this funny and perceptive personal film journey.

• USA
• 2018
• 96 mins
• English
• Irish Premiere
• New International

A documentary feature film about the biggest global corruption scandal in history, and the hundreds of journalists who risked their lives to break the story.

• Iran, France
• 2018
• 114 mins
• None
• Irish Premiere
• New International

“I’ve often noticed that we are unable to look at what we have in front of us unless it is within a frame” begins this elegant and elegiac final work from the late master of cinema, Abbas Kiarostami.

• Australia
• 2019
• 92 mins
• English
• Irish Premiere
• New International

2040 is an innovative and optimistic feature documentary that looks to the future, but is also vitally important now.

• Canada
• 2018
• 87 mins
• English
• Irish Premiere
• New International

A cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch is a four years in the making feature documentary film from the multiple-award winning filmmaking team.

• Spain
• 2018
• 96 mins
• Spanish
• New International

The Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, who continue to seek justice to this day.