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This documentary, in the Irish language, charts the unique story of Coleraine man Sam Henry and his monumental Ulster song collection ‘Songs of the People’, featuring interviews and performances from leading singers.
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Candid interviews and unseen footage make up this riveting and rare documentary on the visionary 20th century musician and songwriter, Scott Walker.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Read More →After suffering a life-threatening embolism, celebrated documentarian Nicolas Philibert found himself under the care of nurses and other health professionals.
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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.
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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.
Read More →This film by Ramell Ross is a beautifully realised poetic and empathetic study of African American lives that expands the frame of documentary cinema.
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The process of dying is captured in this percipient film, shot over the course of 12 months on the Isle of Wight.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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One of the fastest rising documentary sources in 2019 is YouTube, with hundreds of films being uploaded every day, covering every conceivable topic.
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Johnny Cash stands among the giants of 20th century American life. But his story remains tangled in mystery and myth.
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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.
Read More →The problematic underpinnings of the romantic comedy genre are highlighted in this funny and perceptive personal film journey.
Read More →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.
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“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.
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2040 is an innovative and optimistic feature documentary that looks to the future, but is also vitally important now.
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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.
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