• Ireland
• 2018
• 56 mins
• English
• Pull Focus - New Irish

A fragile community of seven Cistercian Irish monks try to keep their monastery going with a lot of heart and humour.

• Ireland
• 2018
• 64 mins
• English
• Pull Focus - New Irish

A profile of the 80-year-old feminist and activist, from her childhood in Chicago and her involvement in Sinn Féin to her founding of the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement. De Burca has been jailed (for her anti-Vietnam War activities) and fined (for her attacks on Richard Nixon’s car during a visit to Ireland in 1970).

• Ireland
• 2018
• 77 mins
• English
• Pull Focus - New Irish

At the beginning of the Anthropocenen Epoch, a rural community carve out their lives while a motorway ploughs forth through their landscape. It goes no further than the town of Gort in the west of Ireland, halted by the dawn of a financial crisis.

• Ireland
• 2018
• 83 mins
• English
• Pull Focus - New Irish

Sitting atop a melting permafrost and battered by coastal erosion, Newtok, Alaska is set to be the first American town lost to climate change.

• Ireland
• 2018
• 82 mins
• English
• Pull Focus - New Irish

They say there are only two stories worth telling: a person goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

• Ireland
• 2018
• 86 mins
• English
• Irish Premiere
• Pull Focus - New Irish

Feargal Ward (filmmaker) and Adrian Duncan (writer/artist) screen 2 films from their most recent collaboration. Interested in the documentary hybrid form and its presentation in both international film festival and contemporary art contexts, these works showcase their emerging aesthetic in both short and long formats.

• Ireland
• 2019
• 80 mins
• Spanish
• Pull Focus - New Irish

In 2008, when The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) launched a homemade mortar onto a church in Bojayá, many were hiding from crossfire between the left-wing FARC and right-wing paramilitaries. Leyner Palacios survived, but 28 of his family members did not. The Bojayá massacre was one of the worst atrocities in Colombia’s 50 year-long conflict.

• Ireland, UK
• 2019
• 89 mins
• English
• Pull Focus - New Irish

As imaginative as the creative process it documents, A Dog Called Money is a uniquely intimate journey through the inspiration, writing and recording of a PJ Harvey record.

• Ireland, Canada
• 2019
• 90 mins
• English
• Closing Night

It's hard to imagine anybody living a normal life in the Gaza strip. Frequently labeled as the world's largest open-air prison, it makes an apperance on news reports every time a confrontation erupts between Israel and Hamas.

• English
• Opening Night

We are thrilled to be welcoming Alex Gibney back to Belfast to open the inaugural Docs Ireland Festival with this special Q&A event.

• Italy
• 1984
• 97 mins
• Italian
• Horror
• Sci-Fi
• UFO

Right, so there's no more cat... But now we've got rats. Lots and lots of rats. Ok some rats.

• Hong Kong
• 1992
• 85 mins
• Cantonese
• Horror
• Sci-Fi
• UFO

• Ireland
• 2014
• 93 mins
• Animation
• Kids

Ben, a young Irish boy, and his little sister Saoirse, a girl who can turn into a seal, go on an adventure to free the fairies and save the spirit world.

• US
• 2016
• 103 mins
• Kids

Three thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged across the vast Pacific, discovering the many islands of Oceania. But then, for a millennium, their voyages stopped - and no one knows exactly why.

• US
• 2016
• 108 mins
• Kids

A koala impresario stages a grand singing competition for the world's animals in order to save his elegant theater in this quirky animated musical.

• US
• 2010
• 103 mins
• Comedy
• Kids

"Toy Story 3" welcomes Woody, Buzz and the whole gang back to the big screen as Andy prepares to depart for college and his loyal toys find themselves in... daycare!

• US
• 2011
• 102 mins
• Kids

On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world's biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary (Jason Segel) and Mary (Amy Adams) from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets' former stomping grounds.

• US
• 1939
• 101 mins
• Kids

L. Frank Baum's classic tale comes to magisterial Technicolor life!

• Poland/Russia
• 1988
• 99 mins
• Polish, Russian
• Adventure
• Sci-Fi
• UFO

Anyone not interested in a slow moving 1988 Polish/Russian Science FIction Indiana-Jones-inspired Prometheus precursor with end credits written in Data 70 has no place at this info feed and should unsubscribe immediately.

• USA
• 1990
• 99 mins
• English
• Thriller
• UFO

Be sure to click 'like' and then utterly fail to bother to attend this screening of VERMILLION EYES, Nathan Schiff's harrowing, interdimensional 8mm masterclass on how to divine solid gold from one's own steaming excrement.

• Canda
• 1987
• 73 mins
• English
• Horror

Ulster Film Office Instructions For Watching Beyond the 7th Door:

• Chile/Germany
• 2018
• 75 mins
• Spanish, German
• Animation
• Drama
• Horror
• Twisted Cornea

Fairy tales, folklore and remarkable animation combine in this fantastical Chilean tale.

• Australia
• 2018
• 54 mins
• English
• Adventure
• Comedy
• Fantasy
• History
• Horror
• Twisted Cornea

Equal parts political satire, eco-horror and road movie, a weird, dazzling, kinetic, dizzyingly ambitious, sensationally mishmashed beast of an Australian film, one part revisionist documentary, and one part LSD-infused compilation video.

• UK/Germany
• 2019
• 40 mins
• English
• Documentary
• Twisted Cornea

Necropolis is a film essay about the death of the city, shot entirely in cemeteries, graveyards and burial grounds in Belfast, Berlin and London.

• Twisted Cornea

Elkin’s performance and video works concern role-playing and improvising, alongside experiments with the outtake and clowning on set. She has an ongoing interest in shared cultural memory (as produced by popular music, television and cinema) and the melding of this information to biographical memory.