• Denmark
• 2019
• 91 mins
• English
• New International

Push is a new documentary from award-winning director Fredrik Gertten, investigating why we can’t afford to live in our own cities anymore.

• 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.

• 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.

• 2018
• 80 mins
• English
• Talking Docs

Joseph Hillel examines our changing urban environment, asking four women, each of them inspiring trailblazers, about their views on cities.

• Industry Events

In advance of our first Documentary Marketplace on Thursday June 13th, Docs Ireland is delighted to offer an opportunity for filmmakers to develop their core skills in pitching and international co-production.

• 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.

• Industry Events

Elizabeth Klinck’s Research Rights and Clearances workshop “You See It, Let’s Clear It” will delve into the world of archival image research and music rights clearance.

• Industry Events

In the wake of the tragic death of journalist Lyra McKee, Docs Ireland spotlights the work of Irish investigative journalists, who use documentary as their medium.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Shorts

BBC Northern Ireland presents True North Shorts.Five short docs about life in contemporary Northern Ireland created by emerging, local filmmakers.

• Virtual Reality

During Docs Ireland we will feature virtual reality (VR), showing extraordinary works over three days; works that demonstrate the current capability of immersive technology in the hands of pioneering designers, both locally and internationally.

• 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.