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Katie

Five times World Champion, Six times European Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist in London 2012, Katie Taylor is universally acknowledged as the game-changer that put women’s boxing on the map. But a devastating year that culminated in Katie losing her Olympic crown at Rio 2016 led some to ...

Main Cast:

  • Katie Taylor

Locations:

  • Dublin
  • Bray
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Keepers of the Flame

Keepers of the Flame’ is a unique account of a generation dealing with the consequences of cataclysmic historic events the Irish War of Independence and Civil War .It explores the impact of these events on the collective and personal memories of the Irish state and its peopl...

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Shooting the Mafia

In sharp contrast to the all pervasive romanticised and glamorised media image of the Sicilian Mafia, Kim Longinotto's feature documentary Shooting the Mafia, unflinchingly explores the stark reality of life, and death, under the oppressive yoke of the Corleonesi Mafia. Photographer ...

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In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America

Through the relationships he cultivated with The White House and US Congress, John Hume created the framework for peace in Northern Ireland. Narrated by Liam Neeson, the documentary includes wide-ranging interviews with US Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, UK Prime Ministers John Major an...

Locations:

  • Dublin, Derry, Antrim, Cork, Donegal
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Elián

On Thanksgiving Day in 1999, a Cuban boy named Elián González was found floating on an inner tube in the Florida Straits. That day set in motion a bitter custody battle between his Cuban father and Miami-based relatives that embodied and fed into simmering tensions between the US an...

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Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami

Larger than life, wild, scary and androgynous – Grace Jones plays all these parts. Yet here we also discover her as a lover, daughter, mother, sister and even grandmother, as she submits herself to our gaze and allows us to understand what constitutes her mask.

The stage is where he...

Locations:

  • Dublin
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Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect

This documentary portrays the life and work of highly influential architect Kevin Roche, still working at 94. What drives a modest man, with no interest in fame, to refuse retirement and continually look to the future regardless of age? Kevin Roche's stated philosophy is that "the responsibil...

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Butterfly City

The city of Visaginas was created from nothing in the 1970s in order to service a powerful Soviet nuclear power station. Literally designed and shaped like the wings of a butterfly, it was intended to be a window of Soviet progress to the West. After USSR disintegration, however, EU membership me...

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Lost in France

Lost in France charts the story of the creative hotbed that is the Glasgow indie music scene. At its centre was and still is record label Chemikal Underground. At the label’s 20th anniversary, band members revisit a festival site in France where it all began, offering personal insights, old...

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Condemned to Remember

Irish Holocaust Survivor Tomi Reichental celebrates his 80th birthday in a Dublin Mosque and embarks on an epic journey across a Europe in turmoil.

In Germany Tomi concludes his long quest to bring the convicted SS War Criminal Hilde Michnia to account for her secrets and lies.

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