IFB Documentaries to Screen at Stranger Than Fiction festival next month
The IFB funded documentary Pyjama Girls will open the Stranger Than Fiction film festival on April 15th, with Broken Tail, A Prayer For the Wind Horse and Horses also set to screen.
Pyjama Girls, directed by Maya Derrington, tells the story of the phenomenon of girls who wear pyjamas as daywear, and traces the intense and explosive micro-dramas of teenage life against the bleak backdrop of Dublin's inner city flats. Meanwhile, the pyjama girls express themselves through the visual language of young women - clothes and fashion - in candy pinks, hot purples and brushed cotton: a soft, silent revolution. This is the world premiere of the documentary, produced by Maya and Nicky Gogan for Still Films, who will both be in attendance for a Q&A session afterwards.
Two documentaries, Broken Tail and A Prayer For the Wind Horse, both produced by John Murray for Crossing the Line Films will be showing. Broken Tail follows a wildlife cameraman as he travels through India, piecing together the extraordinary last journey of Broken Tail - the tiger he helped to transform into one of the worlds most famous before it fled and went on the run. The director, Colin Stafford-Johnson retraces Broken Tail's journey, solving the mystery of why he abandoned his habitat to travel so far and survive for so long in hostile country.
A Prayer For the Wind Horse was filmed on the Tibet-Nepal border as the director/producer John Murray follows Kharma Tshering, a man who is guiding he wife and children through one of the most hazardous human endeavours on the planet. They must escape their mountain home before the winter snows cut them off without enough food to survive until spring. On foot and yak, their journey is a race against time and weather.
Both of these beautiful documentaries screened at last months Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.
Horses, which was written and directed by Liz Mermin, is a challenging documentary which follows three promising, charismatic horses over the course of one rather difficult racing year. Beautiful, unusual, and highly entertaining, the film combines the drama of a sports movie with the exploration of an ancient human obsession, offering a subtle critique of humanity's quirks on the side. It was produced by Aisling Ahmed for West Park Pictures.
The 9th IFI Stranger Than Fiction film festival is four days of documentaries that promise to entertain, inform and inspire. It takes places from the 15th-18th April.