NEW IRISH DOCUMENTARY AT THE CORK FILM FESTIVAL
A number of Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board (BSE/IFB) documentaries will screen at this years Cork Film festival including Crossing the Line Films’ BEZAD’S LAST JOURNEY, which was filmed over 3 months in Iran, is having its premiere at Cork on Saturday. This film follows Bezad, charismatic and highly articulate Qashqa'i nomad on his spectacular 500 km migration across Iran. Directed by John Murray and funded by BSE/IFB and TG4, BEZAD’S LAST JOURNEY premieres on Saturday 16th at 2.30 in the Kino cinema.Other BSE-IFB backed documentaries screening during the festival include Colum Stapleton’s THE EMPIRE OF JURAMIDAM, which investigates a Church that guarantees an encounter with the Divine - no faith needed - just the ability to stomach a visionary 'tea', fused by using two Amazonian plants. This 'sacrament' is a message spreading around the world through the endeavours of the Church of the Eclectic Universal Flowing Light - Christianity's strangest offspring. THE EMPIRE OF JURAMIDAM screens in the Arts centre on Friday 15th at 7.30.
THIS THING HAPPENED, Petra Conroy and Paul Fitzgerald’s story the Cleggan disaster of 1927, screens on Saturday 16th at 9.30 in the Kino cinema along with COACH the new documentary from award winning director Liam McGrath. Set against the backdrop of New York's failing public school system, Coach is a journey through the blood, sweat and tears of a High School sporting season.
REBEL FRONTIER, an anti-war film set in the US which sets America's immigrant communities up against the national security state directed by Desmond Bell; and Vinny Cunningham’s THE BATTLE OF THE BOGSIDE are also screening during the festival.