Great Choice of Irish Films at Moscow Irish Film Festival and Irish Documentary Film Festival
The Moscow Irish Film Festival kicks off on Wednesday, March 11th, with a wide selection of films funded by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board screening. The inaugural edition of Moscow’s Irish Documentary Film Festival also begins this week.
The far-ranging lineup of films caters for a wide berth of ages and interests. The festival begins on March 11th with Jimmy’s Hall from veteran director Ken Loach (The Wind that Shakes the Barley), which will be joined over the following days by films including Song of the Sea, which was recently nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and Gold featuring Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams. Other feature films screening include Out of Here from first-time feature director Donal Foreman, The Canal starring Rupert Evans, Love Eternal with Pollyanna McIntosh, Standby starring Brian Gleeson and Jessica Paré and Good Vibrations with Richard Dormer and Liam Cunningham.
A varied selection of documentaries will screen at the Documentary Film Festival, which includes the acclaimed One Million Dubliners, Living in a Coded Land directed by Pat Collins, The Yellow Bittern looking at the life of Liam Clancy, Eliza Lynch: The Queen of Paraguay with Maria Doyle Kennedy, Blood Fruit focussing on the Dunnes Stores strikers of the 1980s, surfing documentary Waveriders, Alex Fegan’s The Irish Pub in addition to short documentaries The Last Days of Peter Bergmann, Useless Dog, Undressing My Mother, Irish Folk Furniture, Bloody Good Headline and Home Turf.
Moscow’s Irish Film Festival and Irish Documentary Film Festival take place as part of Irish Week. For the full list of films and screening times, see http://irishweek.ru/