Irish Feature Documentaries and Films to screen at the Cork Film Festival
A number of Irish Film Board funded feature documentaries and films will be screening at the upcoming Cork Film Festival.DAVID FARRELL: ELUSIVE MOMENTS, directed and produced by Donald Taylor Black with Poolbeg Productions looks at David Farrell, one of the most important Irish photographers working today. Farrell is not interested in making a record of events as they are, or in drawing clear conclusions; he believes strongly in photography's ability to bear witness and his is a quest for what he terms "elusive moments".
TAILWIND tells a forgotten history from World War II, told by those who took part now in their 80's and 90's. Directed by John T. Davis and produced by Michael Beattie and Michael Beattie Media, it is a story of life and love in wartime when the country became host to thousands of pilots and aircrew from every Allied nation, preparing men and machines for conflict and flying over the ‘Donegal Corridor' to fight the Atlantic War.
Gerry Gregg's TIL THE TENTH GENERATION follows Tomi Reichental as he plans to return for the first time to the Nazi death camp Bergen Belsen, where he witnessed as a nine year old, the annihilation of thousands through starvation, disease and mass murder. The documentary was produced by Oliver Donohoe and Gerry Gregg for Praxis Pictures.
The fourth documentary screening during the festival is IDENTITIES which is directed by Vittoria Colonna and produced by Rachel Lysaght with Underground Films. It is a feature length docudrama, charting the multicoloured transgender community in Ireland.
HELEN is the debut feature film by award-winning short film directors Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor. The psychological thriller stars Annie Townsend as a loner whose life is changed after she plays a missing woman in a police reconstruction. Produced by Desperate Optimists Productions, this Irish/UK co-production screened at the Edinburgh Film Festival earlier this year and will also screen at the London Film Festival this month.
The noir send-up THE INVESTIGATOR, directed by Attila Galambos pitches a hired killer into a quest to discover the identity of the man he was paid to murder. The Investigator is an Irish/Hungarian co-production, produced by Fastnet Films.
Screening Times
David Farrell: Elusive Moments - 16th October at 5pm in Triskel Arts Centre
Tailwind - Saturday 18th October at 3pm in the Triskel Arts Centre
Identities - Saturday 18th October at 9pm in the Triskel Arts Centre
Til the Tenth Generation - Saturday 18th October at 11.30am in the Kino Cinema
Helen - Sunday 19th October 2pm in the Opera House
The Investigator - Saturday 18th October at 9pm in the Kino Cinema