Sundance and Berlin alumni documentaries GAZA and A Dog Called Money are coming to Docs Ireland
Posted: 12th June 2019
Continuing its success after its World Premiere and Official Selection at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, Garry Keane and Andrew McConnell's GAZA will be the Closing Night Gala for Docs Ireland, a new International Documentary Festival. It joins a prestigious lineup of international and Irish documentary, eight of which are Screen Ireland projects, including Seamus Murphy's A Dog Called Money.
Docs Ireland is the first industry-focused, all-Ireland International Documentary Festival, running from the 12th to 16th of June in Belfast, as part of the Belfast Film Festival. Seamus Murphy's A Dog Called Money, Oisín Kearney's Boyajá: Caught in the Crossfire, Tom Burke's Losing Alaska and Keith Welsh's When All Is Ruin Once Again will all compete for the Pull Focus Award in the festival's strand focusing on New Irish Documentary.
As part of Shell Shock, a strand celebrating music documentary, Brian Lally's The Curious Works of Roger Doyle will screen on Saturday 15th June.
Alongside the six feature-length projects, two short films have also been selected to compete in the Short Film category, screening on Saturday 15th June: Reality Baby and The Vasectomy Doctor.
About the Films
GAZA
Bringing us to a unique place beyond the reach of television and politics, Gaza presents a portrait of a group of eloquent, funny, resilient, courageous and above all ordinary people who attempt to lead meaningful lives beyond the rubble of perennial conflict.
Screening: Sunday 16th June at 6.45pm
A Dog Called Money
As imaginative as the creative process it documents, A Dog Called Money is a uniquely intimate journey through the inspiration, writing and recording of a PJ Harvey record. The film is directed by Seamus Murphy and produced by Katie Holly for Blinder Films.
Screening: Friday 14th June at 8.30pm
Boyajá: Caught in the Crossfire
The Bojayá massacre was the worst mass atrocity in Colombia’s 50 year-long conflict. Charting the FARC guerilla’s path to civilian life and capturing one victim’s incredible struggle for justice, this film follows the process of identifying the dead Bojayá during the implementation of the controversial peace accords.
Screening: Saturday 15th June at 6.30pm
Losing Alaska
Losing Alaska tells the story of the people of Newtok, some three hundred and seventy five American citizens whose homes are disappearing. The documentary follows their efforts build a new town on safer ground before the inevitable flood washes their homes away and celebrates the commitment it takes to make that journey, while also questioning what is being lost in the process.
Screening: Saturday 15th June at 12pm
When All Is Ruin Once Again
A rural community commit their lives to memory as a new motorway ploughs forth through their landscape, a glaring symbol of our modern age. What will remain when nature inevitably subsumes it all.
Screening: Friday 14th June at 9pm
The Curious Works of Roger Doyle
The film is a trip through 5 decades of an extraordinary body of musical work, as well as bearing witness as he prepares for the staging of Heresy: his first – and Ireland’s first – electronic opera, staged in The Project Arts Centre, in Dublin in 2016.
Screening: Saturday 15th June at 6pm
Shorts Film Competition
Reality Baby
The Vasectomy Doctor
Screening: Saturday 15th June: 11.30am - 1.10pm