Screen Ireland Films at the 2019 Dingle Film Festival
Posted: 15th March 2019
The 2019 Dingle International Film Festival runs from 21 – 24 March with a host of Screen Ireland-supported titles in the festival including:
Float Like A Butterfly
Filmed on location in West Cork, Float Like a Butterfly is a powerful and timely story of a girl’s fight for freedom and belonging. In a gender-reversal of classic film Billy Elliot, 15-year-old Frances (played by up-and-coming Irish actress Hazel Doupe) has to fight for the right to fight back. Raised in roadside camps in rural Ireland, Frances wants to champion her people inside the boxing ring and out, like her idol Muhammad Ali, but society is determined to break her spirit and destroy her way of life.
Float Like a Butterfly stars Hazel Doupe, Dara Devaney, Johnny Collins, Aidan O'Hare, Lalor Roddy, Hilda Fay and is produced by Martina Niland for Port Pictures and David Collins for Samson Films.
Dark Lies The Island
If you’re going to get involved with men in the town of Dromord, they might as well be Mannions — and Sara is involved with them up to her neck.
She’s married to Daddy Mannion, more than 20 years her senior, and who more or less owns the town. But her first, and maybe her true love, was his estranged son, Doggy Mannion, who is by now a criminal recluse living in the woods outside town. Then there’s the younger brother, Martin Mannion, a small-town Lothario and failing chicken farmer. Sara has just got involved with him too.
As a result of this tangled erotic web, jealousy is rife in Dromord, and it’s flinging out its spears in all directions. The Mannion men have been set at each other, their long truce cannot hold, and violence is threatened.
The film is directed by Ian Fitzgibbon from a screenplay by Kevin Barry and produced by Michael Garland for Grand Pictures.
When All is Ruin Once Again
At the beginning of the Anthropocene — an epoch defined as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on the natural world — a rural community carve out their lives while a motorway ploughs forth through the landscape. It goes no further than the town of Gort in the west of Ireland, halted by the dawn of a financial crisis.
In this poetic documentary from director Keith Walsh, who lives on the South Galway/Clare border where the documentary was made, a myriad of personalities weave an epic tapestry through the bog lands, farms, firesides, race tracks and hurling pitches of recession Ireland.
The documentary is directed by Keith Walsh and produced by Jill Beardsworth for Twopair Films.
The Curious Works of Roger Doyle
This documentary studies the character and life's work of Irish avant garde composer Roger Doyle and closely observes him presenting one of his most ambitious musical projects to the Irish general public, his first major opera.
The documentary is directed by Brian Lally who also produced for Instigator Films.
Screen Ireland Shorts
The 2019 Dingle Film Festival will also play screen a variety of new Irish short films from Screen Ireland's various schemes, including Brendan Gleeson's directorial debut, Psychic, co-funded by Screen Ireland and Sky Arts.
For more infromation on the Dingle Film Festival, please click here. Animation Dingle also runs from 22 – 23 March and will play host to the Irish Animation Awards. To find out more about Animation Dingle and to read about this year's nominees, please click here.