Docs Ireland: Gaza
June 24th, 2019 | by Conor Smyth
Is it strange to surf during a siege? The optics of a modern-day siege, and the visual poetics associated with …
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Docs Ireland: 2040
June 14th, 2019 | by Conor Smyth
The screening of 2040 was packed with schoolchildren thanks to the involvement of Into Film, a Northern Irish charity focused …
Docs Ireland: The Silence of Others
June 14th, 2019 | by Conor Smyth
“Spain is covered in mass graves.” Buried wells of grief and pain stir underneath Spain’s transition from decades-long dictatorship to …
BFF19: Another Day of Life
May 3rd, 2019 | by Ian Patterson
Confusão: chaos, anarchy, confusion. The word runs through Raúl de la Fuente and Damian Nenow’s Another Day of Life like a …
Woman at War
May 3rd, 2019 | by Kev Lovski
I don’t know if it’s the diet or something in their water supply, but Iceland seems incapable of creating bad …
BFF 19: Beats
April 22nd, 2019 | by Conor Smyth
Wrapping up this year’s Belfast Film Festival, Michele Devlin and Mark Cousins took to the podium and paid tribute, in …
BFF 19: Eighth Grade
April 18th, 2019 | by Conor Smyth
If you are someone who finds the multi-pronged genius of Bo Burnham gallingly unjust, then brace yourself. The comedian has …
BFF 19: Float Like A Butterfly
April 18th, 2019 | by Conor Smyth
“It’s not about how many times you get hit, it’s abut how many times you get back up.” A flash …
BFF 19: Birds of Passage
April 17th, 2019 | by Conor Smyth
Plagues, locusts and temptation in the desert: Birds of Passage is biblical in its grandeur and moral ruin. The current …
BFF 19: A Bump Along The Way
April 15th, 2019 | by Conor Smyth
Opening the 19th Belfast Film Festival, Mark Cousins, newly installed Chairperson and mega-watt generator of cinematic enthusiasm, advertised the rectangular …
