Belfast Spring Feile 2017

FÉILE AN EARRAIGH

SPRING FESTIVAL 10-18 MARCH

LIVE MUSIC|TALKS|THEATRE FAMILY & ST PATRICK’S DAY FUN + MORE!

Principal Funders

Language Partner

Headline Partner

Community Partner

Funders

Partners

Direct Furniture Ltd

FÁILTE WELCOME Belfast’s Féile an Phobail, Ireland’s biggest community arts festival & summer school, are delighted to present our Spring Festival, Féile an Earraigh which will take place in venues across Belfast from the 3-18 March 2017. Féile an Earraigh is very much about putting Irish traditional music, language, and culture to the forefront of our celebrations, and what better time to host this festival than during the lead up to St Patricks Day in Belfast. We're delighted this year to be partnering with the Respect Human Rights Film Festival in its inaugural year who have produced a programme that offers a dazzling diversity of events, offering a wider understanding of Human Rights subjects, such as, Immigration, Asylum, Women’s Rights, War & Conflict, Mental Health, LGBT Rights, Workers Rights, Environmental Concerns, Healthcare, Austerity & Disability Issues. Following a hugely successful year in 2016, 2017 is set to be another challenging yet exciting year for Féile. Féile an Phobail remains committed to playing a leadership role in exploring and encouraging change, providing an unique approach to dramatising the different energies and opportunities of shared living. As we move ever closer to our 30th anniversary celebrations in 2018, this Spring Festival Programme, we hope you agree, marks another milestone in our journey - showcasing good relations in action, attracting more tourism and visitor spend and building increased social and cultural capital. We look forward to seeing you all in West Belfast from 3-18 March! Can I place on record my thanks and appreciation to all of our festival partners, funders and sponsors who continue to support the work of Féile.

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Ceol, craic agus cuideachta. Sin cuid de na hábhair a bheas a gceiliúradh le linn Fhéile an Earraigh 2017, an fhéile a fhágann slán le duibheagán an gheimhridh agus a chuireann fáilte roimh Earrach an tsolais agus an tsóláis.

Kevin Gamble Stiúrthóir Féile an Phobail

Venue Partners

Féile An Earraigh is an important part of the cultural life that binds this city together. It makes a significant contribution to helping open up the city to all of us, through our shared enthusiasm for the arts. This celebration of Irish arts and culture, song, music, dance and storytelling, will draw people to the Falls Gaeltacht Quarter. Year on year, it shows its commitment to engaging with new as well as existing audiences, which is key to bringing communities closer together. The Arts Council, as principal funder through our Exchequer and National Lottery funds, is delighted to support this festival as it enhances the creative, social and economic life of West Belfast through the arts and extends a hand of welcome across the city and beyond.

Roisín McDonough Chief Executive Arts Council of Northern Ireland

FALLS LIBRARY

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ACT PROGRAMME

Alternative Conflict Transformation Programme

MURALS PROJECT

The ACT Programme is funded by The Executive Office and is a programme of work being delivered by our Community Engagement and Youth Arts Teams. The programme focuses on cultural diversity, crosscommunity and multi-cultural work, through the medium of arts, cultural activities, discussion and debate, music, theatre and visual arts. We have worked with young people and organisations across Belfast in various elements of this programme over the past 6 months and the activity below is some examples of that work.

SHOWCASED IN LOCAL SCHOOLS* 27 MARCH 2017

Community artists from Belfast have been working with St Mary’s Primary School, Bunscoil Phobail Feirste, Cranmore Integrated Primary School, St Paul’s Primary School* on a visual arts mural project. The children have explored aspects of cultural diversity, respect and immigration which they have portrayed through beautiful art work which will culminate in a mural piece. There will be six pieces in total, which will be showcased at each of the schools, as well as during our August Féile. (Others to be confirmed.)

Supported by TEO

TALKSBACK YOUTH

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Mark Simpson

Gary Symington

Chris Donnelly

Koulla Yiasouma

Gavin Boyd

14 MARCH 10:30-12:30PM, MALONE INTEGRATED COLLEGE Invited Schools Only

Equally as controversial and hard hitting as the flagship West Belfast Talks Back, this event focuses on the issues of our young people. In partnership with Active Communities Network we have been consulting with young people from across Belfast and have identified key issues and themes directly affecting them. From this consultation we are delighted to have the following panel confirmed. Gavin Boyd CEO of the Education Authority, Koulla Yiasouma Children’s Commissioner, Chris Donnelly Vice Principle of Holy Cross Boys and political commentator, and Gary Symington Senior Youth Worker Lighthouse Charity. Chaired by Mark Simpson, BBC Newsline Correspondent (and former BBC North of England & Ireland Correspondent.) Supported by TEO

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THE LANE…THE STREET…THE ROAD

27 MARCH 2017 On tour in local secondary schools See www.facebook.com/feilebelfast for updates

As part of Féile an Phobail’s Community Safety Initiative we have been engaging with 15 young people from across Belfast in a filmmaking and acting workshop programme. Hosted by local actor and filmmaker Brian Milligan (of Hunger and The Fall fame) the programme explores the consequences and repercussions of getting caught up in the criminal justice system. A short film is being produced and will tour local schools on a ‘roadshow’ with a panel that will include those involved in making the production as well as professionals from the criminal justice system. The film will also be showcased in this year’s August Féile as well as being made available online. Supported by West Belfast PCSP

ST PAT IN A PUPPET

FORUM THEATRE

DATES AND VENUE TBC

Féile Youth Arts have been working with two exceptionally talented groups of young people in constructing a forum theatre (also known as theatre of the oppressed) piece based on equality and cultural diversity. One piece entitled ‘Disgrace’ focuses on the rise of racism and anti Islam attitudes off the back of Brexit and the rise of Donald Trump. Another piece will focus on the Peace Walls and explore the need in them in today’s society. In partnership with New Lodge Arts and NACN Theatre Company. Supported by TEO

See www.facebook.com/feilebelfast for updates

MONDAY 13 - FRIDAY 17TH MARCH Local Schools

Who really was St Patrick? Did he banish all the snakes from Ireland?

Why is St Patrick our patron Saint?

Our community artists have been working with St Gerard’s Primary School Belfast in puppet design and creative writing workshops. As part of the Belfast City Council St Patrick Celebrations, our Youth Arts and Community Engagement team will be delivering a bespoke puppet show exploring the real St Patrick, and dispelling the myths of this great legend. Schools to include St Gerard’s, Cranmore Integrated Primary School, Bunscoil Phobail Feirste and St Mary’s Primary School. Supported by Belfast City Council St Patricks Day Celebration Grant 6

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St Patricks Day

TRAD MUSIC IN LOCAL BARS

Friday 17 March

Kelly's Cellars Session Crew Dancing Rouges (formerly lord of the dance troupe) The Fanatics Lee Headley Blues Band

The Gaeltacht Quarter will be alive with Irish Trad music and cultural events throughout FAE. Why not stop into one of our Festival Partners below to experience a flavour of Irish Culture,Craic agus Ceoil.

WOLF & WHISTLE ROCK BAR FELONS CLUB THE GLENOWEN THE BEEHIVE BLACK TAXIS DEPOT ANDERSONSTOWN SOCIAL CLUB 26 WEST MCENANEYS THE BALMORAL HOTEL

Féile wishes everyone a great time at this year’s events and get home safe with our festival transport partners Value Cabs, Belfast Taxis CIC and Translink Metro.

Dog Ruff String Band

RED HOT ROOSTERS

Outside in Kellys Cellars Beer Garden Saturday 18 March MADDENS BAR Friday the 17th, A varied St Paddy's day programme. Be early and be nice!

Saturday the 18th Live rugby! Watch the big game live on big screen. Later we have Ludwig & co (great live band guaranteed) plus Belfast only Saturday night session all starting 9.30pm.

Sunday the 19th Live sport on big screen plus end the weekend with a traditional Irish session from 9pm

MuSIC ON THE METRO Wed 15 March - Fri 17 March 4-6pm Ladybrook route.

Travel with Translink Metro to Féile An Earraigh click www.translink.co.uk, call 028 90 66 66 30 or follow us on Twitter @Translink_NI’

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AISLING GHÉAR’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY A JOURNEY IN IRISH THEATRE

9 - 20 Márta/March 10rn - 5in/pm Gerard Dillion Gallery

Tá AISLING GHéAR, COMPáNTAS AMHARCLANNAíOCHTA CóNAITHEACH NA CuLTúRLAINNE, AG CEILIúRADH SCóR BLIAIN AR AN ARDáN I MBLIANA AGuS IAD AG REáCHTáIL SRAITH IMEACHTAí CHuN AN CHLOCHMHíLE STAIRIúIL SIN A CHOMóRADH. Ag tús mhí an Mhárta, beidh siad ag nochtadh taispeántas a thugann spléachadh ceanúil siar ar bhóithríní na staire, ar an oidhreacht ar leith amharclannaíochta atá cumtha acu. Beidh idir ghriangrafanna, ailt nuachtán, léirmheasanna, ghné-ailt, chláir dhrámaí agus scannán 35mm le feiscint sa taispeántas, ábhar a fuasclaíodh ó ghaolta agus ó chairde an chompántais, mar aon le cuid ó mhór eagraíochtaí Bhéal Feirste.

Aisling Ghéar – the Cultúrlann’s resident Irish language theatre company acclaimed throughout Ireland, is celebrating its Anniversary Year with a host of exciting events. Beginning with a Retrospective Exhibition, looking at the work of the company alongside events in its’ home city of Belfast.

Photographs, newspaper articles, features, reviews, programmes and various yards of 35mm, liberated from friends, family and a number of the city’s foremost organisations, have yielded a very unique treasure trove!

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LE TACAÍOCHT Ó LAUREN NÍ CHASAIDE 10 Márta/March, 8pm/in

SCAOIL AMACH É!

11 Márta/March. 10rn/am - 1in/pm agus 2-5in/pm Seo deis ar leith duit féin agus do pháistí bheith pair- teach i sraith ceardlanna ar ealaíona thraidisiúnta na Gaeilge - amhránaíocht ar an sean nós, damhsa ar an sean nós, scéalaíocht agus aithriseoireacht.

Comórtais iad seo ar fad ag Oireachtas na Gaeilge. Mair dh gach ceardlann 90 noimead.

Here is is a unique opportunity for you and your children to get a taste of some of the Irish language’s ancient art- forms - sean nós singing and dancing, story telling and recitation, all of which are competitions at the premier Irish language festival, An tOireachtas.

Each workshop lasts 90 minutes.

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COMÓRADH RAIDIÓ FÁÍLTE CELEBRATION 15 Márta/March 7.30 in/pm

Oíche cheool is chuimhní cinn ar leith a bheidh againn chun ceiliúradh a dhéanamh ar dheich mbliana de staisiún raidió phobal na Gaeilge i mBéal Feirste, Raidió Fáílte. Sa Chultúrlann a thosaigh Raidió Fáilte ag craoladh le ceadúnas agus tá sé ag dul ó neart go neart ó shin. Níos déanaí i 2017 tá súil ag an staisiún pobail is uaillmhianaí sa tír bogadh isteach i gceanncheathrú nua, Líonra uladh, atá suite i gceantar Dhubhaise.

Tabharfaidh an taispeántas seo chun cuimhne cuid de na buaicphointí ar thuras Raidió Fáílte le deich mbliana anuas agus tabharfaidh an oíche airneáil le ceol agus amhráin is cuimhní cinn léargas ar an spleodar a bhaineann leis an chraoltóir seo

LÁ SPRAOI NA DTEAGHLACH FAMILY FUN DAY

17 Márta/March 10in/am - 5in/pm Scéalaíocht/Ceol Traidisiúnta/Péinteáíl Aghaidheanna/Ceardaíocht/Céilí/ Cluichí Móra CLG Story telling/Traditional Music/Face Painting/Craftwork/Céilí/The Big GAA games on the big screen!

A special night of music and memories will celebrate Raidió Fáílte, Belfast’s Irish language community radio station, as we launch an exhibition to call to mind the milestones along the way from the Cultúrlann, where Raidió Fáílte was based at the beginning, to its new headquarters, the state of the art Líonra uladh which is to open later this year.

THOSE YOU PASS ON THE STREET Kabosh

16 Márta/March 8in/pm

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THE WEST AWAKES - 1916 Commissioned by Failte Feirste Thiar

TUESDAY 14TH AND WEDNESDAY 15TH MARCH 2017 – DEPARTING 12 NOON DIVIS TOWER PRODUCED BY KABOSH IN ASSOCIATION WITH COISTE

Take a walk with a difference and see the Falls Road like you never have before. Accompanied by local tour guide Joe Austin you’ll begin your journey at Divis Tower and make your way to Milltown Cemetery.

Along the way you will hear incredible stories about local connections with the 1916 Rising and see the history and heritage of the Falls brought to life with original plays from Seth Linder, Kieron Magee, Laurence McKeown and Rosaleen Walsh. Performances will take place in the historic Conway Mill, Cultúrlann, and the iconic City and Milltown Cemeteries. These will be performed by local actors Maria Connolly, Gerard Jordan and Antoinette Morelli.

Duration 2 ½ hrs Tickets £8 Numbers are limited so please book early This is a walking tour so dress appropriately Tel: 028 9024 3343.

Check out the production digital app

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/streets-of-belfast/id960649171?mt=8

For tickets please book through http://www.kabosh.net/store/index.php/tickets.html

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WHISKEY WITH DAMIAN COLE TASTING McEnaneys, 16th March 8pm

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POWERPOINT PRESENTATION ON THE HISTORY OF MILLTOWN CEMETERY

McEnaney’s -The Gravediggers, 1 Glen Road, 15 March, 8pm,

Tom’s power point presentation offers an engaging reflection on the history to be found in Milltown cemetery, the largest catholic burial ground in the city of Belfast. The presentation covers the political and social history of the Belfast catholic community. Priests and nuns, architects and footballers, bishops and poets, businessmen and paupers, hurlers and harp makers, republican volunteers, the RIC and the British Army are all part of the narrative of Milltown.

In 2014 Tom launched his book, The History of Belfast. Written in Stone: Milltown Cemetery.

Published by Blackstaff, the book has become a local best seller.

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Friday 17th March from 1pm to 4pm Irish Dancing, Traditional Irish music Flute Band & Live DJ

Belfast St Patrick’s Day Friday 17 March 2017

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Free concert

Custom House Sq uare,12.45pm - 3p m

Featuring live music from Fleur East, Reggie ‘n’ Bollie, Stooshe, Belfast Boys’ Model Drummers and The Rare Aul Stuff!

Call Visit Belfast Welcome Centre on 028 9024 6609 or go to our website.

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Proudly supported by

www.belfastcity.gov.uk/stpatricks

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THOSE YOU PASS ON THE STREET

CULTÚRLANN, THURS 16TH MARCH, 8PM PRICE: £8.

WRITTEN BY LAURENCE MCKEOWN, DIRECTED BY PAULA MCFETRIDGE CAST: VINCENT HIGGINS, PAULA MCFETRIDGE, CAROL MOORE CIÁRAN NOLAN

Those You Pass On The Street, written by Laurence McKeown, explores the complexities of dealing with the legacy of conflict and contrasts party political positioning with individual needs. It challenges the view that any mechanism for dealing with the past is simply about ‘whose side gets what’.

The play follows the story of RUC widow, Elizabeth, and Sinn Fein officer, Frank, whose emerging friendship challenges not only their personal preconceptions and beliefs but also those of their family members and friends. The performance us to think about our own beliefs, political stance, prejudices, and to see other perspectives The performance will be followed by a facilitated discussion with playwright Laurence McKeown

For tickets please book through http://www.kabosh.net/store/index.php/tickets.html

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INTRODUCTION I would firstly like to extend a warm welcome to all those filmmakers who will be participating in Belfast’s first dedicated Human Rights Film Festival in what is sure to be a truly momentous occasion. A big thank you must go to all our volunteers who have given their time and commitment in making it all happen. I would also like to offer my appreciation to Féile, Fáilte Feirste, An Chultúrlann, St Mary’s College, Townsend Presbytarian Church, Duncairn Arts Centre, Glór Na Móna, Belfast Film Festival, QFT, Balmoral Hotel and Falls Library for their partnership in hosting many great venues for our screenings. A major theme of this year’s festival is the increasing refugee crisis faced by many displaced people around the world. This will be particularly reflected in a number of screenings and events that will highlight the difficulties faced by families attempting to flee the current conflicts in Africa & the Middle East. As we ourselves face many obstacles within a post-

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conflict society, a number of documentaries, talks and events will attempt to address, investigate, and act as an advocate in the issues and debates that are simplified and marginalized by mainstream film and broadcast media. This will be facilitated via many screenings, events and workshops by our dedicated volunteers and by a number of academics from both Queen’s and ulster universities who are considered experts within their own particular fields. Moreover, our programme of screenings will further offer a wider understanding of Human Rights subjects, such as, Immigration, Asylum, Women’s Rights, War & Conflict, Mental Health, LGBT Rights, Workers Rights, Environmental Concerns, Healthcare, Austerity & Disability Issues. We hope you can join us in making this great event a cornerstone for the promotion of human rights for many years to come.

Seán Murray - Festival Director

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A Message from our Patron I would like to say that I am honoured to become patron of the Respect Belfast Human Rights Film Festival. As the world faces many political uncertainties, it is of vital importance that an event, such as this, can empower, educate and advocate for those without a voice.

As a country, we understand what is to migrate. We departed this country in millions to go all around the world; we know what political asylum means and platforms such as these can galvanise the response needed to ensure a more compassionate policy from our governments.

Given the appalling conditions faced by many under the Irish ‘Direct Provision’ system, a strategy intent in dissuading others from seeking asylum, we ought to highlight the needs of those facing political persecution within their own countries in order to stimulate a wider international response.

In a week dedicated to many issues around human rights, it is imperative that we engage in many of the screenings, talks and events that this wonderful festival has to offer.

Stephen Rea – Festival Patron

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BOOK TICKETS REFUNDS: Respect Belfast Human Rights Film Festival can only refund money or exchange tickets for screenings that are cancelled. For more information on the festival, contact us on 02895 609 526 or email info@respectfilmfest.com

AN CHULTÚRLANN 216 Falls Road Belfast, BT12 6AH 028 9096 4180

Our Address: Respect Human Rights Film Festival 1st Floor, 77 Botanic Avenue Belfast BT7 1JL Ireland

BEANBAG CINEMA 5 Exchange Place Belfast, BT1 2NA 028 9032 5913

Book Online (24/7) www.respectfilmfest.com

ST MARY’S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE 191 Falls Road Belfast, BT12 6FE 028 9032 7678

Or at Festival Venues: From half hour before screening or event time.

For general information call us on: 02895 609 526

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VENUES

DUNCAIRN ARTS CENTRE Duncairn Complex Duncairn Avenue Belfast, BT14 6BP 028 9074 7114

WHITEROCK COMMUNITY CENTRE Whiterock Close Belfast, BT12 7RJ 028 9032 8623

QUEEN’S FILM THEATRE (QFT), BELFAST 20 university Square Belfast, BT7 1PA QFT box office: 02890 971 097 (after 6pm only) GLÓR NA MÓNA 195a Bóthar Na Carraige Báine Béal Feirste, BT12 7FW 028 9023 4442

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For further details see contact information below:

Most films are available to schools, Youth Clubs and Community Groups around Belfast for private viewing and educational purposes.

Clíodhna Quinn Assistant Coordinator at Respect Belfast Human Rights Film Festival 028 9560 9526

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Joe Austin Heritage Development Coordinator for Fáilte Feirste Thiar Tel: 028 9024 1100

BALMORAL HOTEL Blacks Road Belfast, BT10 0NF 028 9030 1234 FALLS LIBRARY 49 Falls Road, Belfast, BT12 4PD 028 9050 9212 TOWNSEND PRESBYTARIAN CHURCH 32 Townsend Street Belfast , BT13 2ES 028 9084 9144

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OPENING NIGHT GALA

Director – Michael Lessac uS / 2014 / 1hr 38mins

SNAKE GIVES BIRTH TO A SNAKE AN CULTURLANN 03 MARCH / 6.30 PM / FEE: £3

A Snake Gives Birth to A Snake, from acclaimed director Michael Lessac, follows a diverse group of South African actors as they tour global wartorn regions to share their country’s experience with reconciliation. As they ignite a dialogue among people with raw memories of atrocity, the actors find they must confront once again their homeland’s complicated and violent past and question their own capacity for healing and forgiveness. The documentary is inspired by the Truth and

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Reconciliation Commission in South Africa and asks how countries exploring their pasts can help them in building a future.

The panel discussion will include Director, Michael Lessac, Executive Producer Jacqueline Lessac, Seán Murray (a policy advisor for Sinn Fein on Policing, Justice and Legacy issues) , Glenn Bradley, former British Soldier, and Anne Cadwallader (The Pat Finucane Centre)

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CLOSING NIGHT GALA

Director – Nima Sarvestani Netherlands / 2016 / 1hr 30m

PRISON SISTERS BALMORAL HOTEL 08 MARCH / 7PM / FEE: £3

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY CLOSING SCREENING FOLLOWED BY AWARDS CEREMONY

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Prison Sisters takes us through the journey of two young women who have been released from prison in Afghanistan. Sara’s uncle has planned to kill her in an attempt to save his honor within their small village.

Fearing for her life Sara escapes to Sweden, but Najibeh stays behind.

While Sara struggles with her newfound freedom, her prison-mate Najibeh disappears and soon Sara hears that she was stoned to death.

Each with an exceptional fate, this documentary depicts the horrific reality for women in Afghanistan.

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FEATURED DOCUMENTARY

Screening & Panel Discussion Spain / 2016 / 1hr 8m

IN DIALOGUE TOWNSEND STREET PRESBYTARIAN CHURCH 07 MARCH / 7PM / FEE: FREE

Sira Abenoza, a university professor of philosophy in Barcelona, believes that most of society´s conflicts are caused by a lack of dialogue. In this film, Sira travels to Belfast to try to understand how a person can embrace violence in the pursuit of political goals, and what this means at the personal level and for the community - and the legacy that violent conflict leaves behind, years after the violence has ended. For this, she brings together former activists from the IRA and loyalist paramilitary groups, a former soldier from the British army, and a former ulster

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police oicer to sit around the same table. Their open, intense exchanges are interwoven with testimony from victims, mediators and youngsters who never had to experience life during the Troubles - and who are the hope for the future.

The panel discussion will be chaired by Dr Anna Bryson (QuB) along with participants from the documentary.

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WORKSHOPS

ETHICS IN FILM MAKING WORKSHOP WITH PROFESSOR CAHAL MC LAUGHLIN FALLS ROAD LIBRARY 06 MARCH / 4 – 5.30PM / FEE: FREE A panel discussion, in collaboration with the Documentary Research Centre at QuB, will address the responsibilities, dilemmas, risks and rewards of producing films that address human rights issues. Whether the concerns are representing the ’other’, sharing authority, informed consent, taking sides or attempting a

‘balance’, this seminar will use film examples as case studies in order to analyse and understand how filmmaking can be supportive while also risking harm. The workshop will be chaired by Professor Cahal McLaughlin (QuB) along with Michele Devlin from the Belfast Film Festival.

(Open to everyone)

GUERRILLA FILMMAKING MASTERCLASS WITH SEÁN MURRAY FALLS ROAD LIBRARY 07 MARCH / 4 – 5.30 / FEE: FREE Belfast based filmmaker Seán Murray will take you through the processes of filmmaking on a small budget.

Showing a selection of short films he will explain how to best utilise a small production crew with limited

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resources. This masterclass will identify the constraints of the funding process by offering an alternative and innovative approach to filmmaking.

(Open to everyone)

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Director – Noemi Gegeny Hungary / 2013 / 52m

LIFE-LEARNING

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 2 04 MARCH / 1PM / FEE: FREE A documentary about the real lives of children with intellectual disabilities in funny, unusual and heartwarming situations and how they go about their everyday lives without the presence of adults.

Director - Tomislav Zaja Croatia / 2015 / 1 hr 12m

FREE

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 2 04 MARCH / 1PM / FEE: FREE Free follows a group of adults with intellectual disabilities who have been locked away in Croatian institutions for decades. They are released and a new beginning awaits them.

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Director - Pascal Gélinas Canada / 2016/ 51 m

A BRIDGE BETWEEN TWO WORLDS

ST MARY'S LECTURE HALL 1 04 MARCH / 2:30PM / FEE: FREE A Bridge Between Two Worlds relates how Muslim and Catholic farmers, on the Island of Flores, Indonesia, overcome poverty and enhance their environment with the support of North American and European families. This astonishing chain of solidarity was initiated by Gilles Raymond, a

Canadian volunteer from Québec who has forged deep bonds in Flores over the past 15 years. This is the beginning of a worldwide family, which distance cannot affect, a story that is punctuated by hard work, children’s smiles and ancestor worship.

Director - Behrouz Sebt Rasoul Iran / 2015 / 1 hr 15m

IDENTITY

ST MARY'S LECTURE HALL 1 04 MARCH / 2:30PM / FEE: FREE A young Iranian boy starts peddling for the first time but is arrested, this film follows his mothers obstacles to finding him.

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Director - Claudia Mattos Brazil / 2014 / 1 hr 17 m

PORT OF LITTLE AFRICA

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 2 04 MARCH / 4PM / FEE: FREE The origins of Rio de Janeiro’s Port Area, nicknamed Little Africa. A place of strong African cultural heritage, where samba, football, many important social rebellions, Rio’s bohemian lifestyle and the city’s first favela were born.

Director - Miquel Galofre Jamaica / 2014 / 1hr 14m

SONGS OF REDEMPTION

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 2 04 MARCH / 4PM / FEE: FREE Songs of Redemption is a Jamaican documentary made in the prisons of Kingston. This documentary captures the moving story of redemption and rehabilitation of inmates of the General Penitentiary located in

Kingston, Jamaica. The film features riveting interviews and powerful reggae music created, performed, and produced in a unique partnership by inmates and wardens.

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Director - Irene Orleansky Israel / 2016 / 1 hr 36 m

BAL EJ: THE HIDDEN JEWS OF ETHOPIA

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 1 04 MARCH / 5PM / FEE: FREE Following a one hundred year old account of the prominent Jewish Polish scholar Jacque Faitlovich, the film-maker travels to discover and explore a sect of secret Jews in Ethiopia. Named Bal Ej, craftsmen, for their artisan skills, they have been persecuted by their Orthodox Christian

Director - Hassan Salih

neighbors who slandered them as evileyed and hyena-people and have been deprived of the basic rights such as ownership of land.

Fearing persecutions, they appear Christians outwardly, and practice Judaism in strict secrecy.

AWAT THE KURD WITNESS

Director – Lauren Brown uS / 2016 / 45 m

THE CHECKLIST EFFECT (AND Q&A)

AN CULTURLANN 04 MARCH / 4PM / FEE: FREE Both scientific and deeply personal: a documentary for anyone who’s ever had surgery, or watched someone they love disappear behind those swinging doors. Inspired by surgeon and author Atul Gawande’s award-winning book ‘The Checklist Manifesto,’ The Checklist Effect documents communities from

Director - Jesse Roberts Palestine / 2016 / 59 m

Moldova to Mongolia to understand how longer lifespans have led to an urgent increase in the need for surgery and have provoked a deadly safety crisis.

Q&A - Director Lauren Brown and Dr Ed Fitzgerald who appears in the film.

RADIANCE OF RÉSISTANCE (AND Q&A)

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 3 04 MARCH / 6PM / FEE: FREE ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 1 04 MARCH / 5PM / FEE: FREE A feature drama involving a child who witnessed the crimes of , the genocide committed by the forces of Saddam Hussein’s troops when they occupied the city of Kifri, a small town in Kurdistan in the North of Irak in 1988.

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Radiance of Résistance tells the story of two girls - Janna Ayyad 9 years old, and Ahed Tamimi 14 years old who live under military occupation in Nabi Saleh, Palestine. Janna and Ahed are part of a new generation of Palestinian youth leaders who are advocating for

civil rights. They are powerful female voices in the non-violent independence movement.

Q&A – The film’s creators Jesse Roberts and Jesse Locke.

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FOODBANK FILM

Director - Deirdre O’ Neill uK / 2016 / 15m Director – Xuban Intxausti Germany / 2016 / 57m

DRESDEN REFUGE

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 2 04 MARCH / 7PM / FEE: FREE In 2015, Germany was the only European country that enacted an open-door policy towards refugees who were arriving in droves from countries at war, most of them from Syria. As a result, Germany accepted one million people a year. This

phenomenon has had an especially significant impact in Dresden. The former Eastern organizations offer support to the newly arrived, while others use the past to create the rationale for rejecting foreigners.

CRAZY

Director – Lise Zumwalt uS / 2016 / 60 m

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 2 04 MARCH / 7PM / FEE: FREE In 2011, Eric, diagnosed schizophrenic, faced a critical choice - comply with traditional mental health treatment or follow his own path to wellness. Crazy provides a front row seat to one

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person’s struggle with his illness, his family, the local mental health system, psych meds and the right to make his own treatment decisions.

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Directors – Danny Mitchell, Rosa Weber Iceland / 2014 / 54m

SCREENING AND Q&A REYKJAVIK RISING

AN CULTURLANN 04 MARCH / 7PM / FEE: £3 Reykjavik Rising (Dir. Danny Mitchell, Rosa Weber) describes itself as a film about ‘Iceland’s untold uprising’ - an episode scandalously overlooked by the world’s media. Similarly, Deirdre O’Neill’s The Foodbank Film gives voice to people seldom enabled to occupy the centre of the media frame.

In this talk, Dr Stephen Baker asks how

the politically marginalised can project themselves onto the world’s screens and what are the chances of a popular democratic cinema?

Followed by Lecture & Q&A with Dr Steve Baker, Lecturer in Film & Television Studies, Ulster University.

HOOLIGAN SPARROW

Director – Nanfu Wang uSA / 2016 / 1hr 31m

BEAN BAG CINEMA / 6PM / FEE : £3 Human rights activist Ye Haiyan is chased from town to town by local governments, national secret police, and even her own neighbors after she seeks justice against an elementary school principal who abused six girls. The story of Ye Haiyan, a.k.a. Hooligan Sparrow, captures her unconventional and poignant activism through a tense story that explodes after she (and other women from her collective) protest against leniency

for a pedophile principal... From enthusiastically documenting the peaceful roadside protests to escaping police surveillance, the movie’s fighting spirit is a standout. “Hooligan Sparrow” is a literal and moving testament to how political protest works: It may start off looking “small,” but it becomes powerful and large when it is seen.

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Director - Eric Bednarski uganda / 2016 / 45 m

A FILM FOR NORTHERN UGANDA

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 2 05 MARCH / 11AM / FEE: FREE Acknowledges the tragic past of the region focusing on stories of transformation of Northern ugandan women and men who have risen from the ashes of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)’s twenty year insurgency.

Director - Marek Tomasz Pawlowski Poland / 2015 / 60 m

TOUCH OF AN ANGEL

Directors - Bob Hercules, Rita Coburn MAYA ANGELOU Whack uSA / 2016 / 1 hr 51m AND STILL I RISE BEAN BAG CINEMA 05 MARCH /3PM / FEE: £3

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 2 05 MARCH / 11AM / FEE: FREE A personal, poetic tale of a deaf man; Henryk Schoenker, who returns to the places where he found refuge as a boy. The film presents completely unknown facts about the existence of a failed Bureau of Emigration of Jews to Palestine in Auschwitz town.

Director - Frederik Subei France / 2015 / 30 m

TRANSIT ZONE

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 2 05 MARCH / 11AM / FEE: FREE Transit Zone is an authentic insight into the life of a refugee in the jungle of Calais in Northern France. 'Teefa' has fled the regime in Sudan with the dream to start a new life in the uK. But sneaking onto a truck to cross the border is difficult and the harsh conditions of the camp are taking its toll.

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The extraordinary story of iconic writer, poet, actress and activist Maya Angelou whose life intersected some of the greatest moments in recent American history.

Distinctly referred to as “a redwood tree, with deep roots in American culture,” Dr. Maya Angelou led a prolific life. As a singer, dancer, activist, poet and writer, she inspired generations with lyrical modern African-American thought that pushed boundaries. Best known for her autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Random House), she gave people the freedom

to think about their history in a way they never had before.

With unprecedented access, the filmmakers trace Dr. Angelou’s incredible journey, shedding light on the untold aspects of her life through never-before-seen footage, rare archival photographs and videos and her own words. From her upbringing in the Depression-era South and her early performing career (1957’s Miss Calypso album and Calypso Heat Wave film, Jean Genet’s 1961 play The Blacks) to her work with Malcolm X in Ghana

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EL PESO DE LA MANTA (THE WEIGHT OF THE BLANKET)

THE PURSUIT: 50 YEARS IN THE Director - Ilana Trachtman FIGHT FOR LGBT RIGHTS AND Q&A uS / 2016 / 59 m

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 2 05 MARCH / 2PM / FEE: FREE

QFT 05 MARCH / 4PM / FEE: £5 & £4 CONCESSION

Director - Otoxo Productions Spain / 2016 / 35 m

On the streets of Barcelona, the most visible yet invisible immigrants of all struggle to survive through illegal street selling. Victims of relentless

racism, persecuted by the police, and silent for many years, they have finally found a voice and created a union. Our documentary follows their struggle.

RED CLOTHES

Director - Lida Chan Cambodia / 2016 / 63m

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 2 05 MARCH / 2PM / FEE: FREE Red clothes is a sordid story of the profound indifference to individual rights and humanity at the cost of the fashion-revolution of contemporary Cambodia where an exodus of young

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people from the countryside are staffing the garment-industry in the capital city as cheap workforce in order to make avant-garde apparels to send off to the insatiable West.

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The pursuit of happiness for the LGBT community continues 50 years after activists publicly protested discrimination against ‘homosexuals’ with picket signs in front of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall. A thoughtful look back and an intimate look at the present.

Director - Lucas Jedrzejak Lebanon / 2016 / 1 hr 18 m

Q&A – Chaired by Jo Mc Parland, Regional Development Youth Officer for Cara – Friend Society.

KETERMAYA

AN CULTURLANN 05 MARCH / 4PM / FEE: FREE On a dusty hillside surrounded by olive trees, the children of Ketermaya play far away from the horrors of Syria. But life in the Lebanese refugee camp is far from easy. Disrupted educations, the loss of loved ones, and the scars of war and chemical weapons weigh heavily

in this extraordinary portrait of family and childhood innocence. An important corrective to narratives surrounding refugees, and a moving fable of hope and resilience in unimaginable circumstances.

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Directors – Danny Mitchell & Rosa Weber Iceland / 2014 / 54mins

REYKJAVIK RISING

DUNCAIRN ARTS CENTRE 05 MARCH / 7PM / FEE: FREE In October 2008 Iceland was hit with one of the biggest financial disasters any nation in the world this documentary explores how and why the people of Iceland resisted the measures imposed by their government and forced them to forge a new political path.

Director - Derek Price Canada / 2016/ 3m

PRIMARY COLOURS

A cinepoem by SudaneseCanadian artist Roua Aljied, aka Philosi-fire, about the realities of domestic violence.

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THE PEACE AGENCY

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 2 05 MARCH / 5PM / FEE: FREE Lian Gogali and her 500 female students are a force to be reckoned with the conflict torn area of Poso, Indonesia. They are part of a powerful and successful

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Director – Sue useem Indonesia / 2016 / 1hr 32m

Director - Ana Mancera Mexico / 2016 / 25m

movement for peace and justice in an area that has been racked by inter-religious violence for over a decade.

LOLA STILL DANCES

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 2 05 MARCH / 5PM / FEE: FREE Lola is being held captive. Forced to be a prostitute by a Mexican Pimp, she tries to escape but can only do this in her imagination where she is a beautiful ballerina.

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Director - Luis Cintora Peru / 2015 / 1 hr 6m

WELCOME TO LOS CABITOS

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 1 05 MARCH / 6.30PM / FEE: FREE State of emergency in Ayacucho, Peru, 1983. The political-military command sets up its base at Los Cabitos headquarters. These barracks soon turn into a clandestine center of detention,

torture, enforced disappearance and extrajudicial execution of Shining Path suspects.

Director – Cahal McLaughlin Ireland / 2015 / 58m

‘ARMAGH STORIES: VOICES FROM THE GAOL’

AN CULTURLANN 05 MARCH / 7PM / FEE: £3

Q&A - DIRECTOR CAHAL MCLAUGHLIN AND FILM PARTICIPANTS

Director - Alessandro Nunziata Italy / 2015 / 1 hr 23m

WE SLOWLY BEGIN TO DIE

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 1 05 MARCH / 6.30PM / FEE: FREE Cattolica, 1944. With the help of two soldiers, the partisans manage to steal weapons belonging to the fascists. The fascist retaliation is brutal as farmers, innocent people

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and comrades are persecuted.

Amongst these are two young Republicans, Domenico Rasi and Vanzio Spinelli

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‘Armagh Stories: Voices from the Gaol’ is a documentary film edited from walk-and-talk interviews conducted inside Armagh Gaol in 2006. The Gaol served as the only female prison during the Troubles until its closure in 1986. At the height of the conflict, the number of female political prisoners grew from 2 in 1971 to more than 100 between 1972 and 1976. Due to the growing prison population during the Troubles, Armagh also housed male remand and sentenced prisoners. In

the film, prison staff, prisoners, tutors, chaplains, a doctor and a solicitor remember their experiences, mostly for the first time: these include raising a baby, working in the laundry, segregation, having a colleague killed, being on hunger strike, and strip searching.

The interviews are taken from the Prisons Memory Archive, which operates protocols of co-ownership, inclusivity and life-storytelling: you can find out more at www.prisonsmemoryarchive.com

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INSIDE THE LABYRINTH

Director- Caroline D'hondt uS / 2016 / 1 hr 14 m

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 1 06 MARCH / 5PM / FEE: FREE Inside the Labyrinth takes us on a journey into the lands of the Tohono O’odham indigenous people, located at the border between the American State of Arizona and the Mexican State of

Sonora.

The film follows individuals from this community, who contemplate the meaning of identity, indigenous sovereignty, immigration, borders and fear.

TRAILS OF HOPE AND ERROR

Director - Vincent De La Torre uS / 2016 / 53m

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 1 06 MARCH / 5PM / FEE: FREE This film explores the historical and economic reasons for the current immigration crisis in the uS and how politicians have used this issue to garner votes. Filmmakers travel to the u.S. border five times

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to walk the desert and interview humanitarian groups, social workers, legal professionals, the undocumented, and antiimmigration protesters.

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Director - Javad Daraei Iran / 2016 / 20 mins

I DON’T LIKE HERE

BEAN BAG CINEMA 06 MARCH / 7.30PM / FEE: £3

Eli is a transgender teenager who continues to seeks his true nature despite constant disagreements with his father.

Director - Antoni Pałka Poland / 2016 / 47 mins

MINE IS DIFFERENT

BEAN BAG CINEMA 06 MARCH / 7.30PM / FEE: £3 Created by the Polish Human Rights Organisation ‘Campaign Against Homophobia.’

This documentary gives a voice to the parents of LGBT children as they

share their experiences of discovering their child’s sexual orientation or gender identity and of overcoming prejudice.

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LEGACY WARNINGS!

Director Jonathan Happ/ Duration 57mins

DUNCAIRN ARTS CENTRE 06 MARCH / 5:30PM / FEE: FREE 5 years after Fukushima and 30 years after Chernobyl and an entire continent plans its atom entry.

Coming from Europe, Germany, where there is a big anti-nuclear movement and the government

Director – Gayle Embrey uSA / 2014 / 1 hr 32m

decided fading out nuclear energy after the Fukushima disaster happened, this documentary follows the question- which way will the African continent go - the radioactive or renewable way?

BEYOND THE WALLS

CLONARD MONASTERY YOUTH CLUB 06 MARCH / 7PM / FEE: FREE All over the world, people from different cultures instinctively go to the walls, painting their stories as a way to give voice to their life experiences. In Beyond The Walls, we enter the murals for a personal view of lives affected by violence, poverty or conflict. Beyond The Walls brings to life the impact of traumatic events on those who

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survive. Teenagers from Clonard monastery Youth Club, Falls Road, Hammer Youth Club, Shankill Road and ardoyne youth club as part of the Rcity youth leadership programme will discuss the themes around the film in a Q&A with participants of the film.

Ages 16-19 only

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Director – Peter Kearney Ireland / 2016 / 15 mins

WAS JUSTICE DONE IN CRAIGAVON?

ST MARY’S COLLEGE HALL 06 MARCH / 7PM / FEE: FREE

SCREENING & Q&A Was Justice Done in Craigavon? is a short documentary short focuses on a potential miscarriage of justice in the north of Ireland. The film was produced by first time Director Peter Kearney and completed as part of his MA dissertation in Journalism & Media at Griffith College Dublin in August 2016.

The documentary highlights the questionable evidence that convicted Brendan Mc Conville and John Paul Wootton of the murder

of PSNI Constable Stephen Carroll in Craigavon, Co Armagh on 9 March 2009. Mc Conville, Wootton and their campaign team believe their conviction was a miscarriage of justice and they have become known as The Craigavon Two. The panel will include the men’s legal representitives, Darragh Mackin & John Finucane, and members of the Wooton and McConville families along with director, Peter Kearney.

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Director - Marryanne Christodoulou Australia / 2016 / 58m

FAMILY

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 1 06 MARCH / 7.30PM / FEE: FREE A woman attempts to overcome years of denial and family coverups of the sexual abuse she endured as a child at the hands of her brother-in-law, by finally facing the sister she has been unable to forgive. This documentary brings

the two sisters together after years of estrangement, and intimately portrays their conflicting notions of forgiveness and familial love, and their very different ways of dealing with the scars of the past.

Directors - Mark Olexa & Francesca Scalisi Bangladesh / 2015 / 12m

Set in rural Bangladesh, this is the story of a girl and the tragedy that changed her life.

OJALÁ

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 1 06 MARCH / 7.30PM / FEE: FREE Shot in Havana, Cuba. With no dialogue this short drama portrays the machismo, the women, and the Cuban system.

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Y

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 3 06 MARCH / 5PM / FEE: FREE Laura is a self-confident young woman, a member of the new generation, also known as ‘Generation Y’. Spoilt for choice by life’s abundance of options, Laura has lost track of her own aims and

ideals. One night she meets Safi, who has fled her homeland. The encounter gives Laura food for thought.

MORIOM

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 1 06 MARCH / 7.30PM / FEE: FREE

Director - Nacho Herrán Cuba / 2016 / 6m

Director - Gina Wenzel Germany / 2017 / 24m

Director - Gabriele Cipolla Greece / 2016 / 1hr 16m

ECHOES

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 3 06 MARCH / 5PM / FEE: FREE Greece 2016. Hungary, Serbia and Macedonia close their border to thousands of people running away from their countries, breaking an ancient migration route known as the ‘Balkan route’. Along the Macedonian border; men, women and children start gathering in refugee camps where NGOs,

volunteers and activists challenge the people smugglers mafia.

Echoes tells the story of the day before the eviction of the Eko station, the last big independent refugee camp in northern Greece.

The film will be introduced by director, Gabriele Cipolla.

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WHAT IS POLITICAL CINEMA?

Screening & Lecture

AN CULTURLANN 06 MARCH / 7PM / FEE: £3 In the centenary year of the Russian Revolution, Des O’Rawe (QuB) explores the legacy of Soviet cinema, and how subsequent filmmakers have sought to create a cinema that combines social commitment with formal innovation. In particular, this

Director - Derek Price Canada / 2016/ 3m

illustrated talk will discuss the work of revolutionary Cuban filmmaker Santiago álvarez, and speculate on the future of political cinema in a world increasingly dominated by confusion and authoritarianism.

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 2 07 MARCH / 5.30PM / FEE: FREE The nurse tells the story of an unusual friendship between Kerem, a revolutionary on a death fast, and Leyla, a nurse who tries to cope with her extra kilos and an

unhappy marriage. The nurse is a film that questions captivity inside and outside of prisons, asking the audience whether real captivity is spiritual or physical.

CHÁVEZ: THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED (A CASE STUDY OF POLITICS AND THE MEDIA)

GLÓR NA MÓNA, WHITEROCK RD 07 MARCH / 7PM / FEE: FREE The Revolution Will Not be Televised is a powerful and dramatic film about the charismatic and controversial Venezuelan President, Hugo Chávez who died in 2013. It charts the sevenmonth run-up to the dramatic attempt to overthrow him in April 2002 and provides an eyewitness account of the coup d’etat and the extraordinary return to power of Chávez some 48 hours later. unique footage of Chávez, the new icon of the Left and thorn in the side of the uS administration, is assembled in this 54

THE NURSE

Director - Dilek Colak Turkey / 2016 / 1hr 30m

electrifying documentary. Rod Stoneman, one of the executive producers of the film, outlines how a popular and prize-winning documentary soon came subject to extensive attack including a formal BBC enquiry. He will discuss the production and reception of this controversial film in the context of the contemporary global economy of the media. It illuminates contemporary politics in Latin America at the time and since.

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Director - Ana Mancera Mexico / 2016 / 25m

BEYOND THE MASK: THE ROAD TO SAN MARCOS AVILÉS

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 2 07 MARCH / 5.30PM / FEE: FREE The small Indigenous community of San Marcos Avilés, Mexico, is divided into two sections: on the one side stand the people who are devoted to the Zapatista Autonomous Organisation and on

the other, local people who rely on the Mexican governmental support. The relationship among them is extremely intense after a violent community outburst that took place 3 years ago.

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Directors – Danny Mitchell & Rosa Weber GRASSROOTS THE Iceland / 2014 / 54mins CANNABIS REVOLUTION AN CULTURLANN 07 MARCH / 5PM / FEE: FREE GrassRoots: The Cannabis Revolution is a feature-length documentary exploring the medicinal use of cannabis, the patients involved & the campaign to change uK law. Clark French has Multiple Sclerosis. Every day he battles, not just against the debilitating nature of his illness, but against social stigma and the law. He doesn’t treat his MS with conventional medication; he self-

Director - Mária Takács Hungary / 2015 / 1 hr 38m

medicates illegally, with cannabis. He is part of a subculture of politically driven people, willing to incriminate themselves for something they believe in. Clark takes us behind the scenes of legal, medicinal cannabis industries in Europe and the uSA, revealing the deeply personal reasons that lead him to choosing cannabis.

HOT MEN, COLD DICTATORSHIPS

BEAN BAG CINEMA 07 MARCH / 7PM / FEE: £3 Four young Hungarian gay men explore the personal dramas of elderly gay men who lived in Communist Hungary. Has the situation of gay men improved since the fall of communism or is homophobia is even worse today?

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The personal experiences uncovered and the secret service files excavated reinterpret the past 50 years from the vantage point of the present-day social and legal context.

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Director - Anne Paq Duration: 14 minutes

GAZA: A GAPING WOUND

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 3 07 MARCH / 7PM / FEE: FREE This documentary tells the stories of some of the families from the Gaza Strip whose lives were shattered during the Israeli military offensive in 2014.

Director - Ciaran Gibbons Palestine / 2016 / 1 hr 10m

FIREFIGHTERS UNDER OCCUPATION AND Q&A

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 3 07 MARCH / 7PM / FEE: FREE Documentary about Palestinian firefighters working in the occupied West Bank. For these firefighters fighting the fire is the easy part as they go about their duties under

the Israeli military occupation.

Q&A - Ciaran Gibbons, member of the Fire Brigade union from South Wales and Jim Malone, an FBu member from Scotland.

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Ireland / 2016 / 1hr 14m

REBEL ROSSA

AN CULTURLANN 08 MARCH / 2PM / FEE: FREE Directors - Lars Pape & Holger Schuermann Germany / 2016 / 1 hr 42m

ALL LOVE SCHMIDT

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 1 07 MARCH / 6.30PM / FEE: FREE All Love Schmidt is a documentary movie about a remarkable person, Bruno Schmidt. He is 51 years old and a passionate bicyclist, and also has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) – an incurable disease. Bruno got the diagnosis in 2014 and has one remaining dream: to complete a bicycle tour through Germany to

encourage others with the disease, and to drive the awareness for ALS. Every day, Bruno is faced with bringing home to his wife and daughter the realities of what ALS will do to him; mercilessly raw.

Q&A – Director Lars Pape and CoDirector Holger Schürmann

This film will tell the story of O’Donovan Rossa and his equally ardent wife Mary Jane, the filmmakers’ great grandparents.

It will delve into what they did and what they meant during the fight for Irish independence and what they mean in a contemporary context, both in Ireland and in a world where the term “terrorist” is often used but rarely unpacked. Rebel Rossa is also a road movie of sorts, one

where the great grandsons of a lauded but controversial figure revisit a country their relative was exiled from to discover what he means now. In July 2015 there will be many commemorations of O’Donovan Rossa’s life in West Cork leading up to a recreation of the famous funeral in Dublin on August 1st. 2015, the 100-year anniversary.

SHORTS & FEATURE

THE PEACE AGENCY

Director – Sue useem Indonesia / 2016 / 1hr 32m

WHITEROCK COMMUNITY CENTRE 08 MARCH / 2PM / FEE: FREE Lian Gogali and her 500 female students are a force to be reckoned with the conflict torn area of Poso, Indonesia.

They are part of a powerful and successful movement for peace and justice in an area that has been racked by inter-religious violence for over a decade. But five years ago, Lian was just a single mother living in rural Poso with a broken leg and a big dream to 58

educate marginalised women. The Peace Agency follows her remarkable journey from her village to New York City to create The Women’s School, an institution that transforms its all-female class into agents of peace and nonviolence grassroots activism that has altered the course of the conflict in Poso, and possibly the future of Indonesia.

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Director - Gopal Shivakoti Nepal/ 2016/ 35m

SAVE GANGAMAYA

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 1 05 MARCH / 11-2PM / FEE: FREE Ms. Gangamaya Adhikari and Mr. Nanda Prasad Adhikari, a couple from Nepal who sat on hunger protest in front of Prime Minister’s residence demanding justice for the 2004 murder of their teenage son was forcefully admitted at Bir Hospital, a government hospital in Kathmandu. On September 22, 2014 Nanda Prasad breathed his last at his 333 days of hunger

protest. On October 19, 2014 Nepal government promised justice to Gangamaya and ended her 359 days of fast-unto-death. Gangamaya sought justice through the courts as citizens should, but the administration is not up to providing it. So, besides very weak and deteriorating health Gangamaya once again begins her indefinite hunger protest.

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MAHAL

Director: Jay Españo.

Duration: 18 m.

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 1 05 MARCH / 11-2PM / FEE: FREE Director: Tobias Erdmann.

Duration: 16m.

OPEN MIKE

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 1 05 MARCH / 11-2PM / FEE: FREE Explores the life of Michael, an adult with autism who lives in solitude.

Shy around people and adheres to strict daily routines.

Arthur, a retired musician, desperately tries to reconnect with his Alzheimer's stricken wife. When he accidentally finds an old music box that somehow triggers bits and pieces of her memory, discovers an unsettling truth about himself.

Director: Sean Lovell.

Duration: 25m.

YAGÉ IS OUR LIFE

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 1 05 MARCH / 11-2PM / FEE: FREE Director: Amin Ghashghaian.

Duration: 20m.

BRIDGE

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 1 05 MARCH / 11-2PM / FEE: FREE

For centuries the Indigenous peoples of Putumayo in Colombia have been using yagé, rich in the potent psychedelic substance DMT the health, social cohesion and spiritual guidance of their communities. They are now facing many new threats to their traditional way of life.

A teenager, fighting in Middle East, understands that his fellow is a spy and he reveals the entry to a city that is a bridge.

BROKEN

Director: Sam Van Zoest.

Duration: 9m.

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 1 05 MARCH / 11-2PM / FEE: FREE Director: Joost van der Wiel.

Duration: 22m.

THE SHEPHERD

A young man confesses to his girlfriend that he has been sexually abused by a girl.

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 1 05 MARCH / 11-2PM / FEE: FREE Health insurers are putting pressure on the enthusiastic GP Nico van Hasselt (91) to adapt his old-fashioned method to modern society, but he refuses to abandon his vulnerable patients.

Director: Lorenzo Santoni.

Duration: 19m.

UNA BELLISSIMA BUGIA

ST MARY’S LECTURE HALL 1 05 MARCH / 11-2PM / FEE: FREE Disability awareness themed drama set in Italy.

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RBHRFF SHORT FILM COMPETITION

FEE: FREE

The QFT, Belfast will be hosting the RBHRFF Short Film Competition, which aims to promote a wider understanding of Human Rights subjects, such as, Immigration, Asylum, Women’s Rights, War & Conflict, Mental Health, LGBT Rights, Workers Rights, Environmental Concerns, Healthcare, Austerity & Disability Issues.

SHORTS PROGRAMME 1 1 – 2PM SHORTS

SHORTS PROGRAMME 2 2 – 4PM

QFT, BELFAST £5 & £4 CONCESSION SATURDAY, 4 MARCH 2017 QFT 2

BUNKERS Director: Anne-Claire Adet.

Duration: 14m.

A sensorial and first-person immersion into the suffocating experience of an underground shelter where asylum seekers are stowed upon their arrival in Geneva.

CHAJA & MIMI Director: Eric Esser.

Duration: 11m.

Chaja Florentin and Mimi Frons have been best friends for 83 years. Born and raised in Berlin, they had to escape

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SHORTS PROGRAMME 3 4 – 6PM

to Palestine with their families in 1934.

They talk about their complicated relationship with Berlin in a Tel Aviv café where they meet everyday.

WALL Director: Maya Tsamprou.

Duration: 13m.

Friday afternoon. Nine people before a wall. Waiting. Who has the right to see?

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BORDERS Director: Elizabeth Mizon Duration: 6m Why would a woman need a physical examination to enter the country? This short film gives a personal and intimate insight into the hushed-up 'virginity tests' that women migrants were subjected to in the 1970s.

FISH Director: Saman Hosseinpuor.

Duration: 4m.

An elderly couple live together. When changing the fish tank, the fish slips out of her hand and falls on the ground.

They have no water and there’s no water for the fish but with the help of the man they find water for it.

FASHION TO DIE FOR Director: by Elizabeth Mizon.

Duration: 6m.

Spinning spools of colors and thread, fearful searching of rescue workers and family members, set to Ritsu Katsumata’s haunting score, create a sound and image indictment the global textile industry’s violations of human rights.

UNITED WE WILL SWIM AGAIN Director: Fran Higson.

Duration: 26m.

A short documentary film that tells the extraordinary story of a community fighting to save their local swimming pool.

THEY CALL US MAIDS Director: Leeds Animation Workshop.

Duration: 7m.

The true story of today’s migrant domestic workers, women from the

Philippines, Indonesia, North Africa and South-East Asia, who go abroad to support their families. Told in vivid, hand-painted animation.

1-0 Director: Saman Hosseinuor.

Duration: 1m.

A barber starts cutting hair while watching a football game on TV. AUTUMN LEAVES Director: Saman Hosseinpuor.

Duration: 4m Set in Iran, a little girl is walking to school but something different happens.

FASHION TO DIE FOR Director: Lynn Estomin.

Duration: 6m Spinning spools of colors and thread, fearful searching of rescue workers and family members, set to Ritsu Katsumata’s haunting score, create a sound and image indictment the global textile industry’s violations of human rights.

DAY OFF Director: Stephen Hall.

Duration: 14m Laura struggles at first to come to terms with this life changing affliction, her only distraction is her 'Day Off' where once each week she finds time to see friends and socialize. The story is a universal love story set in the working class area of Limerick where the couple struggle with the early onset of dementia.

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SHORTS

SATURDAY, 4 MARCH 2017 QFT 2

BASTION Director: Saman Hosseinpuor Duration: 10m.

Bastion was having an ordinary day, a few of the regulars, old gents with less and less hair to cut each time, he was ready to head home, and then he entered, that harmless fool.

PRISON DOOR Director: Kevin McCann.

Duration: 10m.

A prisoner who won’t leave his cell gets a visitor with a message for him.

ELECTRIC CHAIR Director: David Muñoz Velasco.

Duration: 2m.

A man is executed on the electric chair, nevertheless, the reason behind his execution is more terrifying than his death.

GHOSTS Director: Simon Mckeown.

Duration: 3m.

Ghosts provides a timely commentary on the millions disabled by WW1, in the aftermath of which, cities and countries witnessed enormous numbers of their young returning alive, but permanently injured.

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UPROOTED Director: Devansh Mathur.

Duration: 5m.

One man's journey to follow his calling to empower the community despite all odds.

I LOVE HAITI Director: Jørgen Johansen.

Duration: 4m.

A short documentary about the haitian street artist Moise Jerry Rosembert and his work for social change in Haiti.

After the earthquake in 2010, Jerry has spread awareness about the situation of the country and hope for a better future through his street art.

LIMPIADORES Director: Fernando Mitjans.

Duration: 25m.

Captures the life and struggles of the invisible migrant workers that make sure offices and classrooms are clean and tidy before professors and students arrive for their morning classes at some of London’s most prestigious universities.

WE ARE THE IMMIGRANTS Catalina Matamoros.

Duration: 6m.

One man's journey to follow his calling to empower the community despite all odds.

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FOR MY FRIENDS IN DETENTION Director: Zebedee Parkes.

Duration: 12m.

A short documentary examining the impact refugee activism in Australia has on people on both sides of the fence.

SPIKE Director: Ian Tierney.

Duration: 10m.

A soldier who suffered from posttraumatic stress syndrome as the result of his experiences in Ireland, and his journey to recovery.

A PLACE Director: Iván Fernández de Córdoba.

Duration: 12m.

An Arab refugee will have to overcome the prejudices of a European family to achieve repair his car and get to his destination.

THE OTHER Director: Ian Tierney.

Duration: 14m.

The story of former IRA member Pat Magee.

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HOPE Director: Michael Scherrer.

Duration: 6m The story of a little boy, who is condemned to spend the time he has left in a prisoners' camp. The memories of his mother are the only thing keeping him alive.

ALEPH MELBOURNE: CELEBRATING 20 YEARS Director: Michael Barnett.

Duration: 10m.

The amazing story of Aleph Melbourne, the controversial support group that changed the face of LGBTIQ acceptance in Jewish Australia.

AFTER THE WAR Director: Georgij Davidov.

Duration: 14m Two soldiers who recently fought on the opposing sides are destined to come face to face and feel remorse, despair and tears.

PANIC ATTACK Director: Khaled Alwarea.

Duration: 11m.

Racing images and visual elements distort reality and embody the surreal, taking the viewer into a visceral manifestation of a Panic Attack, through a deformed chronological trip of its disturbing stages.

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NEW NEIGHBOURS Director: E.G. Bailey.

Duration 8m.

A mother and her two sons move to a new neighborhood, and because of all the killings and assaults on Black lives, she is determined to keep her family safe.

THE HAND THAT GUIDES Director: Ömer Sami Duration: 18m.

Abu Amar, 31, born and raised in Damascus, Syria, married father of two, and former home decorator – now the unofficial answering point for over 80,000 Syrian refugees heading to Northern Europe. A one-man operation that never ceases to pause, Amar is up late every night giving advice, annotated maps, and sometimes urgent help

UNHEARD SCREAMS (SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE) Director: Canan Donmez. Duration: 9m Kiraz, living in Melbourne Austrailia, relies on her son because of a language barrier. But with a gambling problem and in desperate need of money, can she really rely on him?

THE PARTY Director: Andrea Harkin. Duration: 15m.

Belfast 1972. Laurence welcomes his cousin and man- on-the-run Mickey to a party of drinking, dancing and young love. By morning, reality catches up with them.

ONE-TWO-ONE-SEVEN: A STORY OF JAPANESE INTERNMENT Director: Brett Ryoji Kodama.

Duration: 13m.

Follows the story of Shizuko Okazaki, one of the 100,000 people ‘evacuated’ in the name of national security with no legitimate reasoning beyond war time hysteria during World War II.

A HUNDRED THOUSAND UNWELCOMES Directors: Jamie Goldrick & David Knox Duration: 7m.

Ireland is no stranger to emigration, at its highest point only three fifths of those born here stayed. Compare this to our present day treatment of those seeking asylum in Ireland.

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ST PATRICK’S WEEK @ THE FELONS SUNDAY 12TH MARCH

SATURDAY 18TH MARCH

CELTIC V RANGERS Followed by music

IRELAND V ENGLAND 6 NATIONS GAME

WEDNESDAY 15TH MARCH

Followed by live music Michael & Chris live in lounge

TRAD SESSION SUNDAY 19TH MARCH THURSDAY 16TH MARCH

BALLAD / REBEL NIGHT

LIVE MUSIC Followed by disco

With Bik McFarlane ST PATRICK’S DAY

IRISH BRIGADE Live in Big Hall 3pm & 7pm Darryl Hendricks Live in Lounge

THE FELONS RESTAURANT Beautiful Food & excellent value 7 DAYS A WEEK! Felon’s Belfast @thefelonsclub