directed by Ireland’s Trevor Whelan, follows the life of one man’s journey from childhood in a Kurdish refugee camp to Irish hurler and anti-racism activist. is a Nigerian film from Irish director Terry McMahon, whose credits include . It follows a man sent to northern Nigeria to teach, who discovers the cultural differences may cost him his life.
Scroll down for the line-up of world premieres Another Irish-Nigerian collaboration to world premiere is Damian McCann’s , which is an Ireland, Nigeria and UK co-production. At a time in which museums and institutions in Ireland and abroad are actively decolonising their collections, the film explores the issue through stolen artefacts in museums across Ireland. A further world premiere is Sam O’Mahony’s Northern Ireland-shot coming-of-age comedy drama Darrell D’Silva stars as a young boy who develops an unlikely friendship with an exiled mobster.
Irish-language films to world premiere include Luke Morgan’s comedy about brotherly love and John Farrelly’s that unfolds in a post-famine Ireland. Irish documentaries in the line-up include the world premiere of Aoife Kelleher’s film , about Ireland’s first female president Mary Robinson. Ciaran Cassidy’s first played at CPH: Dox.
The documentary tells the story of the surreal live-televised competition in which a generation of Irish women competed to be crowned ‘housewife of the year’, with former contestants share their direct experiences of marriage bars, the .
