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    Green Screen


    One of the goals of our Festival is to serve as a platform for debate on current issues and a space for freedom of expression, offering a voice to those who have been kept silent. Last year, we were proud to bring you four films that talked about climate change, the environment and the impact humans are having on this planet. While From the Wild Sea maps the relationship between human and marine life, The Ants and the Grasshopper follows the journey of one extraordinary woman from her African homeland to California and the White House, trying to make people understand that climate change is real. In her first feature documentary, Cow, the celebrated British director Andrea Arnold follows the life of an ordinary dairy cow, while the wonderfully surreal Taming the Garden tells the story of the former prime minister of Georgia and his obsession with collecting trees for his private garden.

     

    The Ants and the Grasshopper

    Raj Patel, Zak Piper / Malawi / 2021 / 76 mins + Q&A

    This documentary follows Anita Chitaya, a knowledgeable Malawian woman who can extract abundant food from dead soil and end child hunger in her home village, on a journey to California and the White House, trying to persuade Americans that climate change is real and a threat not only to her homeland but to the United States too, but it will take all her skill to open the eyes of local farmers and politicians alike. Raj Patel and Zak Piper’s engaging documentary is a powerful reminder that climate change has consequences that apply to everyone.

    There was a post-screening discussion led by journalist Ella Mc Sweeney and featuring:

    Raj Patel – Director, The Ants and The Grasshopper
    Dr. Edward Lahiff – Lecturer in international development at University College Cork
    Mary Sweeney – Inclusion Advisor, Self Help Africa
    Hannah Daly – Lecturer in Sustainable Energy and Energy Systems Modelling at University College Cork

     

    Wednesday November 10th 2021, Triskel Arts Centre, 17:00.

    Available Online, November 16th to 18th 2021.

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    Cow

    Andrea Arnold / UK / 2021 / 94 mins

    This first documentary by a veteran of British cinema and the writer-director of Fish Tank and American Honey is focused on, well, a cow. Arnold takes us out of our comfort zone in this immersive feature exploring the reality of the lives of dairy cows. The film follows its protagonist, an ordinary cow called Luma, showing us with a mix of brutal honesty and the lyrical cinematic language for which Arnold is celebrated, how we treat other living beings. As Arnold has said, ‘This film is an endeavour to consider cows. To move us closer to them. To see both their beauty and the challenge of their lives. Not in a romantic way but in a real way.’

    Sunday November 7th 2021, Triskel Arts Centre, 18:00.

    Monday November 8th 2021, Triskel Arts Centre, 12:30.

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    From the Wild Sea (Fra det Vilde Hav)

    Robin Petré / Denmark / 2021 / 78 mins / Subtitled

    As man’s impact upon the planet becomes increasingly felt, Danish filmmaker Robin Petré turns her lens upon the relationship between the human realm and marine life in this visually audacious feature documentary debut. Telling the stories of those people in Ireland, Britain and the Netherlands who seek to limit the destructive impact of humanity on the seas surrounding them, Petré paints an urgent portrait of an ecosystem on the brink of collapse, through the eyes of the animals that populate it.

    Saturday November 6th 2021, Triskel Arts Centre, 17:15.

    Friday November 12th 2021, Triskel Arts Centre, 12:30.

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    Taming the Garden

    Salomé Jashi / Switzerland, Germany, Georgia / 2021 / 91 mins / Subtitled

    The powerful former prime minister of Georgia, Bidzina Ivanishvili, has found himself a new and rather exquisite hobby: he collects trees. Transplanting century-old trees from across the Georgian coastline to his own private garden requires a lot of work and often a lot of extra infrastructure. Salomé Jashi’s (The Dazzling Light of Sunset) wonderfully surreal and wryly observed documentary asks serious questions about power, entitlement and the environment, without ever losing track of the absurd reality it details.

    Tuesday November 9th 2021, The Gate Multiplex, 18:15

    Available Online, November 19th to 21st 2021.

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