Broken Song (2003)
Part of the Tyneside Irish Festival
| Director: | Claire Dix |
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| Certificate: | Unknown |
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| Format: | DigiBeta |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | Ireland |
A black and white documentary about the 'underground' rap scene in Ballymun and Finglas, Dublin.
GI, Costello and Willa Lee are street poets, hip-hop artists, rappers and song-writers from Dublin’sNorthside. Through their words and music they have found a way of expressing themselves and inspiring others to achieve the same. Claire Dix’s documentary, shot elegantly in black and white, is a film about music, redemption and the struggle to find and articulate meaning in an often chaotic world.
Other films in the Tyneside Irish Festival:
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Film: The Secret Of Kells (2009).
19 Oct 2014, 3:30 p.m.
Irish Festival Film- Enchanting animation for all the family where magic, fantasy and celtic mythology comes together. A fictionalised story about 12 year old Brendan, the boy behind the creation of the Book of Kells. The Book of Kells is an illuminated manuscript and is an Irish National treasure. Vikings and St Aidan of Iona also feature. It has been nominated for an Oscar. Family tickets are available.
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Film: Bernadette: Notes On A Political Journey (2011)
19 Oct 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Irish Festival Film followed by discussion. Documentary charting the story of Northern Ireland's Bernadette Devlin McAliskey's political journey. Her fight for civil rights is intermixed with socialism, Irish republicanism, anti-clericalism, feminism, general political impracticality and radical brashness. Combines archive footage and a series of intimate interviews conducted with Bernadette.
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Film: Adam & Paul (2004)
22 Oct 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Irish Festival Film: A stylized, downbeat comedy, the film follows a pair of Dublin drug addicts through a single day, which, like every other, is entirely devoted to the business of scrounging and robbing money for drugs. It is tender and unsentimental and a testament to the persistence of the human spirit.