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Our film stage is set in the intimate cinema room space of @shoreditchartsclub_ and will feature a constant stream of independent films spanning across documentary, animation, fiction and visual art styles 🎥 This stage will also include three featured film slots followed by Q&A sessions with the film’s directors, hosted by @sheidakiran Film showings 14:30 - 21:00 🎥 Swipe >>>> IF I WERE AN APPLE is a poetic exploration of identity, renewal, and transformation. Drawing inspiration from a Korean ritual of writing wishes or misfortunes on paper and burning them for spiritual cleansing, the work reinterprets this tradition through a contemporary lens. Using hanji (Korean traditional paper) and the gestures of the dance Jijeon dance (paper dance), the performance becomes a visual meditation on release and rebirth. As flames consume the paper, the body moves between memory and liberation, embodying a personal journey toward healing and forward motion. How Much More? is an exploration through a series of symbolic and interconnected scenes inspired by the structure of a tarot deck. The project examines themes of visibility, accountability, contribution, resilience, and belonging within contemporary Britain. A short tale of how my dad’s biggest rival growing up as a poor Brazilian child in São Paulo became a cherished friend. When activist Wafa Mustafa’s father disappears under Assad’s regime, her search for answers becomes a story of memory, identity and resilience. @maybetomorrow_film will be part of our Q&A session at 5:05pm A single piece of jewellery holds the story of generations. Ruth was barely a teenager when her mother passed down a Medallion etched with the golden portrait of Nefertiti. Together, they go back to Ethiopia and explore her mother’s story as a survivor of the Red Terror genocide. Amidst a new civil war, the two revisit a country bursting with history and culture. themedalliondoc will be part of our Q&A session at 2:50pm Memories of the Beginning is a personal story of survival and friendship between two 13-year-old prison guards at one of Cambodia’s earliest killing fields. Filmed on the site of the prison 50 years after it closed, th
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I love being in @variety next to that guy
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Song For A Loser Written by the genius Anna Kennedy and Jack Rainey Shot by the perfectly adequate Stanley Blundell in lovely Malta and edited by the brilliantly named Alexander Ó Broin. Shoutout also to the many featured extras that I call friends, all of whom went above and beyond playing the role of drunken idiots. They did great. Shot on digicam courtesy of @theglitch.co
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Followed through on my threat to make a Bog Communism propaganda film. Part of Neither Water Nor Land, opening tomorrow in Warsaw at @u_jazdowski "Roisin Agnew’s ‘Bog Communism’ extends her research into wetlands as sites where ecology, infrastructure, and political economy intersect. Taking the Irish bog as a point of departure, the work traces how landscapes once understood as marginal or unproductive are being reabsorbed into new regimes of extraction—reframed as cooling infrastructures for data centers and folded into the logics of foreign direct investment. Staged as a propaganda video inviting the viewer to join the struggle for Bog Communism, the film examines how technological expansion often reproduces older patterns of dependency and control. In this context, wetlands emerge not as passive environments but as contested territories, entangled in cycles of abandonment and reactivation, where ecological vulnerability meets the demands of digital capitalism and its geopolitical extensions. Agnew uses humour and concepts from ‘degrowth communism’ to approach the bog as both material and metaphor: a space that resists clear boundaries, where histories accumulate unevenly and where the future is shaped through processes of slow transformation and sudden acceleration. Echoing the broader concerns of the exhibition, Bog Communism positions the swamp as a site where infrastructure sinks into landscape, and where the language of sustainability obscures more complex dynamics of power, extraction, and militarization." Developed in collaboration with CG artist @rehemoth Artist and producer @felicita_felicita Filmmaker @_sam.howard_ Filmmaker @steveoconnor Commissioned by @u_jazdowski Based on an essay by Roisin Agnew published in @break_downradio
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A very fun few days spent on an alpaca farm and filming in the Augavannagh Barracks and Wicklow Mountains. Grateful to everyone who agreed to come on board what hopefully will evolve past being my ‘insane film about data centres and taxes’ and into my ‘insane film about data centres and taxes that is now fully financed’. Set photos by @lukemcmanusirl
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Whata week Whata year Last Friday, ‘A Want in Her’ won an IFTA. They cut the middle of the speech out so it was down to 30 seconds - gotta love a good edit. As Mary Ahern said, ‘always pay attention to how you begin and end things’. The middle, though, did contain a good number of thanks to the Irish people who made the film possible. Tadhg O Sullivan, a remarkable filmmaker himself, was the first person to encourage and champion this work. He has continually had my back creatively and professionally - I’m forever grateful to him. @katmansoor (Irish at heart) and @roisingeraghty - my doc gals for life. @seanpatrickmullan & @donnagagewade , two professional and gifted souls who brought openness, playfulness and magic to this hazy, drawn-out process of a film. Niamh Fagan at Screen Ireland, who took a gamble on us. The Voice during Covid, a special scheme because it gave agency and authority directly to directors, which made it possible for a ‘nobody to make a film about nobodies’ (gotta love my aunt who said this). @wearebreakout who’ve got this film in front of peoples eyes and often into their hearts (which is all we want at the end of the day). Suit @thecuttailoring Hair @letsdancehair
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le début du retour? merci @lecourtclermont @shortfilmmarket for another good one 💜
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🌟Meet our Clermont-Ferrand ISFF Delegates 2026🌟 We’re delighted to introduce the six UK based directors selected to attend the Clermont-Ferrand ISFF and Market from 1-5 February 2026, supported by the BFI Doc Society Fund. 🔥 Our 2026 delegates and projects are: ✨Evan Ifekoya — Modupe ✨Ira Putilova — Section Cis ✨Lily Tiger Tonkin Wells — Tŷ Unnos ✨Niyaz Saghari — The Walnut of Knowledge ✨Sam Howard — Relic ✨Sheida Kiran — Here To Stay Each delegate is attending with an active short non fiction project and brings a distinct creative approach to documentary, hybrid, and experimental storytelling! 🚀 💫 Read more about our delegates and their projects - 🔗 in bio! #docsociety #clermontferrand2026
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Pulled up and had a big moment at the @idfafestival Producers Forum…🤣🤣could barely speak full sentences while in front of hundreds producers, sales agents and commissioners but we kill it!
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In October, 1988, the British government declared that the voices of Sinn Féin or I.R.A. representatives, among others, were not to be broadcast on television or radio. Broadcasters soon discovered a loophole in this ban: they began hiring actors to produce voice-overs for interviews with Sinn Féin leaders and others affected by the restriction. A new documentary short by Roisin Agnew (@roisin_agnew_) looks back at one of the most comic, counterproductive, and clumsy episodes in the long history of British efforts to deal with Ireland. Watch it at the link in our bio.
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The Ban is now a @newyorkermag film and available to watch online, with an accompanying text by Colm Toíbín. Link in bio. Particular thanks to our New Yorker Producer @paulmoakley who made all this possible, and to Producer @mikethelawyer. Mike, featured in ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’, took on the Sacklers at the US Supreme Court on behalf of Nan Goldin. We couldn’t be in better hands. Cast: Gerry Adams Stephen Rea Eamonn McCann Denis Murray Danny Morrison Conor Grimes Tim Loane Directed by - Roisin Agnew @roisin_agnew_ Produced by - Sam Howard @_sam.howard_ Produced by - Mike Quinn @mikethelawyer Script by - Roisin Agnew Edited by - Sam Howard Assistant Producer - Callum Roberts @callumroberts1 Music by - Oscar Khan @oxhy___ Graphic Design by - Theo Inglis @theoinglis Second Editor - Nicole Halova @nicolehalova Researcher - Dolly Church  Sound Mix by - Yellow Moon @yellowmoonpost Produced by  Unbecoming Erica Starling Productions @erica_starling_productions Mike Quinn @mikethelawyer Executive Producer, The New Yorker Paul Moakley @Paulmoakley Senior Director, Acquisitions, Condé Nast Sarah Lash Producer, The New Yorker Kate Emerson Executive Producers Alison Millar @_alisonmillar John Donald With the support of @northernirelandscreen @future.screens.ni
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Short and sweet 🩳 It’s the #BIFA2025 longlist for Best British Short Film: Aksil The Ban A Bear Remembers The Bull Flock The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing Leaving Ikorodu in 1999 Magid / Zafar Mauled By a Dog Murewa Neil Armstrong and the Langholmites Ovary-Acting A Sisyphean Task Stomach Bug Two Black Boys in Paradise Check out our stories for the full lists or head to the link in our bio 🔗 . . . . 🎵 Still Blue performed by @ionnalee, courtesy of @umpg_uk
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