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Docs Ireland · 2025

Docs Ireland 2025

New Irish Documentary

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6 films · 1 review

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Ag Taisteal Siar (Travelling Back)

An exploration of the rich musical heritage of Ireland’s Traveller community, a driving force in Irish music since the 1960s ballad boom.

(Year: 2025; Director: Méabh O'Hare; Stars: Kathleen Keenan, Sarah Dunne, Sharyn Ward, Niamh Dunne, Steo Wall)

Born That Way

In a small wooden house in County Kilkenny, Ireland, Patrick Lydon’s life is ebbing away. Throughout his final year he reflects on an extraordinary life that took him from a budding career in rock journalism in America to trailblazing, with his wife, Gladys, the development in Ireland of the radically inclusive Camphill Movement, sharing life in community with people of diverse needs and abilities.

(Year: 2025; Director: Éamon Little; Writer: Éamon Little; Stars: Patrick Lydon)

David Keenan: Focla Ar Chanbhás (Words On Canves)

Four years after the breakthrough success of his début album Beginner’s Guide to Bravery, Dundalk songwriter, musician, and composer, David Keenan, is at a crossroads. After touring extensively and building a reputation as one of Ireland’s leading live performers, he returns to the studio to record new music.

(Year: 2024; Director: Paddy Hayes; Stars: Davide Keenan)

Hunting Captain Nairac

On the evening of 14 May 1977, in a crowded bar near the Irish border, undercover British soldier, Captain Robert Nairac sang a rebel song. He was soon to become known as one of the Disappeared. Hunting Captain Nairac follows the search for his remains by an ex-republican prisoner.

(Country: Northern Ireland; Year: 2025; Director: Alison Millar)

Latina, Latina

An Irish geologist discovers the diaries of her estranged father from fascist-era Italy.

(Country: Ireland; Year: 2025; Director: Adrian Duncan; Stars: Wendy Erskine)

Operation Bogeyman (Operation Bogeyman: The Folk Horror Landscape Of 1970s Northern Ireland)

Review preview for Operation Bogeyman

Aeppli’s work brings scams, superstition, abuses of power, real world horrors and the magic of storytelling together in one heady brew.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
An essay film that navigates the intersections of folklore, horror, and psychological warfare during the Troubles and encompasses a bizarre propaganda operation in which the British army staged fake black magic rituals to smear the IRA as ‘Satanists’.

(Year: 2025; Director: Simon Aeppli)

Full review See: Interview with Simon Aeppli about Operation Bogeyman: The Folk Horror Landscape Of 1970s Northern Ireland