Projects matching: Kieron J. Walsh

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1994. As Northern Ireland takes its first steps towards peace, best friends Vinny and Jonty are about to jump start their futures with the most reckless trip of their lives. Official Selection Busan International Film Festival 2026

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Writer and musician PJ Harvey and award-winning photographer Seamus Murphy hatched a collaboration - seeking first-hand experience of the countries she wanted to write about, Harvey accompanied Murphy on some of his worldwide reporting trips, joining him in Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Washington DC. Harvey collected words, Murphy collected images. Back home, the words become poems, songs, then an album, which is recorded in an unprecedented art experiment in Somerset House, London. In a specially constructed room behind one-way glass, the public - all cameras surrendered - are invited to watch the five week process as a live sound-sculpture. Murphy exclusively documents the experiment with the same forensic vision and private access as their travels. By capturing the immediacy of their encounters with the people and places they visited, Murphy shows the humanity at the heart of the work, tracing the sources of the songs, their special metamorphosis into recorded music, and ultimately, cinema. Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Panorama Dokumente - World premiere

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One night Majella O'Donnell took her teenage son Philly to be shot in both legs. Majella, Philly and his shooters all live within an extraordinary community in Derry, Northern Ireland. The “Troubles” officially ended in 1998 but they are still at war. They do not accept the government or police. All this happens within the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom. How do you bring your son to be shot? What happens afterwards? How does family life continue? How does a community respond? When do wars really end? For five years Sinéad O’Shea has filmed this shocking but darkly humorous portrait of a post conflict society. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - World premiere

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Johnny, a small time crook and Marie, a dissatisfied shop assistant are both looking for a fresh start. Greta and Pearse meet in extraordinary circumstances on a bridge overlooking the city. With Greta facing a terminal illness and Pearse with a bounty on his head, this unlikely duo fall unexpectedly, helplessly in love before fate and circumstance take over. A wayward corpse and this unlikely love story all compose the jigsaw puzzle as the night's events expertly fall into place, weaving an existential portrait of our characters' lives as their hopes, fears and secrets are revealed.