Été 1969 : Buddy, 9 ans, sait parfaitement qui il est et à quel monde il appartient, celui de la classe ouvrière des quartiers nord de Belfast où il vit heureux, choyé et en sécurité. Mais vers la fin des années 60, alors que le premier homme pose le pied sur la Lune et que la chaleur du mois d’août se fait encore sentir, les rêves d’enfant de Buddy virent au cauchemar. La grogne sociale latente se transforme soudain en violence dans les rues du quartier. Buddy découvre le chaos et l’hystérie, un nouveau paysage urbain fait de barrières et de contrôles, et peuplé de bons et de méchants.
Le dimanche 30 janvier 1972, à Derry, en Irlande du Nord, Ivan Cooper est l'organisateur d'une marche pacifique pour l'égalité des droits entre catholiques et protestants, farouchement déterminés à éviter toute violence entre les différents protagonistes. Mais malgré son dialogue avec les autorités unionistes et ses tentatives de négociation avec les forces de l'ordre britanniques, la manifestation se transforme en émeute : treize personnes sont tuées par l'armée. Cette journée, désormais inscrite dans l'Histoire sous le nom de Bloody Sunday, marque le début de la guerre civile.
Made on the cusp of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, a film retracing the conflict in Northern Ireland from 1968 to the present day - notably the civil rights movement of the late '60s, the outbreak of war in 1969, the birth of a peace process in the early 1990s that ultimately led to the IRA cease-fires of 1994 and 1997, and the current all-party negotiations that today offer the best chance for peace to the people of Northern Ireland in over a generation. Explores the complexities of the conflict through archival footage and portraits of political leaders who lived these events and played an important role in the search for a peaceful resolution to the seemingly interminable Irish “troubles”.
The women of Belfast played a unique role in holding together their families and communities during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Filmed during the fragile 17-month paramilitary cease-fire, Daughters of the Troubles: Belfast Stories looks at the challenges facing women trying to put their direct experience of grassroots problems on the agenda of the established political parties. Their strength, first exhibited on the community level, started to reach a wider public.
Belfast-born actor Stephen Rea explores the impact of Brexit and the uncertainty of the future of the Irish border in a short film written by Clare Dwyer Hogg.
The story of Father Alec Reid’s complex and controversial peace plan to bring an end to violence in Northern Ireland, which eventually led to the historic Good Friday Agreement.
Candice, une ado âgée de 17 ans, a hâte d'échapper à sa ville balnéaire et de trouver un réconfort dans son imagination. Quand sa désillusion se conjugue avec une obsession pour un étranger perturbé, elle se lie avec un dangereux gang local.
Brighton bomber Patrick Magee talks exclusively to Peter Taylor about how and why he planted a bomb in the Grand Hotel, while intelligence experts and bomb specialists speak for the first time about how they foiled a follow-up campaign on an even more devastating scale.
Two boyhood best friends are divided by 25 years of misunderstanding amidst the escalating conflict in Northern Ireland. The two boys’ lives take very different paths until Joe returns for the first time to his homeland with his 24-year-old daughter, Patricia. In his absence, Paddy married Joe’s former fiancée Mary. What happened all those years ago? Can old wounds be healed? The answer is hilarious and moving in equal parts.
David Ireland's award-winning dark comedy about sectarian hatred in Northern Ireland. Eric Miller, a Belfast loyalist, mistakes his five-week-old granddaughter for Gerry Adams.
While on her way to confess a secret to her husband in prison, a woman reflects on the recent years in her life. Set in Belfast during the Troubles, newlywed Sheila Molloy is awoken suddenly one morning when her husband is arrested and sent to prison for 20 years. From then on, her life is changed forever, and she struggles to come to terms with her new situation. Sentenced to a solitary life, Sheila attempts to redefine her identity. She begins an affair with another man and must choose whether to remain loyal to her husband.
Two young Dublin brothers must navigate loyalty, honour and the dangerous world of republicanism as they fuel the Northern war machine - by any means necessary.
Belfast 1972. Laurence welcomes his cousin and man-on-the-run Mickey to a party of drinking, dancing, and young love. By morning, reality catches up with them.
Un ancien membre de l'IRA, emprisonné à Belfast depuis quinze ans pour meurtre, bénéficie d'une permission de vingt-quatre heures. Il va la mettre à profit pour retrouver les assassins de sa femme.
In a trouble-ridden Northern Ireland, football and writing prospect Anthony's relationship with his brothers comes under danger. Exploring religious divides and the importance of family, Anthony will come face-to-face with the one thing he is trying to fight.
After living in Australia for the past decade, Fitz and Judith return to Manchester in 2004 for their daughter Katie's wedding. Drinking too much at the reception, Fitz stumbles through a rambling toast, which only embarrasses the bride. Instead of spending time with his grandson, son of his married son Mark, Fitz opts to join in the investigation of a serial killer who has an apparent dislike of Americans in the wake of the U.S. Invasion of Iraq.
Recounts Ireland's history from British colonization to the territory's division in 1922, then from 1968 details a decade of events through images and eyewitness accounts of killings and such massacres as the infamous "Bloody Sunday" as the IRA argues their cause.
A young Welsh soldier on duty in Northern Ireland finds himself used as a political pawn, following a tragic incident during a violent clash with some of the local agitators. The Guardian proposed that "if Spielberg's ET, in the immortal words of Pauline Kael, was a bliss out, Karl Francis' 'Boy Soldier' is a bleed out for sheer fist shaking emotionalism, it would be hard to find another British film of recent years to beat it."
During the winter of 1969, young boys started to disappear off the streets of Belfast, never to be seen again.
Roy and Martyn want to write the next Irish winner for the Eurovision Song Contest. So who thinks they are working for British Army Intelligence? And why has someone sent them two bullets through the post?