Event type: Film

A multiple award-winning documentary musical travelling the length of Dublin’s fabled North Circular Road, where local characters share their powerful and emotive stories, accompanied by traditional ballads and folk music that add to the narrative.

North Circular conjures the ghosts of the past, while engaging with the conflicts and celebrations of today, with a little bit of Dublin humour thrown in.

Travelling from Phoenix Park to Dublin Port, North Circular explores the history, music and streetscapes of a street that links some of the country’s most beloved and infamous places. Told in black and white 4:3 Academy ratio, the film evokes narratives from city and national history; from colonialism, to mental health, to the struggle for women’s liberation. Simultaneously, it engages in urgent issues of today, including the battle to save the legendary Cobblestone Pub -the centre of Dublin’s recent folk revival- from destruction at the hands of cynical property developers.

The Liverpool Irish Festival screening marks the second anniversary of the ‘Cobblestone Uprising’ AKA the ‘Dublin is Dying’ campaign.

The film includes musical performances from artists local to the North Circular, including John Francis Flynn, Séan Ó Túama, Eoghan O’Ceannabháin, Ian Lynch & Gemma Dunleavy.

This special event includes discussion and Q&A with the film’s director Luke McManus, in conversation with Dr Nessa Johnston, University of Liverpool. The event is supported by The Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool.

Doors: 18:30. Screening: 19:00.

Join the Mystery Theatre Club for a monthly archived screening of unique, world-class theatre shows. Embrace experimental and contemporary works from exciting theatre makers.

Their second screening will be at Kitty’s Laundrette in Anfield. This event will be Pay What You Can to help pay for Kitty’s opening up their space.

Tickets sold out quickly last time so don’t delay and book today!

Each screening you’ll recieve a free zine. These will be limited.

An ancient monolith stands sentinel in a Cornish field for millennia. Part provocation, part meditation, part invocation, documentarian Christopher Morris’s A YEAR IN A FIELD is a record of their brief interaction.

Morris invites us to slow down, as he films for a year in a West Cornwall field; to immerse ourselves in this quiet, direct-action of stillness, to take a breath and reflect on the planetary impacts of our brief human existence, under the watchful gaze of the Longstone, a 4,000-year-old standing stone that predominates this elemental landscape.

From Winter Solstice 2020 to Winter Solstice 2021, a string of unprecedented worldwide climate disasters, met by weak global political resolve, are revealed as just fleeting moments, under the ever-present unflinching granite gaze of the Longstone.

As the wheel of the year turns, Morris’s ecosophical polemic unearths a mythic reality buried just below the furrowed soil of our consumerist age, suggesting, perhaps, that whilst time may feel like it’s running away at an ever-increasing rate, it’s not too late to pause, reflect, and change.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director.

Written and directed by local filmmaker, Douglas Byrne, My Broken Sky (2023) is a new fantasy-drama highlighting the struggles surrounding mental health.

The film follows Kate, a woman housebound while recovering from a terrible car accident. As she heals, Kate begins to feel trapped in other ways as her anxieties and fears start to weigh on her.

Doors: 18:00. Screening: 18:30.

Odyssey returns to FACT Liverpool to partner with local initiative ScousESEA as part of their 2023 ESEA Heritage Month event series, taking place throughout September.

Titled Tones of Love, this film programme showcases and celebrates the complexity of love through the storytelling of filmmakers from Tibet, Hong Kong and mainland China through three short films; Tinnitus (2022), Catch A Star If You Can (2022), and Everything (2022).

The screening begins with an introduction from Tones of Love curator, Danny Pye (ScousESEA), as well as Sherry Zhang (Odyssey).

Doors: 18:30. Screening: 19:00

This year BlackFest are creating a hybrid event combining Theatre and Independent Film. Black Boy Joy Goneis a BFI Doc Society Funded 25-minute hybrid documentary by and for black men that opens up the conversation about mental health, trauma and finding strength through brotherhood. ‘You’re Never Too Gone to be Gone.’ #BlackBoyJoyGone

BlackFest commissioned 6 new black male artists that will premier alongside the film to tell stories of lived experiences, provoke public discussion, support collective healing, and celebrate Black men’s lives. The new works created will air as devised LIVE theatre and film pieces as a creative response to the themes of BBJG, plus original dice-poem screening Black Boy Joy Gone, followed by a panel discussion. The ambition is to create a legacy of a national tour to create awareness of Black Men’s mental health.

Featured Artists: Mal Lidgett, Pari Richards, KOJ, Errol, Tayo Aluko, Joe Taylor

Directed By: Ashley Karrell

Are humans inherently good or evil? A blinding light in the night sky and an alien encounter gifts Inuyashiki Ichirou, an office worker, with alien technology and limitless powers.

After being down on his luck, it turns out that these strange, new changes are just what Ichirou needs to take a new lease on life and now it seems like there’s nothing to stop him from being a hero worthy of the respect that he never had before… unless there was someone else out there who also experienced similar changes.

Inuyashiki is a 2018 Japanese superhero film based on the manga series of the same name written and illustrated by Hiroya Oku.

Doors: 18:30. Screening: 19:00

Stand By Me meets I-Origins in first-time director Jake Wachtel’s retro-future coming-of-age tale.

In order to save his family home, 13-year-old Leng Heng enlists his friends and the streetwise Srey Leak to hunt down a long-lost golden Buddha. But as their treasure hunt gathers pace, Leng Heng is pulled deeper into the world of a brilliant neuroscientist who is desperate to unlock the key to the mysteries behind karma and reincarnation. Leng Heng just might be the answer he has been searching for.