Saturday, June 20, 2026

Enough is Enough (Trop C’est Trop) – exposing the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo to global audiences (Docs Ireland at Queen’s Film Theatre)

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“A window on the world” was how a former radio editor used to describe the Sunday morning slots when I’d find a valid excuse to bring the si...
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

American Doctor – three US medics expose the conditions inside and outside Gaza’s Nasser Hospital (Docs Ireland at Queen’s Film Theatre on 17 June and then UK/Ireland release from 25 September)

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Three American-born doctors travel to Gaza during a 2025 ceasefire to work in the Nasser Hospital hospital. This isn’t their first rodeo and...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Displace: The Battle For Dublin – a story of rebuilding community in the midst of precarity, planning and protest (Docs Ireland at An Cultúrlann on Thursday 18 June)

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Ireland’s housing crisis is multifaceted. Displace: The Battle For Dublin documents buildings lying derelict, landlords choosing to ‘no fau...
Monday, June 15, 2026

Previewing Docs Ireland 2026 - six days of documentary delicacies (16-21 June)

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Documentary film festival Docs Ireland is back for the eighth time with a smorgasbord of films. The majority of screenings are Pay What You ...

Lesbian Lines – the network of helplines that offered connection, protection and solidarity (Docs Ireland in the Queen’s Film Theatre on Friday 19 June)

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Quite a number of LGBT organisations across the island have recently been sifting through their archives and reflecting on many decades of s...
Sunday, June 14, 2026

Bold Girls – facing up to the unpalatable whole truth and choosing how to move on (Centre Stage at the Lyric Theatre until Sunday 14 June)

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Bold Girls is located somewhere in and around the Falls Road/Anderstown Road in west Belfast in the late 1980s. Cassie lives with her mum N...

Desert Passages – brooding documentary about a disappearing water source (Docs Ireland in Queen’s Film Theatre on Saturday 20 June)

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Snow melting in the Rocky Mountains provides up to 90% of the water flowing down the 1,450-mile-long Colorado River. It’s all but dried up b...

Report on June 2026 PCI General Assembly #pciga26

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On top of the violence and disorder on the streets, there were three themes running through the four days of this year’s higgledy-piggledy G...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Derren Brown: Only Human – combining magic, misdirection and mentalism to great effect (Grand Opera House until Saturday 23 May)

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The audience are quickly integrated into the running of the Derren Brown: Only Human show. And we stay involved right to the finish. The un...
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Monday, May 18, 2026

Hen – fresh and feathery perspective on a familiar human crisis (Queen’s Film Theatre from Friday 22 May)

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Over the weekend, I had to watch To Kill A Mockingbird in preparation for the recording of an upcoming episode of Banterflix . Harper Lee’s...
Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Guys and Dolls – agile gamblers with varying degrees of situationships are confronted with the error of their ways in this infectious musical (Belfast Operatic Company at Grand Opera House until Saturday 16 May)

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Nathan is running an nomadic crap game under the nose of the local cop and in spite of a warning from his long suffering fiancée of 14 years...
Saturday, May 09, 2026

Tea In A China Cup – getting out the good china from 1983 for a fresh brew (Lyric Theatre until Saturday 30 May)

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As part of the Lyric Theatre’s 75th anniversary programme, Christina Reid’s 1983 play Tea in a China Cup is being restaged. Back then she w...