‘China Blue’, USA/China, 2006, Director: Micha Peled. Screening times: 8:00pm Saturday & 2:15pm Sunday (Cinemobile) A powerful and poignant journey into the harsh world of sweatshop workers. Shot clandestinely, this is a deep-access account of what both China and the international retailers don't want us to see: how the clothes we buy are actually made. A heartbreaking and meticulous documentary about life inside a blue-jeans factory in China - New York Times
	‘New Year Baby’, USA/Cambodia, 2006, Director: Socheata Poeuv. Screening time: 4:30pm Sunday (Óstán Loch Altan) A deeply tender and personal film about a young Cambodian-American woman's journey with her family to uncover the secrets of a tragic past at the hands of the Khmer Rouge. The film unfolds with remarkable candor, humor, and a heartbreaking intensity that captures a daughter's quest to understand her family's history and a father's willingness to lay open his vulnerabilities by confronting his past. It was a tour de force for anyone, and particularly for a young, first-time filmmaker - Movies That Matter
	‘Sugartown: The Bridegrooms’, Greece/Germany, 2006, Director: Kimon Tsakiris. Screening times: 7:00pm Friday & 2:30pm Sunday (Óstán Loch Altan) In the Greek village of Sugar Town, men have a serious problem. Women are fleeing the area in search of work or marriage in the big cities, leaving them behind and lonely. Their cunning mayor promises the men to find them wives in order to get re-elected. Loaded with charm and real emotion, "Sugartown" offers good-natured sympathy for its rural subjects and doesn't show any urban superiority by mocking the hapless bachelors at the film's heart - Variety
	‘Every Good Marriage Begins with Tears’, UK, 2006, Director: Simon Chambers. Screening times: 1:00pm Saturday & 6:45pm Sunday (Óstán Loch Altan) Two Bangladeshi girls born and raised in London are about to get married, but their fiancés were chosen by their parents. The elder of the two sisters is quick-witted and coarse-mannered, while the other is more submissive and devout. But both have their doubts. Likely to elicit tears of laughter more than sadness - Variety
	'Souvenirs', Israel, 2006, Directors: Shahar Cohen & Halil Efrat. Screening time: 2:00pm Friday (Óstán Loch Altan) An unemployed film director hears strange things from his father: while serving in the legendary Jewish Brigade in the Second World War his father, now eighty-two, may have left some flesh and blood “souvenirs” to the Dutch girls. The father and son set out on a funny and moving journey in search of the lost off-springs and of myths of bravery. The quest to find 'souvenirs' in this charming documentary reveals a powerful and fascinating historical tale - Hot Docs
	'Forever Yours', Norway, 2004, Director: Monica Csango. Screening times: 7:00pm Friday & 11:00am Sunday (Cinemobile) A grandmother’s everlasting love for her husband, who apparently died during WWII, turns into a mysterious love story. Her grandchild discovers a photograph from Bombay, and suspects he didn’t die. Winner of National Film Award Amanda for Best Documentary Film.
	'The Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief', Japan/USA, 2006, Director: Jake Clennel. Screening times: 4:30pm Friday & 10:15pm Saturday (Cinemobile) "The Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief," introduces an extraordinary hidden world of Japanese nightlife in Osaka's Cafe Rakkyo.
	'Hacking Democracy', USA, 2006, Directors: Simon Ardizzone, Russell Michaels. Screening time: 10:15pm Saturday (Óstán Loch Altan) Electronic voting machines count about 87% of the votes cast in America today. But are they reliable? Are they safe from tampering? From a current congressional hearing to persistent media reports that suggest misuse of data and even outright fraud, concerns over the integrity of electronic voting are growing by the day.
	'The Legacy of Tibhirine', France, 2006, Director: Emmanuel Audrain. Screening time: 11:00am Saturday (Óstán Loch Altan) In March 1996, amid fierce fighting between the GIA (Armed Islamic Group) and the Algerian state, news came that seven French monks, based at a monastery in Tibhirine, a hundred miles south of Algiers in the Atlas range, had been taken hostage. Six weeks later their murdered bodies were found. Over ten thousand Algerians and scores of westerners - including many members of religious orders - died in this civil war.
	'Saol Úr in Albain', Ireland, 2006, Director: Mal Marken. Screening time: 10:00am Friday (Óstán Loch Altan) The last generation of Donegal women to travel to the industrialised city of Glasgow in search of work in the late 1940’s, 50’s and 60’s is the subject matter of the documentary ‘Saol Úr In Albain’. 50 years on from this social phenomenon, the programme explores how migratory labour shaped the lives of these remarkable women and the wider Donegal community.
	'Rotha Mór an tSaoil', Ireland, 1998, Director: Des Bell. Screening time: 12:30pm Sunday (Cinemobile) This documentary is based on ‘Rotha Mór an tSaoil’, the autobiography of Irish migrant labourer, Mici MacGowan (1865-1948). His story mirrors the lives of millions of European emigrants who crossed the Atlantic in search of a new start, and the traumatic life they encountered when they got there. The story is illustrated with archive material and early silent film and documentary footage.
	'Street Fight', USA, 2005, Director: Marshall Curry. Screening time: 5:00pm Saturday (Cinemobile) Oscar-nominated STREET FIGHT follows the turbulent campaign of Cory Booker, a 32-year old Rhodes Scholar/Yale Law grad running for mayor of Newark, N.J. against Sharpe James, the four-term incumbent twice his age. It tells an American story of political intimidation, racial politics, and the future of African American leadership.
	'Comrades in Dreams', Germany, 2006, Director: Uli Gaulke. Screening times: 11:00am Saturday & 7:00pm Sunday (Cinemobile) They live thousands of kilometres apart from one another and yet are chasing the same dream. In COMRADES IN DREAMS, we meet people whose lives revolve around cinema.
	'Fear na n-Oileán', Ireland, 2006, Director: Loic Jourdain. Screening time: 1:00pm Sunday (Óstán Loch Altan) 1980, neglected for years by Church and State, the future viability of Ireland's off-shore communities was hanging in the balance. Tory Island, Co. Donegal was next on the list. The story of Toraigh Island took a new turn when Father Ó Péicín, a Jesuit priest, took a job on the island.
	'Dreaming by Numbers', The Netherlands, 2005, Director: Anna Maria Buchetti. Screening time: 2:30pm Saturday (Óstán Loch Altan) Neapolitans supersticious belief in numbers and their power to influence the future can be seen as an attempt to take destiny in your own hands. Naples has many neighbourhoods with small ricevitorie (gambling offices). The daily visitors don’t pick numbers ramdomly; for them there is a direct link between the chosen numbers and their attempt to change destiny.
	'Noisemaker', Ireland, 2007, Director: Dara McCluskey. Screening time: 3:30pm Saturday (Cinemobile) Jinx Lennon is a legend. In Dundalk. You wouldn’t want him singing at your wedding. There’d be no dancing, no Sweet Caroline and no lovely waltz for the Bride and Groom. You might get some folk punk crossed with Irish rap. A stream of consciousness from the polluted Dundalk docks that batters you relentlessly with its common sense, its anger and its arch eyed take on the septic tiger.
	'An Ember's Glow', Ireland, 2006, Director: Niamh Kennedy. Screening time: 12:30pm Sunday (Cinemobile) An Ember’s Glow is a personal exploration into the life of the director’s father, Jim Kennedy, a 68 year old turf cutter, attempting to come to terms with his ageing body and a changing way of life.
	'Here to Stay', Ireland, 2006, Directors: Alan Grossman, Áine O'Brien. Screening time: 12:00pm Friday (Óstán Loch Altan) During the past decade the face of Ireland has been transformed beyond recognition. Historically a country of departure and out-migration, it is now one of arrival and home to new constituencies of migrant workers from Africa, Asia and eastern Europe – for whom holding a working visa versus a short-term work permit can make a dramatic difference to the quality of a migrant’s life. Shot over a period of two years, this humane and observational film is an intimate portrait of a gay Filipino nurse, and the public expression of his political activism.
	'The Consultation', France, 2006, Director: Hélène De Crécy. Screening time: 1:00pm Saturday (Cinemobile) In his consultation room, the eloquent French general practitioner Luc Perino receives people in all stages of life: from newborn babies to dying people, and everyone else who knocks at his door with their discomforts. He listens to their complaints amiably and attentively, asking questions all the while. Sometimes, things are immediately clear. "You know the diagnosis and treatment," he cheerfully concludes, when a young woman inquires if her chronic cold is caused by smoking.
	'9 Star Hotel', Israel, 2006, Director: Ido Haar. Screening time: 9:30pm Friday & 11:00am Sunday (Óstán Loch Altan) A powerful vérité film, more personal than political, explores the relationships that form between a group of Palestinian men working illegally in Israel.
	'Exile Family Movie', Austria, 2006, Director: Arash. Screening time: 5:00pm Saturday (Óstán Loch Altan) A geographically separated Persian family organizes a secret reunion in this bittersweet documentary about love, family and separation.
	'The Chances of the World Changin', USA, 2006, Director: Eric Metzgar. Screening times: 2:30pm Friday & 4:30pm Sunday (Cinemobile) An artist abandons his life's work to build an ark filled with hundreds of endangered animals. A new breed of dramatic nature film: about time, death, art, love...and turtles.
	'A Very British Gangster', UK, 2006, Director: Donal McIntyre. Screening time: 8:00pm Saturday (Óstán Loch Altan) A VERY BRITISH GANGSTER is an all access film inside one of Britain's most dangerous crime families. For the first time, a gang of contemporary criminals open their lives to reveal a brutal world and an underclass which relies upon gangsters for justice, rather than police.
	'Silver Surfari', Ireland, 2007, Director: Angus Hubbard. Screening time: 9:30pm Friday (Cinemobile) A group of ageing surfers reunited for the first time in 40 years and embarked on an epic journey along Irelands West Coast, a journey of rediscovery, both of old friends and simpler times.
	'Who is for Liberation?', Ireland, 1980, Director: Joe Dunn. Screening time: 4:30pm Friday (Óstán Loch Altan) The social, political and religious background to the continuing violence in El Salvador.