Foyle Film Intercultural and Anti-Racism Festival returns to Derry screens this month.
The festival will tackle a wide range of topics around discrimination, prejudice, human rights abuses, inequality, and environmental challenges from Monday, March 28 – Friday, April 29, 2022.
Organisers are thrilled to be welcoming back cinema goers after the lifting of Covid restrictions.
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In looking at the effects of the pandemic and the impact it has had on individuals and society, the headline theme for the programme this year is 'Identity', as a most current and immediate topic.
The programme is aimed at primary, post primary schools, colleges, community groups and the general public. The objectives of this diverse programme is to broaden children and young people’s cultural awareness, literary schools and cine-literacy abilities.
It also aims to further promote tolerance and inclusion, and to encourage debate around sensitive issues such as mental health and all forms of abuse.
The festival aims to increase access and participation by targeting the most disadvantaged and hardest to reach individuals and groups in the community — including the unemployed, the elderly, carers, single parents, minorities, and those living with physical disabilities and other conditions such as Dementia and Autism.
The festival reaches out to these groups by providing specially designed screening events, subsidised travel, and by taking the programme right into the community and alternative venues such as care homes.
Highlights this year include educational screenings of Encanto, Belfast, Clifford and The Tragedy of Macbeth.
Public screenings include King Richard — the story of Richard Williams and his journey to lay the foundations for the future success of his daughters Venus and Serena Williams becoming two of the most famous names in sport, overcoming adversity and racial prejudice in the process.
The First Wave tells the story of how doctors and nurses dealt with the first outbreak and Covid-19 and the bravery and selflessness which provided the base for society to have the potential to overcome this pandemic.
As part of our Music in Screen strand, Tina tells the story of music icon Tina Turner including from her own perspective as she tells of her professional struggles and abusive personal relationship to reclaim her identity as one of the foremost musical acts of the latter part of the 20th Century.
After Love tells the story of a widow who after discovering her husband had held secrets which ask her to question her faith, and the very basis of her identity, embarks on a journey across national borders, languages and cultures.
Foyle Film Intercultural and Anti-Racism Festival is led by Nerve Centre and funded by Department for Communities through Northern Ireland Screen.
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