LEGENDARY singer
songwriter Leonard Cohen will be appearing on the
village green in Malin when a giant screen is
erected for the Guth Gafa International Documentary
Film Festival next month.
Over the course of the May 16-19 festival the tiny
village will be transformed into a film mecca, with
over 30 award winning documentaries from 15
countries being screened.
A documentary on the life of the music legend,
'Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man', featuring close-up
interviews with the singer and performances of his
songs by singers who were influenced by him, will be
shown on a huge outdoor LED screen on the 17th
century green on Saturday night, May 18.
The outdoor screen, a first for Guth Gafa, is one of
five screens which will be created around the
village green over the four-day festival.
Many of the film makers will also be there to talk
about their work and the population will swell to at
least 20 times its normal size.
Included in this year’s bill are the current two
best documentary films in the world, ‘First Cousin
Once Removed’, winner of the Best Feature
Documentary competition at IDFA, the largest and
most prestigious documentary festival in the world,
and ‘Searching for Sugarman’, winner of the Oscar
for Best documentary at this year’s Academy Awards.
Now in its seventh year, Guth Gafa, which translates
from the Irish as Captive Voice, is continuing its
commitment to human rights driven films with a
programme that shines the spotlight on some of the
most pressing issues of our time.
Films about musical genius, human fragility,
isolated communities fighting for survival and hope
in the depths of pain, dominate the programme. |
