Irish Film at Tricycle - UK Premiere of 'Broken Song' + 'Doghouse'

UK Premiere of 'Broken Song' as part of the Irish Film Festival London. A Q&A with Director Claire Dix will follow the screening.

2014 / 70 Mins / Dir: Claire Dix / (15)
Featuring: Willa Lee, James Costello, GI, Dean Scurry.

GI, Costello and Willa Lee are street poets, hip-hop artists and songwriters from north Dublin. For these young men self-expression in the form of poetry, rap and song has become a spiritual experience. Their aim is simply to articulate the chaos that surrounds them and to fight it with their words and voices alone. Along the way it has become their identity, their religion and, as they claim themselves, they are its high priests.

Broken Song is a documentary film about music, redemption and the struggle to find and articulate meaning in an often chaotic world.

In the end, the place where they live and their words are one and the same, constantly in flux, full of darkness and light. It is proof that these suburbs – that have bred darkness, murder and hate – have also inspired poetry and these unlikely artists are using words alone to fight back.

Broken Song premiered at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival in 2013 where it won the Audience Award and the Dublin Critics Circle 'Discovery' Award.

Broken Song will be accompanied by Irish Short 'Doghouse'.
2013 / 17 mins / Dir: Morgan Bushe.
Cast includes: Peter Coonan, Lorcan Melia, Deirdre Mullins.

The Irish Film Festival London presents the latest and greatest Irish Film to a UK audience. The screenings cover 5 days (19th - 23rd November) at 5 venues (Picturehouse Clapham, Hackney, Tricycle, ICA and Europe House) and include numerous UK Premieres and Q&As with directors and casts.

For more info on our other festival screenings this November, check out our website: irishfilmlondon.com