FOUR seasons in a day.
A ferry bringing people and their stories and history from Ireland to Northern-Ireland and the other way around.
Synopsis
The Carlingford Lough Ferry between Northern and Southern Ireland obliges passengers to reflect on the future of this frontier, which right now is hidden in the sea beneath them.
In the north-east of Ireland, the border between the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom runs down the middle of a beautiful glacial fjord, the Carlingford Lough. A ferry crosses that fjord several times a day, taking people from one side to the other, obliging them to think about the future of this border, currently hidden in the sea below them. The waters may be very deep between the two sides, but they do have the unpredictable weather in common. But does the local expression "4 seasons in one day" only refer to the weather?
Award for Best Emerging International Filmmaker on the International Spectrum Competition at Hotdocs, 2021.
PRODUCED BY
OFF WORLD
CO-PRODUCED BY
VRT CANVAS
relation04 Media
Kinoteka
In_Script
WITH THE SUPPORT OF
Umedia in association with Ufund
Flanders Audivisual Fund
Brussels Capital Region
The Belgian Federal Government Tax Shelter
Norwegian Film Center
Filmfund Nord
Creative Europe Programme - MEDIA of the European Union
RELEASE
2021
DURATION
75 minutes (theatrical)
52 minutes (tv-version)
AWARDS
2022
Jean-Loup Passek award. Melgaço Doc Festival Portugal
Meesterverteller 2022 True stories Netherlands/Flanders
2021
International Emerging Filmmaker Award at Hotdocs
Special mention Best Film Saratov Sufferings - Russia
Best film New York Film Week U.S.A.
FESTIVALS
2022
Melgaço Doc Festival Portugal
opening film Manlleu Film Festival Spain
DOCVILLE Belgium
Zagrebdox Croatia
FIPADOC France
nominated for best documentary at the Ensors Belgium
2021
Close up Edinburgh Film Festival UK
Inconvenient Film Festival Lithuania
Film Festival Ghent Belgium
New York Film week USA
Sydney Film Festival Australia
Verzio International Film Festival Hungary
London Migration Film Festival UK
DocsIreland Northern-Ireland
Rhode Island International Film Festival USA
Gangeung International Film Festival South-Korea
International spectrum competition - hotdocs Canada
Atlàntida Mallorca Film Fest Mallorca
Docsireland - Maysles competition for observational cinema Belfast
Lemesos International Documentary Festival Cyprus
Rhode Island International Film festival USA
Saratov sufferings Russia
BROADCASTED
2021
RTE IRELAND
CANVAS
LRT LITUANIA
RTL CROATIA
Klasik TV CROATIA
SCREENINGS
2021
Bozar
THIS FILM IS PART OF THE PROJECT borderline
6 authentic border stories across Europe reveal the controversy and complexity of what symbolic dots and lines on the map could become when cutting into actual peoples life.
Borderline is a documentary series about different types of borders, that divide the European continent: some freshly closed and some nearly forgotten in time, others wired and militarized or just symbolically marked with pillars and ropes. The series would speak about both borderline territories and state of identities in Europe, that seems to be at an irreversible turning point in dealing with the outer world.
6 particular frontier areas explore how the concept of borders intrudes the reality we live in. This is a character-driven series and each episode is based on the dramatic evolution of the various protagonists and their personal stories. Through their personal struggles and interactions with each other and their borders, we discover different point of views, the way they see themselves and define “the other.”
The unfolding human stories on both sides of the chosen borders address the relevance of often irreversible changes imposed by the lines on the map of the ‘United Europe.’ Borders in their various incarnations always change people’s lives. They are more than territorial divisions, but often the space where the ‘small’ personal stories face the ‘big’ political narratives.
www.borderlinecollection.tv
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