aemi & Docs Ireland present: Desire Lines + Q&A with Chloe Brenan, Eóin Heaney & Olivia Normile
aemi is thrilled to partner once again with Docs Ireland in Belfast to present a special screening of our 2026 touring programme 'Desire Lines' followed by a Q&A with featured filmmakers led by Rose Baker, Head of Programming at Belfast International Film Festival.
aemi & Docs Ireland present: Desire Lines
aemi is delighted to present ‘Desire Lines‘ at the eighth edition of the very brilliant Docs Ireland. This year’s edition of the aemi touring programme brings together a variety of innovative approaches to the documentary form from contemporary Irish and international filmmakers.
Featuring films by Chloe Brenan, Collectif Faire Part, Eóin Heaney, Olivia Normile and Basma al-Sharif, the programme is touring to Irish and international venues across 2026.
‘Desire Lines’ is a term from the field of landscape architecture used, as Sara Ahmed writes in Queer Phenomenology (2006) to ‘describe unofficial paths, those marks left on the ground that show everyday comings and goings, where people deviate from the paths they are supposed to follow.’ Taken as a whole, the films featured in ‘Desire Lines’ offer up a picture of imposed and chosen deviation, a picture that takes in experiences of isolation and displacement alongside those of collective resistance and revelation, taking care to capture the fleeting moments where these possibilities can briefly intersect.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A led by Rose Baker, Head of Programming at Belfast International Film Festival with featured filmmakers Chloe Brenan, Eóin Heaney and Olivia Normile.
FILM INFORMATION
Morning Circle / Morgenkreis, Basma al-Sharif, 2025, Canada/UAE, 21minutes
Verdigris, Chloe Brenan, 2025, Ireland 12 minutes
as above, so below (Limits and Demonstrations), Olivia Normile, 2025, Ireland, 3 minutes
Speech For A Melting Statue, Collectif Faire Part, 2023, Belgium, Congo, Democratic Republic, 10 minutes
Body Diagrams (Limits and Demonstrations), Olivia Normile, 2025, Ireland, 1 minute 30 seconds
PARISH, Eóin Heaney, 2024, Ireland, 27 minutesTotal running time 75 minutes