This Year's Darklight Festival will be held on 26-29th June at various locations around Dublin including Filmbase and the new Lighthouse Cinema. Check out the programme at www.darklight.ie.

We will we premiering the IFB/Wildwave Virtual Cinema Films on 6pm on Fri 27th at the lighthouse cinema.

Also check out the symposium schedule and don't miss the screening and Q+A with the VBS.tv team behind "HEAVY METAL IN BAGHDAD"

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Screening: The Late Show: Darklight & Candy Present Heavy Metal In Baghdad

Eddy Moretti & Suroosh Alvi//2007//84 mins

Irish Film Institute, 11 pm

VICE Magazine founder Suroosh Alvi and VICE Films head Eddy Moretti embark on a gonzo journey to meet Iraq's only heavy metal band in a freewheeling documentary focusing on youth culture in war-torn Iraq. In the summer of 2005, shortly after Saddam Hussein's brutal rule came to an end, Iraqi heavy metal group Acrassicauda (named after an especially venomous breed of black scorpion) teamed with VICE Magazine to stage a sold out rock concert. A year later, Alvi and Moretti return to the Middle East country to find out how the war has affected the band. Heavy Metal in Baghdad is a refreshing and vital piece of frontline journalism that finds hope in the power of music to connect people, and in the determination of Iraq’s youth to find peace – and rock the house.

Filmmaker Eddy Moretti will be in attendence for this screening. 12:48:03 AM  comment []