Bonfires (2017)
6m
Running Time
November 30, 2017Release Date
Plot.
Huge bonfires are lit by Protestants in Northern Ireland on July 12 each year, as part of the celebrations of the 1690 Battle of the Boyne. They are made from wooden pallets, tires, and garbage. To the Protestants, they are symbols of identity affirmation; to the Catholics, they mean arrogance and humiliation.
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Cast & Crew.
Martin Bureau
Director / Editor / Director of Photography / Writer
Émile Bureau
Director of Photography / Editor
Catherine Benoit
Producer
Details.
Wiki.
Bonfires is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Martin Bureau and released in 2017. The film depicts the controversial Eleventh Night celebrations in Northern Ireland, when Ulster Protestants continue to light large bonfires each year to commemorate the Protestant victory over Catholics in the Battle of the Boyne.
The film premiered at the Traces de vies documentary film festival in Clermont-Ferrand in 2017. It was screened at a number of film festivals thereafter, and was incorporated into Bureau's larger multimedia exhibition Les murs du désordre.