Tin City excavates the buried architectures of militarism within Europe’s democratic heart. Through fragments of found footage ‒mannequin heads spinning in empty bars, banks, and shops‒ a German news investigation uncovers a replica town hidden in a remote forest in north-west Germany. Built by the British Army to train soldiers for the war in Northern Ireland, this artificial “Little Belfast” becomes a chilling metaphor for how colonial violence is rehearsed, exported, and endlessly adapted to new geopolitical frontiers.

Feargal Ward is an Irish filmmaker and artist whose work explores hybrid documentary, blending and subverting narrative tropes to reveal deeper truths. His feature The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid (2017) premiered in competition at IDFA and screened internationally before broadcasts on German, Irish, and Finnish television. His debut feature Yximalloo (2014, co-directed with Tadhg O’Sullivan) premiered at FIDMarseille, where it won the Prix Premier.