The Flats: Italian filmmaker embeds in post-war West Belfast  

Alessandra Celesia moved to Belfast in the 1970s. She tells Esther McCarthy why she's finally made a film on her much-changed second home 

Alessandra Celesia and stills from her Belfast-set documentary, The Flats.

The pain of the past is still felt in the present in The Flats, a new documentary that examines life after the Troubles.

Focused on a number of residents in the largely republican New Lodge flats in West Belfast, the film looks at the nature of trauma through the pain, resilience, warmth and humour of its subjects.