Sinéad O’Shea is one of Ireland’s finest documentary makers. Her last film was a compelling documentary on Edna O’Brien, called Blue Road. Her latest, out in Irish cinemas this Friday, is All About the Money. In it she follows the American communist activist Fergie Chambers.

From the billionaire Cox family, a few years ago he cashed out. In recent years he used some of his money to establish a collective in Massachusetts, donate to humanitarian causes in Gaza, invest (if you want to call it that) in a Tunisian football team, move to Ireland, and occupy a space in culture that can come across to some as contradictory: a man hugely wealthy thanks to a family fortune but who is avowedly anti-capitalist.

He was arrested in Spain last July on foot of an extradition request from the US and accused of money laundering, in a case many characterise as politically motivated.

All of this is fascinating, a strange tale of our times. But O’Shea’s approach to her subject and her craft tells us a bigger story, one that lives not in conclusions and certainty, but in complexity and nuance. At a preview in Dublin last week, she spoke afterwards about truth.

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