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The award-winning actress and director Anjelica Huston, star of films such as The Royal Tenenbaums, The Addams Family, and The Witches, will be the guest of honour at this year’s Galway Film Fleadh, which runs from July 7 to 12.

THE GALWAY Film Fleadh celebrates its 21st anniversary this year and to mark the occasion - and as a way of combating the gloom of the recession - this year’s theme is ‘uplifting films’.

If Galway wishes to compete with Wexford and Wicklow as a film location, it must establish a Galway film commission office - a move that would also help boost the local economy.

ROY KOCH was an Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association member and a worker at Northwest Airlines. He never expected to one day become a travelling detective, investigating where his job went.

LESOTHO IS ravaged by AIDS, yet a bit of laughter and escape was brought into the lives of children there by Irish entertainers.

Fergal McGrath will step down as manager of the Town Hall Theatre Galway at the end of the year to make way for the return of Michael Diskin when the latter’s leave of absence ends.

THROUGHOUT TODAY and this weekend the Galway Film Fleadh will be in full swing, screening feature films, premieres, documentaries, shorts, and animation, in this, its 21st year.

RAPT IN Éire, a new film from producer/director Akibor Emihian, to be shown at the Galway Film Fleadh, is possibly the first movie produced and directed by a non-EU immigrant in Ireland.

SHTAX: A Homecoming, a feature documentary about actor and musician Aindrias de Staic, will be shown tonight in the Cinemobile, outside the Town Hall Theatre at 9pm, as part of the Galway Film Fleadh.

FOR MORE than 50 years, communities along the Niger Delta have protested against oil extraction in the region. Their stories, as well as those of younger, more militantly minded protesters, will be told in the documentary Sweet Crude.