Banff Mountain Film Festival

Tue, May 10, 2016

THE BANFF Mountain Film Festival, a feast of documentaries from the global mountain and sports community, celebrating a love of the outdoors and the spirit of adventure, returns to Galway.

New documentary captures the struggles of the fishing industry

Thu, Apr 28, 2016

ATLANTIC, A part Galway made documentary, following fishing communities in Ireland, Canada, and Norway as they struggle to sustain their livelihoods against oil exploration, fishing quotas, and industrial trawling, will be screened at The Eye.

Film to explore poetry and our relationship to the land

Thu, Apr 21, 2016

IRISH FOLKLORE and poetry as Gaeilge, and what they reveal about our cultural DNA, our sense of place, self, and imagination, will be explored in a film to be screened during the Cúirt literary festival.

Puccini’s Madam Butterfly at The Eye

Thu, Mar 31, 2016

PUCCINI'S MADAM Butterfly will be performed in New York's Metropolitan Opera and broadcast live to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark, this Saturday at 6pm.

An Klondike looks to strike Gold for Galway at the IFTAs

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

AN KLONDIKE, the critically acclaimed Galway made western will be looking to strike gold next month having been nominated for nine awards at the upcoming Irish Film and Television Awards.

Iceland’s answer to Victor Meldrew

Wed, Mar 16, 2016

THE GRUMP, the hilarious Icelandic culture-clash satire, about a stubborn, sour-faced old farmer with a rose-tinted view of the past, will be screened in the Town Hall Theatre on Sunday at 8pm.

Two films to see this Sunday

Thu, Mar 10, 2016

THE LIVES of combatants and civilians during the 1916 Rising, and a teacher determined to expose a classroom thief, make up the two films the Galway Film Society screens in the Town Hall Theatre this Sunday.

Galway Film Centre animation camps for teenagers

Thu, Mar 10, 2016

GALWAY TEENS interested in learning how to create animated films should check out the Galway Film Centre's Easter Animation Camp, which will be held in GMIT Cluain Mhuire, Wellpark Road.

Watch a film to mark International Women's Day

Mon, Mar 07, 2016

TOMORROW IS International Women's Day, and in advance of the date, Amnesty Galway will screen Marzia, My Friend, winner of the Human Rights award at the 2016 Galway Film Fleadh, this evening.

French political comedy for Town Hall

Thu, Mar 03, 2016

IN THE aftermath of our election, comes a chance to see politics in another country, albeit one of a comedic kind when the award winning film Quai d'Orsay, will be screened by the Galway Film Society.

Documentary on 1916 pacifist Frank Sheehy Skeffington

Thu, Mar 03, 2016

FRANK SHEEHY Skeffington, the pacifist, feminist, and journalist, tragically and wrongly executed during the 1916 Rising, is the subject of a documentary to be shown on TG4 on Tuesday March 8 at 9.30pm.

Martin McDonagh's Hangmen @ The Eye

Thu, Mar 03, 2016

MARTIN MCDONAGH'S new play Hangmen is being staged by Britain's National Theatre in London, but Galwegians will be able to see it the Eye Cinema this evening at 7pm.

Award winning Swedish film for Sunday

Thu, Feb 25, 2016

PARENTAL NEGLECT, eating disorders, but also first romances, lazy summers, and whispered secrets will be explored in Swedish film My Skinny Sister, which will be screened by the Galway Film Society this weekend.

As You Like It @ The Eye

Thu, Feb 25, 2016

SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDY of disguise, transformation, and messing about with gender, As You Like It, currently running at the National Theatre in London, is being broadcast to The Eye Cinema this evening at 7pm.

Galway Film Centre to host Documentary School 2016

Thu, Feb 25, 2016

JILL BEARDSWORTH, an award winning documentary maker, will host the upcoming Documentary School 2016 workshop at the Galway Film Centre.

Cinema review: Deadpool

Films Reviews Mon, Feb 15, 2016

IN DEVELOPMENTAL hell for more than 10 years, the Deadpool movie is finally released. A cult favourite comic book anti-hero, this has been destined for the big screen since his inception, but with the success of Marvel's movies, aimed more at kids and young adults, it has been asked if there is a place for a comic book film targeted at the over 16s market alone?

Celebrate a century of film in An Taibhdhearc

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

GALWAY UNESCO City of Film will celebrates 100 years of cinema and the centenary of the 1916 Rising, with screenings of Irish film and TV landmark s, across eight Saturdays in 2016.

Uncover the real Renoir

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

RENOIR IS one of the best loved artists of all time, for his wonderful depictions of beautiful women and 19th century French life, but he is also one of arts most influential figures.

Bizarre love triangle

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

THE FRENCH are masters when it comes to the bizarre love triangle, they are of course the inventors of the concept of the menage à trois, and a complicated love trio is at the heart of All About Them.

Award winning Nordic film @ The Eye

Thu, Feb 04, 2016

TWO BROTHERS have lived side by side for 40 years, tending their sheep farms, but in all that time they have refused to speak to each other, communicating only via written messages delivered by a pet dog.

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