The soldier who fell to earth - new Galway sci-fi film
Tue, Jul 05, 2016
RETURNING FROM a future war, a veteran lands back home on earth, to find something more like the Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits that anything he ever knew, and this new reality is about to test him to his very soul…
Read more ...Staid – an award winning Irish film made for €300
Thu, Jun 30, 2016
AMONG THE notable offerings in next week’s Galway Film Fleadh is Staid, the debut feature written and directed by Wexford's Paul O’Brien, which will be screened in the Town Hall Studio on July 9 at 4.30pm.
Read more ...66 Days - Bobby Sands life examined in new documentary
Thu, Jun 30, 2016
IRA VOLUNTEER, hero, martyr, terrorist, criminal, political prisoner, poet, MP for Fermanagh-South Tyrone, writer, icon, Irish Republican - Bobby Sands was some of these things, and he has been described as all of these things.
Read more ...Irish LGBT drama to get Fleadh premiere
Thu, Jun 30, 2016
LILY IS a teenager trying to negotiate the difficulties of school life, but she also has a secret, and when a misunderstanding with the beautiful and popular Violet leads to a vicious attack, she must confront the secret head on.
Read more ...In View - a powerful study of a lost, broken soul trying to stay afloat
Thu, Jun 30, 2016
"A POWERFUL character-study of a lost, broken soul trying to stay afloat in the modern world" and "boasting a stunning lead performance from Caoilfhionn Dunne as Ruth".
Read more ...Adulting - showing the West in a way 'that’s not twee or clichéd'
Thu, Jun 30, 2016
ADULTING, A new short film set in Galway city and Connemara, and featuring Galwegians Linda Bhreathnach, Sorcha Ní Chéide and Emma Eliza Regan, premieres at the Galway Film Fleadh.
Read more ...Ruth Negga to attend Galway Film Fleadh 2016
Thu, Jun 23, 2016
PREACHER, LOVE/HATE, and Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D star Ruth Negga is coming to the 28th Galway Film Fleadh in July, where she will give this year's Fleadh acting masterclass.
Read more ...Bill Drummond - why you should and should not see his film
Thu, Jun 23, 2016
BILL DRUMMOND has never done things the conventional way, whether it was with The KLF and that appearance at the 1992 Brit Awards, to his No Music Day drive, to today, and a new 'film' - sort of - which exists and does not, that is coming to the Galway Film Fleadh.
Read more ...A feast of short films at the Galway Film Fleadh
Thu, Jun 23, 2016
DIRECTORIAL DEBUTS from Killing Bono's Martin McCann, and films starring Love/Hate's Peter Coonan and The Stunning's Steve Wall, will be seen at the Galway Film Fleadh's short film programme.
Read more ...Galway Film Fleadh seeks volunteers
Thu, Jun 23, 2016
THE GALWAY Film Fleadh is seeking volunteers to help with this year's festival which runs from Tuesday July 5 to Sunday 10.
Read more ...A century of Irish short films
Thu, Jun 09, 2016
HOW SHORT films have reflected, recorded, and shaped Irish identity over the past 100 years will be examined in 100 Years of Cinema: Irish Short Films, which takes place in An Taibhdhearc next week.
Read more ...Royal Shakespeare's Hamlet @ The Eye
Thu, Jun 02, 2016
FOR MANY, Hamlet is Shakespeare's greatest play, and contains possibly his most famous speech in "To be or not to be...", and Galway will have the chance to see it performed by The Royal Shakespeare Company.
Read more ...An Klondike wants bearded men
Thu, Jun 02, 2016
AN KLONDIKE, the four-time IFTA winning Irish language western TV series is shooting its second season in Galway city and Oughterard this month and next and is seeking extras.
Read more ...Films sought for One Minute Film Festival
Thu, Jun 02, 2016
THE ONE Minute Film Festival, where filmmakers and film fans can shoot a 60 second HD film, on any subject or story, returns as part of this year's Galway Film Fleadh.
Read more ...Galway Film Fleadh pitching competition seeking entries
Thu, May 26, 2016
THE GALWAY Film Fleadh pitching competition, which encourages budding screenwriters and filmmakers with ideas, at any stage of development, is seeking entries for this year's fleadh.
Read more ...The revolution is being screened
Wed, May 25, 2016
FILMS ABOUT revolution, liberation, and the desire for peoples to be free will be screened at the Féile Scannán na Réabhlóide/Films Concerning Revolution 2016 festival in Connemara on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Read more ...Galway African Film Festival 2016
Thu, May 19, 2016
FIFTEEN FILMS, from comedies to political documentaries, a multicultural choir performance, and exhibitions by African artists, make up the ninth Galway African Film Festival.
Read more ...A Walk In The Woods with Robert Redford
Thu, May 19, 2016
ROBERT REDFORD and Nick Nolte star in A Walk In The Woods, a film based on Bill Bryson’s best-selling 1998 memoir of the same name, which will be screened in the Town Hall Theatre this weekend.
Read more ...Prince's Purple Rain @ The Loft
Thu, May 19, 2016
PURPLE RAIN, the 1984 film that catapulted Prince into global megastardom, along with the album of the same name, will be screened in The Loft at Seven, on Friday May 27 from 10pm.
Read more ...Ireland's answer to George Orwell
Thu, May 12, 2016
HUBERT BUTLER, the Irish essayist, once denounced by a papal nuncio as a dangerous communist, is the subject of a film which will be screened in the Town Hall Theatre this evening at 8pm.
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