Shakespeare and opera at IMC Cinema

Thu, Nov 12, 2015

SHAKESPEARE'S THE Winters Tale, starring Dame Judi Dench, will be screened live from London to the IMC Cinema Galway, on Thursday November 26 at 7.15pm.

Junior Galway Film Fleadh animation workshops

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

THE JUNIOR Galway Film Fleadh, which celebrates its 21st anniversary this year, will hold workshops, including classes in animation, to inspire, educate, and entertain young Galwegians who love film.

Middle Eastern film to start November

Thu, Oct 29, 2015

NOVEMBER BEGINS for Galway film enthusiasts with Theeb, which offers a very different take on the Arab revolt against the Ottomans from those normally seen by Western audiences.

Wagner's Tannhäuser at The Eye

Thu, Oct 29, 2015

RICHARD WAGNER has often suffered from bad press, what with Adolf Hitler being a big fan and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche such a stern critic, but the quality of his music continues to enrapture audiences.

Wild Tales tonight in Indreabhán

Thu, Oct 29, 2015

ARGENTINIAN FILM Wild Tales, featuring six stories, both funny and scary, will be screened this evening at 8.15pm in Seanscoil Sailearna, Indreabhán.

A film-maker's family problems

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

ITALIAN FILM Mi Madre, about a director struggling to make a new film while her family enters crises, will be screened by the Galway Film Society in the Town Hall Theatre this Sunday at 8pm.

Silent Moves - a modern silent comedy film

Thu, Oct 15, 2015

SILENT MOVES, a film inspired by the silent comedies of Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, and Harold Lloyd, and starring actors with intellectual disabilities, will be shown in the Town Hall Theatre on Tuesday October 20 at 8pm.

Otello and Henry V live @ The Eye

Thu, Oct 15, 2015

TWO WORKS by Shakespeare - one by the man himself, another an operatic adaptation by Giuseppe Verdi, being performed in different countries - one in England, the other in the USA, will both be shown at The Eye Cinema.

Entries sought for junior film fleadh script competition

Thu, Oct 15, 2015

GALWAY TEENS interested in writing and who love film are being sought by the Junior Galway Film Fleadh to enter its sixth annual Story Pitching Competition in association with Galway Film Centre and SpunOut.ie.

Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

TALKING HEADS: Stop Making Sense, Jonathan Demme's classic in-concert film, capturing the power of te pioneering alternative-rock quartet, and featuring David Byrne in an oversized suit leading idyosyncratic dance routines, is to get a special screening.

The Bolshoi’s Giselle - live at The Eye Cinema

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

THE BOLSHOI Ballet's production of the classic ballet Giselle, directed by Yuri Grigorovich and featuring music by Adolphe Adam, will be broadcast live in HD from Moscow to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark, this Sunday at 4pm.

See Italian film The Wonders

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

THE WONDERS, the Italian film which won the 2014 Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes film festival, will be screened by the Galway Film Society this Sunday at 8pm in the Town Hall Theatre.

Bofin man fights for his rights

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

A TURNING Tide In The Life of Man, a documentary about fisherman John O'Brien, who takes a legal action to Europe to protect his right to fish the waters around his island home of Inisboffin will be screened this week.

Why Not? Adventure Film Festival

Wed, Oct 07, 2015

THE FOURTH annual Why Not? Adventure Film Festival, a day of screenings of documentaries on mountain climbing, trekking in wild and remote corners of the globe, human endurance, extreme sports, and the human thirst for adventure, returns to Galway this weekend.

The Callback Queen

Thu, Oct 01, 2015

GEORGE RR Martin, the creator of the phenomenon that is Game of Thrones, has called described new Irish film The Callback Queen, as a "romantic comedy about moviemakers and aspiring actors that pokes fun at the whole casting carousel...very enjoyable with lots of laughs."

A mystery woman in post-war Berlin

Thu, Oct 01, 2015

A WOMAN who has survived the concentration camps returns to Berlin after the end of WWII. Surgeons have managed to reconstruct her damaged face, but she now looks entirely different.

Verdi’s Il Trovatore at The Eye

Thu, Oct 01, 2015

IL TROVATORE, Verdi’s popular Spanish opera, will open New York's Metropolitan Opera House 2015/2016 season and it will also be screened live, via satellite, to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark, this Saturday.

Roger Waters The Wall @ IMC Cinema

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

ROGER WATERS The Wall unfolds on many levels – an immersive concert experience of the classic Pink Floyd album, a road movie of Waters' reckoning with the past, and a stirring anti-war film.

Spanish thriller to open Indreabhán film season

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

AS SPAIN transitions from dictatorship to democracy, two detectives investigate the disappearance of two sisters in a town still very much pro-Franco and not that bothered by the vanishing of girls, who, supposedly, had 'reputations'.

The perfect family falls apart

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

SCANDINAVIA HAS been home to some of the finest TV drama of recent years, and it also has a long history of quality film-making, and the Galway Film Society will screen a recent example in the Town Hall Theatre this weekend.

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