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2012 Galway Film Fleadh Programme
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New Irish Cinema
Grabbers
Directed by Jon Wright, GRABBERS tells the story of Ciarán O'Shea, a charming but heavy-drinking local Garda who is...Tue 10 July Town Hall Main 19.30
The Gentleman Prizefighter
Before James J. Corbett, sport, stage and screen were seen as unworthy for the better classes. By the early part of the...Wed 11 July Town Hall Theatre 15.00
Natural Grace: Irish Music and Martin Hayes
Filmed over a two-year period, Art Ó Briain’s documentary is an important and evocative exploration of an icon of...Wed 11 July Town Hall Theatre 17.00
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World Cinema
God Bless America
God Bless America is one of the riskiest and darkest American films in years, maybe decades; ultra-violent and comically...Tue 10 July Town Hall Theatre 22.00
Brave
Since ancient times, stories of epic battles and mystical legends have been passed through the generations across the rugged...Wed 11 July Eye Cinema 18.00
Pusher (2012)
As edgy and explosive as Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn’s 1996 cult classic, this English-language remake tells the...Wed 11 July Omni 7 19.15
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Danish Cinema
Mifune’s Last Song
The third Dogme 95 production and winner of the 1999 Special Jury Prize in Berlin, Mifune’s Last Song tells the story of...Wed 11 July Omni 7 16.00
Room 304
In a Copenhagen hotel, disparate lives intersect through accident or fate: a stewardess desperate for intimacy, an immigrant...Wed 11 July Omni 8 17.30
Pusher (1996)
Fifteen years before last year’s critical darling, Drive, brought new international acclaim to director Nicolas Winding...Thu 12 July Omni 7 14.15
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Isabelle Huppert Tribute
Madame Bovary
Literary critics long regarded Gustave Flaubert’s iconic French novel Madame Bovary as unfilmable (despite several...Wed 11 July Omni 7 16.00
White Material
From Claire Denis, the incomparable director of BEAU TRAVAIL, L'INTRUS to name but a few, comes WHITE MATERIAL: a rich and...Thu 12 July Omni 8 12.00
The Piano Teacher
How far is a man willing to go to be with the woman he wants? Erika (Isabelle Huppert) is a veteran piano instructor at a...Sat 14 July Omni 7 23.00
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Frank Stapleton
Frank Stapleton: A Portrait of the Artist
It is easy to forget, in the twenty-odd years since the re-establishment of the Irish Film Board, in a country where there are...Wed 11 July 11.50
The Whole World in His Hands
In September 1979, two million Irish people left their homes to see John Paul II, the first Pope in history to visit Ireland....Wed 11 July Town Hall Theatre 12.00
Dr Browne Also Spoke
On a train journey across Ireland, passing through towns where he grew up, politician and psychiatrist Dr Noel Browne takes...Wed 11 July Town Hall Theatre 12.10
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Special Events
Welcome To Our World
‘In this country we value history more than we value human rights.’ ‘It’s the able-bodied people that...Wed 11 July Radisson BLU Hotel 14.30
Love Guns and Light Arrows
This exhibition uses the faces of the Alabama 3 to convey their characters in abstract form, while at the same time ...Wed 11 July Town Hall Bar 18.00
Nick Kelly SEE : HEAR
Featuring 3 award-winning short films | 1 storming live gig And the secret of how rock’n’roll can teach you...Fri 13 July Radisson BLU Hotel 16.00
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Feature Documentary
Bad Weather
Bad Weather tells the story of Banishanta Island where a community of sex workers live. Living on a tiny sliver of land 100...Wed 11 July Cinemobile 12.15
The Substance: Albert Hofmann’s LSD
By coincidence rather then by design, the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann makes a sensational discovery in the spring of 1943: he...Wed 11 July Cinemobile 14.00
Lemon
Three-time felon, one-time Tony Award winner, Lemon Andersen is an acclaimed poet who appeared on Broadway in Russell...Wed 11 July Omni 8 14.30
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The Horror… The Horror
The Devil’s Backbone
Casares and Carmen operate an orphanage in a remote part of Spain during the Spanish Civil War. The orphanage has been subject...Fri 13 July Omni 7 12.00
Donnie Darko
Donnie is a bright and charming high-school student who also has a dark and willfully eccentric side; he does little to mask...Fri 13 July Omni 7 14.00
Ring
There is an urban legend about a mysterious videotape. After you watch it, you receive an anonymous telephone call and...Fri 13 July Omni 7 16.15
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Shorts
New Irish Shorts: Way Out West
Way Out West is a selection of short films made by people from Galway and the west of IrelandWed 11 July Town Hall Theatre 10.00
ID Film Projects 2012
Helping communities tell their own stories through documentary film Galway Film Centre PresentsWed 11 July Cinemobile 10.15
Drama Programme 1
New Irish Shorts: Drama Programme 1Thu 12 July 10.00
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On The Box
Hands on Tanzania
A documentary about an extraordinary journey. When five Irish teachers arrived in Suji, a Tanzanian village, hopes were high of...Sat 14 July 10.00
Am an Ghátair: Deora Dé
In the summer of 1920, the War of Independence was brought to an abrupt end in Templemore, Co. Tipperary when pilgrims rushed...Sat 14 July Cinemobile 11.30
An Oíche a Gineadh m’Athar
‘When we were children my father made recordings of us on an old Grundig ¼ inch tape recorder. I can hear my...Sat 14 July Cinemobile 12.30
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Out on Film
The Parade
The Parade tells the story of former war hero and petty criminal Limun who is hired by a group of Belgrade LGBT activists to...Wed 11 July 21.15
Circumstance
Atafeh and her brother Mehran have grown up in a home filled with music, art and intellectual curiosity. Atafeh dreams of fame...Thu 12 July Cinemobile 22.00
In the Family
In the town of Martin, Tennessee, Chip Hines, a precocious six-year-old, has only known life with his two dads, Cody and Joey....Fri 13 July Omni 6 21.00