The Galway Film Fleadh | 9th-14th July 2013
Academy Awards Arts Council

2012 Galway Film Fleadh Programme

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    New Irish Cinema

    Grabbers

    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

    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

    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

    Hideaways

    Hideaways
    James Furlong is the last in a long line of Furlongs, each blessed or cursed with a supernatural power. He begins to...
    Wed 11 July Town Hall Theatre 19.00

    Songs for Amy

    Songs for Amy
    Konrad Begg’s feature Songs for Amy starring Sean Maguire is a darkly comedic love story that follows the journey of a...
    Wed 11 July Town Hall Theatre 21.00

    Keys To The City

    Keys To The City
    Eoin is a businessman who can no longer pay the bills or the mortgage, Paul is a landlord with the banks breathing down his...
    Thu 12 July Cinemobile 12.00

    Apples of the Golan

    Apples of the Golan
    The epic story of a village turned prison full of rappers, rockers and regimes, salsa dancers, holy men and dead fish,...
    Thu 12 July Cinemobile 16.00

    Babygirl

    Babygirl
    Set in the Bronx, Babygirl is about Lena (Yainis Ynoa), a fifteen-year old Nuyorican girl, who has watched her heart-broken...
    Thu 12 July Town Hall Theatre 19.00

    The Good Man

    The Good Man
    Michael is a young Irishman on the way up; a wife and daughter he loves, good friends, a promising career. But everything...
    Thu 12 July Town Hall Theatre 21.00

    The Rafters

    The Rafters
    Once director John Carney returns with this supernatural drama about a young woman who is literally haunted by her past. At a...
    Thu 12 July Town Hall Theatre 23.00

    Shamrocracy

    Shamrocracy
    Terry Ghusto believes he can fix Ireland. Having observed the economic demise of his native country, a renewed Terry returns...
    Fri 13 July 10.15

    Lón sa Spéir – Men at Lunch

    Lón sa Spéir – Men at Lunch
    Narrated by Fionnula Flanagan, Lón sa Spéir is the remarkable story of one of the most iconic images of the 20th...
    Fri 13 July Town Hall Theatre 13.00

    Earthbound

    Earthbound
    At eleven years old, Joe Norman is told by his dying father that he is an alien hiding on Earth, and his mission is to evade...
    Fri 13 July Town Hall Theatre 15.00

    Dublin In Pieces

    Dublin In Pieces
    From one of the oldest cities in Europe, Dublin in Pieces is an anthology of short stories cut together in an attempt to...
    Fri 13 July Cinemobile 16.00

    Pilgrim Hill

    Pilgrim Hill
    Pilgrim Hill tells the story of Jimmy Walshe, a middle-aged bachelor farmer living in rural Ireland. Regarded by his neighbours...
    Fri 13 July Town Hall Theatre 17.00

    Jump

    Jump
    Jump follows the lives of four twenty-somethings whose lives collide one fateful New Year’s Eve amidst the ancient walls...
    Fri 13 July Town Hall Theatre 19.00

    Meeting on the Stairs

    Meeting on the Stairs
    Student Molly moves into a grotty bed-sit in Dublin where neighbour Dave helps her move in. After a fainting spell Molly has...
    Fri 13 July Cinemobile 20.00

    Sanctuary

    Sanctuary
    A journey of one man’s self-discovery, at times dream-like and strange, Sanctuary is a visual portrayal of the wounds of...
    Fri 13 July Town Hall Theatre 21.00

    Stalker

    Stalker
    Oliver Nolan, a volatile homeless man, wanders the streets of Dublin City during the Christmas period. After an unusual...
    Fri 13 July Cinemobile 22.00

    Citadel

    Citadel
    The dilapidated suburbia of Edenstown casts a shadow over Tommy Cowley’s life. Trapped there by his agoraphobia since his...
    Fri 13 July Town Hall Theatre 23.00

    Art Will Save the World

    Art Will Save the World
    Singer-songwriter Luke Haines flies back to his homeland to discuss his life on film. Wary of the idea of a film about his...
    Sat 14 July Cinemobile 17.00

    Silence

    Silence
    ‘The cuckoo calls from the well of my mind, more echo than thought, as it fades through the wind and flickers away to...
    Sat 14 July Town Hall Theatre 17.00

    King of the Travellers

    King of the Travellers
    Grounded in the traditions of the Irish Traveller community, King of the Travellers follows John Paul Moorehouse on his...
    Sat 14 July Town Hall Theatre 19.00

    Very Extremely Dangerous

    Very Extremely Dangerous
    Jerry McGill spurned a rock’n’roll career for a life of crime, robbing banks and running from the FBI, all the...
    Sat 14 July Cinemobile 21.00

    Good Vibrations

    Good Vibrations
    Terri Hooley is a radical, rebel and music-lover in 1970s Belfast when the bloody conflict known as the Troubles shuts down his...
    Sat 14 July Town Hall Theatre 21.00

    Portrait of a Zombie

    Portrait of a Zombie
    When a narcissistic American filmmaker discovers the Murphys, an Irish family with an undead son, he jumps at the opportunity...
    Sat 14 July Town Hall Main 23.00

    Shadow Dancer

    Shadow Dancer
    Collette McVeigh is a Republican living in Belfast with her mother and hardliner IRA brothers. When she is arrested for her...
    Sun 15 July Town Hall Theatre 20.15