2012 Galway Film Fleadh Programme

Belfast, 1971. IRA man Frankie McGuigan is interned without trial. His British army captors place a hood over his head. They beat and torture him. But Frankie has other plans – he’s going to escape.

Director Paddy Hayes
Producer Ciara Nic Chormaic

The emergence of Irish comics and graphic novels and the people making it happen.

Director Traolach Ó Murchú
Producer Paul Murphy

We experience the world of wheelchair users in the physical environment of Galway, the fun-loving city. A world of anger, poignancy, pain and danger. 

Director Margaretta D’arcy
Producers Laurie Allen, Finn Arden

Les Questions Elementales is routed in the elements and vision of Irish artist Clare Langan’s films. It reveals new planes on how the chemistry of elements fosters life and traces our origins.  

Director Lanka Haouche Perren
Producer Lanka Haouche Perren

Gunns shop is at the heart of the photographic scene in Ireland. The Gunn family run a business that manages to excel in quality while maintaining a super-friendly personal touch. 

Director Michael Kelly
Producer Michael Kelly

A portrait of one of Dublin’s better-known street performers. The Pigeon Man reveals the statue to have a heart.

Directors Keith Gordon, Janto McMullin
Producer Keith Gordon

Sixty-eight years after an iconic image by photographer Robert Capa of the newly liberated French town of Chartres during World War II, Collaboration Horizontalediscovers the fate that befell the young child whose father was a German soldier, seen in the arms of his shaven-headed mother as she’s taunted by a local mob. 

Director Ciaran Cassidy
Producer Morgan Bushe

Tucked away in a quiet corner of Galway is the truly unique An Gailearaí Beag. This film looks at the story of how it came into being and the stories that surround it.

Director Leon Butler
Producer Leon Butler

A battle rages in the highlands of Scotland. Two unlikely allies unite to defeat an invading army. 

Director Paul Ryan
Producer Paul Ryan

Off the Board represents the physical beauty of diving alongside innate expressions of fear. 

Director Siobhán Perry
Producer Róisin Linnie

The right to cut turf on private bogs in Ireland is being threatened by an EU directive. 

Director Gearóid Hayes
Producer Gearóid Hayes, Michael Mann

Remember Me, My Ghost tells the harrowing but ultimately triumphant tale of one woman’s life in the iconic Ballymun flats. 

Director Ross McDonnell
Producer Morgan Bushe