Galway Film Fleadh

In this episode Gearóid talks to his favourite actress of all time: Tyne Daly. Tyne Daly is a celebrated star of stage and screen. She once dreamed of becoming a nun to the theatre, but a stint as Dirty Harry's sidekick in "The Enforcer"…

We've all seen the rom-com where the man pretends to be something he's not to impress the woman he's interested in. Premiering at the Galway Film Fleadh, coming-of-age story Adam takes this one-step further. Based on a novel from Ariel…

In Anton Chekhov’s The Bet, a young lawyer bets he can survive fifteen years of imprisonment. A banker says he can’t, and bets two million rubles. In fifteen years of solitary confinement, the lawyer reads many books and gets enlightened.…

When documentary maker Mike Andrews met artist Ciarán McCoy - also known as Pigsy - for the first time in Nick’s Coffee Shop in Ranelagh in 2017, he figured he’d be there for maybe 30 minutes. They had arranged to meet after Andrews…

Josephine Decker’s bewildering new film, Madeline’s Madeline, won’t get its awards season due. It’s a difficult film, though, rife with trauma and framed by a restless, fractured lens, and so it’s probably better off as a chance discovery…

Keepers of the Flame, directed by Nuala O'Connor, charts through the labyrinth of Irish history from the 1916 Rising, through the War of Independence and the Civil War. It catalogues stories from ordinary Irish men and women whose tales…

Celebrating its 30th anniversary, The Galway Film Fleadh returns this July to deliver a multitude of diverse films from both here and abroad.  The festival, a staple of the artistic scene in Ireland's cultural heart, has a great selection…