The Galway Film Fleadh is back with inspiring and entertaining films & events in Galway from July 11th to 16th!

The 35th Galway Film Fleadh will feature Irish Talent: New Shorts 6: Fiction, Irish Talent: New Shorts 7: Screen Ireland, Face Down, Made in Dublin, Lie of the Land, Lies We Tell at Town Hall Theatre on the 15th.

Screening;
Irish Talent: New Shorts 6: Fiction at 10am
This selection of world premiere shorts deals with love and loss, highlighting the inner strength and resistance of our protagonists. This program includes work from debut directors as well as more established filmmakers. *Please note, this programme touches on the topic of suicide, violence and substance abuse.
Featuring; Stable, Quicksand, Radha, Cantata, The Golden West, Duffle Bag Boy

Irish Talent: New Shorts 7: Screen Ireland at 12pm
Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland is proud to present the World Premiere of an exciting and robust selection of new Irish short films funded under the agency’s Focus Shorts and Frameworks short film schemes. The Frameworks projects included in this line-up are co-funded by Screen Ireland and RTÉ. *Please note, a number of films in this line-up are only suitable for a mature audience.
Featuring; Uroborus, Callus, Worry World, Cod & Chips, Pediment, The Last Set, Nana Dee, Waiting Day, Bog, wo for the Road

Face Down at 2.15pm / World Premiere
On the 27th of December 1973, a nightmare began for an entire family. On that night, a German businessman called Thomas Niedermayer was kidnapped from his home in Belfast. He was never seen alive again by his friends or family. He became one of the “disappeared”, and it seemed that no-one knew what had happened to him. His wife, Ingeborg, and his daughters, Renate and Gabriele, spent the next seven years not knowing if Thomas was alive or dead. Then, in 1980, an IRA informant led police to recover his body. But the trauma did not end then: there were further devastating consequences for all of them. Thomas and Ingeborg’s only granddaughters, Tanya and Rachel, were told nothing of this history when they were growing up. Now, 50 years after their grandfather was kidnapped,they have embarked on a painful journey of discovery – to find out the shocking truth of what really happened half-a-century ago.
Post Show discussion will follow

Made in Dublin at 4.30pm / World Premiere
In a city of countless stories, lives collide, and destinies intertwine. A wannabe actor, down on his luck, waiting tables, is desperate for his big break. He borrows money from notorious loan sharks to care for his ailing mother, who he regales with stories of his fictional glittering acting career. A washed-up and strung-out movie director, unwanted by Hollywood and his beautiful ‘A-list’ wife. A lonely drag queen ready to trust again – to love and be loved. And a femme fatal working through her ‘daddy issues’ in her own unique way. All set on a course of destruction and all heading each other’s way
Post Show discussion will follow

Lie of the Land at 7pm / World Premiere
A tense drama unfolds in this first feature from Director John Carlin. As the Wards prepare to abandon their lives, escaping a dire financial situation, a last-minute change of heart leaves them fighting for survival. After her mother’s death, ageing farming couple Kath and Matthew decide to run from the crippling debt that is anchored around their smallholding, to find a new life in the sun. Their ticket to paradise comes via Shepherd, a mysterious stranger who promises safe passage away from all their problems for a fee. On the departure day, the couple change their minds. An angered Shepherd turns violent, and a deadly game of cat and mouse plays out around the farmhouse and its outbuildings.
Post Show discussion will follow

Lies We Tell at 9.30pm / World Premiere
In an isolated manor, an orphaned heiress must fight her guardian for her inheritance— and her life. Lies We Tell  is a contained psychological thriller about a gaslit girl’s break for freedom. Stripped-down, gritty, and all-too-contemporary: this is not a frocks-and-bonnets period picture but a taut, propulsive, fight to the death. Directed by Lisa Mulcahy, starring the great granddaughter of Seán O’Casey, Agnes O’Casey (Ridley Road), David Wilmot (The Wonder), Holly Sturton (Smother) and Chris Walley (Young Offenders)

Photos courtesy of Galway Film Fleadh