All Galway Film Fleadh articles
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News‘The Apprentice’ director Ali Abbasi on looking for contemporary stories: “We are living in extremely exciting, crazy times”
Abbasi conducted a director’s masterclass at the Galway Film Fleadh.
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News“How could we put booster rockets on the cross-border support?” Producers call for an island of Ireland fund
Execs from Wild Atlantic Pictures, Fine Point Films, Screen Ireland and Northern Ireland Screen took part in a discussion at the Galway Film Fleadh.
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NewsGalway prize winner ‘Gerry Adams – A Ballymurphy Man’ picked up for UK-Ireland
EXCLUSIVE: The feature doc won the best international documentary prize at Galway.
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NewsBrendan Canty’s ‘Christy’ wins best Irish film at Galway Film Fleadh 2025
’Horseshoe’ and documentaries ’Sanatorium’ and ’Gerry Adams – A Ballymurphy Man’ also took home prizes.
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Reviews‘Horseshoe’ review: Four estranged siblings confront their dead father in crowdpleasing Irish debut
Edwin Mullane and Adam O’Keeffe’s well-balanced debut premieres in Galway
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Reviews’Gerry Adams: A Ballymurphy Man’ review: Absorbing portrait of the controversial Irish politician
Trisha Ziff’s documentary blends extensive interviews with a wealth of archive footage
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Reviews‘Girls & Boys’ review: A Dublin meet-cute takes a darker turn in promising Irish debut
Writer/director Donncha Gilmore explores the attraction between two very different Trinity College students
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Reviews‘The Negotiator’ review: Portrait of US senator George J Mitchell, Good Friday Agreement architect
Affectionate, limited documentary is directed by ‘Kneecap’ producer Trevor Birney
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News“It’s a hard business not to be cynical in,” says ‘Materialists’ producer Christine Vachon
The US producer was speaking at Ireland’s Galway Film Fleadh.
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Features‘Kneecap’ producer Trevor Birney on his next project with Rich Peppiatt and Ireland’s cross-border challenges
Birney has two projects screening this week at the Galway Film Fleadh, ’The Negotiator’ and ’Boy George & Culture Club’.
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Reviews‘Baite’ review: Conventional murder mystery unfolds in 1970s Ireland
Moe Dunford stars in Ruan Magan’s adaptation of Sheena Lambert novel
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Features“It bowled us over”: Galway Film Fleadh heads on the vibrancy of Irish cinema
The Irish festival runs from June 8-13.
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Reviews‘Re-creation’ review: Vicky Krieps stars in reimagining of Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder trial
Unwieldy feature presents a fictional Irish trial for the real-life 1996 murder of the French film producer
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NewsIrish horror ‘The Morrigan’ among 31 world premieres at Galway Film Fleadh
Further world premieres include Mark Forbes’ ‘Quiet On Set’ feature documentary about the class division in the UK film industry.
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NewsWilliam Fitzgerald named Galway Film Fair director; shuttered Pálás cinema to re-open for the Fleadh
Fitzgerald takes on the role of director of the Galway industry networking event.
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Features‘Kneecap’ filmmakers on navigating Northern Ireland’s politics and bringing bigger budget films to Belfast
Rich Peppiatt’s film won audience awards at Sundance and Galway and is being released next month in UK-Ireland.
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NewsRich Peppiatt’s ‘Kneecap’ wins big at Galway Film Fleadh 2024
Further winners include ‘The Teacher’, ’Fidil Ghorm’ and ‘Housewife Of The Year’.
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News“There’s a lack of leadership across the global cinema ecosystem,” says indie champion Ted Hope
The vetreran US producer was attending the Galway Film Fleadh with his latest project, ’Invisible Nation’.
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Reviews‘Mrs Robinson’: Galway Review
The life and accomplishments of Mary Robinson, the first female President of Ireland, are celebrated in this unctuous documentary
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Reviews‘Poison’: Galway Review
Tim Roth and Trine Dyrholm power this Luxembourg-set drama about grief and forgiveness