Arts Week with Judy Murphy

Highlights of this year’s Galway Film Fleadh, which runs from July 11-16, include an advance screening of Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s The Miracle Club, world premieres of Irish films, Apocalypse Clown, Lies We Tell, The Martini Shot, Face Down, Verdigris and Made In Dublin, the Irish premiere of acclaimed debut, Past Lives with director Céline Song in attendance and the Irish premiere of the winner of the Golden Bear at Berlinale, On The Adamant.

Director of Programming Maeve McGrath told guests at Tuesday night’s launch that, of “the 95 feature films that we are presenting, we have 48 debuts, with 41 documentaries, 49 narrative films and two animations, alongside 102 short films”.

Thirty-four Irish films will screen in the Irish Cinema section, with 20 world and seven Irish premieres. These include the world premiere of George Kane’s Apocalypse Clown which follows a troupe of failed clowns who embark on a chaotic road trip of self-discovery. The world premiere of The Martini Shot, starring Matthew Modine, follows an ailing movie director as he begins shooting what he believes to be his final work. Directed by Stephen Wallis, it features John Cleese, Derek Jacobi, Stuart Townsend and Fiona Glascott. The world premiere of Lie of the Land from director John Carlin is a tense drama of survival on a family farm.

The Bingham Ray New Talent Award features 10 nominees from all film disciplines, including Agnes O’Casey who stars in the world premiere of Lies We Tell, a period drama in which a young woman finds herself struggling with family ties. In the world premiere of Patricia Kelly’s Verdigris, new talent nominee, Maya O’Shea plays a young woman, Jewel who befriends Marian, a census enumerator in Dublin, who needs her help to fill out the forms.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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