Brother Verses Brother, a one-shot musical film which premiered at the South by Southwest Festival in Texas in March will be screened at the Galway Film Fleadh this Friday, July 11 at 10pm.

Executive produced by Francis Ford Coppola, it’s directed by San Francisco filmmaker Ari Gold, who will attend the Fleadh with his twin brother Ethan, a singer-songwriter, for a post-show Q&A and to perform songs from the film.

Brother Verses Brother was inspired by Francis Coppola’s book Live Cinema and made in the tradition of John Carney’s film Once, according to Ari.

A personal musical odyssey, it’s the story of combative twin musicians as they hunt the streets of San Francisco for their dying poet father. The storyline was improvised by Ari’s family and shot in one single unbroken take. Ari describes it as “a funny and moving testament to music, brotherhood, and city life – experienced in real-time”.

The film features the last Beat poet on earth, 99-year-old novelist Herbert Gold (Ari’s father), in a role performed weeks before his death, and the release of their poetry book Father Verses Sons.

Ethan and Ari, who have Irish-Scottish heritage, and feel a connection with this country’s songwriting tradition, planned out the film by playing pubs in Dublin and West Cork with their Director of Photography Stefan Ciupek and their friend, actor Robert Sheehan, who starred in Ari’s previous film The Song of Sway Lake. They had also shot a music video in Waterford years ago for the first song they play in the pub in Brother Verses Brother, which will be in the Pálás this Friday night, July 11, at 10pm. The brothers will play a gig in McSwiggans, Woodquay, this Thursday night.

And this Friday evening, at 7.15pm, also in the Pálás, a grown-up family dramedy, Adult Children,will have its international premiere at the Film Fleadh.

It follows Morgan (Ella Rubin), a sheltered 17-year-old, struggling to define who she is in order to write an entrance essay for university. When a crisis provides her with a rare opportunity to spend time with her significantly older half-siblings (Betsy Brandt, Aya Cash, Thomas Sadoski), she hopes they’ll be able to shed some light on what it means to be an adult. But she is destined to be disappointed, as she realises they’re all faking it.

Adult Children had its American festival premiere at the Bentonville Film Festival in Arkansas in June, where the film won the Special Jury Prize for Best Ensemble.

The Bentonville jury praised Adult Children, which it said “dispenses the chuckles effortlessly through its superb ensemble playing” of a maladjusted family.

And earlier in the day, a film produced by Moycullen woman, Louise Richardson will be screened in the short-film programme at the Town Hall Theatre.

Shelter, written and directed by award-winning actor Leah Egan from Westmeath, centres on three women thrown together by world events. With words no longer being sufficient, they find shared humanity, resilience and strength through the unifying lens of a child,

Shelter is an Actor as Creator project, supported by Screen Ireland and Bow Street Academy. It was shot across two days in Athlone earlier this year.

It will screen this Friday, at 11.30am as part of the Irish Fiction 3: The Land, slot.

This collection of Irish fiction shorts explores ties between people and place.

Information on these and other screenings at galway film fleadh.com.

Pictured: Twins Ari Gold and Ethan Gold in Brother Verses Brother.