The 35th Galway Film Fleadh will open on July 11 with The Miracle Club from award-winning director, Thaddeus O’Sullivan (December Bride, Silent Witness, Vera, Call the Midwife), and will close on July 16 with the Cindy Lauper documentary Let the Canary Sing. Cindy Lauper, whose hit songs include, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Time after Time and True Colours, will attend the screening.

The Miracle Club follows female friendships in a working class Dublin community in the late 1960s, at a time when the Catholic Church had a firm grip on this country. The women win a pilgrimage to Lourdes, which becomes more than a pilgrimage as each of them seeks answers to different questions. Their bus trip to the Marian shrine – which is also their first time away from Dublin – gives them a chance to let their hair down, celebrate life and experience freedom.

The film is billed as ‘joyous, uplifting, hilarious and aspirational’, with heroines who are as ‘funny, messy, vocal and flawed’ as the next woman.

The superb cast includes Dame Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates, Laura Linney, Agnes O’Casey, Stephen Rea and Mark O’Halloran.

The Miracle Club will be screened at 7pm on Tuesday, July 11, at the Town Hall Theatre and this will be its Irish premiere.

The Fleadh’s closing film, Let the Canary Sing, will delight fans of pop icon Cyndi Lauper who will present this music documentary.

It chronicles her meteoric rise to stardom and the impact she has had musically as well as via her activism and tireless advocacy.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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