Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland Films at the 31st Galway Film Fleadh
Posted: 23rd June 2019
The full programme for the 31st Galway Film Fleadh was announced today, with seven Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland-supported feature-length projects scheduled to screen during the festival’s six-day run from Tuesday 9th July to Sunday 14th July 2019.
Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland will be attending the festival, co-presenting the Fleadh Forum as well as premiering our latest slate of New Irish Shorts.
Below you will find times and dates of Screen Ireland titles at this year's Fleadh:
THURSDAY 11 JULY
Finky - World Premiere
A psychological drama telling the story of Mici Phinci O Foghlu, a young musician with a tragic past who is crippled in a car accident, who is given a chance at redemption when he is recruited by a violent avant-garde circus.
Director: Dathai Keane
Script: Diarmuid De Faoite, Dathai Keane
Irish Production Company: Abu Media Film Productions
Screening: Thursday 11th July at 6.00pm
FRIDAY 12 JULY
GAZA
Bringing to us a unique place beyond the reach of television and politics, Gaza presents a portrait of a group of eloquent, funny, resilient, courageous and above all, ordinary people who attempt to lead meaningful lives beyond the rubble of perennial conflict.
Director: Garry Keane, Andrew McConnell
Irish Production Company: Real Films, Fine Point Films, Mega Fun Productions
Screening: Friday 12th July at 1.45pm
Breaking Out - World Premiere
Suffering all his life from muscular dystrophy, Irish musician Fergus O’Farrell found his release through music and his ever-changing band of musicians. Filmed over a decade, charting his first tour to the Czech Republic, to Radio City Music Hall and to his last days of recording his final album at his home in West Cork, Breaking Out is a love story about music, family and friendship.
Director: Michael McCormack
Irish Production Company: Silver Moonbeam
Screening: Friday 12th July at 6.30pm
Animals - Irish Premiere
After a decade of partying, Laura and Tyler’s friendship is strained by Laura’s new love and her focus on her novel. Based on Emma Jane Unsworth’s award-winning novel, this is a snapshot of a modern woman with competing desires, at once a celebration of female friendship and an examination of the choices we make when facing a crossroads.
Director: Sophie Hyde
Script: Emma Jane Unsworth
Irish Production Company: Vico Films
Screening: Friday 12th July at 8.30pm
A Dog Called Money - Irish Premiere
As imaginative as the creative process it documents, A Dog Called Money is a uniquely intimate journey through the inspiration, writing and recording of a PJ Harvey record. Writer and musician Harvey and award-winning photographer Seamus Murphy hatched a collaboration. Seeking first-hand experience of the countries she wanted to write about, Harvey accompanied murphy on some of his worldwide reporting trips, joining him in Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Washington DC, Harvey collected words, Murphy collected images. By capturing the immediacy of their encounters with the people and places they visited, murphy shows the humanity at the heart of the work, tracing the sources of the songs, their special metamorphosis into recording music and, ultimately, cinema.
Director: Seamus Murphy
Irish Production Company: Blinder Films
Screening: Friday 12th July at 9.00pm
SATURDAY 13 JULY
Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland New Irish Shorts - World Premiere
Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland (FÉ/SI) is proud to present the World Premiere of an exciting selection of new Irish short films funded under the agency’s Frameworks and Short Stories schemes. The Frameworks projects included in this line-up are co-funded by Screen Ireland and RTÉ.
Screening: Saturday 13th July at 11:45am
Best Before Death - Irish Premiere
Bill Drummond, famed for his work with 1980s British electronic band The KLF, has left music behind to become a concept artist, sculpting a community around his mundane tasks. Through humour, provocation, causing a furore, moving people to tears or by going unnoticed, Bill probes the age-old question: “what is art?”
Director: Paul Duane
Irish Production Company: Screenworks
Screening: Saturday 13th July at 1.30pm
Bojayá: Caught in the Crossfire - Irish Premiere
The 2002 Bojayá massacre was and remains one of the worst mass atrocities in Colombia’s 50-year-long conflict. The victims were never to be properly identified. As a result, Leyner, a community leader and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, decided to become a lawyer to fight for his people’s rights. Through capturing Leyner’s obstacle-filled quest in real time, a fascinating perspective emerges on the unfolding history of Colombia.
Director: Oisín Kearney
Irish Production Company: Fine Point Films
Screening: Saturday 13th July at 1.45pm
Jihad Jane - World Premiere
In March 2010, two American women, including one who named herself ‘jihad Jane’, were arrested in a number of high profile arrests, which were trumpeted by the US attorney’s office as ‘the new face on terror’. Facing huge jail sentences, the two women pleaded guilty but now for the first time ever, with unprecedented access, ‘Jihad Jane’ tells the story of the most absurd terror cell ever to come together.
Director: Ciaran Cassidy
Irish Production Company: Fastnet Films
Screening: Saturday 13th July at 3.30pm
Extra Ordinary - Irish Premiere
Rose (Maeve Higgins), a sweet but lonely small-town driving instructor, must use her supernatural gifts to save the daughter of local man Martin Martin from a washed-up rock star looking to use her for satanic purposes.
Director/Script: Mike Ahern, Enda Loughman
Irish Production Company: Blinder Films
Screening: Saturday 13th July at 8pm
SUNDAY 14 JULY
A Girl From Mogadishu
Writer-director Mary McGuckian’s powerful new film tells the inspiring true story of Ifrah Ahmed. A refugee from war-torn Somalia in 2006, Ifrah is trafficked to Ireland, where a medical exam reveals the extent of her genital mutilation as a child. Tormented by the memory, she becomes a leading international activist against gender-based violence and female genital mutilation.
Director/Script: Mary McGuckian
Irish Production Company: Pembridge Productions
Screening: Sunday 14th July at 12.00pm
Never Grow Old - International Premiere
An Irish undertaker initially profits when outlaws take over a peaceful American frontier town, but his family come under threat as the death toll rises. Don’t miss this exciting fast-paced action movie set on the infamous California trail during the 1849 gold rush, where loyalties spin like the barrel of a gun.
Director/Script: Ivan Kavanagh
Irish Production Company: Ripple World Pictures
Screening: Sunday 14th July at 7.30pm