Fugitive Pieces, Bonneville to bookend Galway
Jeremy Podeswa’s Fugitive Pieces will open the 20th Galway Film Fleadh (July 8-13) while Christopher N. Rowley’s Bonneville will be the closing film.
The theme of the festival is Music and Film and over six days the event will screen approximately 70 feature films, 25 documentaries and 100 short films.
Fugitive Pieces is about love, loss and redemption set in Nazi occupied Poland. The film won Croatia’s Rade Serbedzija the Best Actor award at the 2007 RomeFilmFest. Bonneville has three women taking a road trip to deliver the ashes of one of their dead husbands to his resentful daughter.
The festival continues to support indigenous Irish films and will world premiere a broad mix of Irish features. These include Graham Cantwell’s Anton, a thriller set in Northern Ireland in the 1970’s; Alarm, a contemporary thriller directed by Gerry Stembridge; and the music based Vox Humana (notes for a small opera), directed by Bob Quinn.
The Fleadh will also showcase Irish documentaries including Seaview, about Mosney, a former Butlers Summer Camp in Ireland, which now has become a holding centre for asylum seekers from all corners of the globe; Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home, an insight into the life and creative impulse of the Irish actor; and Radharc: A Tribute to Joe Dunn is a selection of films made by Joe Dunn.
Peter O’Toole is the subject of the Irish tribute and the festival will feature a range of his films including Jeffery Bernard is Unwell, Rogue Male and Goodbye Mr Chips. O’Toole will also take part in a public interview.
To underline this year’s music on film theme, the Big Screen in Eyre Square will host a selection of some of the best concert films ever made, including the KÌla Concert film Once Upon a Time, which will enjoy its world premiere at the Fleadh.
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