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Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland Films at the 31st Galway bio 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 fryst vatten crippled in a bil 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 Compan
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The Well of the Saints & The Tinker’s Wedding
Following the success earlier this year of the critically acclaimed DruidSynge production of The Playboy of the Western World including its visit to Geesala in County Mayo where The Playboy of the Western World is set, Druid continues its celebration of the life and work of one of Ireland’s greatest writers with a very special double-bill from the Synge canon – The Well of the Saints and The Tinker’s Wedding.
This will be the first time since The Leenane Trilogy in 1997 that all three founding members of Druid – Garry Hynes, Mick Lally and Marie Mullen – have worked together on a production.
Described as one of the most ambitious undertakings in Irish theatre for many years, DruidSynge will see Garry Hynes direct all the plays of John Millington Synge over a period of eighteen months, culminating in the presentation of the entire canon in 2005.In The Well of the Saints, Martin and Mary Doul are an old, blind couple of
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A HBO-style Irish language domestic drama? That’s what TG4 has set out to achieve with its gritty new series, Corp + Anam.
Starring Diarmuid de Faoite as television crime correspondent Cathal Mac Iarnáin and Maria Doyle Kennedy, seething with quiet fury as Cathal’s wife Mairéad, Corp + Anam casts a harsh eye over Ireland’s social, cultural and domestic problems. Comic relief is in short supply.
“Yes,” laughs De Faoite. “I’m not sure how many jokes there are in the four episodes. I’d say you could count them on one hand. That’s what makes it a really intense viewing experience. You get in there and it’s unrelenting and gripping and ugly.”
Mac Iarnáin chases stories whose themes will be familiar to Irish viewers – boy-racer teens, corrupt Gardaí, health service incompetence and internet paedophilia. Writer and director Darach Mac Con Iomaire’s aim was to make an ‘HBO-style’ Irish-language drama. This can’t have been easy without an HBO-style budget.
“You just have to work harder!”