🎬 The Audience Design Award at Galway Film Fair Sponsored by Audience Design with Síle Culley, the prize is a full-day audience strategy workshop. 2025 winner Fiona Ashe’s Beneath the Surface stood out for its strong audience insight, scope & tone. #GalwayFilmFair

🎬 We're delighted to announce the appointment of Charlene Lydon as Festival Programmer. Charlene brings extensive experience in film programming and exhibition and will help shape the artistic direction of the festival and its year-round activity. 🔗 galwayfilmfleadh.com/galway-film-...

Congrats to all the 2026 IFTA nominees 👏 We’re delighted to see so many #FilmFleadh 2025 selected films being recognised. *Image 1 - Aontas, Christy, Báite, Horseshoe *Image 2 - Listen to the Land Speak, Essence of Eva, Sanatorium & Shorts: Éiru, Retirement Plan, Three Keenings & Pun

Congrats to Film Fleadh shorts Retirement Plan & Éiru on being shortlisted for the 2026 Oscars 🇮🇪✨ 🎬Retirement Plan Premiered at Galway Film Fleadh 2024 🏆 Éiru won Best Animation Short winner 2025 (James Horgan Award) Go n-éirí leo! 🔗 Read More galwayfilmfleadh.com/eiru-and-ret...

🎬 Join the EFA Young Audience Award Online Watch Party with GENERATION Fleadh ✨ 📅 Jan 14–16, 2026 | 16:00 GMT 🎥 Watch & vote on 3 European films 🧑‍⚖️ Ages 12–24 | 🎟️ Free 👉 More info & Sign up: galwayfilmfleadh.com/generation-f...

We’re hiring! 📣 Galway Film Fleadh is seeking to recruit a dynamic, experienced, and highly motivated professional for a full-time, one-year Festival Programmer role commencing January 2026. Apply by 5 Jan → Link in Bio or visit our website www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/job-vacancy-...

We are pleased to announce the @screenireland.bsky.social Finalists for Stowe's 4th Annual Connemara Writers' Retreat. Congratulations to this well-deserved group of writers. We wish you the best of luck in the final reviews. 🔗 stowestorylabs.org/news/stowe-s...

Meet the 2025 GENERATION Council ✨ The GENERATION Council, who will be working closely with the GENERATION Fleadh team to keep our programming fresh, exciting, and relevant for young adults! 🔗 www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/generation-f...

🎬 Film Submissions for Galway Film Fleadh 2026 are NOW OPEN! We are now accepting both Feature and Short film submissions via film-freeway. Feature Film Early Bird Deadline: Dec 1, 2025 Short Film Early Bird Deadline: Jan 23, 2026 🔗 filmfreeway.com/GalwayFilmFl... 📸 @conorhealyphotography

Short Film Submissions for the 2025 GENERATION Fleadh are now OPEN! 📅 Deadline: Monday, 8 September 2025 at 17:00 GMT 🔗 www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/shortfilmsub...

Applications Now Open! Are you aged 12–24 and passionate about film? Want to help shape the future of a youth-led film festival? The 2025 GENERATION Council is calling YOU! Deadline to apply: Monday, 18 August at 17:00 GMT 🔗https://www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/generationcouncilapplication/

@irishfilminstitute.bsky.social X GALWAY FILM FLEADH at the IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2025 SHORTS PROGRAMME: WHERE WE STAND SUN 14 SEPTEMBER | 13:00 | IFI The IFI Documentary Festival 2025 will run from the 10-14th of September. 🔗 ifi.ie/film/ifi-doc...

Highlights of the last day of the #FilmFleadh #Awards #IrishCinema #WorldCinema

⭐️Winner of Donal Gillian Award for Best Cinematography in a Short Film: THE AXE FORGETS⭐️

⭐️Winner of the Audience Award: Trad | Director: Director Lance Daly⭐️

⭐️Winner of Best Irish Film: Christy Director Brendan Canty and Writer Alan O’Gorman ⭐️

⭐️Winner of Best Irish First Feature: HORSESHOE⭐️

⭐️Winner of Best Irish Feature Documentary: Gar O'Rourke for SANATORIUM ⭐️

⭐️Winner of Tiernan McBride Award for Best Fiction Short: THREE KEENINGS⭐️

⭐️Winner of Best Independent Irish Film with Moore Ireland JOINT WINNERS: SOLITARY | GIRLS & BOYS⭐️

⭐️Winner of Best Short Documentary Award with TG4: DRAGON'S TEETH - Director Lennart Soberon⭐️

⭐️Winner of James Morgan Award for Best Animation Short with Animation Ireland: ÉIRU⭐️

⭐️Winner of Best Irish Language Feature Film: BÁITE⭐️

⭐️ Winner of the Bingham Ray New Talent Award with Magnolia Pictures: Jessica Reynolds ⭐️

⭐️ Winner of Marketplace Award: The Pitching Award and Wild Atlantic Pictures | THE BODY + BLOOD ⭐️

⭐️ Winner of Best Marketplace Project Award with Bankside Films: Ten Mickeys ⭐️

⭐️Winner of Marketplace Award: Audience Design Award with Sile Culley Audience Design Beneath the Surface Fiona Ashe, Flasheforward Films ⭐️

⭐️Winner of the Marketplace Award: Best Documentary Project Award with Impronta Films John Lennon's Island Gary Lennon, Gambit Films ⭐️

⭐️Winner of Best Cinematography in an Irish Film with Teach Solais: LISTEN TO THE LAND SPEAK - Michael O'Donovan ⭐️

⭐️ Winner of Best International Independent Film Award: ADULT CHILDREN ⭐️

⭐️ Winner of Best international Documentary TRISHA ZIFF for GERRY ADAMS - A BALLYMURPHY MAN ⭐️

⭐️ Winner of the Best International Film DRAGONFLY ⭐️

⭐️ Winner of the Generation Jury Award: WHERE THE WIND COMES FROM ⭐️

⭐️Winner of the Peripheral Visions Award: VITRIVAL - THE MOST BEAUTIFUL VILGE IN THE WORLD ⭐️

⭐️Winner of the James Flynn Award for Best First SiotDrama INTERNAL BLEEDING | Director Zoe Nolan⭐️

⭐️Winner of Best First Short Animation Award with Brown Bag Films ONE TRACK MIND | Director Faye Isherwood-Wallace⭐️

Best International Short Documentary JOINT WINNERS: THE MIRACLE OF LIFE | Director Sabrine Khoury & WE WERE THE SCENERY | Director Christopher Radcliff

Joe McMahon Award for Best International Short Drama/Fiction HEAT ME | Director Kelly Sari

Best International Short Animation LUZ DIABLA

"It's not me solving the housing issue, I just wanted to give them something important." - Liam O'Mochain 🎬🌟Cast and Crew of Adobe discussing their film with Molly Qualter following the screening🌟🎬

"It's not me solving the housing issue, I just wanted to give them something important." - Liam O'Mochain 🎬🌟Cast and Crew of Adobe discussing their film with Molly Qualter following the screening🌟🎬

"I grew up with some working class hero's and amazing writers, there was more working class stories. We don't see that type of films represented anymore.We see the same film about the working class made not by them again and again." - Mark Forbes Discussion following the screening of Quiet on Set

“We lucked out with our cast, they’ve been great energy and we need that.” 🌟Post-Show discussion following the screening of Aontas with the cast and crew🌟

📽️Time to Pitch! The 10 Finalists for our 2025 Pitching Competition gave their 90 second pitch today at the The Galmont Hotel.

“Part of being a documentary filmmaker is having a script in my head, an idea of what I thought it should be. But you have to be open to what happens when you are filming.” - Director/Writer Theresa Loong Q&A following the screening of 👾Game On👾

⭐ In Conversation at the Galway Film Fleadh with Brenda Blethyn We were delighted to have Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning star Brenda Blethyn join us today for a conversation, before the screening of new film Dragonfly later today. Hosted by the Irish Film & Television Academy #FilmFleadh

⭐ X-Pollinator Producer in Focus: Tina O Reilly⭐ This was a brilliant panel with the producer of our opening film 'RE-CREATION', directed by Jim Sheridan and David Merriman, with its recent world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Filmmakers discuss Irish Animation at the 37th Galway Film Fleadh

Filmmakers introduce Irish Documentaries 2 at the 37th Galway Film Fleadh. This collection of Irish documentaries explores power, place and belonging.

🌟🎬BP Fallon Rock 'n' Roll Wizard post-show discussion🎬🌟