GALWAY 2013

With most of last year's Irish features forgotten already the new Fleadh programme for this month includes:

Sea
Another 1950's movie, great!

How to be happy
Another Filmbase feature which will get its only public screenings in Galway!

Run and jump
Family drama.

Cold
Eoin Macken's new one and it's not horror!

Black ice
Johnny Gogan's new one. Like his other features will no doubt be exclusively available on the Volta website.

Mister John
From the directors of Helen. These filmmakers are doing stuff far more impressive than the others here.

Dark by noon
Another sci-fi movie. Also has two directors.

Callback queen
Graham Cantwell's new one. Can't say anything bad about this as his friends on FMN might complain!

House of shadows
Not sure about this one, set in Italy with Irish actors.

Tasting menu
Some food/cuisine comedy set in Spain with Irish actors?

Out of here
Coming of age drama. From the guy who wrote the article What's missing from Irish cinema.

Shadows
Another interesting director.

Life's a breeze
Lance Daly's new one. This guy will eventually direct a really good movie. Doubt it's this one?

Discoverdale
Seems to be similar to a Leningrad Cowboys-type movie?

Made in Belfast
The obligatory Nordie movie which are usually good.

Love eternal
From the director of Savage.


So that's that. Lots of Irish features at the month's Fleadh but the usual mixture of rubbish and interesting titles. No doubt a few will get a cinema release, the rest will come out on DVD, while the remaining will be forgotten by next month. None will be a commercial success but hopefully a few will be worth checking out?