Scott's Movie Comments

My Journal of the 2023 Galway Film Fleadh…

Galway, Ireland, July 11 through 16



Tuesday 11 July
The Miracle Club (Opening Film – Advance Screening)

Wednesday 12 July
Know Your Place (Irish Premiere)

Thursday 13 July
Sister & Sister (Las Hijas) (Irish Premiere)
The Land Within (Irish Premiere; winner Peripheral Visions Competition)
The Martini Shot (World Premiere)

Friday 14 July
Ballymanus
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise (Irish Premiere)

Saturday 15 July
Made in Dublin (World Premiere)
The Graceless Age: The Ballad of John Murry (World Premiere; festival winner Best Irish Documentary)

Sunday 16 July
Ballywalter

Make-up (seen and critiqued after the festival)
Past Lives (Irish Premiere)



Related Commentary

17 July 2023: It was another yearly week (the 25th!) of dodging downpours—as well as sunshine—by climbing and descending stairs in the Pálàs and queuing at the Town Hall to sit in the glorious dark [Showing up at the Fleadh]



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