My Journal of the 2017 Galway Film Fleadh…
Galway, Ireland, July 11 through 16

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Jumping the queue (festival film seen and critiqued prior to the festival)
Donnie Darko (special screening with director Richard Kelly)

Wednesday 12 July
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin (Irish premiere)
Yet More Glimpses of Galway (Irish Film Institute Local Films for Local People)
The Big Sick (Irish premiere)

Thursday 13 July
In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America (world premiere)
Pilgrimage (Irish premiere)

Friday 14 July
The Farthest

Saturday 15 July
Chavela (Irish premiere)
Monterey Pop
Aithrí (Penance) (world premiere)
Lost & Found (world premiere)

Make-up (seen and critiqued after the festival)
Dunkirk
Ag Trasnú an Atlantaigh Dhuibh (Crossing the Black Atlantic)
The Drummer and the Keeper

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Related Commentary

18 July 2017: Sometimes at a film festival it is easier to see the winner of an election than the prospective winner of a best-film award [What’s the plural of Fleadh?]

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Links to official film festival sites