Subtitle Film Festival returns to Town Hall

Drama, comedy and thrillers are in the mix this weekend when the Town Hall Theatre hosts 10 movies in the 2020 Subtitle European Film Festival.

Subtitle runs until Sunday, opening at 6pm this Friday with a 2018 French drama Our Struggles. Its central character Olivier does his best fight injustice at work. But when his wife abandons the family, he faces other struggles. This film explores absence and how to talk about desertion without condemning the deserter. French star, Romain Duris earned a nomination for a French César Award as Best Actor for his performance in Our Struggles.

The 2019 French/Algerian drama Papicha (Beautiful Girl) will be screened at 8pm. Set during the 1990s Algerian Civil War, it tells the story of a free-spirited, fashion-loving student whose freedom is increasingly curbed by sinister forces, until the only choice is to rebel or leave. It’s been entered as Best Foreign Film in the 2020 Academy Awards.

Films on Saturday kick off at 1pm with the Finnish/Swedish production One Last Deal (2018), about an elderly art dealer Olavi, who is about to retire. Having always put business before everything, he cannot imagine life without work. At an auction, an old painting catches his eye. Olavi suspects it’s undervalued and decides to make one last deal.

And Then We Danced will be screened at 3pm. This romance from Georgia is an entrant in the 2020 Academy Awards Best Foreign Film. Merab has been training from a young age at the National Georgian Ensemble with his dance partner Mary. His world is turned upside down when the carefree Irakli arrives and becomes both his strongest rival and the object of his desire. This film premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize at the Odessa Film Festival.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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