Each year, Out on Film provide “a platform for films focusing on lesbian, gay, trans and queer stories”, and I’m delighted to report that this time around it features a wonderful mix of features along with plenty of documentaries too.

The opening film is the Irish premiere of the acclaimed Give Me Your Hand– a tense yet haunting account of brotherly love and independence. This is director Pascal-Alex Vincent’s first feature film, methinks it won’t be the last we hear of him.

Catch up with the delightfully named Cinemobile (I want to believe it’s a big bus shaped like a camera. Yes?!) for the screening of Stonewall Uprising on Wednesday 7th July at 6pm. Using rarely-seen archival footage and eyewitness accounts, this must-see documentary offers a fresh look at the pivotal 1969 event.

Sundance winner Undertow is showing on Thursday 8th, intriguingly described as a “small-scale metaphysical gay romance – think Truly Madly Deeply meets Brokeback Mountain”. If, like me, you’re mad for the metaphysical, this one is definitely worth a look!

Saturday the 10th is all about the documentaries, with a real treat in store at 5.30 – The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls tells the story of the world’s only comedic, singing, yodelling lesbian twin sisters, Lynda and Jools Topp, New Zealand’s most unique entertainers. From the trailer alone I can tell that this one is not to be missed!

Later on Saturday night it’s all aboard the Cinemobile (woooo!) with a very exciting double bill in the Cinemobile at 9pm. First screening Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement – an inspirational film about two compassionate and brave women who have been together for over 40 years, paired with the World Premiere of the homegrown Irish made Stand Up: My Best Friend, recently produced by the multi-award winning writer Mark O’Halloran (Garage, Adam and Paul) and Cathleen Dore, and directed by Maurice Linnane.

Stand Up came out of a series of shorts produced by O’Halloran and Ireland’s LGBT Youth organization BeLonG To. It is a series of interviews with young Irish LGBT people and their friends and family. It is a heartwarming celebration of our LGBT community, for whom friendship transcends ideas of conformity and difference. Mark O’Halloran, Maurice Linnane and BeLonG To will be in attendance at the screening.

Lucky Galway, says you. No, lucky you! Get yourself on over there, what better reason to visit! For tickets book online at www.tht.ie or phone the Town Hall Box Office on 091-569777. Now!

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