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Following its Oscar nomination this year for Best Documentary, the Tunisian film 'Four Daughters' opens exclusively on Friday, March 15 at PÁLÁS Cinema.

GFS’s opening film is the Galway premier of French drama La Syndicaliste, which tells the extraordinary real-life story of Mayo-born Maureen Kearney, a senior French trade unionist-turned-whistleblower, who was forced to fight for justice.

Spring season has arrived at the Pálás, courtesy of Galway Film Society. The season, which begins on Sunday February 12, will include eight films, and will represent a range of new award-winning titles from across the globe.

If you haven't quite gotten your fill of festive films yet, Pálás Cinema's Naughty or Nice Christmas season continues throughout December with a whole host of classics from Christmas in Connecticut to Home Alone 2: Lost In New York, and even a Die Hard (yes it's a Christmas film!), Nakatomi Plaza Party on Saturday night (December 17).

On planning the vintage spook season, new cinema programmer at Pálás, William Fitzgerald said, “These are the originals, or at least the quintessential versions of these characters – the movies that inspired so many others and had such a lasting impact on popular culture. These iconic portrayals by Bela Lugosi as Dracula, Boris Karloff as Frankenstein and The Mummy, Lon Chaney as The Wolfman and Elsa Lanchester as the Bride of Frankenstein, are the ones still immortalised every Halloween in costumes, in imagery, and in our imaginations.”

BRASS EYE was a British comedy series which parodied current affairs shows. Running for seven episodes on Channel 4 from 1997 to 2001, it featured such writers as Arthur Mathews, Charlie Brooker, and David Quantick.

The heatwave is long over, and the days are more overcast, and sometimes damp, but that is all the more reason to head to the cinema, especially to the Summer of Fun screenings continue at the Pálás.

The Pálás Cinema is re-opening on Monday July 27. It will be fully compliant with Government guidelines on Covid-19; there will be screenings of classic films; and the restaurant will have a new menu.

AN ARRAY of opera masterworks and popular musicals will be broadcast and screened at the Pálás Cinema, including La Bohemé, Don Giovanni, and the world premiee of Marson and Scarlett.

THE 92ND Academy Awards - the Oscars - will take place on Sunday February 9 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, and that evening Galway films buffs have a chance to test their Oscars' knowledge.