Irish Horror THE MORRIGAN Headlines Galway Film Fleadh’s 2025 Genre Offerings

For all that we cover domestic film festivals, there are still plenty around the world that are just as big — and it looks like Ireland is set to deliver some great films this summer. The Galway Film Fleadh has announced their lineup for this year, their thirty-seventh edition, and it includes some highly anticipated titles, including director Colum Eastwood’s new film The Morrigan. 

The fleadh (pronounced flah, the Irish word for festival) will feature thirty-one world premieres, including Eastwood’s film about an archaeologist (Saffron Burrows) who unleashes hell when she digs up a mummy with more to it than meets the eye. Other premieres include The Reckoning of Erin Morrigan (not to be confused with Eastwood’s film), Gerry Adams: A Ballympurhy Man, and the Irish language films Baíte and Trad. 

The festival will open with Re-Creation, Jim Sheridan and David Merriman’s “based on a true story” tale starring Vicky Krieps, and close with Mike Flanagan’s much-lauded The Life of Chuck. Their genre lineup — appropriately and punnily titled What the Fleadh?! — is even more interesting, however, featuring not only The Morrigan, but also The Thing With Feathers, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, the French/Polish co-production