Gutland was directed by Luxembourger Govinda Van Maele and was produced by Les Films Fauve.
Over the last week, the festival screened 25 features, 16 world premieres and 10 directorial debuts.
30th Galway Film Fleadh Award Winners:
• Tiernan McBride Award for best Short Animation: Wren Boys
• Best First Short Animation Award: The Usual
• Best Short Documentary Award: Inhale
• Best International Short Documentary: Juck
• Best International Short Animation: The Driver is Red
• Best International Short Fiction Award: What Happened to Evie
• Best Animated Sequence in a Short Film: The Overcoat
• The Donal Gilligan Award for Best Cinematography in a Short Film: Boy Saint
• Best First Short Fiction Award: Boy Saint
• The Don Quijote Award for Best Animated Short Film: Yunshi
• The Bingham Ray New Talent Award: Jordanne Jones (actor, Metal Heart)
• Best Pitching Award: Don’t Forget Your Dress
• Best Cinematography in an Irish Feature: When All Is Ruin Once Again
• Best Human Rights Feature: Women of Venezuelan Chaos
• Best Irish Feature Documentary: Katie
• Best International Feature: Steel Country
• Best International First Feature: Gutland
• Best International Feature Documentary: Soufra
• Best Irish First Feature: Cellar Door
• Best Irish Feature: The Dig
• The Galway Hooker Award: Ed Guiney & Andrew Lowe (Element Pictures)