Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 11/03/2012

  • CARANCHO

    Ricardo Darín, star of the twisty Oscar-winner The Secret in their Eyes, is surely one of the great leading men in world cinema. Specialising in protagonists who’re masculine yet vulnerable, cynical yet somehow redeemable, he has the right stuff to... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.00|18.40

  • IRELAND ON SUNDAY: BEHOLD THE LAMB

    Ireland on Sunday is our monthly showcase for new Irish Film.

    This debut feature from shorts filmmaker, writer and theatre director John McIlduff is a darkly comic road movie that follows Eddie, a 50-year-old accountant, and Liz, his junkie son’s... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 12.00

  • KISSES

    Writer, director and Fastnet co-founder Lance Daly’s breakthrough feature is arguably Fastnet’s finest cinematic achievement to date – a small, perfectly formed gem infused with magic realism and much charm. It’s the tale of two misbegotten suburban teens, Dylan (Shane... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.00

  • MICHAEL

    In a country scarred by the Natascha Kampusch and Josef Fritzl cases, it was always likely an Austrian filmmaker would investigate the troubling issue of domestic imprisonment. This striking first feature by Markus Schleinzer thankfully avoids the obvious pitfalls involved:... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.20|20.50

  • RAMPART

    Woody Harrelson delivers a tour-de-force performance as the L.A.P.D.’s rottenest apple in this confrontational study of a moral monster. Gaunt, tightly-wound and always full-on, this self-styled soldier for justice wields his baton and pistol where he feels justice is too... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20.50

  • STELLA DAYS

    Following the spiritual course that was 2010’s The Way, Martin Sheen revisits similar themes, albeit in a very different role, with this pastoral drama about a scholar priest struggling to maintain authority in small-town 1950s Ireland. Sheen plays forward-thinking Father... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.15|18.40|21.00

  • TRISHNA

    The ever-enterprising Michael Winterbottom tackles Thomas Hardy with a twist in this intriguing cross-cultural melodrama. Since the social strictures of Hardy’s time are no longer with us, and he already tackled a period adaptation in 1996’s Jude, Winterbottom moves his... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.40|16.10|18.40


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