Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 14/03/2012

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME MARCH 2012: PROGRAMME 1 – ORLA WALSH

    Join us for free screenings from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. See calendar for details.

    DEBUT Continuing our series of early works by established practitioners.

    PROGRAMME 1: Writer/Director Orla Walsh is... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.10

  • Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey

    Bernadette Devlin McAliskey’s remarkable political life is recounted in Lelia Doolan’s documentary which combines archive footage with intimate interviews conducted with its subject over the last ten years. Reflecting on McAliskey’s swift and astonishing rise to prominence through the Civil... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 10.30

  • 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: 16.30|18.40

  • Catfish

    Filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost sense a story unfolding as they begin to fi lm the life of Ariel’s brother, Nev, a photographer and avid social networker. Th eir project begins when Nev receives a mysterious package from an eight-year-old girl called Abbey.... Read More

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  • 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: 14.20|16.30|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: 14.20|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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