Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 28/03/2012

  • 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

  • IN DARKNESS

    Celluloid depictions of the Holocaust have thus far tended to deal in moral absolutes, admittedly for understandable reasons. What’s refreshing, perhaps even provocative about Agnieszka Holland’s Oscar-nominated new film is that its chronicle of events in the Polish city of... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15.30|20.20

  • ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA

    Turkish maestro Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s most ambitious film to date imbues its ostensibly straightforward police procedural story with emotional resonance and philosophical curiosity. With two confessed killers in tow, a volatile provincial police officer joins a sceptical doctor and a... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.00

  • THE CRITICAL TAKE (MARCH)

    In March, the IFI’s free monthly film club, The Critical Take, will focus on Khodorkovsky (Mar 2nd – 8th), Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Mar 16th – 29th) and This Must be the Place (opens Mar 23rd).

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.30

  • THE KID WITH A BIKE

    Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s latest infuses its seemingly everyday drama with heart-catching emotion and moral substance. Eleven-year-old Cyril (Thomas Doret) is in a care home and absolutely intent on escaping to be reunited with his errant dad and the shiny... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.30|14.1018.50

  • THE OTHER SIDE OF SLEEP

    A withdrawn factory girl (Antonia Campbell-Hughes) who’s prone to bouts of sleepwalking awakens in a forest, lying beside the corpse of a young woman. She becomes obsessed with the girl’s murder – her mother had met a similar fate decades... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20.50

  • THIS MUST BE THE PLACE

    Among the most significant new filmmakers to emerge on the global stage in the past decade, Italy’s Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo) matches a strikingly absurdist visual language with a fondness for off-kilter, morally troubling subject matter. The challenge of tackling... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.10|15.40|18.10

  • Tomboy

    When ten-year-old Laure and her family move house, Laure decides to rename herself Michael. Her new neighbours believe she is a boy, but will she be able to keep up the pretence? This is a complex coming-of-age story about feeling... Read More

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  • 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: 20.40

  • WILD STRAWBERRIES: THE WELL-DIGGER’S DAUGHTER

    Wild Strawberries is our bimonthly film club for the over 55s.

    Fans of the much-loved French films Jean de Florette and Manon des sources will welcome this new adaptation of a Marcel Pagnol novel and the directorial debut of Daniel... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 11.00


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