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David Cronenberg’s latest offers an engrossing dissection of the three-way relationship which changed the history of psychiatry. In the first decade of the 20th century the new discipline of the ‘talking cure’ was far from established, putting special onus on... Read More
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Richard Linklater’s use of rotoscoping to create the hallucinatory near-future world is highly effective and beautiful to watch in this animated film. Keanu Reeves is an undercover cop investigating a new drug and losing his own identity in the process.... Read More
Please join us for our new programme of FREE informal afternoon talks by IFI staff offering a chance for cinema lovers to delve further into the IFI programme and explore the stories behind the films.
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
DEBUTContinuing our series of early works by established practitioners.
Kieron J. Walsh is a feature film... Read More
Here’s a welcome theatrical outing for this fascinating documentary, a well-spun yarn so unlikely that it just had to be true. Meet forgotten Irish boxing legend Jimmy McLarnin, aka ‘The Babyfaced Assassin’, a journeyman brawler originally from County Down who... Read More
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
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
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
The film’s award-winning Sound Designer, Robert Flanagan, will participate in a post-screening Q&A.
Another first for Fastnet: an Irish-Slovenian co-production, and one entirely devoid of dialogue at that. Make no mistake however, Janez Burger’s film is no throwback to the... Read More
Carter Gunn and Ross McDonnell’s documentary struck a chord with audiences across the globe, detailing a dire crisis facing the world’s beekeepers and its potentially catastrophic repercussions. Simply put, their bees are dying, and nobody can quite figure why: without... Read More
Some of the richest animation in the history of the genre emerged from the former Czechoslovakia. Operating before, during and after the Cold War, the animators conveyed rebellious themes through the use of inanimate objects which they skilfully brought to... Read More
Our evening course in March 2012 is Drawing Pictures: A Short Course on the History of Animation. This course traces a brief history of international animation, leading to an Irish animation event in April.
On Wednesday March 21st at 18.30, Derek O’Connor will host an in-depth discussion with Fastnet Films’ Macdara Kelleher and Morgan Bushe about their films,their production practice in Ireland and their mastery of the art of international co-production. This event is... Read More
Ireland’s Young Filmmaker Award: Dublin & Leinster Heats
The Dublin and Leinster heats of Ireland’s Young Filmmaker Awards at the Fresh Film Festival will take place at the IFI. If you have entered or would just like an opportunity to see... Read More
This month’s Friday Fright Night comes from the creators of some of the genre’s most popular characters. Co-written by Joss Whedon (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, the upcoming Avengers) and Drew Goddard (Cloverfield, Lost), the film is finally being released more... Read More
For a filmmaker who has often explored mankind’s brute physicality, the spiritual theme of Bruno Dumont’s 2009 drama (titled after a 13th-century Christian mystic) seemingly marks a sea-change. Dumont’s faith in non-professional actors remains intact however, vindicated by the remarkable Julie Sokolowski as a wilfully pious... Read More
Oscar-nominated for Best Animated Feature Film, this thrilling mystery tells the tale of daring cat Dino who prowls the streets of Paris by night with burglar Nico while living as the family pet with young Zoe and her policewoman mother... Read More
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
This popular Leaving Certificate Comparative Study choice stars James McAvoy as Rory the young wheelchair user who is determined to live independently along with his friend Michael.
There will be a preview screening and Q&A with Werner Herzog via satellite on March 27th at 18.20.
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
It’s like a story from Tolstoy except it’s happening for real in today’s Russia. How did an oil magnate, who was once the world’s richest man under 40, end up as his country’s most famous prisoner? Cyril Tuschi’s engrossing documentary... Read More
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
“I shall never forget the weekend Laura died . . .” With those haunting words begins one of the most remarkable confections of the Hollywood studio era. The firing of A-list auteur Rouben Mamoulian meant that producer Otto Preminger took... Read More
When a six-member gang of bungling burglars somehow manages to heist $2 million, it is inevitably caught. However, one particularly devout criminal manages to get away and is trusted by the others to hold their shares until their release from... Read More
Shot in 2005 and entangled for the next six years in an epic editing-room imbroglio, writer-director Kenneth Lonergan’s follow-up to You Can Count on Me (2000) has finally received a small release and become a critical cause célèbre. A symphonic,... Read More
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
William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors is the next presentation in National Theatre Live, a series of live performances from the National Theatre London broadcast onto cinema screens around the world.
Antipholus of Syracuse (Lenny Henry) and his servant Dromio... Read More
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The inimitable Stephen Rea offers one of his finest screen performances in Polish filmmaker Urszula Antoniak’s meditative two-hander, set amidst the wilds of Connemara. An enigmatic young Dutch woman (Lotte Verbeek), lost in grief, abandons her worldly possessions to live... Read More
To celebrate the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’ birth, we are screening Roman Polanski’s 2005 adaptation of the much-loved novel. Oliver, orphaned at birth, seems destined to a life of abject poverty. His innocence and innate goodness ill equip him for survival in an... Read More
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
We continue our tour of this surreal and wacky animated film that follows three plastic toys, Cowboy, Indian and Horse, who all share a house in a rural town where nothing is ever quite normal. Cowboy and Indian’s plan to... Read More
The big-eyed characters and recognisable look of Japanese anime originated largely in the work of Osama Tezuka in the 1960s and became known outside Japan in the 1980s. This film centres on a device that therapists use to record and... Read More
Essential to any study of animation is the work of Walt Disney Studios. Following their huge success with Snow White, the studio applied their hand-drawn techniques to make this feature adaptation of an original story concerning Gepetto and his long-nosed... Read More
March’s Must-See Cinema from the IFI Irish Film Archive is Quackser Fortune has a Cousin in the Bronx, presented in collaboration with the St. Patrick’s Day Festival. In one of the best-loved and most bizarre films in its collection, Gene... Read More
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
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
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).
Join the... Read More
The first Irish-Hungarian co-production is a droll neo-noir with a killer premise: an amateur detective investigates a murder he himself has just committed. The would-be Shamus in question is Tibor Malkáv (Zsolt Anger), a socially inept mortician unable to fund... Read More
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
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
This is a wonderful animation from Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon in which adventure, action and danger greet 12-year-old Brendan who must fight Vikings and a serpent god to find a crystal and complete the legendary Book of Kells.
Brendan has to... Read More
That’s the fifth arrondissement, of course, the Latin Quarter in Paris. This is home to the ever-seductive Kristin Scott Thomas, who’s soon looming large in the desires of visiting American novelist Ethan Hawke as director Pawel Pawlikowski’s mystery thriller unfolds.
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In December 2010, Jafar Panahi, one of the most internationally acclaimed of Iranian directors (The Circle, Offside), was handed a sentence of six years imprisonment and a 20-year ban on filmmaking activities for alleged crimes that included... Read More
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
Just out of college and miserably single, the 20-something heroine of Lena Dunham’s wry first feature is what you’d call a work in progress. Moving back home to upscale Manhattan however, where mum’s a successful artist – her photos of... Read More
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
Trans-Europ-Express, directed by French writer/filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet, eschews traditional focus on plot, action and character, and the need to impose order on narratives and events, in favour of a disjointed, dislocated sense of reality spurred along by the use of... Read More
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
Viva Laldjérie depicts the lives of three marginalised women in contemporary Algeria, caught between increasingly western cosmopolitan modernity and the rising tide of religious fundamentalism. Lubna is having an affair with a married man who promises to leave his wife.... Read More
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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PERFECT DAYS 13.25, 18.15
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO | OPUS 13.00, 20.40
THE DELINQUENTS 17.10
THE LAVENDER HILL MOB 15.15
THE ORIGIN OF EVIL 13.10, 18.00
THE ZONE OF INTEREST 16.00, 20.50
WILD STRAWBERRIES: THE OLD OAK 11.00
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