Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 17/04/2012

  • A Better Life

    Age recommendation: 13+

    From the director who brought you Twilight: New Moon and About a Boy comes this touching and emotional story about the relationship between a father and his son.

    Carlos is an undocumented Mexican immigrant living in Los... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 10.30

  • DELICACY

    At first sight, Delicacy seems to be a standard French romantic comedy. Nathalie (Audrey Tautou) and François (Pio Marmaï) are a beautiful couple blissfully in love in a picture-perfect Paris and with a fairy-tale life ahead of them. However, when... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.20|16.40|20.50

  • HEADHUNTERS

    This adaptation of Norwegian Jo Nesbø’s million-selling novel delivers Nordic Noir with a vengeance. A corporate recruitment specialist named Roger Brown is slightly ginger, not that tall, and living a luxury lifestyle he can’t afford – so he moonlights as... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.30|18.50

  • LA GRANDE ILLUSION

    Newly restored for its 75th anniversary, Jean Renoir’s WWI drama is both the grand-daddy of all prison escape movies and a profoundly affecting portrait of just how decent people can be to each other . . .in the right circumstances.

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.20

  • LE HAVRE

    A change of scenery from Helsinki to the French coast has helped Aki Kaurismäki deliver an urban fairy-tale that’s one of his most cherishable films to date. The characteristically retro art direction and Kaurismäki’s old-school craftsmanship recall Hollywood’s golden age,... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.40|21.00

  • MOZART’S SISTER

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    This fascinating historical drama takes us on the road with the Mozart family in the 1760s, as ambitious father Léopold (Marc Barbé) hauls his child prodigy Wolfie (master David Moreau) round the courts of Europe, performing in... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.20|20.40

  • ORDET

    Re-released to coincide with a season of the director’s films, for many this adaptation of Kaj Munk’s play about tensions within a Jutland farming family is the very greatest of all Carl Dreyer’s masterpieces.

    Old Morten Borgen fears God has... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15.50

  • The Secret of Kells

    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

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  • THIS IS GOING TO TAKE MORE THAN ONE NIGHT

    Presented in collaboration with Project Arts Centre, on the occasion of the exhibition A MacGuffin and Some Other Things (April 13th to June 16th) curated by Vaari Claffey, the IFI presents five screenings of This is Going to Take More Than One Night; directed... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.10

  • VAMPYR

    Vampyr is even more experimental than its predecessor, since the camerawork, cutting, sound, dialogue and overall narrative seem intended to render everything not only profoundly unsettling but ultimately inexplicable. The protagonist’s experiences at a sinister château (the story is based... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 19.00


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