Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 13/05/2012

  • CAFÉ DE FLORE

    Emotive material, full-on performances and jaw-dropping cinematic bravura lift this latest from French-Canadian maverick Jean-Marc Vallée (C.R.A.Z.Y.) to lofty heights of accomplishment. Is the love of our lives a once-only experience? That’s the question seemingly linking two disparate story threads.... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15.00|17.00|21.00

  • CHARLIE CASANOVA

    Terry McMahon’s debut feature is an excoriating portrait of an entitled sociopath who, after running over a working-class girl, decides to remove himself from the constraints imposed by society and leave all his major choices to a deck of cards,... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.30|18.40

  • COLOUR OF THE OCEAN

    A thriller that provides multiple perspectives on the moral complexities of immigration, Maggie Peren’s Colour of the Ocean is set on the Canary Islands, where the sun-drenched beaches are scattered not only with tourists but also the dead and dehydrated... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.30

  • DAMSELS IN DISTRESS

    American cinema’s most urbane talent, writer-director Whit Stillman returns from a 13-year hiatus with this delightful fable of campus lives and loves. As new arrival Lily (Analeigh Tipton, from TV reality show America’s Next Top Model!) faces the challenge of... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.40

  • DANCE ON FILM (DUBLIN DANCE FESTIVAL PROGRAMME OF SHORTS)

    Taking place at the IFI on May 13th (16.00) will be Dance on Film, the Dublin Dance Festival’s programme of shorts.  A refreshing blend of dance-for-the-camera classics, international curiosities and animation discoveries that play with what dance is and how... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.00

  • GOODBYE FIRST LOVE

    Writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve confirms the promise of Father of My Children with this elegantly turned, thoroughly perceptive rites-of-passage story. When we first meet Camille (Lola Créton) she’s 15, waiting for her teenage lover Sullivan (Sebastian Urzendowsky), and convinced she’ll die... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20.40

  • IRELAND ON SUNDAY: THE FAR SIDE OF REVENGE

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

    Margo Harkin’s powerful new documentary is the latest in a body of work that has chronicled `The Troubles’ from 12 Days in July (1997) to Bloody Sunday – A Derry... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.00

  • MONSIEUR LAZHAR

    The film which swept Canada’s end-of-year Genie Awards is an affecting chronicle of loss and acceptance. Children and staff at a Montreal primary school are numbed by the suicide of a much-loved teacher, and her unlikely replacement is a kindly... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20.50

  • SHOAH (PART THREE)

    In collaboration with the French Embassy in Ireland and School of Philosophy in UCD, the IFI is delighted to present this rare screening of Shoah, Claude Lanzmann’s epic documentary on the Holocaust.

    The film took 11 years to make; the first... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 12.00

  • THE MONK

    EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI

    A classic of Gothic literature, Matthew Gregory Lewis’ 1796 shocker The Monk was the first to depict a villainous priest as the central character. Although Luis Buñuel was stymied in his efforts to film it, he would... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 19.00


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