Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 06/11/2012

ELENA

The latest from Andrei Zvyagintsev, esteemed director of The Return, lucidly examines the simmering resentments created by Russia’s economic deregulation. The deliberately paced opening allows us ample time to soak in the designer environs of an upmarket Moscow apartment, where... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 16.10|18.20
LE GAMIN AU VELO

Continuing screenings of our 2012 French Film Project title, this film was a deserving winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival 2011. From the Dardenne brothers, it is a portrait of life in their Belgian home town of... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 10.30
MOONRISE KINGDOM

Summer, 1965, on an island off the coast of New England, two 12-year-olds, Sam and Suzy, meet and make an instant connection. The lonely outsiders become pen-pals for a year before deciding to run away together in what becomes a... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 10.30
RUST AND BONE

Ever-enterprising French writer-director Jacques Audiard follows his brilliant crime picture A Prophet with his rather particular take on a modern love story, handled in characteristically abrasive and original fashion.

After high-profile assignments for Christopher Nolan in Hollywood, leading lady Marion... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 13.10|15.40|18.10|20.40
SISTER

Franco-Swiss filmmaker Ursula Meier’s gritty new film is a stylistic volte-face from her magical debut Home, but displays a consistent focus on the conflicted workings of the family. In a story unfolding on and below the alpine ski slopes, that... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 13.00|18.10|20.40
THE SHINING

IFI CLASSIC

Undervalued on its 1980 release, since regarded as a masterpiece of screen terror, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining first played U.S. cinemas in a version 24 minutes longer than the subsequent European cut. Every home video release has followed... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 15.10|20.20