Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 20/11/2012

  • ALPS + SHORT

    After his startling debut Dogtooth, Greek filmmaker Giorgos Lanthimos continues to shape a new kind of cinema in this conflation of dreamlike ritual and profound emotional underpinning. Careful with its secrets, the film unfurls a series of seemingly unconnected scenes,... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.30|20.50

  • AMOUR

    Director Michael Haneke explores the meaning of love in this deeply affecting character drama which deservedly won the 2012 Cannes Palme d’Or. Police break in to a central Paris apartment uncertain what awaits them, and the story behind these tragic... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.00|20.40

  • ATOMIC AGE

    Update: we regret to inform that Director Héléna Klotz will no longer be able to attend this screening. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. 

    We first meet Parisian hipsters Victor (Eliott Paquet) and Rainer (Dominik Wojcik) drinking on a train taking them to... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.10

  • GRANNY’S FUNERAL

    Premiered in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, director Bruno Podalydès’ new film treats the topics of infidelity and death with a light touch that provides genuine laughter throughout. Denis Podalydès (who co-wrote the script with his director brother) plays Armand, a... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15.40

  • 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: 14.10|18.30

  • THE MASTER

    Following the elemental There Will be Blood was always going to be a challenge for writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson, so this latest drama operates on a more intimate scale, yet with hardly less expressive intensity.

    America, post-WWII, and traumatised ex-sailor... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.00|15.40|18.10

  • Une Vie de chat/A Cat in Paris

    Oscar-nominated for Best Animated Feature Film, this thrilling mystery tells the tale of a daring cat Dino, who prowls the streets of Paris by night with burglar Nico, while living by day as the family pet with young Zoe and... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 10.30am

  • WHAT’S IN A NAME?

    In the tradition of Le Dîner de cons and Polanski’s Carnage, What’s in a Name? is an adaptation of a comic play to the cinema. When two couples meet for dinner, talk turns to possible names for the soon-to-arrive child of... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20.40

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