Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 28/02/2013

  • BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD

    This multi-Academy-Award®-nominated tale follows six-year-old Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis, 2013 Best Actress nominee) who lives in the Bathtub, a fictitious area outside New Orleans. Below the levee line, the residents live what appears to be a chaotic, ramshackle existence in which... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 10.30

  • FIRE IN THE BLOOD

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    Justifiable anger seethes from this consciousness-raising documentary fresh from its premiere at Sundance. How is it, asks filmmaker Dylan Mohan Gray, that the major pharmaceutical companies can deny treatment to the developing world by pricing their... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16:30|18:20

  • FOR ELLEN

    Korean-born, American-raised indie filmmaker So Yong Kim has steadily been building a growing critical reputation for her naturalistic, pared-down yet subtly emotive approach to storytelling last seen in Treeless Mountain, an affecting study of a fraught Korean childhood. This wintry road... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.40

  • HITCHCOCK

    This affectionate, if somewhat speculative biographical drama suggests it wasn’t always easy being ‘The Master of Suspense’. Anthony Hopkins gets the voice just right, captures corpulent Hitchcock’s oddly dainty physicality, and delivers a touching portrait of a man whose cinematic... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.20|18.30

  • LORE

    It’s taken Australian writer-director Cate Shortland eight years to follow her brilliant debut Somersault, but the unexpected German-language result only underlines her status as a talent of rare sensitivity and ambition. Set during the final days of WWII, this adaptation... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.50|20.50

  • MEA MAXIMA CULPA: SILENCE IN THE HOUSE OF GOD

    Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) begins his film with the case of Milwaukee priest Father Lawrence Murphy, who for decades abused students in the school for the deaf in which he worked, and builds to an... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.10|20.40

  • TO THE WONDER

    As he approaches his 70th birthday, Terrence Malick has picked up the pace, taking only a year or so since the Cannes-winning The Tree of Life to deliver his latest achingly beautiful drama of the body and the spirit. The... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.10|15.50|20.30

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