Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 13/03/2013

  • AFTERNOON TALK: TONY DONOGHUE

    Irish Folk Furniture recently scooped the Best Animation Award at the Sundance Film Festival. This warm and witty film from rural Tipperary follows the restoration of traditional Irish furniture with a stop-motion twist. In this month’s Afternoon Talk (free but... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.00

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: PROGRAMME 1 (MARCH 2013)

    Join us for FREE screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. 

    EURO-PAEANS: CELEBRATING IRELAND AND EUROPE IN FILM

    In celebration of Ireland’s Presidency of the EU (January – June... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.10

  • BARBARA

    A deserved winner of the Berlinale Silver Bear by one of  Germany’s finest contemporary directors, this tense drama recalls the political and human dramas of 1980s’ divided Germany. Nina Hoss is the doctor, Barbara, transferred from a top job in... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 10.30

  • CAESAR MUST DIE

    EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI

    Their place in Italian cinema was established by 1977’s classic Padre Padrone, and Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (now both in their 80s) return to the international limelight with this Berlin prize-winner, an astute portrait of a Shakespeare production in Rome’s high-security Rebibbia prison.

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.10

  • 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

  • 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: 18.40|20.40

  • ROBOT & FRANK

    It’s such a treat to discover an unexpected little gem like this disarming take on the traditional odd-couple comedy. In the not-too-distant future, Frank Langella is a retired cat burglar living out his days in leafy upstate New York, but... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.30|16.30|20.50|

  • STOKER

    After a string of hard-hitting, strikingly conceived films in his native Korea, including the legendary Oldboy, Park Chan-wook now makes his American debut with this skewed rites-of-passage story.

    Mia Wasikowska is the bookish, slightly withdrawn India Stoker, distraught at the recent loss of her beloved father, whose... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.10|20.40

  • THE INTERRUPTERS

    This inspiring documentary, directed and photographed by Steve James (Hoop Dreams), follows a year in the working lives of three inner city Chicago ‘Violence Interrupters’ or outreach workers who intervene in disputes. Working for the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention,... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 10.30

  • 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: 13.50|18.20

  • UNDER CAPRICORN

    A classic example of, in French terms, the film maudit, the honourable failure. A commercial and critical flop for Transatlantic on release, it was ranked high by the French critics of the late 1950s within their pioneering list of Best... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.30

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