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Dawn Duncan, author of Irish Myth, Lore and Legend on Film, will give an illustrated talk on July 29th (16.30) on ‘Childhood and the Magic of Myth’, focusing on the child’s struggle to overcome grief and achieve identity, and will... Read More
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Join us for FREE screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office.
In celebration of the Irish Jewish Gathering (July 21st – 28th) and the contribution of Irish Jewry to... Read More
Following their first encounter in Vienna in 1995’s Before Sunrise, and their subsequent meeting in Paris in 2004’s Before Sunset, we join Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Céline (Julie Delpy) in Greece as they once again spend time together discussing life... Read More
Yes, another celluloid Snow White, and another silent movie, but it’s essential to note that filmmaker Pablo Berger first proposed this back in 2005, when producers thought he was bonkers.
His take on the Grimm fairytale is slightly crazy, but... Read More
He’s married with a wife and a teenage daughter, but is Guy Pearce’s high-school music teacher settling for less than he wanted?
The smiles in a family photo don’t betray his unease, but undercurrents of frustrated ambition in his life... Read More
Drawn by the experimental methods employed by Welles in his theatre work, influential and technically savvy cinematographer Gregg Toland first approached the director to work on Kane so that he could tackle new ideas that would undoubtedly have drawn criticism... Read More
Alongside nominations in four other categories, Cries and Whispers won the Academy Award for Cinematography for long-standing Bergman collaborator Sven Nykvist, who won again a decade later for Fanny and Alexander.
Both films were shot in opulent colour, making particular... Read More
Mika is a ten-year-old boy with Asperger’s Syndrome and a gift for mathematics. One night, he sees a horse on the balcony of the apartment opposite. He develops a close bond with the former racehorse and is very angry to... Read More
This film was released on Friday 14th July 2017 and is no longer screening.
This film has been classified 15A.
Made by the team who produced 2007’s Lynch, a film which chronicled the making of Inland Empire, David Lynch: The... Read More
Showing Exclusively at the IFI
Ever the restless innovator, Hitchcock tried his hand at 3D, 1954’s latest technological sensation, by putting on screen Frederic Knott’s fiendishly constructed one-room play, wherein scheming hubby Ray Milland plans to bump off beautiful yet... Read More
Showing in conjunction with The Ark’s Roll Up, Roll Up! Celebration of Circus programme, here’s a rare chance to see the much-loved story of flying Dumbo, his friend Timothy Mouse and their circus adventures.
This Disney Classic... Read More
Their first in what has since developed into a recurring partnership, French director Michel Gondry and American cinematographer Ellen Kuras’ work on the visually arresting Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is testament to their creative talent. Eager to convey... Read More
This event screened in April 2010.
Set in Milan in and around the stately home of a wealthy Italian family, at the core of I Am Love is the adulterous relationship between Emma Recchi (Tilda Swinton) – wife of textile... Read More
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Cathy Pearson.
In collaboration with the PhotoIreland Festival, the IFI presents Get the Picture, Cathy Pearson’s documentary introducing John G. Morris, former Picture Editor for Life Magazine, The New York... Read More
There will be a Q&A with director Shimmy Marcus following this screening.
Coinciding with the Irish-Jewish Gathering (July 21st – 28th) and marking the unique role that Jews have played in Irish film culture, we present this long-awaited screening of a... Read More
After a number of setbacks in his career, film director Mikhail Kalatozov was revitalised by his encounter and subsequent partnership with dauntless cinematographer Sergey Urusevsky, with whom he worked on the Palme d’Or winning The Cranes Are Flying (1957) and... Read More
Moving-image artist Stom Sogo (1975 – 2012) was born in Osaka, Japan and moved to the United States in 1992. He was a devoted experimental filmmaker who constantly renewed and manipulated his work across many media. His innovative, abstract investigations... Read More
The IFI and Screen Directors Guild of Ireland (SDGI) are delighted to present The Summit: Directors in Dialogue where director Nick Ryan will join fellow documentary director Martina Durac to discuss the making of The Summit, following this public screening.
Obliged to leave the film before completion when the production ran drastically over schedule, Australian master of cinematography Christopher Doyle shares his credit on In the Mood for Love with Pin Bing Lee and Pung Leung Kwan, both of whom... Read More
Director Mark Byrne will participate in a post-screening Q&A.
Ireland on Sunday is our monthly showcase for new Irish film.
Under the Hood explores life inside Belarus, the former Soviet republic where the battle for democracy, social justice and civil... Read More
The IFI is delighted to welcome members of the film’s cast and crew to introduce a special preview screening at 20.30 on July 18th. There will also be a post-screening Q&A with Lance Daly and Kelly Thornton following the 16.10... Read More
After the teasing conundrums of the Tuscan-set Certified Copy, Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami confounds expectations again with this Japanese drama of mistaken identity – which nods towards Ozu’s classic Tokyo Story but takes its title from an American jazz standard.
While visionary cinematographer Gordon Willis collaborated with such noted cinema giants as Alan J. Pakula and Francis Ford Coppola, arguably his most inspired partnership was with Woody Allen, for whom he shot, to name but a few, Annie Hall, Interiors,... Read More
This feature debut of Irish-American film director Paul Quinn tells the tragic tale of a diffident, lowly farm-worker (Aidan Quinn) who falls for a beautiful young lass (Moya Farrelly), a girl far above his station, and the subsequent search decades later by... Read More
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is this month’s presentation from National Theatre Live, a series of live performances from the U.K.’s most prestigious theatre companies, broadcast onto cinema screens via satellite globally.
Performing from within the walls of a deconsecrated church as part... Read More
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The central section of Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise triptych sees him back home in Austria, tracing the contents and discontents of devotion. As played with committed intensity by Maria Hofstätter, here’s another woman seeking fulfilment, this time... Read More
Alice doesn’t seem to have the best luck in love, though that doesn’t stop her family forever trying to get her paired off. The most important man in her life is on a poster on... Read More
Indian cinematographer Subrata Mitra was just 21 and, like the majority of the crew who worked on Pather Panchali, lacking in any film experience when he shot the first in legendary director Satyajit Ray’s internationally acclaimed ‘Apu Trilogy’. Describing the experience,... Read More
Irish animation company, Brown Bag Films, has adapted the classic Beatrix Potter character Peter Rabbit for a brand new 3D animation series for Nickelodeon and the BBC. Watch Peter, his best friends, Benjamin Bunny and Lily Bobtail and other classic... Read More
As he showed in his striking previous feature Involuntary, Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund is fascinated by the blend of social conditioning and individual psychology which makes us do the things we do. Here he responds... Read More
Visit our pop-up cinema in the IFI Foyer every day over the Festival (times to be announced). Programme details will be available on the cinema door. See below for some highlights and keep an eye on this page for further... Read More
Poppety the grumpy hedgehog thinks he knows who is emptying all the books in the kingdom of their stories. So he leads an expedition to the Belly of the Earth to find out. Meet Poppety and all his friends from... Read More
Having refused to direct Raging Bull, not least because of his total lack of interest in sport, Scorsese eventually found a way into the dark material after a near-death experience resulting from a drug overdose.
Determined to offer something new,... Read More
The twilight years of one grand master and the dawning of a new generation’s creativity sustain Gilles Bourdos’ engrossing biographical portrait of impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir and his son Jean. It’s 1915, and the 70-something-year-old widower is battling arthritis to... Read More
This magical tale of friendship comes from the makers of The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo’s Child and is also based on a much-loved Julia Donaldson book. In this story, a kind witch invites a large collection of animals onto her... Read More
Ten-year-old Pete lives with his elderly grandfather, Jagamarra, in an abandoned cinema in the Outback town of Wyndham, Australia. When Pete learns that their house is going to be destroyed, he and his troublesome friend Kalmain journey to the city... Read More
Get your first taste of films from around the world (and your Festival Passport stamped), with these short films featuring some talking meatballs from Sweden, a couple of Russian moles, a little girl in Poland who finds peace among the... Read More
Animations, live-action, inventions and adventures feature in this great selection of short films for older children. See Benny in his homemade flying-machine; watch Hannah talk to the moon; cheer on the goal-scoring footballer and meet Ireland’s favourite doorman.
Age 8+
A sense of belonging is at stake for the two different exiles at the heart of this immersive first dramatic feature from noted Italian documentarist Andrea Segre. Illegal Chinese immigrant Shun Li (Zhao Tao, the muse of Chinese auteur Jia... Read More
Actress-turned-director Sarah Polley (Away From Her, Take This Waltz) picks her way through a potential minefield in this deftly mounted documentary, exploring her family’s tangled history via personal emotional catharsis and an intelligent examination of just who owns the past.
Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation, Somewhere) returns to one of her favoured themes, the alienating effect of celebrity, from a different perspective in The Bling Ring – that of the fan.
Based on a Vanity Fair article that detailed the... Read More
Join in the debate at this month’s The Critical Take on Wednesday, July 31st when our panel, including Martin McCabe, GradCAM Fellow at DIT; filmmaker Margaret Corkery; and Columb Gilna, IFI Collections Officer, will be initiating discussions around three very different... Read More
This compelling offering from Icelandic maverick Baltasar Kormákur adapts a nationally-famous true-life story to ponder just what it’s like to be touched by the miraculous.
In 1984, a trawler left port in heavy seas (nothing... Read More
Ahlo is a young boy who lives in a South East Asian village in Laos. Believed to bring bad luck, he is blamed for a string of disasters including the loss of his family’s home. But he is determined to... Read More
As part of Eye to Eye season, we’re delighted to screen Visions of Light (1992), a documentary about the art of cinematography, directed by Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy, and Stuart Samuels, on July 2nd (18.30).
The film covers the art... Read More
The recent revelations of Edward Snowden regarding the NSA’s PRISM surveillance programme have somewhat overshadowed the beginning of Bradley Manning’s trial and the first anniversary of Julian Assange’s residence in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he remains in fear... Read More
Wild Strawberries is our bi-monthly film club for the over 55s.
The latest feature from Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki sees the folk of the Normandy port town band together to protect a Congolese teenage refugee from the authorities. Having arrived... Read More
Ages 7-10
In this hands-on workshop with professional artist Renate Henschke you will learn how to design and make your very own bird or squirrel, based on the award winning Irish short film, Fear of Flying. Merging art and technology,... Read More
Ages 9-12
Explore the science of 3D and film with Science Gallery facilitators and learn how to make your very own pair of 3D glasses to use in the cinema. Also, help make a periscope and discover how it can... Read More
Ages 10-12
Join filmmaker Basil Al-Rawi for this exciting stop-motion animation workshop. Using the latest mobile apps, ipads and imaginative ideas, participants will learn various animation techniques and use found objects and other materials to create their own animated film.
This is the story of a brave young boy named Maki who manages to escape from slave traders. He meets Zarafa, a baby giraffe and together they travel across the fiercely hot North African desert with a kindly Bedouin called... Read More
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI: TASTE OF CHERRY 18.00
ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH 13:10, 18:30
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: SPRING FORWARD (DOUBLE BILL) 12.50
BALTIMORE 16:20
IFI & ONE DUBLIN ONE BOOK: EDUCATING RITA 15.30
IFI TALKS: KIAROSTAMI PANEL DISCUSSION 14.00
IO CAPITANO 13:40
JEANNE DU BARRY 15:40, 18:10
PERFECT DAYS 11:00, 20:40
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 11:00, 20:20
THE ZONE OF INTEREST 20:50
The IFI is supported by The Arts Council
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