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Capturing the mobbing, sobbing, throbbing craziness of Beatlemania, the first film the Fab Four made stands as a precious document of the band well on their way to becoming icons and as a landmark release... Read More
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Although the term ‘chick flick’ (nearly always with a pejorative connotation) is a contemporary one, it can be seen to have many historical derivations. The films called up by the term often fall into well-recognised generic categories such... Read More
This screening will be introduced by Alicia McGivern, IFI Head of Education.
Released the same year as Sunset Boulevard, the plot of which also hinged on the ordeals of an aging actress, All About Eve is based on Mary Orr’s... Read More
Join us for FREE lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive.
This month’s series, which looks at the changing role of women in Irish society, provides a rich factual counterpoint to the feature films in our Beyond... Read More
This month’s series, which looks at the changing role of women in Irish society, provides a rich factual counterpoint to the feature films in our Beyond the... Read More
Writer, researcher and lecturer Maeve Connolly (IADT) will introduce the event and take part in a Q&A with Sarah Browne after the screenings.
Co-curated with Maeve Connolly, the IFI presents the Irish premiere screening of Bete & Deise, with Sarah... Read More
We are delighted that filmmaker Pat Murphy will introduce this screening, and that Jesse Jones will introduce her short film.
Set in a future New York, ten years after an alternative socialist democracy promised to end inequality, women, workers and... Read More
This film closes on Thursday, August 28th.
Boyhood follows Texas native Mason (Ellar Coltrane) from the age of seven, as he goes from being a carefree kid, through awkward adolescence to the start of his adult life. Over time, he learns to... Read More
When Branded to Kill was released in 1967, the president of Nikkatsu, the production company who financed the film, branded it ‘incomprehensible’. It was withdrawn from distribution after just a few screenings and Seijun Suzuki was sacked from... Read More
This film closes on Thursday, July 3rd.
Previously the subject of a major biopic starring Isabelle Adjani, sculptor Camille Claudel is here portrayed by Juliette Binoche in the first instance of director Bruno Dumont (Hors Satan, 2011) working with an... Read More
Following the huge box office successes of both L’Auberge Espagnole (2002) and its sequel Russian Dolls (2005), writer and director Cédric Klapisch completes his trilogy with this jaunty final chapter on the lives of Romain Duris’ amiable... Read More
A diverse cross-section of Irish shorts, this programme utilises female subjectivity as a vibrant cinematic voice. Connecting a range of differing filmmaking disciplines are themes of fractured relationships, loss, renewal and unexpected discoveries.
Featuring films from new and established practitioners,... Read More
Under-acknowledged as a key figure of the French New Wave, masterful director Agnès Varda was more specifically part of its Left Bank movement, an innovative contingent which included Chris Marker, Alain Resnais and Marguerite Duras.
Cléo from 5 to 7,... Read More
When Richard Dane (Michael C. Hall, Dexter) shoots dead an intruder in his Texas home, he is left filled with remorse, and uncomfortable with the almost congratulatory response of his friends and neighbours. Attending the funeral, he is accosted by... Read More
Gauthier Valence (Lambert Wilson) is a star, having become a readily recognised heartthrob after playing a brain surgeon on a hit TV show. Yet he yearns to be taken seriously as an actor, and ventures out of... Read More
Instead of going to football practice Finn follows a strange crow to a deserted farmhouse where he meets a silver-haired man in a long black coat. The man starts to play the violin and Finn imagines he sees his late... Read More
Our monthly gastronomic feature followed by a meal in the IFI Café Bar.
Leaving town with her precocious 11-year-old son Tommy after her husband dies suddenly in a road accident, Alice (Ellen Burstyn) hopes to trade in her old domestic... Read More
This film closes on Thursday, August 14th.
Vivian Maier was born in New York in 1926, and spent most of her youth in France. She returned to America to work as a nanny, and took photographs. Over the next five... Read More
Pat Murphy’s first and most experimental feature film was informed by feminist debates on the objectification of women and by the unresolved questions of the relationship between feminism and nationalism, and between history and myth.
Set during the Troubles,... Read More
Having just moved in together, Susan (a brilliant, self-deprecating Melanie Mayron) is baffled when her best friend and aspiring writer Anne (Anita Skinner) announces she’s leaving New York to marry hair-splitting bore Martin (Bob Balaban). While Anne settles down, Susan ekes... Read More
Following 2007’s portrayal of Rembrandt in Nightwatching, the second entry in director Peter Greenaway’s Dutch Masters series focuses on 16th century engraver Hendrick Goltzius. Leader of the Pelican Company, a troupe of actors and artists whose activities support both themselves... Read More
This film closes on Thursday, July 24th.
An unskilled labourer desperate for cash, Gary Manda (Tahar Rahim, unforgettable in 2009’s A Prophet) signs up for perilous maintenance work at a nuclear power plant at the beginning of this slow-burning drama.... Read More
This screening will be introduced by writer, lecturer and researcher Maeve Connolly (IADT).
In conjunction with this month’s season exploring representations of women on screen, the IFI and EFC present Riddles of the Sphinx (1977).
Made two years after the... Read More
Thirteen-year-old South African Felix dreams of being a saxophonist, just like his late father Zweli of the Bozza Boys’ Band. His mother wants him to concentrate on his studies, but Felix just can’t stop playing. Blending European classical with South... Read More
It’s Magic at IFI!
IFI Foyer, 5.30-6.30pm For our Opening night Festivities, we’re turning the IFI into a den of magic. Before our opening film magician Brian Daly will be demonstrating some of his incredible magic and encouraging young participants... Read More
With Shaun getting his own feature film in 2015, it’s time to see some episodes of everyone’s favourite woolly farm animal on the big screen. Join in on some Shaun activities in our foyer farmyard. You will also get to visit... Read More
Kick your Festival off with a bang at our wonderful programme of short films for younger viewers. You’ll meet a mischievous fox, a clever chickadee, a felt chef and a little girl who loves the magic of the night. There’s... Read More
Short films are a great way of seeing the world! Visit Italy, Turkey, France and Venezuela; see how Mirko gets used to wearing glasses, or watch two dolls in a toy store fall in love. Find out about barrel racing... Read More
Japanese teen Haru saves a talking cat from being run over. When she finds herself engaged to a cat prince, her only hope of escape is with the help of two other cats and a crow. This fantastic Studio Ghibli... Read More
When eleven-year-old Chinu and his mother move to the countryside, he finds it hard to settle. Gaining the local boys’ acceptance, he joins their adventures in the beautiful Indian landscape. But he and his mother make some mistakes and wonder... Read More
The residents of St-Victor, a busy French-Canadian village, are woken early every day by the local rooster. Tired and cranky from lack of sleep, they decide to get rid of the noisy bird. But when bad luck strikes, the locals... Read More
Be thrilled and entertained by this hit animation about Amadeo (voiced by Rupert Grint), the table football champ. When football star, Flash, announces plans to demolish the old bar to build the world’s biggest soccer stadium, Amadeo’s favourite foosball players... Read More
Step aboard The Cloudhopper, a flying ship led by Cap’n Quilty and his crew of Wildernuts as they explore the wonders of the natural world. See your favourite TV characters on the big screen and meet naturalist and Wildernuts advisor,... Read More
Mischievous twins Zip and Zap are sent to Hope Summer School where evil principal Falconetti forbids any recreation. So they form The Marble Gang to create some fun, until they discover a school secret. Together with Matilde and the other... Read More
The Bechdel Test asks if a movie features at least two girls who talk to each other about something other than a boy. Does your favourite movie heroine pass the Test? Explore some of the coolest female characters with The... Read More
Work with artist Maeve Clancy to create a pop-up book which tells the history of cinema. Using film footage, paper craft and imagination, participants will make a short film to share online with friends. Learn how to make pop-up pages,... Read More
Explore the art of VJing with filmmaker Eavan Aiken. Learn how to manipulate and loop moving images to music. Get a rare opportunity to use material from the IFI Irish Film Archive, learn a bit about our national cinema heritage... Read More
Martina Durac, Vanessa Gildea and Bríona Nic Dhiarmada will participate in a post-screening Q&A.
Ireland on Sunday is our monthly showcase for new Irish film.
This new documentary from Loopline Film investigates the life and death of Mairéad Farrell who... Read More
After flirting with the mainstream in a number of stoner comedies, David Gordon Green returns here to the more personal feel of his earlier films (George Washington, All the Real Girls). Making a parallel return to form is Nicolas Cage... Read More
Winner of the Best Irish Feature Award at this year’s JDIFF, this dark, tender romance introduces us to Ian (Robert de Hoog), an isolated young man intent on taking his own life. Chance encounters however, send him on a different... Read More
Tara Brady of The Irish Times will host a Q&A with director Brendan Muldowney and actor Pollyanna McIntosh following the screening of Love Eternal on Thursday, July 3rd at 20.30. The film will continue its run at the IFI from... Read More
In all her films, writer and director Nicole Holofcener has demonstrated a knack for crisp, quick-witted dialogue that her ensemble casts clearly relish, and Lovely & Amazing is no different in this respect.
Here, Brenda Blethyn plays a well-off single... Read More
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This film closes on Thursday, August 31st.
Fabian (Sid Lucero) is a jaded intellectual, a law school dropout who spends his time drinking with friends and decrying the state of his country, of society and of... Read More
Understandably aggrieved when she gets ‘dumped up with’ and then fired in quick succession, comedian Donna (the hilarious Jenny Slate) divulges all in a fairly solemn stand-up routine and then ends up drinking, followed by sleeping with a chap she... Read More
This panel-led event focusing on women in film will comprise of four short presentations followed by an open discussion chaired by filmmaker Neasa Haridman.
Critic and writer Roe McDermott will present on the female voice in film criticism;... Read More
Faithfully adapted from Joan Lindsay’s 1967 mystery novel of the same name, this female-centric film was one of the key titles of the Australian New Wave and was both a critical and box-office sensation on release. Opening on Valentine’s Day... Read More
Billy Wilder’s cross-dressing caper had a troubled gestation. Marilyn Monroe was reportedly pregnant during filming, and, too distracted to remember her lines, she was indulged with cue cards and multiple retakes. She got little sympathy... Read More
For the Dublin Chinese New Year Festival Screening on 28th Feb 2015 at 4pm please follow this link
Widely regarded as the best Chinese film ever made and now newly restored, Spring in a Small Town is set... Read More
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In the late 1960s, Shep Gordon chanced on a career in show business after walking out on his job as a parole officer and checking into a hotel that was home to Jimi Hendrix and Janis... Read More
Shot on two digital cameras placed on the dashboard of a car, Ten is considerably more complex than its simple set-up suggests. Driven by artist and writer Mania Akbari, the film records her conversations with several passengers as she takes... Read More
The Critical Take is a free event that takes place at the end of every month when a panel of three invited speakers initiate an open discussion about three films from the IFI programme.
Join our panel, which includes Eithne Shortall... Read More
A group of Guatemalan teenagers attempt to make their way to the U.S.A., dreaming of the better life that the country promises, but they are ill equipped, both physically and emotionally, for the challenges they face getting... Read More
Jonas Jonasson’s bestselling novel retains its picaresque flavour in this film adaptation, which begins with Allan Karlsson (Robert Gustafsson) slipping away from the centenary celebrations being thrown in his honour, and taking to the road with a dubiously acquired suitcase... Read More
The biographer Peter Noble pronounced that The Lady from Shanghai had “cost a fortune, lost a fortune and finished Welles’ career at any of the big Hollywood studios.”... Read More
In previous films such as The Taste of Others (2000) and Look at Me (2004), co-writers Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri created comedies of bourgeois manners that were witty and intelligent, as well... Read More
Wild Strawberries is our bimonthly film club for over 55s.
This month’s IFI season, featuring films in the context of the Bechdel Test, gives us a chance to revisit this consistently popular story that focuses on women and their friendship... Read More
Made as a riposte to Cassavetes’ Husbands (1970) and adopting a similarly improvisational approach, Wives is both riotously funny and tender in its depiction of an unruly friendship between three women in their 30s.
Meeting again at a school reunion,... Read More
We are pleased to have journalist and broadcaster Una Mullally at the IFI to introduce this screening.
Nominated for the Palme d’Or in 1956 and considered significant enough upon release as to merit a screening for the members of the... Read More
BANEL & ADAMA 13.20, 18.20 (OC)
COPA 71 16.00
MONSTER 13.10, 20.20
MY FRIEND LANRE 13.10, 18.00
PERFECT DAYS 15.15, 20.30
THE BIGGER PICTURE: AMERICAN HONEY 19.50
THE TASTE OF THINGS 15.30
THE ZONE OF INTEREST 18.10
The IFI is supported by The Arts Council
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