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This film was released on Friday 23rd January 2015 and is no longer screening.
1981 is on record as being worst year for violent crime in the history of New York City. J.C. Chandor (Margin Call, All is Lost) sets his latest drama... Read More
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This film was released on Friday 9th January 2015.
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In Edo period Japan, Haru is an impetuous divorcée working as a maid. Her sense of taste and declarations at dinner parties serve to embarrass her mistress, but impress Dennai Funaki, a head... Read More
This event took place on Thursday 8th January 2015.
InConversation is a series of podcasts that have been profiling figures from the Irish film industry in collaboration with Film Ireland. Join the podcasters for a recorded roundtable discussion about the... Read More
This film was released on Friday 16th January 2015 and is no longer screening.
This documentary tells the epic story of Majdal Shams, one of five remaining Arab villages in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Before the occupation there were 136 such villages, which have now... Read More
We are delighted to welcome directors Jill Beardsworth and Keith Walsh to the opening night screening (18.30, January 16th) who will take part in a Q&A hosted by Shona Murray of Newstalk 106-108FM. BOOK NOW.
This documentary tells the epic... Read More
Join us for Free lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office.
PROGRAMME 1: AMHARC ÉIREANN: EAGRÁN 240 New Year’s sale fever in Dublin FILM INFO: 3 minutes, 1964,... Read More
PROGRAMME 1: AMHARC ÉIREANN: EAGRÁN 240 New Year’s sale fever in Dublin FILM INFO: 3 minutes,... Read More
PROGRAMME 2: CLERY’S DEPARTMENT STORE Early days of Clery’s with its life-sized model zoo, bargain basement... Read More
This film closes on Thursday, 12th of February.
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Based on the director’s own experiences at a Catholic boarding school in occupied France, Au revoir les enfants depicts a dark andcomplex period in history as seen through the eyes of two young boys who... Read More
This film was released on Friday 2nd January 2015.
Reunited with screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who scripted the inspired biopic Ed Wood, Tim Burton has delivered his best and most vital film for years. It tells the true... Read More
Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton) is a recognised movie star, haunted by his appearances in The Birdman films, a popular super-hero franchise. Desperate to prove himself a true artist, he ambitiously attempts to launch a Raymond Carver adaptation on... Read More
This film was released on Friday 27th November 2015 and is no longer screening.
Taking the form of an extended flashback, Todd Haynes’ (Far from Heaven, I’m Not There) exquisite film depicts the burgeoning relationship formed by upper-middle-class socialite Carol... Read More
Life’s No Piece of Cake
An insightful and moving tragicomedy about a 15-year-old girl, Kim, and her struggle to cope with her mother’s death. Alienated by her father Markus’s grief, Kim retreats further into her Goth-like persona, eventually running away to Denmark with boyfriend... Read More
While his girlfriend Mary (Mélanie Laurent) sleeps, solitary history professor Adam Bell (Jake Gyllenhaal) is watching a film when he suddenly notices a background extra who looks identical to him. Intrigued, Adam’s online research leads him to... Read More
Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) is working for the world’s largest internet company, headed by the enigmatic and reclusive Nathan (Oscar Isaac, A Most Violent Year), when he wins... Read More
Bennett Miller follows the acclaimed films Capote and Moneyball with this great, brooding true crime saga. The story centres on John Eleuthère du Pont, an eccentric millionaire who, in the late 1980s, sought to establish himself as... Read More
This film screened on Wednesday 21st January 2015.
This screening is in memory of actor Gabrielle Reidy (1960-2014), who adapted the book by Isabella Leitner for the stage with director Michael Scott. She performed it from 1985 to ’89, bringing... Read More
This screening will be introduced by Liz Gill, feature film and TV drama director and screenwriter.
Digital Biscuit and Animation Skillnet are delighted to present this exclusive screening following Michel Gondry’s talk at Digital Biscuit in the Science Gallery on... Read More
“I only screen The Starry Messenger publicly on 16mm so that the black is the actual absence of light, as opposed to the projected black of video.”
– Marika Borgeson
The Starry... Read More
This film screened on Saturday 3rd January 2015.
Abandoned Goods is a short essay film that tells the story of the journey of the Adamson Collection. Recently rediscovered, the collection is one of the major bodies of British ‘asylum art’.... Read More
This film screened on Saturday 10th January 2015.
This screening will be followed by a post-show Q&A and panel discussion.
Heaven Adores You is an intimate inquiry into the life and music of Elliott Smith.
In this documentary, we journey through the... Read More
This film screened on Saturday 31st January 2015.
We are delighted to once more present two programmes of films as part of our annual collaboration with TradFest.
This year’s TradFest screening sees the Irish premiere of Dunstan Bruce’s new documentary... Read More
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This film screened on Sunday 25th January 2015.
Classic sci-fi film from The British Children’s Film and TV Foundation. Established in the 1950s by Lord Rank to make films for matinée and schools showings, the Foundation produced a whole range... Read More
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Into the Woods is a modern twist on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tales, intertwining the plots of a few choice stories and exploring... Read More
This film screened on Sunday 18th January 2015.
Ireland on Sunday is our monthly showcase for new Irish film.
Galway-based director Dieter Auner turns his attention from central Europe (Leaving Transylvania, Off the Beaten Track) to Ireland following the fortunes... Read More
This film was released on Friday 11th December 2015 and is no longer screening.
Required viewing during the Christmas period, James Stewart is at his most likeable in It’s a Wonderful Life as George Bailey, loyal family man and friend... Read More
The Golden Dream
A group of Guatemalan teenagers attempt to make their way to the U.S.A., dreaming of the better life that the country promises. However, they are ill-equipped, both physically and emotionally, for the challenges they face getting there. This is an absorbing... Read More
★★★★The Irish Times ★★★★ The Guardian
★★★★½ RTÉ.ie
Bill Pohlad’s moving biopic of Brian Wilson, one of popular music’s greatest talents, recounts in parallel narratives the recording of The Beach Boys’ 1966 masterpiece Pet Sounds and the circumstances in the 1980s through... Read More
This film was released on Friday 9th January 2015 and is no longer screening .
This film also screened on Monday 2nd February 2015.
Now well into his 80s, master documentarian Frederick Wiseman continues to be as prolific as he is brilliant. The... Read More
In 2001, the tiny Pacific island of American Samoa lost 31-0 to Australia, the worst loss in international football history. This documentary chronicles the team as they try to recover and qualify for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. To help turn their luck around,... Read More
It’s 1950s France and country girl Rose moves to Paris to take on a secretarial job where it doesn’t take long for her boss (Romain Duris) to see the potential of Rose’s amazing typing skills. Next stop the national speed-typing championships. The glamorous costumes, cars... Read More
This film was released on Friday 26th June 2015 and is no longer screening.
★★★★ Time Out London ★★★★ The Telegraph
Peter Bogdanovich’s first feature since 2001’s The Cat’s Meow is a joyous, uncynical screwball farce that makes... Read More
Based on the celebrated WWI memoir by Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth is a bold adaptation of a cherished text that features an eye-catching lead performance from rising star Alicia Vikander... Read More
This film screened on Monday 12th January 2015.
We are delighted to present a preview screening of Testament of Youth on Monday, January 12th at 18.30. Following the screening a satellite Q&A will take place.
Based on the celebrated WWI... Read More
This event took place on Tuesday 25th January 2015.
Join our panel of Anne Mulhall (Lecturer in School of English, Drama & Film at UCD), Wayne Jordan (Theatre Director) and Deirdre O’Reilly (Press and Marketing Manager at the IFI) for The... Read More
It is summer and Delphine is stranded in Paris just when everybody else is leaving the city for their holidays. She has just ended a relationship and she is desperate for an escape. A number of... Read More
This film was released 8th January 2016, and is no longer screening.
★★★★★ The Guardian
Quentin Tarantino’s latest foray into genre revisionism is another western, but, like Django Unchained (2012) before it, The Hateful Eight filters the tropes of the genre... Read More
Stephen Hawking’s life story involves more drama than one film might be expected to contain. By the time his genius was popularly celebrated with the publication of the modern classic A Brief History of Time in... Read More
This film was released on Friday 1st February 2015 and is no longer screening.
Fourteen-year-old Raphael Fernandez is one of many favela dwelling kids trying to make a living by foraging in the landfills around Rio. He fortuitously finds a wallet containing a wad... Read More
This film was released 5th January 2018, and is no longer screening.
A documentary portrait of the renowned Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh, who has been credited with introducing the practice of mindfulness to the West, Walk With Me... Read More
Tipped to figure prominently in the upcoming awards season, Damien Chazelle’s sophomore effort follows a dedicated 19-year-old jazz drummer Andrew Neyman (Miles Teller), student at an elite New York music conservatory, as... Read More
This film screened on Wednesday 28th & Friday 30th January 2015.
Wild Strawberries is our bi-monthly film club for over 55s.
If your new-year resolution involved being more adventurous with your cooking, then this joyous comedy will help. Writer and... Read More
July 2014 saw 14 lucky candidates participate in our YME programme, supported by Dublin City Council. They worked with filmmaker Basil Al-Rawi to engage with our IFI Family Festival using new media technologies.
YME activities included:
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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