WHAT'S ON - 04/2015

• A LITTLE CHAOS

  This film was released on Friday 17th April 2015 and is no longer screening.

  Sun King Louis XIV (a splendidly imperious performance by director Alan Rickman) commissions André Le Nôtre (Matthias Schoenaerts), his master gardener and landscape architect, to oversee... Read More

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• A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE

  This film was released on Friday 24th April 2015 and is no longer screening.

  After 2000’s Songs from the Second Floor and 2007’s You, The Living, the inestimable Roy Andersson now presents what he calls “the final part of a... Read More

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• A SECOND CHANCE

  This film was released on Friday 20th March 2015 and is no longer screening.

  Teaming up with writer Anders Thomas Jensen, with whom she collaborated on Brothers, After the Wedding and the Oscar-winning In a Better World, director Susanne Bier... Read More

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• ALTMAN

  This film was released on Friday 3rd April 2015 and is no longer screening.

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  The remarkable career of Robert Altman, as famous for his masterpieces as for his misfires, makes for an ideal documentary subject and Mann... Read More

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• ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: DOUBLE BILL (FREE EVENT – APR 2015)

   Join us for FREE lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. Please check here regularly for updated dates and times.

  SPRING HAS SPRUNG

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  AMHARC ÉIREANN Newsreel stories... Read More

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• ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: PROG 1 (FREE EVENT – APRIL 2015)

   Join us for FREE lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. Please check here regularly for updated dates and times.

  SPRING HAS SPRUNG

  Programme 1

  AMHARC ÉIREANNNewsreel stories celebrate... Read More

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• ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: PROG 2 (FREE EVENT – APRIL 2015)

  Programme 2

  IRELAND IN SPRING

  Colm Ó Laoghaire’s warmly hued film records pageants, parades, folk dancing and street life at An Tóstal, the nationwide festival of Irish culture, designed to entice tourists in a little earlier.FILM INFO: 27 minutes, 1957,... Read More

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• Au revoir les enfants

  This film was released on Friday 1st February 2015 and is no longer screening. 

  Essential French drama based on childhood events from one of French cinema’s most important figures, Louis Malle. This classic film tells the tragic story of friendship and loss between... Read More

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• BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT

  This film was released on Friday 3rd April 2015 and is no longer screening.

  Unavailable for theatrical exhibition for a number of years for legal reasons, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, based on a novel by Philip K. Dick, makes a... Read More

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• BLIND

  This film was released on  Friday 27th March 2015 and is no longer screening.

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  Having suddenly lost her sight to a genetic condition, former school teacher Ingrid spends much of her time alone in her apartment, curious... Read More

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• COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK

  This film was released on Friday 10th April 2015 and is no longer screening.

  The life and times of Kurt Cobain have been discussed, reviewed, analysed and diagnosed to such a degree since the lead singer of Nirvana committed suicide... Read More

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• CRY OF THE CITY

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  Adapted from the novel The Chair for Martin Rome by Henry Edward Helseth, Cry of the City is a superb film noir, ripe for rediscovery. Martin Rome (Richard Conte) is a petty thief and cop killer from... Read More

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• Das Leben ist nichts für Feiglinge

  Continuing our run of this tragicomedy about 15-year-old 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 Alex. Markus is propelled to act in... Read More

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• Death of a Superhero

  Director Ian Fitzgibbon will introduce this film.

  A new addition to the Comparative Study for 2016, this highly original drama is based on a novel by New Zealander, Anthony McCarten. Fifteen-yearold Donald, brilliantly played by Thomas Brodie- Sangster (Love Actually), possesses an extraordinary imagination and... Read More

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• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

  New Junior Cycle English offers a number of different ways for teachers to use film, for example:

  – As a prescribed text.– As a multi-modal text with which students can engage both personally and critically, while being creative through language.

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• FEAST YOUR EYES: A LITTLE CHAOS (SOLD OUT)

  This event took place on Wednesday 29th April 2015.

  SOLD OUT

  Feast Your Eyes, our monthly gastronomic feature, creates a specially created menu to complement a newly released film from the IFI programme for just €20. On April 29th at 18.15,... Read More

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• Finding Vivian Maier

  When John Maloof bought a box of photos at a thrift auction in 2007 he didn’t realise he was about to discover Vivian Maier, a nanny from Chicago who would become one of the most celebrated photographers of the last ten years. Maloof shot... Read More

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• FORCE MAJEURE

  This film was released on Friday 10th April 2015 and is no longer screening.

  Tomas (Johannes Kuhnke) is on a skiing holiday in the alps with his beautiful wife Ebba (Lisa Loven Kongsli) and their two desperately cute children. He... Read More

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• FROM THE VAULTS: THE SOUND OF SILENTS

  This film screened on Friday 10th & Saturday 11th April 2015.

  Bottlenote and the IFI present a ground-breaking programme of short, silent Dublin films with live improvised scores from five leading contemporary musicians. The musicians will breathe new life into... Read More

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• GENTE DE BIEN

  This film was released on Friday 24th April 2015 and is no longer screening.

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  During a break from school, Eric  (Bryan Santamaria), a 10-year-old boy,  is handed over by his exasperated mother to spend some time with... Read More

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• Giovanni’s Island

  Brothers Kanta and Junpei live happily on the island of Shikotan until the end of the Second World War when the island’s borders are altered. Russian occupation begins and with the new occupants comes Tanya, daughter of the Russian commander. Inspired by reallife events, this... Read More

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• GLASSLAND

  This film was released on Friday 17th April 2015 and is no longer screening.

  John is working as a taxi driver in Dublin and struggling to make ends meet. He lives with his mother Jean, who he is devoted to,... Read More

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• HOME FROM HOME: CHRONICLE OF A VISION

  This film was released on Friday 17th April 2015 and is no longer screening.

  With this new film,Edgar Reitz’s sprawling, epic Heimat series now runs to some 57 hours covering the history of the fictitious Simon family, residents of the... Read More

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• I USED TO LIVE HERE

  This film was released on Thursday 2nd April 2015 and is no longer screening.

  Amy (Jordanne Jones) is a 13-year-old living in Tallaght and has had to take on much of the responsibility for running the family home after the... Read More

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• IFI AND EXPERIMENTAL FILM CLUB: A BREATHCRYSTAL

  This film screened on Friday 24th April 2015.

  This dynamic and investigative screening programme is concerned with ideas around contamination, cross-pollination, symbiosis and infestation. It accompanies A Breathcrystal, an exhibition curated by Mihnea Mircan at Project Arts Centre. A Breathcrystal... Read More

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• IFI FAMILY: GIOVANNI’S ISLAND

  This film screened on Sunday 26th April 2015. 

  Fans of Japanese anime will be familiar with the genre’s range of stories, including darker tales of war such as this one. Kanta and Junpei are brothers who enjoy a happy childhood... Read More

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• IFI Spotlight 2016: Morning Session

  2015 IN REVIEW (10.10–11.10)

  Dr. Roddy Flynn (DCU) and Dr. Tony Tracy (NUIG) will together review the film and television output of 2015. They will trace prevalent themes; explore critical and audience response; consider distribution patterns in Dublin, Ireland and... Read More

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• IFI TALKS:WHEN RODDY MET LYNDA

  This film screened on Tuesday 21st April 2015.

  We are delighted to welcome Roddy Doyle and producer Lynda Myles in a public conversation about the Barrytown film trilogy to be hosted by radio producer, Doireann Ní Bhriain.

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• IRELAND ON SUNDAY: EAT YOUR CHILDREN

  This  film screened on Sunday 12th April 2015.

  Ireland on Sunday is our monthly showcase for new Irish film.

  Eat Your Children is a tremendously timely and provocative film which explores traditions of resistance in Ireland. It is the personal... Read More

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• IRISH SHORTS @ IFI

  The IFI is pleased to launch our new occasional series of dedicated Irish shorts programmes with this vibrant snapshot of contemporary Irish short animation. In recent years Irish animated shorts have garnered significant international acclaim. Most recent is – Julien... Read More

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• JAUJA

  This film was released on Friday 10th April 2015 and is no longer screening.

  At a remote colonial outpost in 19th century Patagonia, Danish engineer Gunnar Dinesen (an exceptional Viggo Mortensen) sits with his beloved teenaged daughter Ingeborg contemplating the... Read More

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• La jaula de oro

  Very popular Spanish language drama concerning a group of Guatemalan teenagers who attempt to make their way to the USA, dreaming of a better life. However, they are ill equipped, both physically and emotionally, for the challenges they face in gettingthere. This is an... Read More

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• MOMMY

  This film was released on Friday 20th March 2015 and is no longer screening.

  Xavier Dolan was celebrated as a wunderkind when he presented his debut feature I Killed My Mother at Cannes in 2009 when he was just 20... Read More

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• Populaire

  We continue our tour of this delightfully perceptive French title concerning country girl Rose who moves to Paris to become a secretary. While she may lack secretarial prowess, her boss (Romain Duris) notices her typing skills. The glamorous 1950s costumes and period details make this... Read More

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• ROCK ‘N’ ROLL CINEMA: I NEED A DODGE! JOE STRUMMER ON THE RUN

  This film screened on Friday 24th April 2015.

  This is Radio Clash! Following the screening, Rob Dawnay will be DJ-ing in the IFI bar, presenting a set featuring rock’n’roll boppers, punk classics, Strummer favourites and more. All are welcome after the... Read More

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• SOMETHING MUST BREAK

  This film was released on Friday 3rd April 2015 and is no longer screening.

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  The award-winning debut fiction feature from documentary filmmaker Ester Martin Bergsmark is a bold and touching transgender love story. Sebastian (Saga Becker) has... Read More

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• STILL ALICE

  This film was released on Friday 6th March 2015 and is no longer screening.

  Alice Howard is a linguistics professor at Columbia University, a leading expert in her field. She lives in a plush Manhattan apartment with her surgeon husband... Read More

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• THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS/LA BATTAGLIA DI ALGERI (EVENING COURSE: READING PICTURES)

  One of Ireland’s most respected and established filmmakers, Jim Sheridan’s consistent focus on strong visual and emotional storytelling has yielded some enduring and memorable characters. For our Evening Course he will present this extraordinary film, concerning the Algerian National Liberation... Read More

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• THE BIGGER PICTURE: STALKER

  This film screened on Wednesday 15th April.

  The first in our series where we present a revered film from world cinema history with an introduction from a filmmaker, film critic or academic, who will aim to justify its importance in... Read More

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• THE CRITICAL TAKE (FREE FILM CLUB – APRIL 2015)

  This event took place on Tuesday 28th April 2015. 

  This month’s panel for The Critical Take will include Darryl Jones, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at TCD, Kevin Coyne, Cinema Programmer here at the IFI, and writer and... Read More

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• THE FALLING

  This film was released on Friday 24th April 2015 and is no longer screening.

  Carol Morley’s follow up to her inspired hybrid documentary Dreams of a Life is an engrossing drama about an outbreak of mass fainting at an English... Read More

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• THE GOOD LIE

  This film was released on Friday 24th April 2015 and is no longer screening.

  The new film from the director of the Oscar-nominated Monsieur Lazhar is an occasionally harrowing but ultimately uplifting recounting of the experiences of the ‘Lost Boys... Read More

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• THE HANGOVER LOUNGE: TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT/ CASABLANCA

  This film screened on Sunday 26th April 2015. 

  Here is an invitation to spend an indulgent Sunday afternoon at the IFI getting a tasty brunch from the IFI Café Bar whilst enjoying a pairing of two great films.

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• THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA

  This film was released on Friday 27th March 2015 and is no longer screening.

  This interpretation of a 10th-century Japanese fairytale has been a labour of love for veteran Studio Ghibli director Isao Takahata (Grave of the Fireflies). Eight years... Read More

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• THE VOICES

  This film was released on Friday 20th March 2015 and is no longer screening.

  Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis) finds a rich seam of humour in some very dark material, a difficult balance successfully maintained through the combination of her confident direction,... Read More

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• The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet

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• WHILE WE’RE YOUNG

  This film was released on Friday 3rd April 2015 and is no longer screening.

  Frances Ha director Noah Baumbach’s comedy of generational conflict sees a 40-something couple facing stagnation. Josh (Ben Stiller) is a documentarian struggling to complete his latest... Read More

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• WILD STRAWBERRIES: THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU

  This film screened on Friday 24th & Wednesday 29th April 2015.

  Wild Strawberries is our bi-monthly film club for over 55s.

  Family get-togethers, with their squabbling siblings, revelations and intrigue, have provided many a film plot. This comedy drama starring... Read More

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• WILD TALES

  This film was released on Friday 27th March 2015 and is no longer screening.

  The passengers on an aeroplane are disturbed when they begin to realise they all have something in common; a waitress in a late night diner recognises... Read More

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