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This film was released on Friday 3rd July 2015 and is no longer screening.
★★★★★ The Guardian ★★★★★ The Times
★★★★The Irish Times ★★★★ Irish Independent
The indisputable singing and song writing talent the Amy Winehouse possessed seemed to be countered by her... Read More
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Irish islands have attracted native and foreign... Read More
This film was released on Friday 24th July 2015 and is no longer screening.
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★★★★★ Entertainment.ie ★★★★★ The Irish Times
In 1968, the American news channel ABC was trailing behind its competitors at the bottom of the TV... Read More
This film was released on Friday 31st July 2015 and is no longer screening.
Ben (Jeremy Irvine) is an impoverished hunting guide, hiring himself out to gunmen seeking excitement in the Mojave Desert, a territory he knows well. Having grown... Read More
★★★★★ The Guardian ★★★★ The Irish Times
Paul (Félix de Givry) is drawn into the world of dance music through illicit raves in Paris during the early 1990s.... Read More
This event took place on Tuesday 21st July 2015.
Feast Your Eyes is our monthly gastronomic feature that pairs a great film with a specially created menu.
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This July 21st at 18.15... Read More
This film was released on Friday 5th June 2015 and is no longer screening.
Fortune’s Wheel brings to life the remarkable, implausible story of a Fairview lion-tamer in Dublin in the 1950s. Bill Stephens was an ordinary... Read More
This film screened on Thursday 9th July 2015.
We are delighted to welcome a panel of linguists, folklorists and film historians to discuss the significance of this remarkable find: Natasha Sumner (Harvard); Baebara Hillers (UCD); Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh (UCD); Deirdre... Read More
This film screened on Tuesday 28th July 2015.
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Ed Krčma, Lecturer in History of Art, UCC, who will introduce this screening.
Currently the subject of a major retrospective at Tate Modern, the life’s work... Read More
Ulises is nine years old and more than surprised to find he’s grown a large moustache overnight! At first he tries to hide it, but then realises that the moustache has made him famous. His best friends Marcelino and Lula, his uncle’s 10,000... Read More
How far would you go for a slice of pizza? When two young boys see an ad for a pizza restaurant near their Indian slum home, they dream of nothing else but getting their first taste. Watch the intrepid pair hilariously overcome... Read More
Bollersdorf is an average town. For the children, however, being average is no fun. When their grandparents are packed off to retirement homes for not being average enough, the children plot to get them out with the help of their pet coati. A... Read More
This two hour workshop will give young actors the opportunity to work on scenes from IFI Family Festival Film, The Legend of Longwood. Facilitated by two of the film’s actors, Scott Graham and Lorcan Bonnar, the workshop will be a... Read More
A MAJOR EMOTION COMMOTIONIFI foyer, 17.30 – 18.30
What makes you happy? What makes you mad? Does broccoli disgust you? Do films make you sad? Don’t hide your feelings tonight as we turn the IFI foyer Inside Out’ with our emotional commotional... Read More
This thrilling adventure story is set in the wild Arctic Ocean. When three children accidentally get stranded on the deserted Half Moon island, they have to face challenges they’d never dreamt of. How will they eat, fend off wild animals or find a... Read More
Dive into a wonderful world of sea creatures, reefs, flowers and fauna with Oona, Baba and the other creatures who inhabit Puffin Rock.
Watch your favourite island family from the hit RTÉjr series on the big screen. Cartoon Saloon’s Lily Bernard, who is... Read More
Mr. Hoppy is a quiet bachelor who happens to be in love with his neighbour, Mrs. Silver. Sadly, she only has eyes for her pet tortoise, Alfie, so he hatches a plan to get her attention. This latest Roald Dahl adaptation and... Read More
Is a zebra still a zebra if it doesn’t have stripes? What happens when a magical circus comes to town? Can you get lost in your own imagination? Could you catch light in a jar? Find answers to these questions and more... Read More
Meet the director and other members of cast and crew who will attend the screening!
Mickey Miller is a 12-year-old New Yorker whose move to Longwood, a windswept town in Ireland, coincides with the return of the legendary, evil Black Knight. Mickey and... Read More
After the recent death of his father, 12-year-old Nicholas finds comfort playing baseball with his friends. However, the gang’s beloved pitch is about to be turned into a dump and the only person who might help them win it back is Nicholas’ grandfather,... Read More
We’re delighted to welcome Lorenzo Germeno (Max) to the screening.
Winnetou was the Native American hero of German writer Karl May’s classic stories. Ten-year-old blond-haired Max lives Winnetou’s way and is certain he will get the part of Winnetou’s son in... Read More
11.00 – 3.00 AGE: 8-12
Check out our Adventure Venure participants video here!
There’s lots of adventure in this year’s festival so why not make your own? Join Createschool to learn how to storyboard, script, film, edit and produce a trailer for... Read More
11.00 – 2.00 AGE: 9-12 Illustrator Mark Wickham’s first picture book, Brian and the Vikings, tells the story of a young Brian Boru. Discover some of the characters appearing in our festival before creating your very own legend or hero.... Read More
JULY 17, 11.00 – 13.00 AGE: 7-9
Design, print and exhibit your very own film festival poster with Black Church Print Studio artist David McGinn. Participants will work creatively to discover and learn various printing techniques, such as drypoint etching and screen printing,... Read More
In this selection of short films, young people in different places win against the odds, whether that means battling a scary beast, living with a saucepan as a friend or convincing their parents to buy them a bike. Discover their stories, their... Read More
This film screened on Sunday 5th July 2015.
Ireland on Sunday is our monthly showcase for new Irish film.
We are delighted to welcome strikers Mary Manning and Cathryn O’Reilly who will take part in a post-screening Q&A.
Reminding us... Read More
IFI CLASSIC
Italian provocateur director Marco Ferreri often critiqued bourgeois values in his films, but arguably never in such an extreme manner as... 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
There was once a cynical but perceptive joke that Orson Welles lived his life in reverse, the suggestion being it was easier to understand how an... Read More
Proclaimed as an ‘experiment in cinematic communication of real events’, Man with a Movie Camera was voted number one in Sight & Sound’s poll of the... Read More
This film screened on Saturday 11th July 2015.
In answering the question, ‘what if the monster in your closet was real?’, Pixar created the world of Monstropolis, inhabited by monsters and powered by the screams of human children collected by... Read More
This film was released on Friday 10th July 2015 and is no longer screening.
★★★★ The Irish Times, ★★★★ The Guardian
P’tit Quinquin, 11 years old, spends his days hanging out with girlfriend Eve and making mischief... Read More
This film screened on Friday 24th July 2015.
During the 1980s, the American capital and place of its government became home to an underground music scene born out of boredom, anger and frustration with conventional culture and politics. With righteous... Read More
This event took place on Thursday 23rd July 2015.
We are delighted to welcome director Wes Orshoski for a Q&A following the 20.30 screening on Thursday, July 23rd.
The Damned were notoriously the first British punk group to release a... Read More
The film was released on Friday 31st July 2015 and is no longer screening.
★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★ The Guardian
When it was announced that the great guitarist Wilko Johnson was suffering from... 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
★★★★ Movies.ie ★★★★ RTÉ.ie ★★★★ Irish Independent
As the 19th century is drawing to a close, young Scottish aristocrat Jay (Kodi Smit-McPhee)... Read More
★★★★★ RTÉ.ie ★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★ The Guardian
Ben (David Rawle) lives in a lighthouse with his father (Brendan Gleeson) and mother (Lisa Hannigan) who enchants him with tales of... Read More
★★★★ Time Out
Presented as 61 one-minute short films, artist-director Doug Aitken’s Station to Station provides a bracing account of his own project... Read More
On the subtropical island of Amami-Oshima, in the aftermath of a typhoon, 16-year-old Kaito (Nijiro Murakami) finds the body of a dead man floating in the... Read More
This film screened on Wednesday 29th July 2015.
BAFTA award-winning writer-director Neasa Hardiman will this month present Volker Schöndorff’s The Tin Drum, adapted from the novel by Günter Grass, justifying its importance in the canon and identifying its resonance for... Read More
This film was released on Friday 19th June 2015 and is no longer screening.
Gael García Bernal plays a brooding, mysterious, Man With No Name figure who stumbles out of the Argentinean rainforest, half-naked. There’s a land grab going on... Read More
This event took place on Monday 27th July 2015.
Join our panel for The Critical Take on July 27th at 18.30 for discussion on Asif Kapadia’s eagerly anticipated documentary Amy (opens July 3rd), the re-issue of Orson Welles’ Touch of... Read More
This film screened on Wednesday 15th July 2015.
Director David Nicholas Wilkinson will take part in a post-screening Q&A.
The First Film celebrates Frenchman Louis Le Prince, who invented a camera capable of capturing motion in 1888, three years before... Read More
★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★1/2 Movies.ie
At a time when a serial killer is taunting police by sending them body parts of victims to the police... Read More
Alex (Adam Scott) and Emily (Taylor Schilling) are a married couple with a young son who have moved to Los Angeles from Seattle. They are eager to explore their neighbourhood and keen to make new friends, so a chance meeting... Read More
This film was released on Friday 17th July 2015 and is no longer screening.
PREVIEW + SPECIAL GUEST
We are pleased to welcome director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to present a special preview screening on July 13th 2015 at 18:30.
In an... Read More
★★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★ Irish Independent
Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-Up (1990) is one of very few reference points available for artist Anna Odell’s multi-layered blending of fact... Read More
★★★★ Irish Independent ★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★ The Guardian
Wim Wenders once again shows his mastery of the documentary format in The Salt of the Earth, which... Read More
This film was released on Tuesday 23rd June 2015 and is no longer screening.
★★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★★ The Guardian
Arnold Schwarzenegger is back on the big screen as the unstoppable cyborg dispatched from the future on a mission to... Read More
★★★★ Movies.ie
Alice Rohrwacher’s previous film, Corpo celeste, about a Catholic girl struggling with her faith as she is about to make her Confirmation, won awards... Read More
★★★★★ Movies.ie ★★★★ Entertainment.ie
The Wrecking Crew was the name given to a group of studio musicians in Los Angeles who, during the 1960s,... Read More
The much referenced opening tracking shot of Touch of Evil remains such an audacious piece of filmmaking, the perfect introduction to this masterful, dark... Read More
This film screened on Saturday 4th July 2015.
Director John Lasseter, Pixar’s Chief Creative Officer, has stated that many of their films begin with the writers asking themselves, “what if . . . ?”
In this instance, the question was... Read More
This film screened on Monday 13th July 2015.
As a young boy, Carl Fredricksen meets Ellie, a fellow fan of explorer Charles Muntz. Thus begins their life together, depicted in a breathtakingly moving montage, and ending with Carl (now voiced... Read More
This film screened on Monday 6th July 2015.
Arguably Pixar’s creative highpoint to date, WALL·E displayed a grasp of filmmaking and a willingness to take risks in relying on purely visual storytelling that raised mainstream animation to a new level.
This film screened on Wednesday 29th & Friday 31st July 2015.
Wild Strawberries is our bi-monthly film club for over 55s.
Teenage Abbie’s life is turned upside down by the reappearance of her deadbeat dad, Ray, who is determined to... Read More
SPECIAL GUEST We are delighted to welcome director Mark Noonan for a Q&A following the 18.30 screening on Friday, July 24th.
★★★★ Movies.ie ★★★★ Scannain.com
When 11-year-old... Read More
ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH 16:00, 20:55
BALTIMORE 18:30
IO CAPITANO 13:20
JEANNE DU BARRY 13:10, 18:10
PERFECT DAYS 13:30
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 15:40, 20:45
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN Q&A (PREVIEW) 18.30
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 20:40
THE ZONE OF INTEREST 16:10
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