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This film was released on Friday 2nd October 2015 and is no longer screening.
On the evening of November 23rd, 2012, in Jacksonville, Florida, African-American teenager Jordan Davis was shot ten times by Michael Dunn, a 45-year-old Caucasian man who... Read More
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Rick Carver (the brilliant Michael Shannon) is the court appointed real-estate agent for repossessed Orlando homes. Backed-up by armed forces from the Sheriff’s department, he supervises... Read More
This film was released on Friday 25th September 2015 and is no longer screening.
July Jung’s debut feature stars Bae Doo-na (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Cloud Atlas) as Young-Nam, a police officer whose promising career has stalled following a personal... Read More
FEMINISM
A vampire in full chador skateboards through the streets of an Iranian town known as Bad City. Iranian-American filmmaker, Ana Lily Amirpour, wowed Sundance critics with the offbeat charm, humour and great soundtrack of her debut feature.
Lecturer and... Read More
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“John Clare was a minor 19th-century nature poet who went mad” is the oft-repeated refrain in Andrew Kotting’s reflection on the interior world... Read More
This film was released on Friday 4th September 2015 and is no longer screening.
A double prize winner at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Cartel Land follows two vigilante groups fighting the drug cartels on either side of the border... Read More
This film was released on Friday 16th October 2015 and is no longer screening.
The voices the title refers to are those of Israeli soldiers, who made clandestine recordings of their experiences in the aftermath of the 1967 Six Day... Read More
This film screened on Friday 9th October 2015.
Chaired by Miriam O’Callaghan.
During the middle decades of the 20th century, Ireland led the world in locking up more of its people per capita in psychiatric hospitals. The number was ahead... Read More
A journalist discovers a remote orphanage populated by child vampires, who are being groomed to eradicate humanity, and the organisation dedicated to stopping them.
This irreverent and very funny New Zealand ode to heavy metal horror sees an ancient entity summoned by two high school guitarists, with serious consequences.
This film screened on Sunday 25th October 2015.
ALTERITY
What is the place of ‘the other’ in mainstream cinema? Alterity – or the state of being other – has relevance for this film from Palestinian filmmaker, Elia Suleiman. Set in... Read More
A distinctive and underappreciated film, filled with ideas, Dust Devil follows Wendy, who is being pursued by a mysterious shape-shifter who preys on the lonely.
Director Richard Stanley will introduce the film and take part in a post-screening Q&A.
Babysitter Anna subjects her charges to an escalating series of psychological torments, malicious and often perverse, in this tense and genuinely discomfiting debut feature.
This event took place on Wednesday 21st October 2015.
Our food and cinema pairing in October is Sicario, the latest from director Denis Villeneuve and starring Emily Blunt and Josh Brolin.
Immerse yourself in this incendiary piece of action cinema... Read More
Outsiders who trespass on Native American land while chasing easy money face the consequences in Feed the Devil, as myth becomes terrifying reality.
Leaving behind her devoted Norwegian boyfriend, 30-year-old marine mechanic Alice, played by the excellent Ariane Labed (who also features in October new release The Lobster, see... Read More
Presenting this surprising and rarely-seen documentary in which Spanish filmmaker José Luis Guerín revisits the places in Mayo where, almost 40 years before, John Ford made The Quiet Man (1952), and attempts to find the tracks that the filming had... Read More
This film screened on Thursday 8th October 2015.
José Luis Guerín is one of Europe’s most innovative and influential non-fiction filmmakers. His work boldly intermingles documentary and fiction and pays homage to a wealth of cinematic traditions. In 1989 Guerín... Read More
This film screened on Tuesday 6th October 2015.
IDEOLOGY AND THE CINEMA
Dr. Roddy Flynn will offer a general introduction to cinema and ideology, through a screening of this shocking early feature from Michael Haneke in which two young men... Read More
The history of cult comic 2000AD, home of Judge Dredd, is traced from inception to present in this definitive and engaging documentary.
Producer Sean Hogan and artist Kevin O’Neill will introduce the film and take part in a post-screening Q&A.
Our French choice for this term is a potent coming-of-age story that focuses on a group of black girls living in the tower blocks of Paris. At the centre is Marieme, who has troubles at home, limited job prospects and... Read More
Two young twin boys become increasingly convinced that the woman returning home from hospital, face hidden under surgical bandages, is no longer their mother.
Young Ambassador for UNICEF, Minahil Sarfraz, will introduce this film.
This is an intimate portrait of Malala Yousafzai who was wounded when Taliban gunmen opened fire on her school bus in Pakistan’s Swat Valley. The then 15-year-old teenager, who had... Read More
When Will and his girlfriend attend his ex-wife’s dinner party, they quickly realise the ulterior motives behind her seeming kindness in this tense and unnerving thriller.
The breakdown of a late-night train during a full moon forces the passengers to band together as an unseen presence begins to pick them off.
We are delighted to welcome director Frank Berry and actors Jordanne Jones and Dafhyd Flynn to the screening.
Developed and filmed with a cast of talented local amateurs in west Dublin, this award-winning debut follows Amy and introverted friend Dylan... Read More
IFI HORRORTHON HONOURS CHRISTOPHER LEE:
Lee plays the endangered Sir Henry Baskerville, watched over by Peter Cushing’s Sherlock Holmes in Terence Fisher’s adaptation of the detective’s most famous adventure.
Are you interested in Irish and international film heritage? Are you a film or history student? Then why not join us on the afternoon of Thursday, October 8th in the IFI Tiernan MacBride Library and peruse our books, journals and... Read More
This film was released on Friday 11th September 2015 and is no longer screening.
Returning to the topic of the morality and practicality of murder that has produced films of such varying quality as Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and Cassandra’s... Read More
The bleak Last Girl Standing follows Camryn as she attempts to deal with the guilt of being the sole survivor of a massacre five years previously.
This film opens on September 25th. Tickets are now on sale
Opening with their first encounter at a Nicholas Ray party in 1955, Life portrays the meaningful relationship between James Dean and Dennis Stock, a photographer whose outstanding pictures of... Read More
Australian director Justin Kurzel (Snowtown) brings a boldly cinematic vision to his take on Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of vaulting ambition and ruthless murder; opening with a... Read More
A guest at last year’s festival, Jessica Cameron’s second feature sees a lesbian couple fleeing across America after a brutal murder in their hometown.
This newly released coming-of-age film is an ideal opener to our programme of films for Transition Year students. Greg is convinced that the key to surviving the high school experience is to maintain pleasant relations with all of the various... Read More
Director Margherita (Margherita Buy) is struggling with the making of a political drama about factory workers’ dispute with management, the stress of which is compounded by... Read More
This film was released on Friday 23rd October 2015 and is no longer screening.
From the writer-director duo behind Half Nelson (2006), Mississippi Grind places the fine character actor Ben Mendelsohn (Starred Up, The Place Beyond the Pines) centre stage... Read More
This film screened on Wednesday 14th October 2015.
Arguably the Python team’s crowning achievement, the IFI is delighted to present this 40th anniversary screening of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, following a very successful screening of Life of Brian... Read More
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, directed by Lyndsey Turner and starring Academy Award nominee Benedict Cumberbatch, will be coming to the IFI in this National Theatre Live presentation, a series of enthralling live performances from London’s most prestigious theatres, broadcast onto... Read More
Rob’s new relationship with coworker Holly becomes complicated when Nina, his dead girlfriend, appears every time he and Holly have sex, taunting them.
Featuring 30 men and women, all born before 1916, Older than Ireland is something of a landmark documentary that explores what it means to have lived 100 years, and more, in Ireland. Director Alex Fegan, who recently took the measure... Read More
This film was released on Friday 9th October 2015 and is no longer screening.
IFI DOC
The best documentaries can spark interest in the most unlikely of subjects, and such is the case with Gabe Polsky’s Red Army. By turns... Read More
This film screened on Tuesday 20th October 2015.
POLITICAL ECONOMY
The original Robocop featured a former cop, killed in the line of action, recreated as a cyborg by the ominous OCP Corporation to clean up dystopic Detroit. Interesting now to... Read More
Set over the three month period of Martin Luther King Jr’s campaign to secure voting rights, this Oscar-winning film tells the story of the dangerous protest march from Selma to Montgomery. Violently opposed, the 54-mile peaceful march was witnessed worldwide.... Read More
Short Courses within the Junior Cycle Framework (2015) aim to broaden the learning experiences for students and address their interests. In collaboration with FÍS Film Project and Fresh Film Festival we have devised a Short Course in Film Watching, Making... Read More
The ongoing conflict around drug trafficking on the U.S. border with Mexico – the subject of the recent documentary Cartel Land – is the basis for... Read More
This film screened on Monday 5th October 2015.
In association with the Ernest Shackleton Autumn School, and as part of celebrations marking the centenary of the 1914-1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, the IFI is pleased to present a screening of Frank... Read More
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Modern architecture in Ireland reached a high point in the early ’60s and one of its most celebrated figures was Robin Walker. Robin... Read More
This film was released on Friday 18th September 2015 and is no longer screening.
The first Estonian film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Zaza Urushadze’s Tangerines is set in 1992, during the War... Read More
This film screened on Monday 12th October 2015.
Our monthly programming strand in which a key film is presented within the context of a notional film canon.
Having considered European work to date, our focus now shifts to Japan and... Read More
This film was released on Friday 30th October 2015 and is no longer screening.
Founded in 1966 in Oakland, California by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, as a response to persistent police harassment of the local African-American... Read More
Join our panel, including IFI’s Head of Cinema Programming David O’Mahony, on Tuesday, October 27th for discussion on Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth (opens October 2nd) starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, Gabe Polsky’s... Read More
Join our panel, including IFI’s Head of Cinema Programming David O’Mahony, writer & filmmaker Paul Duane and filmmaker Sinead O’Brien (director of Blood Fruit) on Tuesday, October 27th for discussion on Justin... Read More
Chaired by broadcaster Keelin Shanley
What does the digital environment offer investigative journalists? Are new distribution methods bringing new pressures for documentary makers? How can you balance commercial realities with ethical documentary... Read More
The safety of a couple’s newborn son is put at risk when the denizens of the forest surrounding their home are disturbed in this atmospheric chiller.
In the near future – or perhaps an alternate version of the present – those without a soulmate are despatched to a grand hotel in the... Read More
Panti Bliss – AKA Rory O’Neill – is many things: Ireland’s premiere drag queen, successful businesswoman and, most recently, an accidental activist and campaigner on the... Read More
Following the infiltration of jihadist militias in 2012, all music was banned in Northern Mali. Radio stations were destroyed, instruments burned and professional... Read More
Screening in memory of horror maestro Wes Craven, this double bill highlights two of his lesser celebrated films, each deserving of greater recognition.
In post-apocalyptic 1997, one brave kid stands up to evil overlord Zeus (Michael Ironside) in this riotous and endearing homage to ’80s action movies.
Chaired by Olivia O’Leary.
What is the documentary maker’s responsibility to their subject? When does a personal story become a public story? How does one protect one’s sources
Chaired by Olivia O’Leary,... Read More
Worry Dolls sees a notorious serial killer’s collection of talismans spreading an ancient curse in a peaceful town, causing a series of random and horrific murders.
Told from the perspective of Heathcliff and masterfully shot, award-winning English director, Andrea Arnold’s gritty adaption of the classic novel follows the young Heathcliff and spirited Kathy across mud-soaked North Yorkshire moors. Focusing on the first half of the book... Read More
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI: THROUGH THE OLIVE TREES 18.30
BALTIMORE 20.45
CLOSE YOUR EYES 19.40
IO CAPITANO 15.30
OPPONENT 13.20, 20.20
PERFECT DAYS 15:50
THE DAYS OF TREES 13.10, 18.15
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 13.00, 17.30
THE ZONE OF INTEREST 15:10 15.10
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