Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 27/04/2016

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: PROG 1 (APRIL 2016 – FREE EVENT)

    MORE DUBLIN IN
THE RARE OUL’ TIMES Join us for free screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. PROGRAMME 1 CLERY’S ADVERTISEMENT An advert enticing shoppers and diners to Clery’s, Dublin’s late lamented department store.
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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.10

  • DHEEPAN

    This film was released 8th April 2016, and is no longer screening.

    When a Tamil Tiger finds himself in a refugee camp in the closing days of the Sri Lankan Civil War, the only way he can make a new... Read More

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    Times: 13.30

  • FUTURES PAST: THX 1138

    This film screened 27th April 2016.

    In the 25th century sex and emotion are outlawed; the drug-controlled populace toil anonymously for an all-powerful and unseen leader. THX 1138 (Robert Duvall) is one such drone in a factory which makes the... Read More

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    Times: 18.30

  • LOUDER THAN BOMBS

    This film was released 22nd April 2016, and is no longer screening.

    Three years have passed since the death of acclaimed war photographer Isabelle Reed (Isabelle Huppert) – her family, especially husband Gene (Gabriel Byrne), struggles to cope in her... Read More

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    Times: 16.00, 20.45

  • MAPPLETHORPE: LOOK AT THE PICTURES

    This film was released 22nd April 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★ Entertainment.ie

    Robert Mapplethorpe died of AIDS in 1989; his life and work, which juxtaposed beautiful still life images and striking celebrity portraits with wilfully confrontational material, are... Read More

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    Times: 14.00, 18.30

  • MILES AHEAD

    This film was released 22nd April 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★ The Times

    By the late ‘70s Miles Davis (Don Cheadle) had become a borderline recluse, holed up in his New York apartment in a fug of drugs,... Read More

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    Times: 13.40, 18.20, 20.30

  • OUR LITTLE SISTER

    This film was released 15th April 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★★ RTÉ.ie

    After learning of the death of their long-estranged father, grown-up sisters Sachi (Haruka Ayase), Yoshino (Masami Nagasawa) and Chika (Kaho) travel to attend his funeral where,... Read More

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    Times: 20.20

  • SING STREET

    ★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★★ Movies.ie ★★★★ RTÉ TEN

    Audio Description (AD) will be available on all screenings.

    With money tight in a boozy, middle-class 1980s Dublin household, youngest son Conor (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) is forced to transfer from his private school to... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.15

  • THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT

    This film was released 15th April 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★1/2 Movies.ie ★★★★ The Irish Times

    EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI

    God (Benoît Poelvoorde) lives in an apartment in Brussels; a mean-spirited curmudgeon in mangy pyjamas, he wreaks petty torments and... Read More

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    Times: 15.50

  • WILD STRAWBERRIES – TESTAMENT
 OF YOUTH

    This film was released 27th & 29th April 2016, and is no longer screening.

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

    Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander brings real emotional depth to this portrait of writer, pacifist and feminist... Read More

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    Times: 11.00


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