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Set against the backdrop of the 2007 US housing market crash, a desperate construction worker Dennis Nash reluctantly accepts a job with the ruthless real-estate broker Rick Carver who had previously evicted him and his family from their home. As... Read More
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This film was released 13th April 2016, and is no longer screening.
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Mountain Fire Personnel, Alex Tyson, 29 mins, USA, 2015, DCP; Pen Up The Pigs, Kelly Gallagher, 12 mins, USA, 2014, DCP; Africa, Shinkan Tamaki, 11 mins,... Read More
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DOUBLE BILL: PROG 1 & 2 CLERY’S ADVERTISEMENT An advert enticing shoppers and diners to Clery’s, Dublin’s late lamented department... Read More
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. FILM INFO: 3 mins, 1930s,... Read More
PROGRAMME 2: SAFE CYCLING Liam O’Laoghaire’s humorous public information film urges caution while cycling. FILM INFO: 10 mins, 1949, Black and... Read More
This film was released 29th April 2016, and is no longer screening.
★★★★ The Irish Times
★★★★ Entertainment.ie
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We’re delighted to welcome director Risteard O Domhnaill who will be joined by Arranmore and Rossaveal fishermen and the... Read More
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
This film was released 19th April 2016, and is no longer screening.
Our monthly Feast Your Eyes event when we screen Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan followed by a specially devised main course in the IFI Café Bar. (Click here for the main... Read More
This film was released 9th April 2016, and is no longer screening.
Reuniting Bottlenote with the treasures of the IFI Irish Film Archive, Sound of Silents presents a new programme of silent films, dating from 1897 to 1970, accompanied by... Read More
This film screened 6th April 2016.
A reporter for The Daily Express gets the scoop of a lifetime when he uncovers that the Soviet Union and the US have detonated simultaneous nuclear bomb tests, the impact of which alters the... Read More
This film screened 23rd April 2016.
Jan Benes, a brilliant scientist working in communist Russia, has discovered the technology to miniaturise objects, albeit briefly.
The CIA attempt to smuggle him across the Iron Curtain but an attack en route leaves... Read More
This film screened 17th April 2016.
In the not-too-distant future, success and failure are determined at birth; the bio-engineered occupy the highest societal rungs, while the naturally born are destined to a life of menial labour.
Vincent (Ethan Hawke) was... Read More
This film screened 13th April 2016.
The year is 2001; all plant life on earth has become extinct. The last remaining specimens have been gathered in giant geodesic domes on space freighters, in orbit around Saturn until the time comes to... Read More
This film screened 16th April 2016.
The year is 2022 and society is on the brink of collapse; runaway population growth has outstripped food resources, the oceans are dying and the greenhouse effect is raising temperatures across the globe.
The... Read More
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
Bande de filles
We continue our tour of this insightful coming-of-age story about 16-year-old Marieme who lives in the banlieues of Paris. With troubles at home, limited job prospects and intimidation by the boys in her neighbourhood, she is drawn... Read More
This film was released 26th April 2016, and is no longer screening.
Iconic American environmental pioneer Aldo Leopold believed the most challenging task for human inhabitants of the earth was “to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.”
In... Read More
This film was released 18th March 2016, and is no longer screening.
★★★★★ The Independent
Audio Description (AD) will be available on all screenings.
Moving into an imposing brutalist skyscraper on the edge of an unnamed English metropolis, suave... Read More
The dystopian franchise The Hunger Games (based on the equally popular novels by Suzanne Collins) has been a phenomenon for teen audiences. Featuring Jennifer Lawrence in the leading role as the reluctant hero Katniss Everdeen, the trilogy has provided an... Read More
This film screened 24th April 2016.
Throughout April at the IFI we are looking at films that have imagined a future, in conjunction with Science Gallery Dublin, and for IFI Family what could be more apt than the Pixar vision... Read More
The IFI presents a range of opportunities for consuming and engaging with Irish film throughout the year. IFI Spotlight is our annual event where we dedicate a day to focusing on Irish film and television – reviewing the past year... Read More
This film was released 20th April 2016, and is no longer screening.
Part documentary, part reverie, I Am Belfast is Mark Cousins’ film exploration of the city he calls home.
Incorporating contemporary dream-like sequences, archival film and a haunting score by... Read More
This fun and endearing film looks at teenage life through the eyes of witty, sophisticated protagonist Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) who, after sleeping with her goofy friend Bleeker, finds herself pregnant. Juno’s subsequent choices lead to a roller-coaster relationship with... Read More
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
This film was released 1st April 2016, and is no longer screening.
Margaret (Rachel Griffiths) lives a determinedly quiet life in a nondescript corner of Dublin; middle-aged and divorced, she owns a second-hand store, with little social life save for... Read More
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
★★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★ The Guardian
Wealthy socialite Marguerite Dumont (Catherine Frot) lives for music; an amateur soprano, she loves nothing more than to... Read More
★★★★ 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
In this fresh coming-of-age drama, super-smart but socially awkward Emily (Evanna Lynch) is concerned when she doesn’t receive a birthday card from her loving but absent father. When... Read More
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
This film screened 2nd March & 14th April 2016.
El laberinto del fauno
One of the most popular Spanish language films of recent years, this acclaimed combination of history and fantasy tells of Ofelia, a young girl living in... Read More
Left to look after himself by his widowed father in their run-down shack in Woop Woop, Western Australia, 11-year-old Dylan discovers the art of folding paper planes. Motivated by his friends and a passion for flight that is shared by... Read More
★★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★★ The Guardian
Kurosawa made 12 films between 1950 and 1965, including the masterpieces Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952) and The Seven Samurai (1954), but in the subsequent... Read More
The directors of our previous hit French title, The Intouchables, offer a fairly light take on migrant struggles in present-day France. Samba (Omar Sy) is from Senegal and has lived in France for ten years. When he is suddenly ordered... Read More
Arguably the most important playwright in the English language, Shakespeare lives today through his continued influence on culture, language and education. Anytime you ‘wear your heart on your sleeve’, or you use any of the numerous, quotable Shakespearean phrases, you... Read More
★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★★ Movies.ie ★★★★ RTÉ TEN
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
★★★★★ The Irish Times
★★★★★ The Guardian
★★★★★ Irish Independent
Set in Auschwitz in 1944 and depicting a day in the life of a Jewish-Hungarian member of the... Read More
What drives an entrepreneur? Is ruthlessness a necessary ingredient of being a top CEO? With a fast-paced script by Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) and directed by Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire), this gripping drama centres on three formative products in Jobs’... Read More
This highly innovative, multi-award winning film is a welcome addition to the Leaving Certificate English Comparative choice. When silent film actor Valentin finds himself becoming increasingly out-of-date with the arrival of sound, his co-star and one-time fan Peppy becomes a... Read More
This month’s Bigger Picture presentation, which argues for a film’s place within the canon, chimes with IFI’s Futures Past season throughout April, exploring how cinema of the past has imagined our future.
The screening will be introduced by Lynn Scarff,... Read More
★★★★1/2 Movies.ie ★★★★ The Irish Times
God (Benoît Poelvoorde) lives in an apartment in Brussels; a mean-spirited curmudgeon in mangy pyjamas, he wreaks petty torments and... Read More
Our monthly indulgent Sunday afternoon of brunch and a classic film.
This month’s Hangover Lounge complements the overall theme in April of how film of the past has imagined our future, and indeed... Read More
The award-winning documentary about Rory O’Neill, Ireland’s best-known drag queen Panti Bliss, who became a force for equality around which the Yes campaign of 2015 revolved. The film traces the journey of this witty, warm and highly articulate performer through... Read More
Kaze tachinu
Hayao Miyazaki’s (Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle) latest collaboration with Studio Gibhli is a soaringly beautiful account of Jiro Horikoshi, a talented and innovative airplane designer working for the Empire of Japan during WWII. Depicting key historical events... Read More
★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★★The Independent
Victoria (Laia Costa), a young Spanish woman recently moved to Berlin, meets Sonne (Frederick Lau) and his friends clubbing one night. After... Read More
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
This film screened 30th March & 1st April 2016.
Wes Anderson’s award-winning film recounts the adventures of M. Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes) the owner of the Grand Budapest Hotel, and... 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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