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This film screened 11th July 2016.
FEAST YOUR EYES
In the New York of Allen and Baumbach, Maggie (Greta Gerwig) proposes to have a baby alone, aided by a jovial nincompoop. After meeting aspiring novelist John (Ethan Hawke), who is... Read More
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MESSING ABOUT IN BOATS
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PROGRAMME 1: AMHARC ÉIREANN – COMPILATION
Canoeing and other watersports around the country. FILM... Read More
Canoeing and other watersports around the country. FILM INFO: 6 mins,... Read More
PROGRAMME 2: AMHARC ÉIREANN – SAOIRE AR SIONAINN
A short cruise for senior citizens on... Read More
This film was released 29th July 2016, and is no longer screening.
Novelist JT LeRoy burst onto the literary scene in the mid-1990s, a bracingly honest new voice whose lurid tales of street hustlers and child abuse were drawn from... Read More
This film screened 23rd July 2016.
The unearthing of an object with malign influence is a recurring trope in folk horror cinema (see Quatermass and the Pit); in this instance it is a hideous skull, found in the furrows of a... Read More
This film screened 10th July 2016.
Hailed as a revelatory masterpiece after its premiere at Cannes in 1975, Jeanne Dielman is a rigorous, un inching portrayal of a Belgian widow and mother to a worrisome, bookish teenage son. Using extended static... Read More
This film screened 9th July 2016.
In 1971, Akerman left Brussels for New York where she drifted about and took on a slew of low-paid jobs for about a year. A deeply formative period, it was there that she met... Read More
This film was released 22nd July 2016, and is no longer screening.
★★★★ – The Upcoming
A group of fishermen find their competitive natures amplified to absurd degrees in Athina Rachel Sangari’s Chevalier, the latest entry in the Greek New Wave, a movement which... Read More
This film was released 10th June 2016, and is no longer screening.
★★★★★ – The Guardian
The year is 1909; gravely ill German scientist Theodore Koch-Grunberg ventures deep into the Amazon in search of the sacred yakruna plant he believes... Read More
This film was released 26th July 2016, and is no longer screening.
Zooming in on the state of Oklahoma, recently voted the manliest state in the USA, Wardrop finds his subjects with the help of popular radio talk show host... Read More
This compendium of short films invites us into the quirkily observed world of director Ken Wardrop and producer Andrew Freedman. Their early work as classmates at the National Film School in Dun Laoghaire reveals the roots of the documentary sensibility... Read More
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This film screened 26th July 2016.
We are delighted that Michael Hill, assistant curator at The Douglas Hyde Gallery, will introduce this screening
Partly adapted from a 1947 Paul Bowles short story called A Distant Episode and shot on a 16mm... Read More
This film screened 24th July 2016.
Beautiful, award-winning animation from Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon, the makers of The Secret of Kells. After their mother’s disappearance, Ben and Saoirse are sent to live with their Granny in the city. When they resolve... Read More
This film screened 19th July 2016.
Join us for our focus on new Irish film and filmmakers.
Born and Reared explores contemporary Northern Ireland through the lives of four men living in the aftermath of violent conflict. In Northern... Read More
This film was released 27th May 2016, and is no longer screening.
★★★★★ The Independent
★★★★★ The Guardian
★★★★ The Irish Times
An adaptation of Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, a posthumously published early epistolary novella, Love & Friendship sees Whit... Read More
This film was released 8th July 2016, and is no longer screening.
★★★★★ RTÉ.ie
In the New York of Allen and Baumbach, Maggie (Greta Gerwig) proposes to have a baby alone, aided by a jovial nincompoop. After meeting aspiring novelist... Read More
This film screened 12th & 14th July 2016.
These are Open Captioned (OC) screenings that, whilst open to all, feature special captions for those with hearing impairments. Audio Description (AD) is available on all Maggie’s Plan screenings. Visit www.ifi.ie/accessible for more information. For other screenings... Read More
This film was released 15th July 2016, and is no longer screening.
★★★★★ Entertainment.ie
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When oddball brothers Gabriel (David Dencik) and Elias (Mads Mikkelsen) reunite to lay their father to rest, they are met with a... Read More
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In this keenly anticipated second feature documentary, Ken Wardrop explores a series of mother/ son relationships to reveal the universality... Read More
This film screened 27th July 2016.
Dr. John Holden (Dana Andrews) arrives in England to discredit occult leader Julian Karswell (Niall MacGinnis); but when Holden discovers he has been secretly slipped a parchment inscribed with an ancient curse he begins to... Read More
This film was released 1st July 2016, and is no longer screening.
★★★★ – The Irish Times
★★★★★ – The Upcoming
★★★★ – The Guardian
The final film Chantal Akerman made before her death last year, No Home Movie... Read More
★★★★★ RTÉ.ie ★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★ The Guardian
In 1983, at the age of 45, writer and academic John Hull went totally blind. Initial years of sightlessness... Read More
This film screened 4th & 7th July 2016.
These are Open Captioned (OC) screenings that, whilst accessible to all, feature open captions for the hearing impaired. Audio Description (AD) is available on all Notes on Blindness screenings. Visit www.ifi.ie/accessible for more information. For other... Read More
This film screened 17th July 2016.
A craft of possibly alien origin is unearthed during works to extend the London Underground at Hobbs End; Professor Bernard Quatermass (Andrew Keir), expert in the uncanny, is called upon to investigate and discovers... Read More
★★★★★ – The Irish Times
★★★★ – Entertainment.ie
In his follow-up to Listen Up Philip (2014), director Alex Ross Perry’s psychological drama evokes the spirit of Bergman and... Read More
Delphine (Izïa Higelin) works on the family farm in a conservative rural community in early-1970s’ France. She keeps her sexuality hidden, brushing off both her parents’ encouragement to... Read More
This film was released 17th June 2016, and is no longer screening.
An anthology of fables drawn from a 17th century book of Neapolitan folk tales compiled by the poet Giambattista Basile, Matteo Garrone’s Tale of Tales... Read More
This film screened 18th July 2016.
Our monthly strand in which a key film is presented in the context of a notional film canon.
This month’s selection will be presented by former film critic turned award-winning-novelist, Paul Lynch.
In 2012,... Read More
This film screened 30th July 2016.
An opening preamble tells us that the footage we are about to watch was recovered from the recording equipment of three students who went missing in Burkittsville, Maryland in 1994 while shooting a documentary based... Read More
Copenhagen in the ‘70s; TV newsreader Anna (Trine Dyrholm) is married to university lecturer Erik (Ulrich Thomsen), who has just inherited his late father’s gigantic house.
In an... Read More
England in the 1920s; Duc de Richleau (Christopher Lee) wrestles with the charming but deadly Satanist Mocata (Charles Grey) for the soul of his friend Simon Aron (Patrick Mower) who has been seduced by... Read More
This film screened 31st July 2016.
This month’s Hangover Lounge feature has been selected to mark the 90th anniversary of the birth of the Czech director Karel Reisz, one of the key figures of the Free Cinema movement and the British... Read More
★★★★ Irish Independent ★★★★ The Irish Times
The emptiness of the fashion world is viciously satirised in Nicolas Winding Refn’s visually striking, unclassifiable The... Read More
This film screened 16th July 2016.
When a girl goes missing on the remote Hebridean island of Summerisle, Sgt. Howie is dispatched from the mainland to assist in the search; a devout Catholic, Howie is appalled at the island community’s archaic... Read More
This film screened 20th July 2016.
A pubescent girl explores her burgeoning sexuality with a number of taboo figures: father, priest, brother, other women, and a menagerie of nightmarish vampire creatures. Eroticism and dread combine in the heady fever-dream that... Read More
In his wryly titled new film, his first since 2009’s Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore is in unusually mellow form, though as impassioned as ever, as he... Read More
This film screened 27th & 29th July 2016.
Wild Strawberries is our bi-monthly film club for over 55s.
The publishing sensation of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman in 2015 brought the American writer of To Kill a Mockingbird... Read More
Based on US writer Cheryl Strayed’s memoir, this beautiful looking film follows Reese Witherspoon in the title role as the woman who embarks on a solo, three-month, 1,100-mile trek across... Read More
The year is 1645; as the English Civil War rages on, Matthew Hopkins (Vincent Price), appointed Witchfinder by the puritans under Cromwell, scours the land for witchcraft and sorcery, meting out brutal punishments to... Read More
ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH 13:00, 15:50
DUNE: PART TWO (70MM) 19.00
KIDNAPPED 16:00, 20:20
PERFECT DAYS 13:15
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 13:30, 18:30, 20:50
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 18:10
WILD STRAWBERRIES: THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 11.00
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