Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 09/08/2016

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME PROG 2 (AUG 2016)

    POSTCARDS FROM THE PAST

    Join us for free screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect tickets at IFI Box Office.

    PROGRAMME 2:

    THE IRISH RIVIERA

    Another early film by Irish Tourist Association which enticed... Read More

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    Times: 13.10

  • BOBBY SANDS: 66 Days

    ★★★★★ – RTE.ie

    In the spring of 1981 Bobby Sands, a Republican prisoner in Belfast’s H-Block, began a sixty-six day hunger strike which drew the attention of the world to his campaign for recognition as a political prisoner. This focus... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.00 | 16.15 | 18.30 | 20.45

  • SID AND NANCY

    This film was released 5th August 2016, and is no longer screening.

    In October 1978, former bassist for
the Sex Pistols and infamous poster child of punk, Sid Vicious, was arrested in a squalid Chelsea Hotel room and later charged with... Read More

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    Times: 15.55

  • SWEET BEAN

    This film was released 5th August 2016, and is no longer screening.

    Middle-aged Sentarô (Masatoshi Nagase, Mystery Train), dour and taciturn, runs a small restaurant that specialises in dorayaki, a Japanese confection consisting of two pancakes surrounding a filling of... Read More

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    Times: 13.30 | 20.30

  • THE BIGGER PICTURE: BLAZING SADDLES

    This film screened 9th August 2016.

    Our monthly programme strand in which a key film is presented in the context of a notional film canon.

    This month’s Bigger Picture will be presented by comedian, actor and writer, Tara Flynn.

    What... Read More

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    Times: 18.30

  • THE COMMUNE

    This film was released 29th July 2016, and is no longer screening.

    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

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    Times: 16.10

  • THE NEON DEMON

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

    ★★★★ Irish Independent ★★★★ The Irish Times

    Tickets are on sale now.

    The emptiness of the fashion world is viciously satirised in Nicolas Winding Refn’s visually striking, unclassifiable The... Read More

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    Times: 20.45


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