WHAT'S ON - 13/07/2025

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  ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: AGAINST THE ODDS (PROGRAMME ONE)

  Join us for FREE lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets online (with a small booking fee) or at IFI Box Office.

  PROGRAMME ONE

  TOP OF THE MORNING This tourist-style film promoted sale... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 11:40

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  ARMAND

  Elisabeth (Renate Reinsve, in perhaps her finest performance yet) has been summoned to an emergency meeting after her 6-year-old son Armand is accused of inappropriate behaviour toward a classmate; at the school she is subjected to an intense and troubling... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 13:30, 18:10

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  AUSTRALIAN DREAMS: MAD MAX

  The first entry in what would become a globally successful franchise famed for its astonishing action set-pieces is a more downbeat and less spectacular film than the explosive sequels that were to follow. In his breakthrough, and arguably most iconic... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 16.00

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  BEAT THE LOTTO

  When downtrodden 1980s Ireland inaugurated a National Lottery the people began to dream. For Cork-based mathematician Stefan Klincewicz, it was an obsession. Spotting a flaw in the system, he recruited a ragtag team of chancers, and masterminded an audacious... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 20:45

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  EAFFI DISCOVERIES: BLUE SUN PALACE + Q&A

  Shot in beautiful 35mm film, Chinese American writer-director Constance Tsang’s luminous debut feature is a delicate, atmospheric melodrama set in Flushing, Queens NYC. Amy (Ke-Xi Wu) and Didi (Haipeng Xu), two Chinese migrants, work in a small parlour salon. Uprooted... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 15.15

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  FROM HILDE, WITH LOVE

  (IN LIEBE, EURE HILDE)

  Berlin, 1942: Hilde (Liv Lisa Fries), a young medical assistant, has fallen in love and married Hans Coppi (Johannes Hegemann). But amid the passion there is grave danger; Hans becomes involved in the Red Orchestra, a... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 12:30

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  HOT MILK

  Sofia (Emma Mackey) has acted as caregiver to her wheelchair-bound mother Rose (Fiona Shaw) for most of her life; the cause of Rose’s chronic pain is unknown, and they have come to a private clinic in Spain, presided over by... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 20:40

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  NINE QUEENS 25TH ANNIVERSARY

  (NUEVE REINAS)

  Production of Fabián Bielinsky’s debut feature, receiving a welcome rerelease in a 4K digital restoration, came to life when his screenplay won a contest organised by a company who had previously passed on it – a suitably convoluted... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 18:15

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  PAVEMENTS + RECORDED Q&A

  Director Alex Ross Perry’s work has increasingly centred on music, from his superb feature Her Smell (2018) to hybrid concert film Ghost: Rite Here Rite Now (2024) and music videos for the likes of Kim Gordon. Pavements is a unique mix of all of the... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 17.05

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  THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND

  Eccentric millionaire Charles (Tim Key) dreams of reuniting his favourite folk-rock duo, McGwyer and Mortimer, so he invites the estranged bandmates and former lovers, Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) and Nell Mortimer (Carey Mulligan), unbeknownst to each other, to perform a... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 11:20

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  THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME

  Wes Anderson returns to his regular theme of the relationship dynamics between flawed fathers (or father figures) and their offspring in The Phoenician Scheme. Zsa-zsa Korda (Benicio Del Toro), arms dealer and one of Europe’s richest men, finds his life... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 12:10

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  THE SHROUDS

  The Shrouds, a typically remote, intellectually rich affair, where provocative ideas are presented sincerely, is notable for being David Cronenberg’s saddest film; steeped in grief, the loss of the director’s wife in 2017 is present throughout this singular work. Vincent... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 14:30