WHAT'S ON - 13/07/2025

• 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

  

• 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

  

• 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

  

• 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

  

• 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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• 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

  

• 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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• 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

  

• 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

  

• 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