IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2016

The 2016 IFI French Festival ran from November 16th to 27th. Guests attending the festival included directors Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern, actor Corentin Fila, writer-directors Dominik Moll and Gilles Marchand, and director Muriel Coulin.

IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2016: IN BED WITH VICTORIA

*Tickets for the French Film Festival opening night screening have sold out*. Tickets are still available for the Thursday 24th November screening. Criminal lawyer Victoria Spick (Virginie Efira) tries to…

Wednesday 16th Nov 2016 20.00 (Sold Out) Thursday 24th Nov 2016 18.10

IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2016: THE STOPOVER

Director Muriel Coulin will partake in a post-screening Q&A on Nov 17th. Book tickets to this screening here. Aurore (Ariane Labed) and Marine (singer-actress Soko), childhood friends and now military…

Thursday 17th Nov 2016 20.30 Saturday 19th Nov 2016 13.30 Saturday 26th Nov 2016 15.20

IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2016: THE INNOCENTS

Poland, 1945: a community of Benedictine nuns is the target for systematic abuse at the hands of the occupying Russian forces in this assured period piece by Anne Fontaine (Coco…

Thursday 17th Nov 2016 18.10

IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2016: MERCENARY

In Sacha Wolff’s gritty debut, Soane, a nineteen-year-old Pacific Islander (a powerfully convincing Toki Pilioko) grabs an opportunity to leave his idyllic yet abusive home environment in New Caledonia for…

Friday 18th Nov 2016 20.30 Friday 25th Nov 2016 16.00

IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2016: SAINT AMOUR

Directors Benoît Delépine & Gustave Kerverne will partake in a post-screening Q&A on November 22nd. Widowed cattle farmer Jean (Gérard Depardieu) and his wine-soaked son Bruno (Benoît Poelvoorde) – who…

Friday 18th Nov 2016 18.20 Tuesday 22nd Nov 2016 20.30 Thursday 24th Nov 2016 16.00

IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2016: THE SON OF JOSEPH

Parisian teenager Vincent’s (Victor Ezenfis) quest to track down his absentee father – a pompous literary publisher played by Mathieu Amalric – is the backbone to Eugène Green’s (The Portuguese…

Friday 18th Nov 2016 16.00 Monday 21st Nov 2016 18.10

IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2016: A MAN AND A WOMAN

Dr. Douglas Smith, Senior Lecturer, School of Languages and Literature, UCD, will introduce this screening. He (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a racing driver, she (Anouk Aimée) works in film. Both widowed…

Saturday 19th Nov 2016 13.40

IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2016: FRANTZ

A haunting elegy set in the aftermath of WWI, Frantz is another successful change of pace for the prolific François Ozon. Mourning the death of her fiancé Frantz, Anna (Paula…

Saturday 19th Nov 2016 15.40 Saturday 26th Nov 2016 17.30

IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2016: BEING 17

Actor Corentin Fila will partake in a post-screening Q&A on November 23rd Teenagers Damian (Kacey Mottet Klein) and Thomas (Corentin Fila) share a simmering enmity that frequently erupts into violent…

Saturday 19th Nov 2016 18.00 Wednesday 23rd Nov 2016 18.00

IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2016: IT’S ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD

*Tickets for the November 19th screening have sold out*. Tickets are still available for the screening on Tuesday November 22nd. Louis (Gaspard Ulliel), a terminally ill writer, returns home to…

Saturday 19th Nov 2016 20.30 Tuesday 22nd Nov 2016 18.20

IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2016: TOMORROW

There will be a post-screening discussion with Peadar Kirby, academic, writer and a director of Cloughjordan Ecovillage; Kate Ruddock, Friends of the Earth; Mindy O Brien, Voice Ireland and Graham…

Sunday 20th Nov 2016 13.00

IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2016: TOUR DE FRANCE

Hip-hop artist Far’hook (rapper Sadek in his first film role) has insulted a rival rapper and is a target for retaliation; with the biggest concert of his career on the…

Sunday 20th Nov 2016 15.20 Monday 21st Nov 2016 20.30 Sunday 27th Nov 2016 15.30

IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2016: CORNICHE KENNEDY

Actress Lola Créton and director Dominique Cabrera will partake in a post-screening Q&A. It’s summer in picturesque Corniche Kennedy, a well-off neighbourhood in Marseille, where a group of disaffected late…

Sunday 20th Nov 2016 17.20

IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2016: CEZANNE AND I

The turbulent, life-long friendship between painter Paul Cézanne (Guillaume Gallienne, Me, Myself and Mum) and writer Émile Zola (Guillaume Canet, Tell No One) is brought to the screen in Danièle…

Sunday 20th Nov 2016 20:00

IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2016: SLACK BAY

A rogue’s gallery of grotesques populate the titular stretch of coastline in director Bruno Dumont’s hilarious follow-up to P’tit Quinquin, which screened at the 2014 IFI French Film Festival. Bourgeois…

Wednesday 23rd Nov 2016 20.30

IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2016: HARRY HE’S HERE TO HELP

Director Dominik Moll and writer Gilles Marchand will introduce this screening. Middle class couple Michel (Laurent Lucas) and Claire (Mathilde Seigner) are en route to their dilapidated holiday home with…

Thursday 24th Nov 2016 18.00

IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2016: NEWS FROM PLANET MARS

Director Dominik Moll and writer Gilles Marchand will partake in a post-screening Q&A. A respectable, middle-aged divorcé dad, Philippe Mars (François Damiens) wants to please everyone. Outwardly, his life appears…

Thursday 24th Nov 2016 20.10

IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2016: THE UNKNOWN GIRL

A young doctor’s guilt compels her to action in the Dardenne brothers’ (Two Days, One Night) latest humanist drama, filmed in their signature social realist style. The day after she…

Friday 25th Nov 2016 18.15

IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2016: INTO THE FOREST

Director Gilles Marchand and writer Dominik Moll will partake in a post-screening Q&A. Young brothers Tom and Benjamin travel to Sweden to spend their vacation with their estranged father (Jérémie…

Friday 25th Nov 2016 20.30

IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2016: A JOURNEY THROUGH FRENCH CINEMA

A revered filmmaker and life-long fan of cinema, Tavernier addresses the camera directly to speak about the films he loves, characterising cinema as ‘a collective art’. Directors, screenwriters, actors and…

Saturday 26th Nov 2016 13:00

IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2016: MISS IMPOSSIBLE

Winner of this year’s European Young Audience Award, this fresh coming-of-age drama centres on thirteen-year-old Aurore, trying to find her way between a beautiful older sister and a brainy younger…

Saturday 26th Nov 2016 13:20

IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2016: JOURNEY TO GREENLAND

Director Sébastien Betbeder will partake in a post-screening Q&A. Thomas (Thomas Blanchard) and Thomas (Thomas Scimeca), two less-than-successful actors, leave Paris on a whim for the frozen wilderness of Greenland…

Saturday 26th Nov 2016 20:00

IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2016: CASQUE D’OR

Set in the criminal underworld of Belle Époque Paris, Jacques Becker’s glorious tragic melodrama, one of the great French films of the 1950s is ready to be rediscovered. Marie (Simone…

Sunday 27th Nov 2016 13:30

IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2016: MARIE AND THE MISFITS

Director Sébastien Betbeder will introduce this screening. The alluring young Marie (Vimala Pons) breaks up with Antoine (Eric Cantona), a writer lacking in inspiration, preferring to let fate decide her…

Sunday 27th Nov 2016 14.00

IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2016: THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV

August 1715, Louis XIV suffers an embolism kick-starting gangrene and resulting in confinement to his Versailles bedroom until his demise that September. Preparing for death and in constant pain, the…

Sunday 27th Nov 2016 17.30

IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2016: 21 NIGHTS WITH PATTIE

The Larrieu brothers’ new comedy is a delightfully witty game where death and desire are intertwined. Caroline (Isabelle Carré), an uptight Parisian in her 40s, arrives in an idyllic mountain…

Sunday 27th Nov 2016 19:50