Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 16/01/2013

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: PROGRAMME 1 (JAN 2013)

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

    We kick off 2013 with a powerful programme exploring alternative perspectives on family values.  

    PROGRAMME 1: THE FAMILY                ... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.10

  • CHILDREN OF MEN

    Alfonso Cuarón’s depiction of London in 2027 is loosely based on P.D. James’ 1992 novel of the same name. In a society broken down as a result of mass infertility, the authorities have to deal with thousands of displaced people.... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 10.30

  • CHINATOWN

    IFI CLASSIC (EXCLUSIVE)

    While water features prominently in a number of Polanski films, particularly Knife in the Water (1962), Repulsion (1965) and Cul-de-sac (1966), nowhere is it more significant than in the deservedly acclaimed Chinatown.

    Set in 1937 and following... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.10|18.10

  • JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI

    Little wonder that world-renowned 85-year-old chef Jiro Ono dreams of sushi, when the proprietor of the triple-Michelin-starred Sukiyabashi Jiro restaurant has been working 15 hour days, 6 days a week, preparing and assembling the delicacy for over half a century.

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.10|17.00|21.00

  • LIFEBOAT + AVENTURE MALGACHE

    Having established himself in Hollywood, Hitchcock relished the enhanced resources the place offered for cinematic experiment. Here, he sets a full-length drama entirely within the confines of a lifeboat adrift in the Atlantic, victim of Nazi naval power. The film... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.40

  • MAN ON THE TRAIN

    EXCLUSIVELY AT THE IFI

    Larry Mullen Jr., Kate O’Toole and Director Mary McGuckian will participate in a post-screening Q&A hosted by writer and broadcaster John Kelly after the 6.30pm screening on January 11th.

    Irish director Mary McGuckian (This is the... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.00|18.10

  • MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN

    EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI 

    From Deepa Mehta, director of the ‘Elements Trilogy’ (Fire (1996), Earth (1998), and Water (2005)) comes this adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s much-loved 1980 masterpiece of post-colonial literature and magical realism, and winner of the ‘Booker of Bookers’... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20.20

  • REPULSION

    IFI CLASSIC

    The first in Polanski’s ‘Apartment Trilogy’, preceding Rosemary’s Baby (1968) and The Tenant (1976), Repulsion is a profoundly sensory portrait of withdrawal, alienation and psychosis. An alluring 22-year-old Catherine Deneuve plays Carol Ledoux, a mostly silent and abstruse... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.00|15.00

  • THE IMPOSSIBLE

    Exactly what happened to one Spanish family during the tsunami which hit the Thai coastline on St. Stephen’s Day, 2004 is brought to the screen with staggering intensity in this extraordinary celluloid achievement. Director J.A. Bayona showed promise with his previous... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15.40|20.40


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