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In 1943, Flight Lieutenant Roald Dahl wrote his first book for children, The Gremlins, about the mischievous creatures blamed by air force pilots for mechanical mishaps. Walt Disney attempted to turn it into an animated film, but while he was... Read More
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Join us for this month’s Afternoon Talk, On the Missions, when Edel Robinson, in conversation with IFI Curator, Sunniva O’Flynn, will discuss her research at the IFI Irish Film Archive on films made by Irish missionary societies. She will screen extracts... Read More
A yachtsman is on a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean when his vessel is damaged in a collision with a shipping container. With his navigation equipment and radio wrecked in the accident, he must rely on a sextant and... Read More
Join us for free screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. This month’s programme presents a seasonal selection of Wintry Wonders.
PROGRAMME 1:
AMHARC ÉIREANN: AN NOLLAIG
Christmas... Read More
Christmas stories... Read More
PROGRAMME 2:
IGLOO A THÓGAINT (BUILDING AN... Read More
Set in Donegal and shot in Sligo and Leitrim, this film shines a light on the illicit world of night-time car racing on border roads. 20-year-old Alice and her brother Tom escape the boredom of their claustrophobic small town, racing,... Read More
At 15 years old, Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos) is tentatively embarking on relationships and exploring her sexuality. She meets Emma (Léa Seydoux), an aspiring artist with dyed blue hair, and Adèle’s world is turned upside down. The women embark on an... Read More
Bruce Dern received what is to date his only Academy Award nomination in 1979 for his role as Bob Hyde, a careerist Marine dutifully shipping out to Vietnam, while his wife Sally (Jane Fonda) finds purpose volunteering at a veterans... Read More
Based on Jeremy Larner’s expressionist novel, Jack Nicholson’s first credit as a director is this guerrilla film, a vivid portrait of campus life during an era of student protest.
Hector (William Tepper) is a star player for the college basketball... Read More
This film was released on Friday 21st July 2017 and is no longer screening.
This film was re-released on Friday 15th December 2017 and is no longer screening.
ALL SHOWS WILL BE IN 70mm. All 70mm tickets are priced €14... Read More
A masterly but little-known filmmaker, Bartas first received critical acclaim for Three Days (1991), which won the FIPRESCI Prize for originality of style at Berlin, and The Corridor (1994), an outpour of anguish expressed by a mesmeric the cruel manner... Read More
Celebrated as a children’s author for books such as The Three Robbers and Moon Man (the film adaptation of which also screens this month), Tomi Ungerer’s distinctive animation has also addressed political issues with the protest posters he produced supporting... Read More
At the core of Trading Places is a question of values; the value of wheat, orange juice and pork belly which, Ralph Bellamy explains to Eddie Murphy’s Billy Ray Valentine, is used to make bacon, “which you might find in... Read More
From the Vaults is our monthly screening from the IFI Irish Film Archive.
Leslie Arliss’ acerbic precursor to The Quiet Man presents a similar home-coming scenario with a young man, Michael Kissane (Kieron Moore) returning to a small Irish village (with... Read More
(In Disney Digital 3D™)
From the studio behind 2010’s Tangled and this year’s Wreck-It Ralph, Walt Disney Animation Studios presents Frozen, the coolest comedy-adventure ever to hit the big screen. When a prophecy traps a kingdom in eternal winter, Anna... Read More
This fun and energetic film reconstructs the violent, deeply divided Belfast of the late 1970s and early 1980s through the career of the idealistic Terri Hooley (Richard Dormer), who opened a record shop called Good Vibrations selling rock, folk and... Read More
At the core of this affecting drama are the exploits of Gary Manda (Tahar Rahim, A Prophet), a somewhat shady unskilled labourer desperate for cash, hastily employed at the film’s outset to carry out perilous maintenance work close to the... Read More
Screening to launch the fourth edition of their quarterly publication on the relationship between cinema and its architecture, the IFI is pleased to collaborate once again with the SET Collective to present Billy Wilder’s extraordinary Sunset Boulevard (1950).
An incisive... Read More
Whether it’s snowing outside or not, you and your family will love this heart-warming and brilliantly made documentary about the annual journey of the Emperor Penguins to their traditional breeding ground in Antarctica.
In freezing conditions and relying on only... Read More
Ireland on Sunday is our monthly showcase for new Irish film.
The director Des Kilbane will participate in a post-screening Q&A.
Croi Trodach (A Fighting Heart) is the epic story of Johnny Kilbane (1889 – 1957), poet, politician and the longest... Read More
IFI CLASSIC
Frank Capra’s evergreen classic, one of the most uplifting and inspirational films ever made, is required viewing at this time of year. Famously a critical and commercial disappointment on its release in 1946, the film found a new... Read More
Based on the pursuits of Olympic show jumping champion Pierre Durand, Jr., this rousing equestrian biopic from Quebecois director Christian Duguay focusses on the athlete’s relationship with his obstinate, but nevertheless masterful horse, Jappeloup. Written by and starring Guillaume Canet... Read More
This film opens on November 29th. Tickets are now on sale.
While on summer holiday with her family, beautiful 17-year-old Isabelle loses her virginity, an experience which leaves her cold and disillusioned. She yearns for something more and takes to... Read More
Tickets are on sale now.
Taking time out from performing in an Ibsen play at a provincial theatre, actress Alix travels on an early morning train to Paris for an audition. On board, she notices a doleful, English speaking passenger,... Read More
A freshman at Columbia University, Allen Ginsberg first encounters Lucien Carr when Carr is reciting salacious passages from Henry Miller aloud in the school study library. Ginsberg is immediately fascinated, and drawn into Carr’s libertine... Read More
This film opens on November 29th. Tickets are on sale now.
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The winner of the Michael Powell Award at this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival, Leviathan depicts life on board a battered old fishing trawler which is... Read More
This film was released on Friday 13th October 2017 and is no longer screening.
This film is F-Rated. Find out more here.
The final mysterious days in the life of Vincent van Gogh are the subject of investigation in this... Read More
MR. BANKS SAVED!
Saving Mr. Banks depicts the fraught and dramatic negotiations between author P.L. Travers and Walt Disney in getting Mary Poppins to the screen. The IFI offers the opportunity to revisit the result of Disney’s persistence, a Technicolour... Read More
Taking place over one year in the life of the Smith family as they look forward to the 1904 World’s Fair, Meet Me in St. Louis focuses on daughters Rose (Lucille Bremer), Esther (Judy Garland, who would go on to... Read More
This film opens on Friday, December 27th. Tickets are on sale now.
While their parents have forgotten the man who lives in the moon, the children are comforted saying goodnight to him before they go to sleep. Yet Moon Man... Read More
After Woody Grant (a grizzled, magnificent Bruce Dern) receives junk mail guaranteeing a million dollar prize, he is determined to travel the 850 miles from Billings, Montana to Lincoln, Nebraska – on foot, if necessary... Read More
Chilean military dictator Augustine Pinochet calls for a referendum on his presidency in 1988. Opposition leaders persuade a brash youngadvertising executive, René Saavedra (Gael García Bernal), to spearhead their campaign. With scant resources and constant scrutiny by the despot’s watchmen,... Read More
This stunning film follows Hana, a woman who falls in love with a Wolf Man and gives birth to two half-human, half-wolf children. After the tragic death of her beloved, Hana seeks refuge in a rural town where she attempts... Read More
ONCE MORE WITH FEELING!
John Carney’s simple, lo-fi story about an Irish busker and a Czech immigrant meeting on the streets of Dublin and falling in love while making music together retains the sincerity and charm that marked it out... Read More
Peaches will take part in a Q&A after the screening.
Irreverent counter-culture and electro icon Peaches welcomes you to the cinematic spectacle Peaches Does Herself. The Irish premiere of this sexually-charged, semi-autobiographical rock-opera, consisting of songs from the artist’s delightfully obscene back-catalogue coincides with... Read More
Tickets are now on sale.
Disney studios made Mary Poppins in 1964, and it remains a perennial family favourite, with iconic performances from a cast including Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, and the unforgettable songs of the Sherman Brothers.... Read More
Struggling to find the funds necessary for the completion of a new cathedral, the main hopes of Bishop Henry Brougham (David Niven) rest on wealthy widow Mrs. Hamilton (Gladys Cooper). Prayers for guidance result in the appearance of suave angel... Read More
Heavily referenced by Nicolas Winding Refn for Drive, Walter Hill’s enigmatic crime drama is a visceral, inventive gem. Dern appears as a hard-nosed cop used to getting his man who becomes obsessed with a daring getaway driver for hire (played... Read More
The Enclosure of Time, winner of this year’s Prix Jean Vigo, is the eighth instalment in director Jean-Charles Fitoussi’s series of films in which chance plays a leading role. Here, Théo visits his ill grandfather in Italy. However, when the... Read More
Miss Giddens is appointed to watch over two orphans, Miles and Flora, living in the grand and stately home, Bly House. The governess starts the job with enthusiasm and good intentions, but, after witnessing some unsettling events and hearing about... Read More
Jack Nicholson has delivered the most subtle performances of his career working with Bob Rafelson, and he’s the model of restraint here as depressive radio talk show host David playing against Dern’s motor mouth con artist Jason. They appear as... Read More
Dr. Joseph Cohen will introduce this screening.
This astonishing documentary focusses on a series of interviews Lanzmann conducted in 1975 with Benjamin Murmelstein, a contentious figure appointed by the Nazis as ‘elder of the Jews’ at Thereseinstadt ghetto, and charged... Read More
In an unidentified Middle Eastern country ravaged by war, a woman in her 30s tends to her husband, once a celebrated warrior, now left in a coma after getting a bullet in the neck. She struggles to get him the... Read More
A simple, heartfelt love story about two musicians meeting on the streets of Dublin and falling in love while they write songs together, Once is one of the most celebrated and treasured Irish features of... Read More
The director will attend this screening and take part in a Q&A.
A sci-fi romance which draws on ideas and images reminiscent of Tarkovsky, Almodóvar and Michel Gondry, Buozytė’s sophomore feature is an intense, erotically charged twist on the star-crossed... Read More
Accomplished director Gytis Lukšas’ most recent film is a convincing chronicle of the protracted and traumatic Soviet period of Lithuanian history. Shot in spartan monochrome, the story follows Juzik Giedrius Kiela), whose blissful early life in the countryside is ravaged... Read More
Bob (Bing Crosby) and Phil (Danny Kaye) meet during the Second World War, where the latter persuades the former, a Broadway performer, that they should become an entertainment duo. Following the War, the two become a huge hit, eventually becoming... Read More
Wild Strawberries is our bi-monthly film club for over 55s.
Cast off the pre- or post-festive blues with this little piece of cinematic sunshine from Scotland. Based on the smash hit stage play, it’s a kind of Scottish Mamma Mia, using... Read More
ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH 16:00, 20:55
BALTIMORE 18:30
IO CAPITANO 13:20
JEANNE DU BARRY 13:10, 18:10
PERFECT DAYS 13:30
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 15:40, 20:45
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN Q&A (PREVIEW) 18.30
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 20:40
THE ZONE OF INTEREST 16:10
The IFI is supported by The Arts Council
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