Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 13/11/2014

  • CITIZENFOUR

    This film closes on Thursday, November 13th.

    Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras was developing a project about national surveillance intending to complete a trilogy of documentaries about post-9/11 America, when she started receiving encrypted messages by someone identifying themselves as Citizenfour.... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.00

  • IDA

    In early 1960s Poland, young novitiate nun Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska, making a powerful debut) is required to visit her Aunt Wanda, her only surviving relative, before taking her final vows. Her hard-living aunt is a proud member of the Communist... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 21.00

  • LEVIATHAN

    Closing this Thursday, December 4th

    Exclusively at the IFI

    Acclaimed filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev has established himself as a significant presence in world cinema with films such as The Return (2003), The Banishment (2007) and Elena (2011). Winner of the best... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.30|18.15

  • MR. TURNER

    Closing this Thursday, December 4th

    Mike Leigh has fulfilled a long held ambition to make a film about British painter J.M.W. Turner. Focusing on the 25 years before his death, Mr. Turner depicts a character who, in Leigh’s words, was... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.15|19.15

  • ONE MILLION DUBLINERS

    This film closes on Thursday, November 20th. 

    Never has journeying into the world of Ireland’s dead been as enlightening an experience as it is in One Million Dubliners, a fascinating exploration of Glasnevin Cemetery that was joint winner of the... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 21.00

  • OUT OF HERE

    This film closes on Thursday, November 20th. 

    EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI

    Director Donal Foreman deservedly won JDIFF’s CineTALENT award with his debut feature Out of Here last spring and now his brilliant, zeitgeisty vision of Dublin’s youth comes to the IFI.... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.00

  • PLAYTIME

    This film closes on Thursday, November 13th.

    EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI

    Taking over three years and costing 17 million francs to make, Jacques Tati’s Playtime was by far the director’s most ambitious and fully realised film project. Shot on a vast... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15.40

  • POPULAIRE

    It’s 1950s France and country girl Rose moves to Paris to take on a secretarial job where it doesn’t take long for her boss (Romain Duris) to see the potential of Rose’s amazing typing skills. Next stop the national speed-typing championships. The glamorous costumes, cars... Read More

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  • SACRO GRA

    This film closes on Thursday, November 13th.

    Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2013, Sacro GRA has the distinction of being the first documentary to take that prestigious award. Depicting the disparate lives close to... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.30

  • SET FIRE TO THE STARS

    This film closes on Thursday, November 20th. 

    It is New York in 1950 and John Malcolm Brinnin (Elijah Wood) is an uptight Harvard graduate, an aspiring poet and critic who is in awe of Dylan Thomas. Despite the Welsh writer’s... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.30

  • SPUTNIK

    To mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we are showing this lively new addition to the canon of ‘post-Wall’ films. Frederike is a 10-year-old girl who attempts with her friends to use their teleportation device to beam her uncle back... Read More

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    Times: 10.30

  • THE UNBEATABLES (3D)

    Be thrilled and entertained by this hit animation about Amadeo (voiced by Rupert Grint), the table football champ of a local rundown bar in Argentina. When football star Flash announces plans to demolish the old place to build the world’s biggest soccer stadium, the locals... Read More

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    Times: 10.30

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