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WHAT'S ON - 12/2014

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: DECEMBER 2014: PROGRAMME 1: OISÍN

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

    Escape the festive hustle and bustle with these programmes of exquisitely crafted landscape films from Patrick... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: DECEMBER 2014: PROGRAMME 2: REFLECTIONS-IRELAND

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

    Escape the festive hustle and bustle with these programmes of exquisitely crafted landscape films from Patrick... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: DOUBLE BILL (PROGS 1 & 2 DEC) FREE EVENT

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

    Escape the festive hustle and bustle with these programmes of exquisitely crafted landscape films from Patrick... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: PROG 1: TRIBULATIONS IRLANDAISES & LA RÈVE CELTIQUE

    Join us for Free lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. Please see www.ifi.ie for dates and times.

    Vues de I’Irlande. Whet your appetite for the Carte Noire IFI... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: PROG 2: BELFAST, 1897 & 81

    Join us for Free lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. Please see www.ifi.ie for dates and times.

    Vues de I’Irlande. Whet your appetite for the Carte Noire IFI French... Read More

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  • BIG EYES

    This film was released on Friday 2nd January 2015.

    Reunited with screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who scripted the inspired biopic Ed Wood, Tim Burton has delivered his best and most vital film for years. It tells the true... Read More

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  • BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT

    Unavailable for theatrical exhibition for a number of years due to protracted legal issues, Ridley Scott’s legendary Blade Runner, based on a novel by sci-fi author Philip K. Dick, returns to the big screen for this one-off preview in advance... Read More

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  • CITIZEN KANE

    Orson Welles’ masterpiece, one of the world’s most famous and highly rated films, topped critics’ polls for many years. Released in 1941, it was the first film Welles co-wrote, directed, and produced. When publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane (Welles) dies, news reporters scramble to find... Read More

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  • CONCERNING VIOLENCE

    EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI

    Following The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, which used rare archive footage from Swedish television to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement in America, award-winning filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson uses a similar technique to illustrate the... Read More

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  • DUNKIRK (70MM)

    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

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  • ELECTRICITY

    EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI

    Lily O’Connor is a determined and sharp-witted northerner working at an amusement arcade in an English seaside town. In the wake of a family tragedy, she travels to London in search of her brother, who has been... Read More

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  • FEAST YOUR EYES: BABETTE’S FEAST

    Our monthly gastronomic feature followed by a meal in the IFI Café Bar.

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    Set in a remote Danish village in the mid-1800s, this Oscar-winning film follows the devout and elderly sisters Martine and Philippa, who take in Babette... Read More

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  • FRESH FILM FESTIVAL 2014 SHOWCASE

    13.30 – 15.30 

    Limerick-based Fresh Film Festival promotes the work of young filmmakers under the age of 18 years. Hundreds of young filmmakers enter the Fresh Film Festival in the hope of winning the title of Ireland’s Young Filmmaker of the Year and every... Read More

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  • FROM THE VAULTS: MARE NOSTRUM WITH LIVE ACCOMPANIMENT BY 3EPKANO

    This silent film will be accompanied by a specially created score by 3epkano which will be performed live. The screening will be introduced by Ruth Barton, author of Rex Ingram: Visionary Director of the Silent Screen.

    Mare Nostrum was Irish director Rex... Read More

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  • GUYS AND DOLLS

    IFI CLASSIC

    Adapted from the hit 1950 stage musical, Mankiewicz’s stylish version of Guys and Dolls has been restored. It remains a treasurable delight, with its quaint vision of a New York inhabited by illegal gamblers and the religiously pious... Read More

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  • I AM ALI

    Closing this Thursday, December 4th

    Having occupied an undisputable position as a defining icon of the 20th century, the life story of Mohammad Ali has been frequently told in film and literature. Clare Lewins’ enthralling documentary features incredible archive footage... Read More

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  • IFI & EXPERIMENTAL FILM CLUB: HENRY HILLS

    Henry Hills has been making short, intensely rhythmic experimental films since 1975. Primarily New York-based (where he frequently collaborates with composer John Zorn, choreographer Sally Silvers, and poet Charles Bernstein), he has been living half-time in Vienna since 2008, teaches... Read More

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  • IFI FAMILY CHRISTMAS: A CHRISTMOOSE STORY

    Please note: There will be a subtitles reader for this screening

    Christmas is a time for family get togethers, but Max’s dad won’t make it home and the boy is worried that the holiday is going to be very dull.... Read More

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  • IFI FAMILY CHRISTMAS: PETER AND THE WOLF

    IFI Family Christmas gets off to a howling start with this stunning animated version of Sergei Prokofiev’s classic work. Using puppets, miniature sets, lots of fur and stop-motion animation, the familiar story of young Peter and the wicked wolf is... Read More

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  • IFI FAMILY CHRISTMAS: THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL

    What happens when you give a classic Dickens story the Muppet treatment? A lot of laughs, songs and a terrific story too! Led by the Great Gonzo we take a journey through Victorian London which is unexpectedly full of Muppets... Read More

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  • IFI FESTIVE FAVOURITES: MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET

    This film screened on Sunday 20th December 2015.

    To honour the legacy of the recently deceased Maureen O’Hara, we are delighted to present one of her most loved films, which is a perennial Christmas favourite. When passer-by Kris Kringle (Edmund... Read More

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  • IFI FESTIVE FAVOURITES: MY NIGHT WITH MAUD

    The third of Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales and his most commercially successful film, My Night With Maud is set at Christmas in Clermont-Ferrand (birthplace of mathematician-philosopher Blaise Pascal). Jean-Louis, recently moved there, becomes fixated on Françoise, whom he first sees... Read More

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  • IFI FESTIVE FAVOURITES: THE APARTMENT

    Billy Wilder’s abiding, humane and Oscar-laden film has enough moments of melancholia and intensity amidst its many laughs that it seems inadequate to describe it as merely a comedy. Jack Lemmon is at his everyman best as C.C. Baxter, a... Read More

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  • IFI FESTIVE FAVOURITES: THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER

    If James Stewart as a curmudgeonly character reminds you of the best in Christmas film, well this one is just the thing to whet your appetite. Based on Hungarian playwright Miklós László’s drama, and the inspiration for Nora Ephron’s You’ve... Read More

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  • IRELAND ON SUNDAY: MARATHON MEN

    DIRECTORS Q&AWe are delighted to welcome Marcus Stewart and Marc O Gleasain who will participate in a post-screening Q&A.

    Marathon Men is a new feature documentary from Earth Horizon telling the uplifting story of two men and their boundary-defying dream... Read More

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  • IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE

    IFI CLASSIC

    Famously a critical and commercial disappointment on its release in 1946, the heart-warming It’s a Wonderful Life found a new lease of life on television, and is now required viewing during the Christmas period. James Stewart is at... Read More

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  • JIMMY’S HALL

    Director Ken Loach follows his previous Irish outing, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, with this inspiring portrait of Irish activist Jimmy Gralton who opens a dance hall in rural Leitrim in the 1930s. The place quickly grabs the attention of the Church andpoliticians,... Read More

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  • KON-TIKI

    Joachim Rønning’s and Espen Sandberg’s Oscar-nominated film is a cracking adventure yarn based on the exploits of Norwegian explorer and anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl. In 1947, Heyerdahl built a raft made from balsa log and, having assembled a small crew, set... Read More

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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • SCHOOL OF BABEL

    Shot almost entirely in the classroom of a Parisian school where a group of international students are enrolled in a programme to facilitate their integration, Bertuccelli’s astute School of Babel follows them as they struggle to adapt to a new... Read More

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  • ST. VINCENT

    Oliver is a well mannered 12-year-old boy growing up in Brooklyn, having recently moved to a rough part of town after his parents separated. He has a tough time at his strict Catholic school and can’t find time to confide... Read More

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  • STATIONS OF THE CROSS

    Maria (Lea van Acken) is a devout 14-year-old Catholic girl counting down the days to her confirmation. She is determined to devote her life to Jesus and longs to attain sainthood. Encouraged by her fundamentalist family, and just like Jesus... Read More

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  • THE CIRCLE

    EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI

    Award winner and festival hit, including at GAZE 2014, this intriguing and touching story skilfully combines documentary with period piece in recounting the history of The Circle, a 1950s magazine for gay men, through the story of... Read More

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  • THE GRANDMASTER

    From the director of the mesmeric In the Mood for Love and 2046 comes this vivid account of the life of Ip Man, legendary Wing Chun grandmaster and towering figure in the history of martial arts. Beginning in 1930s Foshan,... Read More

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  • THE GREAT MUSEUM

    Johannes Holzhausen’s enthralling film looks behind the scenes of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, providing great insight into the sometimes problematic relationship between art and commerce. Holzhausen and his crew spent two years filming at the venerable institution, bearing witness... Read More

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  • THE GREEN PRINCE

    Mosab Hassan Yousef is the son of a prominent Palestinian leader from Ramallah, bought up in an atmosphere where Hamas is regarded as the family business and any contact with Israelis is treated with suspicion. Arrested at the age of... Read More

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  • THE IMITATION GAME

    Alan Turing was a brilliant Cambridge mathematician who was instrumental in shortening World War II, having been employed by the British military to crack Nazi codes. His top secret work with others at Bletchley Park has been celebrated since information... Read More

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  • THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS

     Closing this Thursday, December 4th

    Edwyn Collins suffered life-threatening cerebral haemorrhages in 2005, and lost the ability to talk. As he edged towards a recovery, the only words he could initially say were “yes” and “no”, and “the possibilities are... Read More

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  • WE ARE THE BEST!

    Thirteen-year-old girls Bobo and Klara are not afraid to be different. Undeterred by their lack of musical ability and by those who tell them punk is dead, they decide to start a band. Impressed by fellow outcast Hedwig’s solo guitar performance at a school... Read More

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  • WILD STRAWBERRIES: JOYEUX NOËL

    Wild Strawberries is our bi-monthly film club for over 55s.

     A timely revisiting of this moving and evocative World War One drama, set in the treacherous, hand-dug trenches, from which the bloodiest of battles took place. On Christmas Eve 1914,... Read More

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  • WILD STRAWBERRIES: THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER

    Wild Strawberries is our bimonthly film club for the over 55s.

    If James Stewart as a curmudgeonly character reminds you of the best in Christmas film, well this one is just the thing to whet your appetite. Based on Hungarian... Read More

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  • WINTER SLEEP

    Closing this Thursday, December 4th

    Aydin (Haluk Bilginer) is a former actor, a middle-aged man now running a small hotel in Anatolian foothills. He lives with his young wife Nihal (Melisa Sözen), and the couple are offering support and shelter... Read More

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