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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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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
Vues de I’Irlande. Whet your appetite for the Carte Noire IFI French... Read More
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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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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
BALTIMORE 15.15, 20.45
JEAN EUSTACHE: THE VIRGIN OF PESSAC ‘79 18.30
MONSTER 15.35
PERFECT DAYS 13.00
ROBOT DREAMS 13.00, 18.15 (OC)
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO | OPUS 20.30
THE DELINQUENTS 12.45, 17.15
THE TASTE OF THINGS 20.20
THE ZONE OF INTEREST 16.15
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