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This film was released on Friday 6th February 2015 and is no longer screening.
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Loosely based on events leading to the death of the poet Heinrich von Kleist in 1811, the latest film from Austrian auteur Jessica... Read More
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This film was released on Friday 16th January 2015 and is no longer screening.
This documentary tells the epic story of Majdal Shams, one of five remaining Arab villages in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Before the occupation there were 136 such villages, which have now... Read More
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This film was released on Friday 1st February 2015 and is no longer screening.
Essential French drama based on childhood events from one of French cinema’s most important figures, Louis Malle. This classic film tells the tragic story of friendship and loss between... Read More
This film closes on Thursday, 12th of February.
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Based on the director’s own experiences at a Catholic boarding school in occupied France, Au revoir les enfants depicts a dark andcomplex period in history as seen through the eyes of two young boys who... Read More
This film was released on Friday 2nd January 2015.
Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton) is a recognised movie star, haunted by his appearances in The Birdman films, a popular super-hero franchise. Desperate to prove himself a true artist, he ambitiously attempts to launch a Raymond Carver adaptation on... Read More
This film was released on Friday 20th February 2015 and is no longer screening.
No longer welcome at her chronic pain support group after she voices an acerbic response to the suicide of one of her fellow members, Claire (a... Read More
This film was released on Friday 1st March 2015 and is no longer screening.
In Catch Me Daddy, British Pakistani teenager Laila (Sameena Jabeen Ahmed) and white boyfriend Aaron (Connor McCarron), with whom she ran away in... Read More
This film screened on Saturday 28th February 2015.
Considered by many as one the finest works from the first great era of Chinese filmmaking, Fei Mu’s quiet, piercingly poignant study of adulterous desire and guilt-ridden despair is different from other... Read More
Continuing our run of this tragicomedy about 15-year-old Kim and her struggle to cope with her mother’s death. Alienated by her father Markus’s grief, Kim retreats further into her Goth-like persona, eventually running away to Denmark with boyfriend Alex. Markus is propelled to act in... Read More
Director Ian Fitzgibbon will introduce this film.
A new addition to the Comparative Study for 2016, this highly original drama is based on a novel by New Zealander, Anthony McCarten. Fifteen-yearold Donald, brilliantly played by Thomas Brodie- Sangster (Love Actually), possesses an extraordinary imagination and... Read More
The Marx Brothers bowed out of their contract with Paramount with probably their greatest film, the comedy blunderbuss that is Duck Soup. Groucho... Read More
New Junior Cycle English offers a number of different ways for teachers to use film, for example:
– As a prescribed text.– As a multi-modal text with which students can engage both personally and critically, while being creative through language.
This... Read More
This film was released on Friday 23rd January 2015 and is no longer screening.
Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) is working for the world’s largest internet company, headed by the enigmatic and reclusive Nathan (Oscar Isaac, A Most Violent Year), when he wins... Read More
With this new film, Edgar Reitz’s sprawling, epic Heimat series runs to some 57 hours covering the history of the fictitious Simon family, who live in the equally fictitious rural village of Schabbach. While previous instalments have covered the years... Read More
This film screened on Sunday 1st February 2015.
We are delighted to once more present two programmes of films as part of our annual collaboration with TradFest.
In 1964 world renowned folk singer and civil rights activist Pete Seeger (1919... Read More
This film screened on Sunday 22nd February 2015.
For the budding premiership player in your house comes this affectionate tale telling the story of young Salford Georgie who happens upon the legendary Sir Matt Busby on his way to a... Read More
Given the sprawling and complex style of Thomas Pynchon’s novels, with their numerous digressions and huge casts of characters, it may not be particularly surprising that Inherent Vice is the first... Read More
This film was released on Friday 13th February 2015 and is no longer screening.
Christopher Nolan’s laudable and well-known commitment to celluloid ensured that his latest opus was released on a wide range of formats, both analogue and digital, and... Read More
This film screened on Sunday 15th February 2015.
Ireland on Sunday is our monthly showcase for new Irish film.
The IFI in association with Guth Gafa presents The Stranger, a haunting new documentary from Neasa Ní Chianáin (Fairytale of Kathmandu).... Read More
David Robert Mitchell’s striking first feature The Myth of the American Sleepover... Read More
Office worker Kumiko (Rinko Kikuchi, Babel) leads a melancholy existence in Tokyo, forcefully encouraged by her boss to move on, harangued by her mother for being... Read More
Very popular Spanish language drama concerning a group of Guatemalan teenagers who attempt to make their way to the USA, dreaming of a better life. However, they are ill equipped, both physically and emotionally, for the challenges they face in gettingthere. This is an... Read More
Ben and George are a New York couple who have decided to get married after being together for over 20 years. They mark their union surrounded... Read More
The IFI, GCN (Gay Community News), and GAZE International LGBT Film Festival will present a special screening of the internationally acclaimed movie Love is Strange in aid of Marriage Equality on Sunday, February 15th at 13.00.
Ben and... Read More
This film was released on Friday 9th January 2015 and is no longer screening .
This film also screened on Monday 2nd February 2015.
Now well into his 80s, master documentarian Frederick Wiseman continues to be as prolific as he is brilliant. The... Read More
Paul (Stephane Guillon) was once a successful novelist but, his confidence shaken after a personal tragedy, is overcome with writers block and can... Read More
Boasting an array of festival accolades (including Audience Awards at the Galway and Cork Film Festivals), Terry McMahon’s second feature bursts confidently onto the screen. Patrick... Read More
SPECIAL GUESTS + Q&A We are delighted to welcome special guests director Terry McMahon, psychiatrist Prof. Ivor Browne, and cast members Moe Dunford, Catherine Walker, and Philip Jackson to take part in a Q&A session following the opening night screening at... Read More
Junior (Samuel Lange) is 9 years old, living in a deprived district of Caracas with his infant brother and their mother Marta (Samantha... Read More
We continue our tour of this delightfully perceptive French title concerning country girl Rose who moves to Paris to become a secretary. While she may lack secretarial prowess, her boss (Romain Duris) notices her typing skills. The glamorous 1950s costumes and period details make this... Read More
Based on the celebrated WWI memoir by Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth is a bold adaptation of a cherished text that features an eye-catching lead performance from rising star Alicia Vikander... Read More
This event took place on Tuesday 24th February 2015.
Join our panel of journalist Joe Griffin, producer and director Anna Rodgers and Dave Murphy from the IFI Education Dept for The Critical Take on February 24th at 18.30 for discussion on Paul... Read More
Following his tribute to giallo films with 2012’s Berberian Sound Studio, director Peter Strickland here takes his cue from 1960s and ‘70s European erotica, particularly the... Read More
Visionary director Wong Kar-wai brings his style and emotional resonance to this biopic based on Ip Man, a grandmaster of the Wing Chun martial art and one-time teacher of Bruce Lee. The story spans the turbulent period that followed the fall of China’s last dynasty.... Read More
Dr Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin, lecturer with the School of Mathematical Sciences, UCD and Presenter of RTÉ’s The Science Squad, will introduce this film.
Based on the true story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, this Oscar-nominated film portrays the nail-biting race against time by the... Read More
Adapted from Phillip Barry’s 1939 hit Broadway play, The Philadelphia Story gave Katharine Hepburn her biggest hit during barren years when she was considered... Read More
Advancing on the romantic themes and experimental techniques they had developed in The Red Shoes (1948), Powell and Pressburger once again... Read More
Stephen Hawking’s life story involves more drama than one film might be expected to contain. By the time his genius was popularly celebrated with the publication of the modern classic A Brief History of Time in... Read More
Fourteen-year-old Raphael Fernandez is one of many favela dwelling kids trying to make a living by foraging in the landfills around Rio. He fortuitously finds a wallet containing a wad... Read More
Tipped to figure prominently in the upcoming awards season, Damien Chazelle’s sophomore effort follows a dedicated 19-year-old jazz drummer Andrew Neyman (Miles Teller), student at an elite New York music conservatory, as... Read More
When a regulation encouraging the breeding of pedigree dogs comes into play, pet owners across an unnamed city ditch their mongrels and local pounds quickly become... Read More
This film screened on Wednesday 25th & Friday 27th February 2015.
Wild Strawberries is our bi-monthly film club for over 55s.
Brendan Gleeson stars in this amusing small-town caper where locals in the depressed Newfoundland fishing village of Tickle Head... Read More
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