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Federico Fellini’s 8½ returns to cinema screens after being beautifully restored from the original negatives by Gaumont and Eclair and made available from BFI. Arguably the definitive film about filmmaking, Fellini’s alter ego is Guido... Read More
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This film was released on Friday 22nd May 2015 and is no longer screening.
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Made by Sam Fuller’s daughter, A Fuller Life features 12 chapters in which admirers of the great maverick narrate extracts from his... Read More
In her arresting first feature, director Ana Lily Amirpour mixes such disparate elements as the Spaghetti Western, neo-noir, horror, the Iranian New Wave, Jean-Luc Godard, and... Read More
This film was released on Friday 24th April 2015 and is no longer screening.
After 2000’s Songs from the Second Floor and 2007’s You, The Living, the inestimable Roy Andersson now presents what he calls “the final part of a... Read More
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TEENAGE KICKS
PROGRAMME 1
AMHARC ÉIREANN Gael Linn newsreel compilation... Read More
AMHARC ÉIREANNGael Linn newsreel compilation includesBeatles... Read More
PROGRAMME 2
ANTI-VANDALISM COMMERCIALBob Geldof urges young people... Read More
This film was released on Friday 1st May 2015 and is no longer screening.
Martha Argerich was born in Buenos Aires in 1941 and found fame after moving to Europe as teenager, becoming a world-renowned concert pianist... Read More
When teenager Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is blasted to 1955 in the DeLorean time machine created by the eccentric Doc Brown, he finds himself mixed up in a time-shattering chain reaction that could vaporise his future and leave him trapped in the past.... Read More
Orson Welles reportedly regarded Chimes at Midnight as his favourite of all the films he made. The first of the year’s reissues... Read More
This film was released on Friday 15th May 2015 and is no longer screening.
Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche) is an internationally acclaimed star of stage and screen who has been asked to revisit a play that made her famous 20... 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
Thomas Vinterberg’s (Festen, The Hunt) eagerly anticipated adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s revered novel emerges as a characteristically daring and effectively stately example of classical period filmmaking.... Read More
This event took place on Wednesday 27th May 2015.
Feast Your Eyes, our monthly gastronomic feature, creates a specially created menu to complement a newly released film from the IFI programme for just €20. Join us at 18.15 on May 27th to escape to... Read More
This film was released on Friday 10th April 2015 and is no longer screening.
Tomas (Johannes Kuhnke) is on a skiing holiday in the alps with his beautiful wife Ebba (Lisa Loven Kongsli) and their two desperately cute children. He... Read More
This film screened on Thursday 28th May 2015.
We are delighted to welcome guest David Langwallner, founder of the Irish Innocence Project, who will speak after the film.
Based on Una Troy’s novel, We Are Seven, which in turn was... Read More
Alex (Peter Coonan) is a jaded musician getting to the end of his 20s, frustrated that life seems to be drifting away from him. He’s determined... Read More
Brothers Kanta and Junpei live happily on the island of Shikotan until the end of the Second World War when the island’s borders are altered. Russian occupation begins and with the new occupants comes Tanya, daughter of the Russian commander. Inspired by reallife events, this... Read More
This film was released on Friday 8th May 2015 and is no longer screening.
★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★ The Irish Independent ★★★★Entertainment.ie
With Water Lilies and Tomboy, Céline Sciamma established herself as an intriguing and committed filmmaker, presenting stories about young... Read More
This film was released on Friday 17th April 2015 and is no longer screening.
John is working as a taxi driver in Dublin and struggling to make ends meet. He lives with his mother Jean, who he is devoted to,... Read More
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The press notes for Heaven Adores You describe the film as an “inquiry” into the life and music of Elliott Smith and that’s an... Read More
This film screened on Sunday 24th May 2015.
The IFI is delighted to once again partner with the Dublin Dance Festival in presenting two extraordinary screenings. Jorge León’s powerful Before We Go (May 24th, 17.00) sees three people approaching the... Read More
This film screened on Monday 25th May 2015.
The IFI is delighted to once again partner with the Dublin Dance Festival in presenting two extraordinary screenings.
On May 25th (18.15), director Brigitte Kramer will introduce her two films on Sasha... Read More
This film screened on Tuesday 26th May 2015.
We are delighted to welcome Daniel Fitzpatrick, Aoife Desmond, Alan Lambert and Alice Butler of EFC for a discussion on Zorns Lemma as well as looking at EFC’s legacy to date and... Read More
This film screened on Saturday 16th May 2015.
When the poet Sepideh Jodeyri published a Persian translation of Blue is the Warmest Colour, a prize-winning graphic novel about a passionate relationship between two young women, she faced a campaign of... Read More
This film screened on Sunday 31st May 2015.
Among the numerous children’s animations released each year, there are a few stand outs such as this weird, fabulous and sometimes spooky affair from Laika Studios (Paranorman and Coraline).
Adapted from the... Read More
This film screened on Sunday 10th May 2015.
Ireland on Sunday is our monthly showcase for new Irish film.
Lisa Fingleton is an award-winning artist, activist and filmmaker based on a farm in North Kerry. She is actively involved in... 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
Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp were a pair of Swinging London chancers from differing backgrounds who met at Shepperton Studios in the early... Read More
Geoff Carter is a hardened pilot managing a ragbag collection of fatalistic flyboys in a neglected landing strip somewhere on the South... Read More
World War II is coming to an end and, after witnessing the horrors of the concentration camps, Nelly Lenz (Nina Hoss) has to endure significant reconstructive... Read More
This film was released on Friday 29th May 2015 and is no longer screening.
Awkward, chubby divorcee Danny (Kevin Corrigan) walks into a gym owned by charismatic businessman Trevor (Guy Pearce) and asks to hire a personal trainer who will... Read More
We are delighted to welcome Mercury Prize-nominees Field Music to the IFI to provide musical accompaniment to seminal documentary Drifters.
In the film, director John Grierson – a pioneering Scottish filmmaker... Read More
Although best known as the confrontational presenter of the satirical The Daily Show, Jon Stewart’s first film is a restrained and sensitive drama recounting the 118-day... Read More
This film was released on Thursday 14th May 2015 and is no longer screening.
Tom Carver (Aidan Gillen) is still struggling to come to terms with his grief a year on from the death of his... Read More
This film screened on Wednesday 6th May 2015.
The IFI continues its new strand in which a revered film from world cinema history is introduced by a filmmaker, film critic or academic who will aim to justify its importance in... Read More
★★★★ Movies.ie ★★★★ Independent (UK)
This film closes on Thursday, June 11th.
While William Friedkin’s The French Connection (1971) centred on the American side of the heroin-smuggling... Read More
This month’s panel for The Critical Take will include actor, director and artistic director of The Company Theatre Company Jose Miguel Jimenez, Patrick Stewart, our Public Relations Officer here at the IFI, and writer,... Read More
★★★★ The Irish Times
Shot entirely in the Maori language, The Dead Lands focuses on the bitter conflict between two tribes in pre-colonial New... Read More
Carol Morley’s follow up to her inspired hybrid documentary Dreams of a Life is an engrossing drama about an outbreak of mass fainting at an English... Read More
To coincide with this month’s release of documentary A Fuller Life, the Hangover Lounge invites you to spend an indulgent Sunday afternoon at the IFI getting a tasty brunch from the IFI... Read More
Based on the true story of King George VI (Bertie) who reluctantly assumed the throne after his brother abdicated. Although next in line, Bertie is plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit to be king, so his wife Elizabeth engages the help of... Read More
Claire and Laura have been best friends since childhood, and are closer than sisters. When Laura falls ill and dies soon after she has given birth,... Read More
Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s remarkable debut feature is evidence that the possibilities of cinema are far from exhausted. Set in a school for deaf teenagers, the characters communicate... Read More
★★★★★ RTÉ TEN
★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★ The Guardian ★★★★ Entertainment.ie
Timbuktu is overtaken by jihadists, who are heavily armed and emboldened with indignant righteousness. They insist women cover... Read More
Channelling Woody Allen and Richard Linklater, Chris Rock’s latest film is ferociously funny and intelligent. It follows Andre Allen (Rock), the biggest comedian in America, on... Read More
This film screened on Wednesday 13th May 2015.
We are delighted to welcome Daisy Asquith to the screening.
Filmmaker Daisy Asquith is no stranger to viewing the world through other people’s eyes. Her TV documentaries have covered a range of... Read More
This film screened on Wednesday 27th & Friday 29th May 2015.
With strong scenes and language, the films of London-born John Michael McDonagh offer a very distinct view of Ireland. Where previously The Guard relied on humour and pastiche, this... Read More
This film screened on Friday 1st May 2015.
The 2015 access>CINEMA Bealtaine Film Tour commences with the first screening of this year’s chosen title. Helen Mirren plays a feisty Madame Mallory, proprietor of Le Saule Pleureur restaurant, who finds her longstanding... 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
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