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This film was released on Friday 22nd May 2015 and is no longer screening.
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
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Images From a Past Life: W.B. Yeats on... Read More
This film was released on Friday 12th June 2015 and is no longer screening.
★★★★ The Irish Times
This film closes on Thursday, June 18th.
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Golden Bear winner Black Coal, Thin Ice is the third feature film... Read More
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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
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 18.30 on June 30th as this month’s Feast Your Eyes transports you to New York... Read More
This film was released on Friday 5th June 2015 and is no longer screening.
Fortune’s Wheel brings to life the remarkable, implausible story of a Fairview lion-tamer in Dublin in the 1950s. Bill Stephens was an ordinary... Read More
★★★★★ The Guardian
Following the success of Dracula (1931), director Tod Browning was hired by MGM, who were hoping to break into the lucrative... Read More
This film screened on Sunday 14th & Tuesday 16th June 2015.
For our annual Bloomsday celebration we present John Huston’s pitch-perfect adaptation of James Joyce’s The Dead. In Dublin 1904, friends congregate, as they have done for years, at a... 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 screened on Wednesday 10th June 2015.
We are pleased to welcome director Declan Clarke for a post-screening Q&A to be hosted by Declan Long.
This new film from Declan Clarke, the final part of his Wreckage in May... Read More
This event took place on Wednesday 3rd June 2015.
Stan Douglas (Canadian photographer and filmmaker) and Walter D. Asmus (German theatre/film director and collaborator with Samuel Beckett) will consider Beckett’s influence on cinema in a discussion moderated by exhibition curator... Read More
This film screened on Wednesday 24th June 2015.
The same-sex marriage referendum result was a big step forward for the country and especially for the LGBT community that has suffered so much discrimination and legal inequality over the years. So... Read More
This film screened on Saturday 13th June 2015.
We are delighted to welcome director Alan Gilsenan to this screening.
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of W.B. Yeats, the IFI and Yeats 2015 present Alan Gilsenan’s cinematic and avowedly... Read More
This film screened on Sunday 28th June 2015.
Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon, makers of the Oscar-nominated Song of the Sea, have gone from strength to strength and will feature in our IFI Family Festival in July with their TV series, Puffin... Read More
Welcome to IFI Open Day 2015! We are delighted to once again open our doors to you, the public, so you can sample all that the IFI has to offer with a programme that is more jampacked than ever!
Please... Read More
This film screened on Sunday 7th June 2015.
Ireland on Sunday is our monthly showcase for new Irish film.
Written and narrated by the late Gerry Anderson, this documentary feature is a lyrical portrait of Derry which weaves its way... Read More
This film screened on Tuesday 9th June 2015.
Drawing on festival favourites, emergent new voices and established practitioners, Irish Shorts @ IFI presents a selection of award-winning work from Irish short film makers.
The programme includes: Siobhan Perry’s effervescent documentary... Read More
This film screened on Friday 19th June 2015.
Frank Pavich’s superb documentary detailing Alejandro Jodorowsky’s attempt to adapt Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel Dune is a rare and brilliant thing, a film about imagination and creativity which is itself imaginative and... Read More
★★★★ The Guardian ★★★★ Movies.ie
Narcissistic writer Philip Lewis Friedman (a perfectly cast Jason Schwartzman) is grouchily awaiting the publication of his second novel. His... Read More
This new restoration of Sergio Leone’s final film, which premiered at Cannes in 2012 before being subsequently withdrawn for further work, features an... 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
This film was released on Friday 26th June 2015 and is no longer screening.
★★★★ Time Out London ★★★★ The Telegraph
Peter Bogdanovich’s first feature since 2001’s The Cat’s Meow is a joyous, uncynical screwball farce that makes... Read More
★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★ The Guardian
★★★★ Movies.ie ★★★★ RTÉ.ie ★★★★ Irish Independent
As the 19th century is drawing to a close, young Scottish aristocrat Jay (Kodi Smit-McPhee)... Read More
★★★★ Time Out
Presented as 61 one-minute short films, artist-director Doug Aitken’s Station to Station provides a bracing account of his own project... Read More
This film screened on Monday 29th June 2015.
The IFI continues its regular 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
This film was released on Friday 19th June 2015 and is no longer screening.
Gael García Bernal plays a brooding, mysterious, Man With No Name figure who stumbles out of the Argentinean rainforest, half-naked. There’s a land grab going on... 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
Shot entirely in the Maori language, The Dead Lands focuses on the bitter conflict between two tribes in pre-colonial New... Read More
This double bill screened on Sunday 28th June 2015.
June’s Hangover Lounge invites you to spend an indulgent Sunday afternoon at the IFI getting a tasty brunch from the IFI Café Bar whilst enjoying a double bill featuring one of... Read More
Underworld kingpin Harold Shand (the late, great Bob Hoskins) is a man in control. Having amassed his fortune, as well as acquiring numerous... Read More
★★★★★ The Daily Telegraph ★★★★★ The Independent (UK)
After being plagued with production problems, many of which revolved around the alcohol, drug, relationship and... 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
Alex (Adam Scott) and Emily (Taylor Schilling) are a married couple with a young son who have moved to Los Angeles from Seattle. They are eager to explore their neighbourhood and keen to make new friends, so a chance meeting... Read More
This film was released on Tuesday 23rd June 2015 and is no longer screening.
★★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★★ The Guardian
Arnold Schwarzenegger is back on the big screen as the unstoppable cyborg dispatched from the future on a mission to... Read More
★★★★★ Movies.ie ★★★★ Entertainment.ie
The Wrecking Crew was the name given to a group of studio musicians in Los Angeles who, during the 1960s,... 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
Based on the novel by Julia Franck, West depicts a single mother trying to make a life in West Germany in the 1970s... Read More
This film screened on Wednesday 24th & Friday 26th June 2015.
Wild Strawberries is our bi-monthly film club for over 55s.
During the 1980s miners’ strike in the U.K., when the workers and their unions were being vilified by the... Read More
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