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This film screened Friday 7th August 2015.
We are delighted to welcome director Gary Lennon, producer Bob Jacksonand Niki MacCarthy (Aidan’s daughter) who will attend the opening night screening on August 7th at 18.30.
Coinciding with the 70th anniversary of... Read More
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This film was released on Friday 25th September 2015 and is no longer screening.
July Jung’s debut feature stars Bae Doo-na (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Cloud Atlas) as Young-Nam, a police officer whose promising career has stalled following a personal... Read More
This film screened on Monday 7th September 2015.
The final part of the trilogy saw Pasolini seek inspiration by leaving Europe, figuratively and literally. Shot in disparate and exotic locales from Ethiopia to Nepal, it’s his adaptation of the famed... Read More
RADHARC RESTORED
Join us for free screening of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at IFI Box Office. (See weekly schedule for programme times.)
This month we present three films, newly restored in a collaboration... Read More
This month we present three films, newly restored in a collaboration supported by... Read More
This film was released on Friday 4th September 2015 and is no longer screening.
When Pernilla (Rémy Bennett) receives the news of the suicide of her childhood friend Flora, she is motivated to travel to rural Louisiana to reconnect with... Read More
A double prize winner at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Cartel Land follows two vigilante groups fighting the drug cartels on either side of the border... Read More
Malcolm Adekanbi is a geeky high school senior whose best friends, Jib and Diggy, are as obsessive about ‘90s hip hop as he is. Determined to... Read More
This film was released 16th September 2016, and is no longer screening.
★★★★★ Ciné-Vue
IFI CLASSIC
Ten years after the success of The Spirit Of the Beehive (1973), his debut feature and one of the great films about childhood, director Victor... Read More
This film was released on Tuesday 22nd September 2015 and is no longer screening.
Our September cinema and dinner pairing will be Woody Allen’s latest feature Irrational Man, starring Joaquin Phoenix as a depressed and cynical philosophy professor, Abe Lucas,... Read More
This film screened on Wednesday 16th September 2015.
This charming comedy starring Dame Sybil Thorndike, Kathleen Harrison and Estelle Winwood also features Richard Harris in his first film role.
The women play elderly residents of the Sunshine Old Folks’ home,... Read More
This film was released on Friday 21st August 2015 and is no longer screening.
Martin Joubert (Fabrice Luchini) is a baker in a small village in rural France, a fanciful, romantic soul who has recently escaped Paris with his long-suffering... Read More
This film was released on Friday 18th September 2015 and is no longer screening.
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Tying with Leviathan as Sight & Sound’s third best film of 2014, Horse Money is the sixth feature from Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa,... Read More
This film screened on Wednesday 9th September 2015.
Featuring a wealth of rare material from the organisation’s own archive, How to Change the World is a documentary on the founding of Greenpeace. Taking its cue from the passive resistance idea... Read More
This film screened on Friday 18th September 2015.
The IFI celebrates Culture Night 2015 with a free screening of family-friendly Irish shorts.
Revisiting the collections of the IFI Irish Film Archive, the programme includes live-action and animation films from the... Read More
The IFI celebrates Culture Night with a free screening of family friendly Irish shorts. Drawing from the rich tapestry of recent and old shorts preserved in the IFI Irish Film Archive, the programme focuses on the theme of difference and... Read More
This film screened on Friday 25th September 2015.
FRIDAY 25TH, 10AM – 6PM
IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BORD SCANNÁN NA hÉIREANN/IRISH FILM BOARD
The IFI will host a day of seminars, masterclasses and panels for documentary producers and directors. It will give... Read More
This film screened on Thursday 24th September 2015.
Irish Premiere
In 2012, during the consumerist clamour that has become known as Black Friday in America, a black teenager named Jordan Davis died after being shot in the car park of a Florida Gas Station.... Read More
This film screened on Sunday 27th September 2015.
IRISH PREMIERE
Amer and Raghda met in a Syrian prison cell, both jailed for crimes against the state, initially communicating through a hole in the wall. They fell in love, and, when they were released, they... Read More
Loïc Jourdain’s first feature documentary follows John O’Brien, a fisherman from the island of Inis Bó Finne and his lengthy campaign to regain his ancestral right to fish the Donegal seas. The film explores the origins and... Read More
DUBLIN PREMIERE
Director David Jazay will be in attendance.
Bargaintown is a prescient meditation on urban decay made by a young German filmmaker in Dublin in 1988. Featuring interviews with antique dealers, barbers and barmen –... Read More
Focussing on Evander Holyfield, Bernard Hopkins and Mike Tyson, fighters who emerged from impoverished backgrounds to become heralded champions, Bert Marcus’ absorbing film presents boxing as a facilitator of the American Dream, while having the courage... Read More
This film screened on Saturday 26th September 2015.
Naum Kleiman, director of the Moscow Film Museum, has a reputation such that when the Russian Minister of Culture fired him, the latest in a long line of trials he had faced, the Museum’s... Read More
When filmmaker David Aronowitsch cast Ahmed as an asylum seeker in a short film he was making, he became fascinated with how the actor’s life mirrored the role. Arriving in Italy, Ahmed travelled to Sweden.... Read More
There will be a post-screening Q&A with Executive Director of the Maysles Documentary Center, Erika Dilday.
Documentary pioneer Albert Maysles’ wonderful final film depicts life aboard The Empire Builder, America’s busiest long-distance train... Read More
There will be a post-screening Q&A with director Jeanie Finlay.
Struggling musician Jimmy Ellis was regularly dismissed by record companies for sounding too much like Elvis. Soon after August 16, 1977, Sun Records... Read More
This event took place on Thursday 24th September 2015.
This panel will present the results of the first phase of the Radharc Archive Project, which has restored and digitally preserved 15 from a series of over 400 documentaries made by Radharc between 1962... Read More
This event took place on Saturday 26th September 2015.
A centrepiece of the Festival in recent years has been the world premiere of the Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board Reality Bites documentary shorts. This year’s selection is stronger... Read More
A speed car racing scene has flourished in the West Bank recently, providing release and distraction in the volatile region. Though a sport dominated by men, an all-female racing team are winning fans and admirers... Read More
This film screened on Wednesday 23rd September 2015.
The films Steve McQueen made in the 1960s (Bullitt, The Thomas Crown Affair) not only defined him as an icon of the age, but also made him a powerful and highly-paid Hollywood player.... Read More
Master filmmaker Patricio Guzmán’s (Nostalgia for the Light) latest inventive documentary presents itself as a film fascinated with water and how Chile, with one of the longest oceanic coastlines, is a country beholden to it.... Read More
WORLD PREMIERE
There will be a post-screening Q&A with director Dearbhla Glynn
Over 6 million people have been killed in the ongoing war in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The country has experienced a... Read More
The panel, presented by WIFT, will discuss the role of women in documentary filmmaking – internationally and in Ireland – and will ask why documentary film appears to draw far more women than other forms (in... Read More
This month at the IFI there’s a chance to see some films from the best of silent comedians: Buster Keaton in Steamboat Bill, Jr. and this Charlie Chaplin classic showing for IFI... Read More
RICHARD BROOKS’ GROUNDBREAKING 1967 ADAPTATION OF TRUMAN CAPOTE’S MASTERLY CASE STUDY IS MORE THAN JUST AN ADJUNCT TO THE RELEASE OF CAPOTE, BUT AN EXTRAORDINARY FILM IN ITS OWN RIGHT. Aiming for a celluloid equivalent of the book’s painstaking detail,... Read More
This film was released on Friday 11th September 2015 and is no longer screening.
In November 1959, Perry Smith (Robert Blake) and Dick Hickock (Scott Wilson) broke into the home of prosperous farmer Herb Clutter and his family.... Read More
Returning to the topic of the morality and practicality of murder that has produced films of such varying quality as Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) and Cassandra’s... Read More
This film was released on Friday 28th August 2015 and is no longer screening.
Preceded by L’Avventura (1960) and La Notte (1961), Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Eclisse is considered the last part of a loose trilogy on alienation, malaise, and ennui in... Read More
This film was released on Wednesday 9th September 2015 and is no longer screening.
Although almost half a century has elapsed since the arrest of the Kray Twins that brought to an end their reign over organised crime in London’s... Read More
This film opens on September 25th. Tickets are now on sale
Opening with their first encounter at a Nicholas Ray party in 1955, Life portrays the meaningful relationship between James Dean and Dennis Stock, a photographer whose outstanding pictures of... Read More
Greg (Thomas Mann) is convinced that the key to surviving the high school experience is to maintain cordial relations with all of the various disparate tribes... Read More
Director Margherita (Margherita Buy) is struggling with the making of a political drama about factory workers’ dispute with management, the stress of which is compounded by... Read More
Liv Ullmann, directing for the first time since 2000’s Faithless, transplants August Strindberg’s play from Sweden to Fermanagh, retaining the naturalistic approach of the original work... Read More
This film was released on Friday 14th August 2015 and is no longer screening.
Tracy is 18 years old, a freshman at New York’s Barnard College and is struggling to fit in. She has writing aspirations, but rejection from the... Read More
Often cited as one of Italy’s most significant filmmakers, Pasolini was also a renowned poet, intellectual and highly controversial political figure. In 1975, his body was... Read More
IFI CLASSIC – EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI
Following the success of the reissue of Buster Keaton’s The General (1926) at the IFI earlier this year, we’re delighted to... Read More
One of the most influential groups in the history of hip hop, Niggaz With Attitude was also one of its most controversial. Formed around the core of Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and Dr. Dre, N.W.A. articulated the anger building in inner cities... Read More
The first Estonian film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Zaza Urushadze’s Tangerines is set in 1992, during the War... Read More
This film screened on Monday 21st September 2015.
Dr. Douglas Smith, Senior Lecturer at the UCD School of Languages and Literature, introduces the only Soviet film to have won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, a study of the effect of... Read More
This film screened on Sunday 6th September 2015.
Returning to the 14th century for material, this time in the work of Chaucer, the second instalment of the trilogy recounts the tales told by travellers on a pilgrimage to Canterbury. As with the previous adaptation, Pasolini favours stories... Read More
This event took place on Tuesday 29th September 2015.
Join our panel for The Critical Take: Murder, Mystery, Intrigue on September 29th for a discussion on Andrew Haigh’s award-winning 45 Years (showing from August 28th) starring Tom Courtenay and Charlotte... Read More
This film screened on Saturday 5th September 2015.
The first of Pasolini’s ‘Trilogy of Life’ features a number of tales from Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th century novel, linked by the story of an aspiring fresco painter (Pasolini himself). Across these episodes, we meet grave robbers, lustful nuns,... Read More
This film screened on Sunday 13th September 2015.
Deciding that “John was too mystical, Mark too vulgar, and Luke too sentimental”, Pasolini’s decision to film the life of Christ as recounted by Matthew (the director pointedly avoided referring to him as... Read More
To mark the release of A Walk in the Woods, this month’s Hangover Lounge – our monthly indulgent Sunday afternoon of brunch and a classic double bill – presents one of the... Read More
This ambitious first feature from Naji Abu Nowar is set in 1916, in the Hejaz Province of the Ottoman Empire, where radical change... Read More
This film screened on Saturday 12th September 2015.
One of Pasolini’s boldest and most philosophical films, Theorem examines the effects on a typical bourgeois household of a mysterious Visitor (Terence Stamp). Each member of the family is in some form... Read More
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI: THROUGH THE OLIVE TREES 18.30
BALTIMORE 20.45
CLOSE YOUR EYES 19.40
IO CAPITANO 15.30
OPPONENT 13.20, 20.20
PERFECT DAYS 15:50
THE DAYS OF TREES 13.10, 18.15
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 13.00, 17.30
THE ZONE OF INTEREST 15:10 15.10
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