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Featuring home videos, interviews, recording sessions and previously unheard tracks, this revealing documentary depicts the life and death of singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse. Considered a modern-day musical icon, Amy’s striking vocals and award-winning first two albums brought her into the public... Read More
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GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS PAST
PROGRAMME 1
DOUBLE PIQUET This rarely seen film directed by composer/director Robert Wynne Simmons (The Outcasts) tells the story of a visitor to an Irish country house who finds himself transported back in time to the... Read More
PROGRAMME 2
AMHARC EIREANN: CHRISTMAS NEWSREEL COMPILATION Festive Extracts from Gael Linn’s newsreels. FILM INFO: 5 mins, 1956 – ‘64 , Digital.
CHRISTMAS MORNING Tiernan MacBride’s short film tells the tale of the folk song `Arthur... Read More
Programme 1: DOUBLE PIQUET This rarely seen film directed by composer/director Robert Wynne Simmons (The Outcasts) tells the story of a visitor to an Irish country house who finds himself transported back in time to... Read More
This film was released on Friday 4th December 2015 and is no longer screening.
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Bargaintown is a prescient meditation on urban decay made by a young German filmmaker in Dublin in 1988. Featuring interviews with antique dealers,... Read More
Adored by the public yet slated as kitsch by critics, the big-eyed portraits by American artist Margaret Keane have influenced modern artists such as Mark Ryden and Lady Gaga. This film, directed by Tim Burton, reveals how the paintings rocket... Read More
Notable for being one of the first slasher horror films, predating both Halloween (1978) and Friday The 13th (1980), seasonal chiller Black Christmas sees the occupants of a sorority house terrorised by a deranged killer who enjoys taunting them with... Read More
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This film was released on Friday 6th November 2015 and is no longer screening.
The Irish-American emigrant experience is brought vividly to life in this beautifully crafted, exceptionally moving adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s much admired novel. It’s 1952 and Eilis... Read More
This film was released on Friday 27th November 2015 and is no longer screening.
Taking the form of an extended flashback, Todd Haynes’ (Far from Heaven, I’m Not There) exquisite film depicts the burgeoning relationship formed by upper-middle-class socialite Carol... 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
This event took place on Tuesday 15th December 2015.
Our pairing of a film and main course in the IFI Café Bar this month will be It’s a Wonderful Life. Enjoy this film and follow it with a specially devised... Read More
Limerick based Fresh Film Festival promotes the work of young filmmakers under the age of 18 years. Hundreds of young filmmakers from all over Ireland enter the Fresh Film Festival in the hope of winning the title of Ireland’s Young... Read More
This film screened on Sunday 6th December 2015.
This early Irish emigrant comedy follows Irene (Colleen Moore) as she leaves her beer-swilling father (Charles Murray) and her washerwoman mother (Kate Price) for the bright lights of New York City. Her... Read More
Our French choice for this term is a potent coming-of-age story that focuses on a group of black girls living in the tower blocks of Paris. At the centre is Marieme, who has troubles at home, limited job prospects and... Read More
This film was released on Friday 11th December 2015 and is no longer screening.
In her first leading role since co-starring with Bette Midler in the farcical Big Business (1988), Oscar-nominated Lily Tomlin takes on an altogether different part here... Read More
This film screened on Sunday 27th December 2015.
So the batteries have run out on all the new gadgets and there’s nothing on TV? This magical film is the perfect antidote to family post-Christmas cabin fever. Legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese... Read More
This film screened on Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th December 2015.
“Christmas, sir, is humbug,” said Ebenezer Scrooge.
Among the many versions of Dickens’ essential Christmas story, A Christmas Carol, this one, starring Alastair Sim and showing in a brand... 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
Ireland on Sunday is our monthly showcase for new Irish film.
An artist (Esperanza Collado) seeking inspiration for a project based on the classic Irish novel Melmoth the Wanderer (Maturin’s unique anatomy... Read More
Required viewing during the Christmas period, James Stewart is at his most likeable in It’s a Wonderful Life as George Bailey, loyal family man and friend... Read More
Always one of the festival’s most popular events, this year’s animation programme begins with a trio of shorts featuring Hip-Hip and Hurra, the pink hippopotamus and purple weasel who together solve mysteries... Read More
This film screened on Thursday 3rd December 2015.
On an ordinary day on and around Warsaw’s Grzybowski Square, the lives of a disparate group of people overlap over the course of 11 minutes, leading to an unexpected chain of events... Read More
This film screened on Saturday 5th December 2015.
Special Guest: Actor Krzysztof Stroiński will visit the festival and take part in a Q&A after the film.
Taking loose inspiration from a number of real-life events, including the unsolved murders of... Read More
Winner of the Berlinale’s Silver Bear for Best Director (Małgorzata Szumowska, Elles, In the Name of . . . ), Body is a complex, eccentric, and thoroughly engaging rumination on how one... Read More
Benek (Tomasz Schuchardt), suffering from depression and entertaining thoughts of suicide, meets the vivacious Lena (Agnieszka Żulewska, outstanding), whose free-spirited embrace of life turns him around; suddenly, the future seems bright. However,... Read More
This film screened on Friday 4th December 2015.
In 2004, the Polish military controlled the South Central zone of Iraq, which included the Karbala governorate and its capital, a city holy to Shi’a Muslims. A sudden uprising saw a small... Read More
This film screened on Saturday 12th & Sunday 13th December 2015.
Virtually impossible to see over the last four decades, this screening of Jacques Rivette’s magnum opus in its full-length version, the first ever in Ireland, is a remarkable opportunity... Read More
Devoted patron of the arts, astute collector and heiress of a small fortune at just 21, Peggy Guggenheim’s life and singular career are the subjects of... Read More
Set over the three month period of Martin Luther King Jr’s campaign to secure voting rights, this Oscar-winning film tells the story of the dangerous protest march from Selma to Montgomery. Violently opposed, the 54-mile peaceful march was witnessed worldwide.... Read More
This programme of short films from around the world was selected for the IFI Family Festival 2015. Including animations and live actions, they feature a range of stories in which young people triumph against the odds, whether that means battling... Read More
Terence Davies (Distant Voices,Still Lives; The Long Day Closes) is justly celebrated as one of the finest directors working today; his latest film, an adaptation of... Read More
This film was released on Friday 18th December 2015 and is no longer screening.
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Director Guy Maddin (The Saddest Music in the World, Keyhole) is famed for drawing on the history of cinema, particularly the silent era,... Read More
This screening is followed by a Q&A session with director Lisa Mulcahy.
Mickey Miller is a 12-year-old New Yorker whose move to Longwood, a windswept town in Ireland, coincides with the return of the legendary, evil Black Knight. Mickey and... Read More
A schoolteacher’s moral authority in the classroom is tested by the fickle hand of fate in this starkly compelling morality tale from Bulgaria,... Read More
Vicky Page (Moira Shearer) is a young ballerina who becomes an overnight sensation in this classic backstage drama. Schooled by her instructor, the imperious Lermontov, to... Read More
Sally’s (Meg Ryan) initial encounter with Harry (Billy Crystal) sees the two parting on unfriendly terms due to their disagreement on the issue of whether men... Read More
This film screened on Friday 18th & Wednesday 30th December 2015.
Wild Strawberries is our bi-monthly film club for over 55s.
Dustin Hoffman revels and surprises in this role as stern choirmaster Carvelle to a bunch of varyingly talented schoolboys... Read More
ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH 16:00, 20:45
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: SPRING FORWARD (PROGRAMME 1) 13.20
BALTIMORE 13:30
DUNE: PART TWO (70MM) 19.40
FROM THE VAULTS: ABBAS KIAROSTAMI: THE ART OF LIVING 18.30
IO CAPITANO 15:50
JEANNE DU BARRY 14:30, 18:10
ON THE WATERFRONT 70TH ANNIVERSARY 13:40
PERFECT DAYS 20:30
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 17:15
WILD STRAWBERRIES: THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 11.00 (OC)
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