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This film was released 12th February 2016, and is no longer screening.
★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★★ The Upcoming
Bowie-esque rock star Marianne Lane (Tilda Swinton) is vacationing with her documentary filmmaker boyfriend Paul (Matthias Schoenaerts) on the Italian island of... Read More
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PROGRAMME 1
OUR COUNTRY
Liam O Laoghaire’s film for Clann na Poblachta discredits the Fianna Fáil leadership and presents countrywide images of poverty, emigration and deprivation never before seen on Irish screens.
FILM INFO: Liam O’Laoghaire, 8 mins, 1948,... Read More
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Join us for free lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office.
PROGRAMME 1: JACK OF ALL MAIDS
Well-loved American comedian Will Rogers visiting... Read More
Join us for free lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. Please see www.ifi.ie for dates and times.
PROGRAMME 1: JACK OF... Read More
PROGRAMME 2:
THE NEW MATCHMAKERS
This film, made by the Radharc... Read More
This film was released 19th February 2016, and is no longer screening.
★★★★★ Entertainment.ie
Another month, another revisionist western starring Kurt Russell; S. Craig Zahler’s striking debut feature is a confident twist on the classic frontier yarn. When cannibal savages... Read More
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 screened 10th February 2016.
In Butterfly, Leonard (Denis Conway), a lonely probation officer, estranged from his wife, is faced with the difficult task of writing a report on Teri (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), a mercurial young graphic designer with convictions... Read More
On Saturday,Cathal Black will be joined by Dr. Tony Tracy (NUIG) to discuss his work in film to date. The presentation will include a screening of Butterfly.
In Butterfly, Leonard (Denis Conway), a lonely probation officer, estranged from his wife,... Read More
★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★ The Guardian
David (Tim Roth) is a Los Angeles homecare nurse for the terminally ill; we observe him in the delivery of respectful, conscientious... Read More
This film screened 22nd February 2016.
Immerse yourself in the sun-kissed paradise of the Italian island of Pantelleria in Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash, starring Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Matthias Schoenaerts and Dakota Johnson, and follow it with a main course... Read More
Julianne Moore stars in this true story about terminally ill New Jersey police officer Laurel Hester, whose 2005 legal battle to pass her pension benefits to her partner... Read More
Ireland’s Young Filmmaker Award: Dublin & Leinster Heats
The Dublin Heats of Ireland’s Young Filmmaker Awards at the Fresh Film Festival will take place at the IFI. If you have entered or would just like an opportunity to see some... Read More
This film screened 24th February 2016.
In association with Temple Bar Gallery and Studio. These films have been selected by curator Megs Morley and artist Amie Siegel as part of her exhibition ‘Imitation of Life’ at TBG+S (Feb 19th –... Read More
Bande de filles
We continue our tour of this insightful coming-of-age story about 16-year-old Marieme who lives in the banlieues of Paris. With troubles at home, limited job prospects and intimidation by the boys in her neighbourhood, she is drawn... Read More
This film screened 23rd February 2016.
Award-winning artist Steve McQueen brought an unflinching gaze to the Maze Prison Hunger Strike of 1981. Central to the film is a gripping single shot dialogue between Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender) and a visiting... Read More
This film screened 20th February 2016.
The IFI and Audi Dublin International Film Festival (ADIFF) are proud to welcome Sir David Hare who will participate in an interview with Sean Rocks of RTÉ Radio 1’s Arena ahead of a special screening... Read More
The Irish Film Institute & Audi Dublin International Film Festival are proud to welcome Sir David Hare to attend a special screening of one of his most highly acclaimed works for the screen, his adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s novel The... Read More
These films have been selected by curator Megs Morley and artist Amie Siegel as part of her exhibition ‘Imitation of Life’ at TBG+S (Feb 19th – Apr 2nd).
DDR/DDR explores the German Democratic Republic... Read More
This film screened 28th February 2016.
For our young viewers this month we have a terrific selection of short films from Europe. Dialogue free but filled with music, colour and great characters, there are stories from France, UK, Denmark, Portugal,... Read More
This film screened 11th February 2016.
Join us for our focus on new Irish film and filmmakers.
Oisín (Tadhg Murphy), a musician from Dublin, travels to Berlin with his band, buzzing with banter and the potential for adventure. He leaves... Read More
This film was released 26th February 2016, and is no longer screening.
★★★★★ The Irish Times
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Fifteen-year-old Jack (Charlie Plummer) doesn’t have many friends, lives in a rough part of town and is also in the middle... Read More
This film screened 7th February 2016.
Adapted from a short story by John McGahern, teenager Eamon (Andrew Scott) spends his last summer before leaving home with his father, eel fisherman John Doyle (Donal Donnelly). Tensions over fishing rights arise with... Read More
This film screened 13th February 2016.
Thomas Lynch is a Detroit-based mortician who has run the family business for over 30 years and arranged perhaps 6,000 funerals. When not an American undertaker, he is an Irishman who lives in Moveen,... Read More
This film screened 14th February 2016.
At the end of the 19th century on a large estate on Achill Island, Agnes MacDonnell (Greta Scacchi), a tough pipe-smoking, gun-toting English landowner, meets her match in the mysterious James Lynchehaun (Daniel Craig)... Read More
Adapted from Rachel Boynton’s 2005 documentary of the same name and starring Sandra Bullock, Our Brand is Crisis follows a group of American political strategists battling it out to win the 2002 Bolivian presidential election. Bullock stars as “Calamity” Jane... Read More
Left to look after himself by his widowed father in their run-down shack in Woop Woop, Western Australia, 11-year-old Dylan discovers the art of folding paper planes. Motivated by his friends and a passion for flight that is shared by... Read More
This film screened 6th February 2016.
Made during the mid-1980s recession, Pigs is infused with fury and despair. Jimmy (Jimmy Brennan), a gay man separated from his wife, moves into a crumbling Henrietta Street mansion alongside a host of other... Read More
This film was released 5th February 2016, and is no longer screening.
Brothers Gummi (Sigurður Sigurjónsson) and Kiddi (Theodór Júlíusson) haven’t spoken in 40 years. Both men are sheep farmers in the starkly beautiful Icelandic countryside; neighbours in a small... Read More
This film screened 19th February 2016.
The Audi Dublin International Film Festival, Arts Council and Filmbase, in association with IFI, are delighted to present the world premieres of the latest two films made under the Arts Council’s Reel Art scheme.... Read More
This film screened 27th February 2016.
For 15 years, director Volker Schaner followed Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, legendary godfather of reggae and dub, gaining unprecedented access and insight into the life and mind of one of music’s most eccentric figures. Following... Read More
★★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★★ Entertainment.ie
Adapted by Emma Donoghue from her own novel, Room tells the story of Ma (Brie Larson) and her five-year-old son Jack (Jacob Tremblay), who are being held captive by a man known only as Old... Read More
The directors of our previous hit French title, The Intouchables, offer a fairly light take on migrant struggles in present-day France. Samba (Omar Sy) is from Senegal and has lived in France for ten years. When he is suddenly ordered... Read More
This film was released 29th January 2016, and is no longer screening.
★★★★★ The Independent ★★★★★ Entertainment.ie ★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★ The Guardian
Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams and Mark Ruffalo, amongst others, excel in this gripping slow-burn procedural which observes the... Read More
Relocating to the Australian outback with their teenage daughter Lily and younger son Tom, Mathew Parker (Joseph Fiennes) and his wife Catherine (Nicole Kidman) are starting afresh in... Read More
This highly innovative, multi-award winning film is a welcome addition to the Leaving Certificate English Comparative choice. When silent film actor Valentin finds himself becoming increasingly out-of-date with the arrival of sound, his co-star and one-time fan Peppy becomes a... Read More
★★★★★ RTE.ie ★★★★★ The Telegraph ★★★★ The Irish Times
A revered figure in world cinema, Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien is acclaimed for his elliptical narratives and meticulously crafted aesthetic. In this, his first martial arts film, he blends his style with the... Read More
This film screened 15th February 2016.
Our monthly programme strand in which a key film is presented in the context of a notional film canon.
This month’s selection sees film critic Michael Doherty present the debut feature from Victor Erice, considered... Read More
Brunch + film €16; film only is normal IFI pricing. Sunday brunch is served 12pm – 4pm.
Our monthly indulgent Sunday afternoon of brunch and a classic film.
This month’s Hangover Lounge sees... Read More
Spanish director Álvaro Longoria is granted exclusive access to North Korea to film in any location he wants, provided it is on a controlled, government-sanctioned... Read More
This film was released 15th January 2016, and is no longer screening.
★★★★★ Irish Independent ★★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★★ Entertainment.ie ★★★★★ RTÉ.ie
A bracing, existential tale of survival and revenge set in the U.S. Midwest in the 1890s, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant... Read More
★★★★★ Movies.ie
SPECIAL GUEST
We’re delighted to be joined by actors Olwen Fouéré for a Q&A following the opening night screening of this film on February 12th at 20.30.
We... Read More
In this provocative political thriller which deals with the complexities of post-Troubles Northern Ireland, diplomat Henry Stanfield (Roger Allam) has been appointed by the PM to lead the... Read More
Black’s directorial debut, Wheels adapts John McGahern’s story of a young man’s return home to fraught relations with his father on the family farm. Black’s interest in the tension between past and present and... Read More
This film screened 14th & 26th February 2016.
Wild Strawberries is our bi-monthly film club for over 55s.
One of cinema’s best-loved actors, Meryl Streep has starred in a few period dramas during her illustrious career. In this western she... Read More
Ostwind – Zusammen sind wir frei
Junior Cycle students of German will enjoy this classic teen story concerning rebellious Mika who fails her school exams and is sent to spend summer holidays with her strict grandmother in the country. With... Read More
Retired composer Fred Ballinger (Michael Caine) is in retreat from the world at a luxurious Swiss sanatorium, fending off requests to return to London for a Royal Command... Read More
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IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2024: HOUSEWIFE OF THE YEAR + Q&A 15.30
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MRS ROBINSON 13.30
THE CRITIC 15.40
THE GOLDMAN CASE 18.00
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THE SUBSTANCE 20.00
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