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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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This film screened 23rd March 2016.
The first in a three-part programme that seeks to examine the possibilities of collectivism through a diverse selection of recent works, AEMI Projections presents Paris-based artist Marylène Negro’s X+, an intricate and provocative collage-work... Read More
Bord Scannán na hÉireann/The Irish Film Board Short Films
A programme of nine short films inspired by the subject of 1916 and what it has left in its wake, commissioned by the IFB. Programme includes fiction and non-fiction, live-action and... Read More
Age Recommendation: 15+
As part of the 1916 Centenary events at the IFI, we are showing a selection of short films from After ’16, the once-off short film initiative from Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board. Commissioned to commemorate,... Read More
This film screened 5th March 2016.
Following a screening of Howard Hawks’ 1940 screwball comedy His Girl Friday starring Cary Grant as sardonic newspaper editor Walter Burns and Rosalind Russell as his ex-wife and star reporter Hildy Johnson (originally written... Read More
Mar chuid de Sheachtain na Gaeilge (1-17 Márta 2016), taispeánfar an leagan Gaeilge den bheochan iomráiteach seo. Tar éis dá máthair imeacht gan tásc gan tuairisc, cuirtear Ben agus Saoirse chun cónaí lena seanmháthair sa chathair. Nuair a chinneann siad ar fhilleadh... Read More
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This film was released 4th March 2016, and is no longer screening.
★★★★★ Movies.ie ★★★★★ RTÉ Ten ★★★★★ The Guardian
Following the commercial failure of his directorial debut, Synecdoche, New York (2008), Charlie Kaufman, the brilliantly inventive writer of films such as... 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 check here regularly for updated dates and times.
SEACHTAIN NA GAEILGE ABÚ!
Programme 2:
POBAL Louis... Read More
FREE EVENT This event is free but ticketed. Please book in person, by emailing boxoffice@irishfilm.ie or by calling 01 679 3477.
Free lunchtime screenings of four programmes of short 1916-related films from the IFI Irish Film Archive.
Programme 1: This... Read More
Programme 2: An... Read More
Programme 3: Eireville... Read More
Programme 4: Irland... 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
With a live solo performance of score by composer Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin.
We are delighted to present the premiere performance of Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin’s solo piano accompaniment to Irish Destiny – re-orchestrated to launch... Read More
This film was released 25th March 2016, and is no longer screening.
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India’s legal system comes under scrutiny in Chaitanya Tamhane’s remarkably assured and quietly angry debut feature. Narayan Kamble (Vira Sathidar) is a 65-year-old part-time educator... Read More
Vincent (Matthias Schoenaerts) is a young soldier recently returned from combat in Afghanistan. Aimless and suffering from acute post-traumatic stress disorder, he takes a job as a security... Read More
This film screened 8th March 2016.
One of the ‘first wave films’, set in 1970s Ballyfermot in the then new suburb of Dublin. A gang of boys plan a raid on an orchard in neighbouring territory. The Irish People called... Read More
This film screened 27th March 2016.
Easter Sunday presentation of a ciné-concert featuring a programme of newsreels documenting events immediately preceding and following the Uprising in Dublin in 1916. This British, German, American and Irish newsreels in this short programme... Read More
This film screened 31st March 2016.
With money tight in a boozy, middle-class 1980s Dublin household, youngest son Conor (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) is forced to transfer from his private school to the Brothers in Synge Street where posh new boys are... 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
Produced by Ulrich Seidl, and Austria’s submission for the Best Foreign Language Film at this year’s Oscars, Goodnight Mommy is a stylish, tense, and thoroughly unnerving entry in... Read More
Following a brace of films which saw the Coen Brothers adopt a more sombre perspective on life’s shortcomings, Hail, Caesar! sees them return to the brasher comedy of... Read More
This film was released 18th March 2016, and is no longer screening.
★★★★★ The Independent
Audio Description (AD) will be available on all screenings.
Moving into an imposing brutalist skyscraper on the edge of an unnamed English metropolis, suave... Read More
This film screened 21st & 29th March 2016.
Moving into an imposing brutalist skyscraper on the edge of an unnamed English metropolis, suave neurologist Laing (Tom Hiddleston) becomes enraptured by neighbouring occupants, particularly the building’s supercilious architect Anthony Royal (Jeremy... Read More
Fifty years ago French New Wave luminary François Truffaut published a monograph on director Alfred Hitchcock, the result of a week-long series of probing interviews... Read More
This film screened 20th March 2016.
This beautiful, award-winning animation from Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon is showing in conjunction with St. Patrick’s Festival.
After their mother’s disappearance, Ben and Saoirse are sent to live with their Granny in the city. When they... Read More
Director Jim Sheridan will introduce this film.
One of the prescribed titles for Junior Cycle English is this magical, semi-autobiographical tale of loss and redemption by Jim Sheridan. After the death of their brother, ten-year-old aspiring filmmaker Christy and her... Read More
This film screened 28th March 2016.
On the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising, Telefís Éireann produced Insurrection, an eight-part drama that depicted the events of Easter Week 1916 as they might have been covered if television had existed. Insurrection... Read More
This film screened 14th March 2016.
Join us for our focus on new Irish film and filmmakers.
We’re delighted to welcome the filmmakers to this event.
We are delighted to premiere seven of the short films commissioned by the Arts... Read More
This film was released 26th February 2016, and is no longer screening.
★★★★★ The Irish Times
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 was released 9th February 2018, and is no longer screening.
★★★★★ The Guardian ★★★★★ Irish Times
Andrey Zvyagintsev’s (The Return, Elena, Leviathan) bracing new film is ostensibly a missing person police procedural, yet similar to Leviathan it bears... Read More
★★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★ The Guardian
Wealthy socialite Marguerite Dumont (Catherine Frot) lives for music; an amateur soprano, she loves nothing more than to... Read More
This film screened 19th March 2016.
The IFI presents, in collaboration with St. Patricks Festival, a 20th-anniversary screening of Neil Jordan’s historical epic, Michael Collins in which Liam Neeson’s intelligently calibrated performance captures Collins’ seductive charisma and complexity, and Jordan’s... Read More
Irish revolutionary leader, politician, Minister for Finance and Director of Information are just a few of the many titles owned by the Irish patriot and revolutionary Michael Collins. Liam Neeson stars as the charismatic leader alongside Julia Roberts as Kittie... Read More
This film was released 1st July 2016, and is no longer screening.
★★★★★ RTÉ.ie ★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★ The Guardian
In 1983, at the age of 45, writer and academic John Hull went totally blind. Initial years of sightlessness... Read More
This film screened 29th March 2016.
Donal Foreman’s acclaimed first feature proposes what recessionary Dublin might look like to a returned émigré. Twenty-something-year-old Fionn returns home and tries to reconnect with his friends, the city and the social scene.
The... Read More
This film screened 2nd March & 14th April 2016.
El laberinto del fauno
One of the most popular Spanish language films of recent years, this acclaimed combination of history and fantasy tells of Ofelia, a young girl living in... Read More
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Film practitioners and historians will reflect on the Appraising the Uprising programme, exploring the value and veracity of representations of Irish history on film; the impact and purpose of different genres; the exhibition history and reception of historical... Read More
★★★★★ – The Irish Times
★★★★ – Entertainment.ie
In his follow-up to Listen Up Philip (2014), director Alex Ross Perry’s psychological drama evokes the spirit of Bergman and... 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
★★★★★ 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
This film screened 24th March 2016.
David Lean’s sumptuous Academy-Award-nominated film presents a tale of passion and small-town intrigue against a backdrop of the 1916 Rising in faraway Dublin. In the village of Kirrary, Co. Kerry, newly-wed Rosy (Sarah Miles)... Read More
★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★★ Movies.ie ★★★★ RTÉ TEN
With money tight in a boozy, middle-class 1980s Dublin household, youngest son Conor (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) is forced to transfer from his private school to... Read More
This film screened 23rd and 30th March 2016.
With money tight in a boozy, middle-class 1980s Dublin household, youngest son Conor (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) is forced to transfer from his private school to the Brothers... Read More
This film screened 22nd March 2016.
The shocking revelations of clerical and institutional abuse of children have become a much-referenced theme in Irish film. This debut film feature casts the theme differently, avoiding sensation and challenging the viewer to accept... 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
What drives an entrepreneur? Is ruthlessness a necessary ingredient of being a top CEO? With a fast-paced script by Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) and directed by Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire), this gripping drama centres on three formative products in Jobs’... Read More
This film screened 12th March 2016.
Our monthly programme strand in which a key film is presented in the context of a notional film canon.
This month, The Bigger Picture turns to comedy, one of the most difficult and unfairly... Read More
Four older men share an unassuming house in an isolated Chilean fishing village; cared for by a housekeeper, they live discrete, secluded lives, using their... Read More
Our monthly indulgent Sunday afternoon of brunch and a classic film.
This month’s Hangover Lounge complements the release of Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise (see page 9) with the thematically similar Shivers. Believing that humanity needs... Read More
This film was released 11th March 2016, and is no longer screening.
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The much-anticipated Roadshow Release of Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, exclusive to the IFI, pays homage to and recreates... Read More
In the spring of 1916, hostility towards the British is brewing on the streets of Dublin. Nora Clitheroe (Barbara Stanwyk) tries in vain to keep her husband Jack (Preston Foster) from joining the rebel... 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 screened 15th March 2016.
Eminent filmmaker John Boorman will present his doppelgänger drama, which stars Brendan Gleeson as property tycoon Liam O’Leary. At the top of his game in prosperous Ireland, O’Leary is propelled into a downward spiral... 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
★★★★★ Irish Examiner ★★★★ The Irish Times
A family of settlers in 17th century New England are exiled from their village and forced to live in the outskirts of... Read More
This film screened 1st March 2016.
This witty and satirical look at 1950s Ireland, adapted from Louis D’Alton’s stage play, begins with a Black and Tans’ shooting. Years later, plans to erect a statue in honour of the dead soldier... Read More
This film screened 30th March & 1st April 2016.
Wild Strawberries is our bi-monthly film club for over 55s.
Wes Anderson’s award-winning film recounts the adventures of M. Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes) the owner of the Grand Budapest Hotel, and... 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
Our Surprise Screening has been announced! We’re delighted to be able to show a preview of Disney’s Zootropolis.
The modern mammal metropolis of Zootropolis is a city like no other. Comprised of habitat neighborhoods like ritzy Sahara Square and frigid... Read More
IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2024: AMPLIFIED: THE EXPORTATION OF THE CULTURE WARS + Q&A 17.50
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MRS ROBINSON 13.30
THE CRITIC 15.40
THE GOLDMAN CASE 18.00
THE OUTRUN 14.30, 17.10, 20.30
THE SATURDAY SERIAL: STAR WARS EPISODE V: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK 11.00
THE SUBSTANCE 20.00
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