WHAT'S ON - 18/08/2016

• ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME PROG 2 (AUG 2016)

  POSTCARDS FROM THE PAST

  Join us for free screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect tickets at IFI Box Office.

  PROGRAMME 2:

  THE IRISH RIVIERA

  Another early film by Irish Tourist Association which enticed... Read More

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  Times: 13.10

  

• BOBBY SANDS: 66 Days

  ★★★★★ – RTE.ie

  In the spring of 1981 Bobby Sands, a Republican prisoner in Belfast’s H-Block, began a sixty-six day hunger strike which drew the attention of the world to his campaign for recognition as a political prisoner. This focus... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 18.10

  

• INGRID BERGMAN:
 IN HER OWN WORDS

  This film was released 12th August 2016, and is no longer screening.

  ★★★★ The Guardian 

  Exclusively at the IFI.

  Ingrid Bergman’s place in the pantheon of acting legends is indisputable; the life of the three-time Oscar-winning star of such perennial... Read More

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  Times: 15.50

  

• SWEET BEAN

  This film was released 5th August 2016, and is no longer screening.

  Middle-aged Sentarô (Masatoshi Nagase, Mystery Train), dour and taciturn, runs a small restaurant that specialises in dorayaki, a Japanese confection consisting of two pancakes surrounding a filling of... Read More

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  Times: 13.15

  

• THE CHILDHOOD OF A LEADER

  This film was released 19th August 2016, and is no longer screening.

  ★★★★★ Irish Times

  An extreme case of nature versus nurture is expounded in this debut from actor-turned-director Brady Corbet; an adaptation of a Jean-Paul Sartre story, The Childhood... Read More

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  Times: 20.00

  

• THE CONFESSION: LIVING THE WAR ON TERROR
 (ACCESSIBLE SCREENING)

  This film was released 12th August 2016, and is no longer screening.

  These are Open Captioned (OC) screenings that, whilst open to all, feature special captions for those with hearing impairments.  Audio Description (AD) is available on all The Confession screenings. Visit www.ifi.ie/accessible for more information.

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  Times: 13.50

  

• THE CONFESSION: LIVING THE WAR ON TERROR

  This film was released 12th August 2016, and is no longer screening.

  ★★★★★ – The Upcoming

  ★★★★ – Irish Times

  Exclusively at the IFI.

  A sustained interview with
 Moazzam Begg, a former detainee
 at Guantánamo Bay, Ghadiali’s film is a... Read More

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  Times: 18.20

  

• THE IDOL

  This film was released 12th August 2016, and is no longer screening.

  ★★★★★ RTE.ie

  Tickets are on sale now.

  From Hany Abu-Assad, director of the only two Palestinian films to be Oscar- nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, Paradise Now... Read More

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  Times: 16.00 | 20.20

  

• VALLEY OF LOVE

  This film was released 12th August 2016, and is no longer screening.

  ★★★★★ – RTE.ie

  Tickets are on sale now.

  Reunited for the first time since Maurice Pialat’s Loulou (1980) in the new film from Guillaume Nicloux 
(The Nun, 2013;... Read More

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  Times: 15.40 | 20.30

  

• WIENER-DOG

  This film was released 12th August 2016, and is no longer screening.

  ★★★★★ – Independent

  Todd Solondz’s films depict the dark side of American suburbia. No subject proves taboo as he creates characters at once sympathetic and abhorrent, and he... Read More

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  Times: 14.00 | 18.00