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 1:
THROUGH ERIN’S ISLE
This early film made by the Irish Tourist Association... Read More
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
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 1:
THROUGH ERIN’S ISLE
This early film made by the Irish Tourist... Read More
This film was released 29th July 2016, and is no longer screening.
Novelist JT LeRoy burst onto the literary scene in the mid-1990s, a bracingly honest new voice whose lurid tales of street hustlers and child abuse were drawn from... Read More
This film was released 19th August 2016, and is no longer screening.
Exclusively at the IFI.
★★★★★ Financial Times
Named after the Biblical monster, Zhao Liang’s Behemoth refers to a contemporary horror: the industrialisation of Inner Mongolia, a vast region... Read More
★★★★★ – 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
This film screened 20th August 2016.
The screening will be introduced by writer, actor and comedian Moira Brady Averill.
May worked as a comedian, playwright and actress before embarking on A New Leaf, her directorial debut which she wrote and... Read More
This film screened 28th August 2016.
Laugh a Defiance curator Vaari Claffey will introduce the screening.
After the struggle over the release of Mikey and Nicky, May would not direct again until ten years later when Warren Beatty, eager to... Read More
This film screened 24th August 2016.
Writer/director and producer Paul Duane will present an introduction before this screening.
A gangster drama that takes place over one night as two scruffy, small-time crooks traipse around the run-down streets of Philadelphia,... Read More
This film screened 21st August 2016.
Lenny (Charles Grodin) is a salesman who, after his homely Jewish wedding to unsophisticated Lila decides he has made a grave mistake and sets about pursuing Kelly (Cybill Shepherd), a waspy blonde he meets... Read More
This film screened 23rd August 2016.
Our monthly gastronomic feature followed by a meal in the IFI Café Bar.
Our monthly pairing of a new release and a specially devised main course menu, will be Paddy Breathnach’s Viva, followed by... Read More
This film screened 10th August 2016.
When (fictional) IRA member Gerard Quigley (Aidan Gillen) is imprisoned on charges of murder of a British soldier he becomes a cell-mate of Bobby Sands (John Lynch). He joins Messiah-like Sands on a hunger... Read More
This film screened 21st August 2016.
A selection of short animations from Cartoon Saloon.
From the award-winning animation studio – best known for Song of the Sea and The Secret of Kells – comes this selection of short films and favourite... Read More
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
This film screened 16th August 2016.
Join us for our focus on new Irish film and filmmakers.
In the distant future climate change has devastated the Earth. Pushtar, a tundra on the outskirts of the Himalayas, is home to a disparate... Read More
This film was released 15th July 2016, and is no longer screening.
★★★★ The Irish Times
Tickets are on sale now.
In this keenly anticipated second feature documentary, Ken Wardrop explores a series of mother/ son relationships to reveal the universality... Read More
This film was released 5th August 2016, and is no longer screening.
In October 1978, former bassist for the Sex Pistols and infamous poster child of punk, Sid Vicious, was arrested in a squalid Chelsea Hotel room and later charged with... Read More
★★★★ RTE.ie
We’re delighted to welcome director Aoife Kelleher to the IFI for a Q&A following the 18.30 screening on August 26th. Tickets for this screening are on sale.
In 1879, fifteen people in the village of Knock, Co. Mayo... Read More
This film was released 15th July 2016, and is no longer screening.
Delphine (Izïa Higelin) works on the family farm in a conservative rural community in early-1970s’ France. She keeps her sexuality hidden, brushing off both her parents’ encouragement to... Read More
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
This film screened 9th August 2016.
Our monthly programme strand in which a key film is presented in the context of a notional film canon.
This month’s Bigger Picture will be presented by comedian, actor and writer, Tara Flynn.
What... Read More
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
This film was released 29th July 2016, and is no longer screening.
Copenhagen in the ‘70s; TV newsreader Anna (Trine Dyrholm) is married to university lecturer Erik (Ulrich Thomsen), who has just inherited his late father’s gigantic house.
In an... Read More
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.
... Read More
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
This film screened 28th August 2016.
Our monthly indulgent Sunday afternoon of brunch and a classic film.
In Journey to Italy, the enduringly iconic Ingrid Bergman gives one of her best, most emotionally nuanced performances as a woman facing a... Read More
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
This film was released 8th July 2016, and is no longer screening.
★★★★ Irish Independent ★★★★ The Irish Times
Tickets are on sale now.
The emptiness of the fashion world is viciously satirised in Nicolas Winding Refn’s visually striking, unclassifiable The... Read More
This film was released 19th August 2016, and is no longer screening.
Exclusively at the IFI.
★★★★ Irish Times
An investigative reporter gets considerably more than he bargained for when he scratches the surface of an underground ‘competitive endurance tickling’... Read More
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
This film was released 19th August 2016, and is no longer screening.
★★★★ Irish Times
Against the fading grandeur of contemporary Havana, Jesus (Héctor Medina), an impoverished, sensitive young make-up assistant escapes the grim reality of everyday life through his... Read More
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
This film screened 26th & 31st August 2016.
Wild Strawberries is our bi-monthly film club for over 55s.
While Rio de Janeiro puts on its best Olympics front, we take a look at another side of the teeming city through... Read More
The IFI is supported
by The Arts Council