Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 25/09/2016

  • IFI Documentary Festival 2016: A Family Affair

    A family portrait that doubles as investigation, director Tom Fassaert’s film is an attempt to untangled his family’s troubled history with its matriarch Marianne Hertz, an impeccably dressed ninety-five-year-old whose persona in front of her grandson’s camera switches from candid... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.00

  • IFI Documentary Festival 2016: How To Defuse A Bomb: The Project Children Story

    Journalist Susan McKay will host a Q&A with director Des Henderson and producer Ed Stobart following the screening.

    In 1975 Irish immigrant Denis Mulcahy of the NYPD bomb squad  – gathered a group of family, friends and neighbours to start... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.30

  • IFI Documentary Festival 2016: Life, Animated

    A profoundly autistic boy learns to communicate through reciting memorised dialogue from Disney films in Roger Ross William’s inspirational case history. By the age of three Owen Suskind had withdrawn completely; no longer able to talk, with sleep and motor... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15.50

  • IFI Documentary Festival 2016: The Lovers and The Despot

    This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Directors Ross Adam and Robert Cannan.

    The history of Hollywood is replete with bizarre tales, but for sheer strangeness few can match the one recounted in this gripping film that illuminates... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20.20

  • IFI Documentary Festival 2016: Tower

    On 1st August 1966 engineering student Charles Whitman ascended the main building observation tower in the University of Texas at Austin with a small arsenal in tow and proceeded to open fire on the student populace beneath him. Forty-nine people... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.10

  • IFI FAMILY: AKEELAH AND THE BEE

    This film screened 25th September 2016.

    In back-to-school month, the weekly spelling test doesn’t have many positive connotations. Yet this film, featuring a young black girl in a disadvantaged South Los Angeles school, places the National Spelling Bee as something... Read More

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    Times: 11.00

  • JULIETA

    This film was released 26th August 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★★ RTÉ.ie

    Pedro Almodóvar’s Julieta, his 20th commercial feature, takes as its basis three short stories by Canadian Nobel laureate Alice Munro, spanning thirty years in the life... Read More

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    Times: 13.35

  • THE HANGOVER LOUNGE: ANNIE HALL

    This film screened 25th September 2016.

    Our monthly indulgent Sunday afternoon of brunch and a classic film.

    Often cited as one of cinema’s greatest comedies, Annie Hall marked a turning point for Allen, seeing him move away from the broad... Read More

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    Times: 14.00

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