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This film was released 25th November 2016, and is no longer screening.
★★★★★ Times (UK)
★★★★ Guardian
In 1947 London, Ruth Williams (Rosamund Pike) meets and falls for the handsome and charming Seretse Khama (David Oyelowo), a law student from... Read More
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This film was released 28th October 2016, and is no longer screening.
★★★★★ Cineman
★★★★ Irish Times
Join us for a special Rhone wine-tasting in conjunction with Inter-Rhône Rhone Wine Week Ireland, as part of Rhône Wine Week, (Oct 29th... Read More
This film screened 12th November 2016.
This film will be pre-ceded with the European premiere of new short by director Jim Sheridan 11th Hour. Starring the Mexican-American actor Salma Hayek, this eight minute short is set in a New York... Read More
This film was released 14th October 2016, and is no longer screening.
★★★★★ Telegraph
★★★★★ Independent
18-year-old Star (newcomer Sasha Lane) abandons her hardscrabble life on the fringes of society in Andrea Arnold’s electrifying take on that American staple, the... Read More
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FILMS BY JIM MULKERNS
A focus on Jim Mulkerns (1927-2003), talented stalwart of the Irish film industry.
(Notes by Sunniva... Read More
This film screened 13th November 2016.
This screening is part of the Dublin Arabic Film Festival 2016.
The setting is Tunisia on the eve of the 2010 Jasmine Revolution; a young woman attempts to retain her independence in the face... Read More
This film screened 11th November 2016.
*Tickets for this screening have sold out*
This film will be pre-ceded with the European premiere of new short by director Jim... Read More
This film screened 29th November 2016.
Our monthly pairing of a new release and a specially devised main course menu will be Norman Jewison’s 1967 classic In the Heat of the Night, followed by a Deep South feast inspired by... Read More
This film screened 6th November 2016.
This hypnotic portrait of Manchester United legend George Best trains multiple cameras on the revered footballer over the complete course of a match against Coventry City. Made at the height of Best’s fame and... Read More
This film was released 18th November 2016, and is no longer screening.
This year’s Cannes Film Festival was a showcase for two very different sides of director Jim Jarmusch; competition entry Paterson (opening on Friday... Read More
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The contrasts between traditional and modern value systems in contemporary Tunisia are imaginatively explored through the titular character’s relationships in this engaging romantic... Read More
This film was released 21st October 2016, and is no longer screening.
★★★★ – Irish Times
★★★★ – The Guardian
When Ken Loach won the Palme d’Or for I, Daniel Blake he joined an elite pantheon of directors who have... Read More
YOU MADE ME LOVE YOU & THE HOST
Acclaimed since its premieres at LFF and Rotterdam, Miranda Pennell’s The Host examines the history of British Petroleum in Iran by taking a forensic look at... Read More
This film screened 15th November 2016.
This screening will be followed by a panel discussion with guests including Dr Pól Mac Aonghusa, Senior Research Manager at the IBM Research Lab and Orla Cox, Security Intelligence Delivery at Symantec hosted by... Read More
Spirited 15-year-old Sacha has no interest in suitors from the Russian court, despite her parents’ concerns. Instead she is preoccupied by her beloved
Arctic explorer grandfather, Olukine, who went missing two years ago. Convinced that no-one has looked for him... Read More
The Larrieu brothers’ new comedy is a delightfully witty game where death and desire are intertwined. Caroline (Isabelle Carré), an uptight Parisian in her 40s, arrives in an idyllic mountain village in southwest France hoping to deal quickly with the... Read More
A revered filmmaker and life-long fan of cinema, Tavernier addresses the camera directly to speak about the films he loves, characterising cinema as ‘a collective art’. Directors, screenwriters, actors and producers, the pioneering use of music, and composers in French... Read More
Dr. Douglas Smith, Senior Lecturer, School of Languages and Literature, UCD, will introduce this screening.
He (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a racing driver, she (Anouk Aimée) works in film. Both widowed parents, they meet at their children’s school. They move at... Read More
Actor Corentin Fila will partake in a post-screening Q&A on November 23rd
Teenagers Damian (Kacey Mottet Klein) and Thomas (Corentin Fila) share a simmering enmity that frequently erupts into violent confrontation. Interceding as peacemaker, Damian’s mother Marianne (Sandrine Kiberlain) arranges... Read More
Set in the criminal underworld of Belle Époque Paris, Jacques Becker’s glorious tragic melodrama, one of the great French films of the 1950s is ready to be rediscovered.
Marie (Simone Signoret) is nicknamed Casque d’Or – helmet of gold –... Read More
The turbulent, life-long friendship between painter Paul Cézanne (Guillaume Gallienne, Me, Myself and Mum) and writer Émile Zola (Guillaume Canet, Tell No One) is brought to the screen in Danièle Thompson’s well-appointed period drama.
Thompson begins her story as Cézanne... Read More
Actress Lola Créton and director Dominique Cabrera will partake in a post-screening Q&A.
It’s summer in picturesque Corniche Kennedy, a well-off neighbourhood in Marseille, where a group of disaffected late teens have adopted the sea cliffs as their haunt. With... Read More
A haunting elegy set in the aftermath of WWI, Frantz is another successful change of pace for the prolific François Ozon. Mourning the death of her fiancé Frantz, Anna (Paula Beer) stays with his grieving parents in their idyllic German... Read More
Director Dominik Moll and writer Gilles Marchand will introduce this screening.
Middle class couple Michel (Laurent Lucas) and Claire (Mathilde Seigner) are en route to their dilapidated holiday home with their three daughters. Stopping at a petrol station, Michel is... Read More
*Tickets for the French Film Festival opening night screening have sold out*.
Tickets are still available for the Thursday 24th November screening.
Criminal lawyer Victoria Spick (Virginie Efira) tries to juggle life, career, children and a chaotic love life in... Read More
Director Gilles Marchand and writer Dominik Moll will partake in a post-screening Q&A.
Young brothers Tom and Benjamin travel to Sweden to spend their vacation with their estranged father (Jérémie Elkaïm), who they have barely seen since their parents divorced.... Read More
*Tickets for the November 19th screening have sold out*.
Tickets are still available for the screening on Tuesday November 22nd.
Louis (Gaspard Ulliel), a terminally ill writer, returns home to his estranged family after an absence of more than... Read More
Director Sébastien Betbeder will partake in a post-screening Q&A.
Thomas (Thomas Blanchard) and Thomas (Thomas Scimeca), two less-than-successful actors, leave Paris on a whim for the frozen wilderness of Greenland – specifically the remote town of Kullorsuaq where one of... Read More
Director Sébastien Betbeder will introduce this screening.
The alluring young Marie (Vimala Pons) breaks up with Antoine (Eric Cantona), a writer lacking in inspiration, preferring to let fate decide her future. Jobless journalist Siméon (Pierre Rochefort), finds Marie’s wallet in... Read More
In Sacha Wolff’s gritty debut, Soane, a nineteen-year-old Pacific Islander (a powerfully convincing Toki Pilioko) grabs an opportunity to leave his idyllic yet abusive home environment in New Caledonia for France when he is offered a professional rugby contract.
In... Read More
Winner of this year’s European Young Audience Award, this fresh coming-of-age drama centres on thirteen-year-old Aurore, trying to find her way between a beautiful older sister and a brainy younger one.
Newcomer Léna Magnien excels as the prickly teen, full... Read More
Director Dominik Moll and writer Gilles Marchand will partake in a post-screening Q&A.
A respectable, middle-aged divorcé dad, Philippe Mars (François Damiens) wants to please everyone. Outwardly, his life appears intact while inwardly, he is in turmoil. His busy TV... Read More
Directors Benoît Delépine & Gustave Kerverne will partake in a post-screening Q&A on November 22nd.
Widowed cattle farmer Jean (Gérard Depardieu) and his wine-soaked son Bruno (Benoît Poelvoorde) – who boasts of being drunk at least twice a week for... Read More
A rogue’s gallery of grotesques populate the titular stretch of coastline in director Bruno Dumont’s hilarious follow-up to P’tit Quinquin, which screened at the 2014 IFI French Film Festival. Bourgeois couple André and Isabella Van Peteghem (Fabrice Luchini and Valeria... Read More
August 1715, Louis XIV suffers an embolism kick-starting gangrene and resulting in confinement to his Versailles bedroom until his demise that September. Preparing for death and in constant pain, the king is surrounded by courtiers, ministers, relatives, doctors and close... Read More
Poland, 1945: a community of Benedictine nuns is the target for systematic abuse at the hands of the occupying Russian forces in this assured period piece by Anne Fontaine (Coco Before Chanel). French Red Cross worker and former resistance fighter... Read More
Parisian teenager Vincent’s (Victor Ezenfis) quest to track down his absentee father – a pompous literary publisher played by Mathieu Amalric – is the backbone to Eugène Green’s (The Portuguese Nun) stylish and eccentric new film that weaves emotional depth,... Read More
Director Muriel Coulin will partake in a post-screening Q&A on Nov 17th. Book tickets to this screening here.
Aurore (Ariane Labed) and Marine (singer-actress Soko), childhood friends and now military comrades, are dispatched with their platoon on a three-day course... Read More
A young doctor’s guilt compels her to action in the Dardenne brothers’ (Two Days, One Night) latest humanist drama, filmed in their signature social realist style. The day after she refuses an after-hours patient entry to her surgery, Jenny (Adèle... Read More
There will be a post-screening discussion with Peadar Kirby, academic, writer and a director of Cloughjordan Ecovillage; Kate Ruddock, Friends of the Earth; Mindy O Brien, Voice Ireland and Graham Barnes, Trustee/Director of Feasta.
This César-winning documentary inspires and gives... Read More
Hip-hop artist Far’hook (rapper Sadek in his first film role) has insulted a rival rapper and is a target for retaliation; with the biggest concert of his career on the horizon, his producer dispatches him to stay with his curmudgeonly... Read More
Recommended age 15+
This gripping documentary is based on events that started at a Florida gas station, when software developer Michael Dunn asked four young black men in a red SUV to turn their music down. The ensuing argument lead... Read More
Working part-time in an undertakers, and listening repeatedly to Kurt Cobain, Charleen focuses on the darker side of life. Her mother thinks her daughter is depressed but, in fact, all she wants is some peace, so she... Read More
Can the fishing industry be sustainable in light of global economic and environmental challenges? Activist and filmmaker Risteárd Ó Domhnaill (The Pipe) looks at three different fishing communities whose livelihoods are seriously under threat. On Arranmore, super-trawlers hoover up dwindling... Read More
This documentary film combines original footage with animations, interviews and reconstructions, to depict the 66 days of Bobby Sands’ hunger strike, as well as the long-term impact of the blanket protest on the political situation, after Sands’ election as MP.... Read More
In the dead of night, a tense and protective father Roy (Michael Shannon) and his goggles-wearing son shuffle from one deserted motel to the next. Seemingly on the run from law enforcement and a mysterious cult, the two must journey... Read More
The Arab Spring of 2011 was sparked by the Jasmine Revolution of Tunisia. In Paris, people take to the streets in support, but 14-year-old Marwenn, though of Tunisian background, has no interest in politics. Then he stumbles... Read More
What does the future look like to young artists? Have you some keen mural painters in your class? We are inviting a number of young artists to imagine the future on the walls of the IFI terrace, with the help... Read More
As a character study, Jack Black playing substitute teacher Mr Finn is irresistible. Determined to shake up his class of elementary pupils by uncovering their love of rock music, he flies in the face of the school code of behaviour,... Read More
Director John Carney won international acclaim with his lo-fi musical Once. He achieves a similar charm and effect with this 1980’s set, funny teen drama, in which Conor, (newcomer, Ferdia Peelo-Walsh), seeks to escape from the strains of family life... Read More
For 2017 Leaving Certificate candidates we offer an extended introduction to this popular choice, followed by a 15 minute presentation on a key scene. Colin Firth is the reluctant monarch, King George VI, who overcomes his speech disability with the... Read More
20-year-old Alma works on a chicken farm in the austerity-hit Castellón region of Spain. Her grandfather is on hunger strike, and has not spoken since her father sold the family’s ancient olive tree. Alma believes the only way... Read More
Recommended age 6+
This refreshingly old-school, hand-drawn animation imagines how the first giraffe got from Africa to Paris through a story involving a slave boy, Maki, a hot air balloon and a kindly Bedouin trader. After Maki escapes evil slave... Read More
This film was released 4th November 2016, and is no longer screening.
“Understandably In the Heat of the Night cleaned up at that year’s Oscars”
– ★★★★ Empire
“A superior thriller which stands up well even when shorn of... Read More
This film screened 9th November 2016.
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For all those who missed it at IFI Doc Fest, we are delighted to present the winner of the Audience Award for Best... Read More
Structuring his film around singer Ms Lauryn Hill’s reading of Franz Fanon’s text, and original footage captured during the final years of colonialism in African countries, Swedish filmmaker Göran Olsson creates a fertile ground from which to expose ongoing issues... Read More
The direct cinema style pioneered by David and Albert Maysles yielded landmark films such as Gimme Shelter, Salesman and this one, about the legendary aunt and cousin of Jackie Kennedy, the co-dependent Beales of Grey Gardens, who eked out their... Read More
This film was released 28th November 2016, and is no longer screening.
★★★★ Movies.ie
★★★★ Rolling Stone
Werner Herzog turns his singular brand of cultural analysis to the defining technological development of our age – the Internet – and finds... Read More
★★★★★ Irish Times
This film opens on November 25th.
In 2004, when Norwegian chess prodigy Magnus Carlsen was just thirteen years old he made a promise that he... Read More
★★★★★ Entertainment.ie
★★★★★ The Guardian
Amy Adams plays Susan, a prosperous, disillusioned gallery-owner who is deeply affected when a manuscript written by her ex-husband and dedicated... Read More
Amy Adams plays Susan, a prosperous, disillusioned gallery-owner who is deeply affected when a manuscript written by her ex-husband and dedicated to her, arrives at her home. Afflicted... Read More
This film was released 11th November 2016, and is no longer screening.
In the aftermath of World War I, former soldier Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender) works as a lighthouse keeper, living alone on a small island. On the mainland, he... Read More
A mother and daughter challenge the antiquated patriarchal structures of a Southern Israeli Bedouin community in writer-director Elite Zexer’s compelling feature debut. As... Read More
This film screened 28th November 2016.
Preston Sturges’s brilliant satire on Hollywood sees Joel McCrea star as John L. Sullivan, a successful director of shallow comedies who suddenly grows a social conscience and decides to make a film (whose name... Read More
Our monthly indulgent Sunday afternoon of brunch and a classic film.
Joe Dante’s (Gremlins, The ‘Burbs) love letter to the B-movies of the 1950s and ‘60s is something of a lost treasure. Set against... Read More
★★★★ Entertainment.ie
Poland, the winter of 1945; an isolated community of Benedictine nuns are the target for systematic abuse at the hands of the occupying Russian... Read More
This intriguing drama-documentary hybrid takes us on a cinematic odyssey into the heart of wartormented Afghanistan. Shot on 16mm film over seven years, first-time director Pieter-Jan De Pue... Read More
★★★★ Independent
★★★★ The Guardian
In the aftermath of World War I, former soldier Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender) works as a lighthouse keeper, living alone on a small... Read More
This film screened on Wednesday 27th & Friday 29th December 2017.
Wild Strawberries is our bi-monthly film club for over 55s.
This adaptation of Philip Roth’s 2008 college novel is a quiet chamber piece mixing great performances with themes... Read More
This film screened 25th & 30th November 2016.
‘Facts are horrid things’. So utters Lady Susan (Kate Beckinsale), the conniving widow of Jane Austen’s novella whose plans to secure... Read More
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we are offering a FREE workshop to a limited number of students. Join dramatist and screenwriter Anthony Goulding for this fun workshop on re-imagining Shakespeare in a more contemporary fashion. Participants will... Read More
ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH 13:00, 15:50
DUNE: PART TWO (70MM) 19.00
KIDNAPPED 16:00, 20:20
PERFECT DAYS 13:15
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 13:30, 18:30, 20:50
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 18:10
WILD STRAWBERRIES: THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 11.00
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