Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 01/12/2016

  • A UNITED KINGDOM

    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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    Times: 20.30

  • Command and Control

    This film screened 1st December 2016.

    September 18th, 1980: the Titan II missile base at Damascus, Arkansas. Human error during routine maintenance of fuel tanks precipitates an accident of potentially catastrophic proportions in this riveting documentary. Investigating the accident with... Read More

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    Times: 18.30

  • IFI SCHOOLS: ABOUT A GIRL (Charleen macht Schluss)

    Recommended age 15+

    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

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  • IFI SCHOOLS: THE OLIVE TREE (El olivo)

    Recommended age 15+

    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

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  • IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT

    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

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    Times: 13.40 | 20.50

  • MAGNUS

    This film was released  25th November 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★★ 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

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    Times: 14.30 | 16.00

  • THE INNOCENTS

    This film was released  18th November 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★ Guardian

    ★★★★ 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

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    Times: 18.00

  • WILD STRAWBERRIES: INDIGNATION

    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

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.15


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