Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 10/12/2016

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME DOUBLE BILL (DEC 2016)

    YULETIDE YARNS

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

    Programme 1:

    BEFORE I SLEEP

    FILM INFO: 30 mins, Ireland, 1997, Digital

    Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn

    Reuniting... Read More

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    Times: 13.10

  • CHI-RAQ

    This film was released 2nd December 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★★ Guardian

    ★★★★ Irish Times

    When an eleven-year-old girl is killed in the crossfire of a shootout between rival gangs the Trojans and Spartans, Lysistrata (Teyonah Parris), girlfriend... Read More

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    Times: 13.20

  • CRASH AND BURN

    This film was released 2nd December 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★ Irish Times

    ★★★★ Entertainment.ie

    For a fleeting moment in the early 1980s Tommy Byrne was the world’s greatest Formula 1 driver, a man who looked set to... Read More

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    Times: 13.10

  • KINOPOLIS: PLANET SINGLE

    This film screened 10th December 2016.

    One of the biggest domestic box office hits of the year (so successful that it made Poland the only country in which Deadpool did not open at number 1), Planet Single stars Maciej Stuhr... Read More

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    Times: 18.00

  • KINOPOLIS: THE RED SPIDER

    This film screened 10th December 2016.

    Taking inspiration from the urban legend of Lucjan Staniak, a serial killer nicknamed ‘the Red Spider’, and the true case of another serial killer, Karol Kot,’the Vampire of Kraków’, Marcin Koszałka’s debut feature begins... Read More

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    Times: 16.00

  • LIFE, ANIMATED

    This film was released 9th December 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★★ Irish Times

    ★★★★★ Guardian

    A profoundly autistic boy learns to communicate through reciting memorised dialogue from Disney films in Roger Ross Williams’ inspirational case history.

    By the... Read More

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    Times: 14.30 | 20.40

  • SULLY

    This film was released 2nd December 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★★ Telegraph

    Airline pilot Captain Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger came to international attention on January 15th, 2009 when he saved the lives of the 155 passengers and crew of... Read More

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    Times: 18.45

  • THE BIRTH OF A NATION

    This film was released 9th December 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★ Independent

    Actor-director Nate Parker’s The Birth Of A Nation is a portrait of Nat Turner, an enslaved African American who, in 1831, led a short-lived slave rebellion... Read More

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    Times: 15.00 | 20.00

  • UNITED STATES OF LOVE

    This film was released 9th December 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★ Irish Times

    ★★★★ Guardian

    The new film from director Tomasz Wasilewski (In a Bedroom, Floating Skyscrapers) marks a significant step forward in his development as a filmmaker.... Read More

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    Times: 16.30 | 20.50


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