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WHAT'S ON - 12/2016

  • A DATE FOR MAD MARY

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

    ★★★★★ Movies.ie

    ★★★★ Irish Times

    Joint winner of Best Irish Feature at this year’s Galway Film Fleadh, A Date for Mad Mary, based on Yasmine Akram’s theatrical monologue, sees... Read More

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  • 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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  • 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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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME PART 1 (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

    Reuniting theatre allies, Brendan Gleeson... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME PART 2 (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 2:

    INTO THE ABYSS

    FILM INFO: 15 mins, Ireland, 1992, Digital

    In this haunting drama from Geraldine... Read More

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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • DONNIE DARKO

    This film was released 23rd December 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★★ Irish Times

    Released a month after the September 11th attacks, the initial response to Donnie Darko – an enigmatic film from an unknown director that was difficult... Read More

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  • FRESH FILM FESTIVAL SHOWCASE

    Limerick-based Fresh Film Festival promotes the work of young filmmakers under the age of 18 years. Hundreds of young filmmakers from all over Ireland enter the Fresh Film Festival in the hope of winning the title of Ireland’s Young Filmmaker... Read More

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  • From the Vaults Ciné Concert: Little Old New York

    This film screened 7th December 2016.

    A delightful emigrant comedy about a young Irish girl who comes to America disguised as a boy in order to claim a fortune left to her late brother. Marion Davies shines as Patricia O’Day... Read More

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  • IFI FAMILY: THE SECRET OF NIMH

    One of the most important figures in early Irish animation, Don Bluth quit Walt Disney Studios in 1979 with several others. This was their first film outside, a beautiful old style drawn animation, but with detailed backgrounds and characters infused... Read More

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  • 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: MY REVOLUTION (Ma révolution)

    Recommended age 15+

    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

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  • IFI SCHOOLS: SING STREET

    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

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  • IFI SCHOOLS: THE KING’S SPEECH

    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

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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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  • IFI SCHOOLS: WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

    Recommended age 8+

    This classic adaptation of Roald Dahl’s story about a young boy who wins a ticket to visit Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory has been adored by generations of children. With a definitive performance by the late Gene Wilder... 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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  • Irish Focus: The Waiting Game

    This film screened 6th December 2016.

    Join us for our focus on new Irish film and filmmakers.

    In 2008 a troupe of seasoned players set off on the most ambitious theatrical tour of Ireland ever undertaken. Stephen Brennan, Alan Stanford,... Read More

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  • KINOPOLIS: AFTERIMAGE (SOLD OUT)

    This film screened 9th December 2016.

    Poland’s nomination for the 2017 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, and the final film by the great Andrzej Wajda, Afterimage, a portrait of the final years of noted avant-garde painter Władysław Strzemiński (a spellbinding... Read More

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  • KINOPOLIS: ANIMATION PROGRAMME

    This film screened 11th December 2016.

    A consistently popular slot in Kinopolis, this year’s films are:

    Jerzy Kucia’s Fugue For Cello, Trumpet And Landscape, a poetic journey through the Polish seasons;

    Marcin Podolec’s A Documentary Film, which sees a father... Read More

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  • KINOPOLIS: KAMPER

    This film screened 9th December 2016.

    Thirtysomething hipster Kamper (Piotr Zurawski) seems to have it all; a happy marriage to the beautiful Mania (Marta Nieradkiewicz), a luxurious apartment, and a job developing and testing videogames. However, his refusal to grow... Read More

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  • 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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  • KINOPOLIS: THE LAST FAMILY (SOLD OUT)

    This film screened 11th December 2016.

    Actress Aleksandra Konieczna will take part in a post-screening Q&A.

    The dysfunctional family life of surrealist artist Zdzisław Beksiński (1929-2005), whose work is sometimes compared to that of H.R. Giger, is vividly depicted in... Read More

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  • 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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  • KINOPOLIS: UNITED STATES OF LOVE

    This film screened 8th December 2016.

    In 1990, as the Soviet bloc crumbles and the Iron Curtain falls, four women struggle with their tangled and unhappy relationships. Agata (Julia Kijowska) has developed an obsessive, impossible love for her priest, causing... Read More

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  • 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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  • 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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  • NOCTURNAL ANIMALS

    This film was released  4th November 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★★ Entertainment.ie

    ★★★★★ The Guardian

    ★★★★★ Independent

    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

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  • NT LIVE: NO MAN’S LAND

    This film screened 15th December 2016.

    Following their hit run on Broadway, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart return to the West End stage in Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land, broadcast live to cinemas from Wyndham’s Theatre, London.

    One summer’s evening, two ageing writers, Hirst and Spooner,... Read More

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  • OC: A UNITED KINGDOM

    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 A United Kingdom screenings. Visit www.ifi.ie/accessible for more information. For tickets to other screenings of A United Kingdom click here.

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  • OC: THE BIRTH OF A NATION

    This film screened 19th & 20th December 2016.

    Open Captioned (OC) screenings, whilst open to all, feature special captions for those with hearing difficulties.

    Audio Description (AD), which allows audiences who are visually impaired to enjoy a film through the... Read More

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  • PATERSON

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

    ★★★★★ Irish Times

    ★★★★ Guardian

    ★★★★ Independent

    Paterson (Adam Driver) is a bus driver in the town of Paterson, New Jersey; he’s also an aspiring poet, and an... Read More

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  • SCROOGE

    This film was released 16th December 2016, and is no longer screening.

    An excellent companion piece to It’s a Wonderful Life, there’s always a place for what is regarded as the definitive adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. The... Read More

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  • SPECIAL PREVIEW SCREENING: SPLIT

    Though Kevin (James McAvoy) has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher (Betty Buckley), there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others.  Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the... Read More

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  • 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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  • 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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  • THE BLACK HEN

    This film was released 16th December 2016, and is no longer screening.

    EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI

    Nepal, 2001; a temporary ceasefire in the ongoing civil war between the government and insurgent Maoists brings some welcome relief to an isolated community where... Read More

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  • THE EAGLE HUNTRESS

    This film was released 23rd December 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★★ Irish Times

    ★★★★★ Times UK

    A stunning blend of ethnography and coming-of-age drama shot on location among Kazakh nomads in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia.

    Star Wars’... Read More

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  • 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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  • UNCLE HOWARD

    This film was released 16th December 2016, and is no longer screening.

    EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI

    Started as a thesis project, Burroughs: The Movie (1983) was the only documentary made about the legendary William S. Burroughs with his approval and participation.... Read More

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  • 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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  • 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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  • WILD STRAWBERRIES: THE MEDDLER

    This film screened 28th & 30th December 2016.

    Wild Strawberries is our bi-monthly film club for over 55s.

    The paucity of decent roles for older female actors is oft lamented, so when one comes along that is played with such... Read More

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