Irish Film Institute -IFI International: February 2017

WHAT'S ON - 01/2017

  • A MONSTER CALLS

    This film was released on Sunday 1st January 2017 and is no longer screening. 

    ★★★★★ Irish Times

    Based on the beloved book by Patrick Ness, J.A. Bayona’s striking all-ages film is a welcome riposte to the recent glut of saccharine... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME DOUBLE BILL (JAN 2017)

    ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME

    CEOL AGUS CRAIC

    Programme 1:

    BODHRÁN

    Handmade in cottages around the country; beaten by Wren Boys from Killorglin to Stephen’s Green; gently played by hearthside revellers in Coolea and beloved of festival goers in Listowel and Leitrim,... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME PROGRAMME 1 (JAN 2017)

    CEOL AGUS CRAIC

    Programme 1:

    BODHRÁN

    Handmade in cottages around the country; beaten by Wren Boys from Killorglin to Stephen’s Green; gently played by hearthside revellers in Coolea and beloved of festival goers in Listowel and Leitrim, the humble Bodhrán... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME PROGRAMME 2 (JAN 2017)

    PROGRAMME 2:

    BIMIS AG RINCE / WE ARE DANCING

    In Finuge, North Kerry a Teach Siamsa is built to encourage and develop local culture and the traditions of music, dance, and drama. This lively music-filled film records the opening... Read More

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  • CAMERAPERSON

    This film was released on Friday 27th January 2017 and is no longer screening. 

    ★★★★★ Guardian

    ★★★★ Timeout

    As a cinematographer Kirsten Johnson has shot films of the calibre of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Citizenfour; using outtakes and unused material from... Read More

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  • DENIAL

    This film was released on Friday 27th January 2017 and is no longer screening. 

    ★★★★ Irish Times

    ★★★★ Guardian 

    In 1996, Deborah Lipstadt (portrayed here by Rachel Weisz), a historian specialising in the study of the Holocaust, was sued by... 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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  • ENDLESS POETRY

    This film was released on Friday 6th January 2017 and is no longer screening. 

    ★★★★ The Irish Times 

    ★★★★ The Guardian

    A sequel to The Dance of Reality (2013) in which Jodorowsky painted a vivid account of his childhood, Endless... Read More

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  • FEAST YOUR EYES: GOODFELLAS (SOLD OUT)

    This event took place on Tuesday 24th January 2017.

    *Tickets for this event have sold out- it is also screening daily from the 20th of January. Tickets here *

    This month’s pairing of a film screening followed by a specially devised... Read More

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  • GOODFELLAS

    This film was released on Friday 20th January 2017 and is no longer screening. 

    Regularly cited as one of the greatest crime/gangster films ever made, Martin Scorsese’s classic Goodfellas gets a welcome reissue in a new digital restoration. It tells... Read More

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  • IFI & First Fortnight – The Wonder Eye: Meetings with Ivor

    This film screened on Saturday 14th January 2017.

    Meetings with Ivor.

    The First Fortnight screenings are sold out but the film will open at the IFI from the 10th of February. Tickets here. 

    Ivor Browne has been a central figure... Read More

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  • IFI & First Fortnight: Infinitely Polar Bear

    This film screened on Saturday 7th January 2017.

    Boston in the late 1970s; Cameron (Mark Ruffalo) is struggling with bipolar disorder; the future appears uncertain for his wife Maggie (Zoe Saldana) and their two daughters when a particularly difficult period... Read More

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  • IFI & TRADFEST 2017: THE IRISHMEN – AN IMPRESSION OF EXILE

    This film screened on Saturday 28th  January 2017.

    Directed by pioneering television documentarian Philip Donnellan, this rarely-seen socio-realist documentary foregrounds the lives of migrant Irish labourers in Britain of the 1960s. It shows Irishmen working on the construction of railways,... Read More

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  • IFI FAMILY: ANTZ

    This film screened on Sunday 29th  January 2017.

    The ants living under General Mandible’s dictatorship all know their place – you’re either a worker or warrior. Z, a worker, is fed up with his lot.  He wants to stand out... Read More

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  • IFI SCHOOLS: 3½ MINUTES, TEN BULLETS

    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

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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: BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD

    This award-winning film is set in offshore, post- Katrina New Orleans, a place of beauty, life and desperate hardship. Hushpuppy lives with her father, Wink. Together with other survivors they eke out an existence in ramshackle houses that float high... Read More

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  • IFI SCHOOLS: BOBBY SANDS: 66 DAYS

    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

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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: SPOTLIGHT

    A masterful exploration of power, leadership and journalistic integrity, this exciting and inspiring thriller celebrates the importance of a free and socially responsible press. Winning Academy Awards for Best Picture, and Best Screenplay, with an all-star cast of Michael Keaton,... Read More

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  • IFI SCHOOLS: THE ARTIST

    Comparative film for 2017/18, this multi-award winning, silent and black and white film offers themes of ambition, artistry, romance and the impact of technology, as well as the interesting setting of early Hollywood. Valentin is the silent star with the... 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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  • IRISH FOCUS: TAKASERA

    This film screened on Tuesday 31st  January 2017.

    Takasera, a village in Western Nepal, is settled on a hill above an ancient lakebed, composed of hundreds of tightly interwoven houses, giving an appearance of a giant buzzing bee-hive. Surrounded by... Read More

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  • JACKIE

    This film was released on Friday 20th  January 2017 and is no longer screening. 

    ★★★★★ Irish Times

    ★★★★★ Telegraph

    ★★★★★ Guardian

    In depicting the trauma of JFK’s assassination as experienced by his wife Jackie (Natalie Portman), director Pablo Larraín (The... Read More

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  • LA LA LAND

    This film was released on Friday 13th January 2017 and is no longer screening. 

    ★★★★★ Guardian

    ★★★★★ Entertainment.ie

    ★★★★★ Telegraph

    Director Damien Chazelle’s love of jazz has proved an ongoing inspiration in his work. Evident in his 2009 debut feature,... Read More

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  • MANCHESTER BY THE SEA

    This film was released on Friday 13th January 2017 and is no longer screening. 

    ★★★★★ RTE

    ★★★★★ Empire

    ★★★★★ Total Film

    A sudden bereavement forces a small-town New Englander to confront a past tragedy anew in Kenneth Lonergan’s (You Can Count... Read More

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  • OC SCREENINGS: LA LA LAND

    This film was released on Friday 6th January 2017 and is no longer screening. 

    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 La La Land screenings.

    Director... Read More

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  • OC SCREENINGS: MANCHESTER BY THE SEA

    This film was released on Friday 13th January 2017 and is no longer screening. 

    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 Manchester By The Sea screenings.

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  • OC SCREENINGS: SILENCE

    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 Silence screenings.

    Director Martin Scorsese once told an interviewer, “My whole life has been movies and religion. That’s it.... Read More

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  • SILENCE

    This film was released on Sunday 1st January 2017 and is no longer screening. 

    ★★★★ Guardian

    ★★★★ Entertainment.ie

    15A

    Director Martin Scorsese once told an interviewer, “My whole life has been movies and religion. That’s it. Nothing else.” Throughout his... Read More

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  • THE BIGGER PICTURE: SHADOWS

    This film screened on Tuesday 17th January 2017.

    John Cassavetes’s directorial debut is also a landmark of American independent cinema, one of the first to be produced outside of the Hollywood system.

    Starring Ben Carruthers, Lelia Goldoni and Hugh Hurd... 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 HANGOVER LOUNGE: IDIOCRACY

    This film screened on Sunday 22nd January 2017.

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

    Director Mike Judge has taken a satirical approach towards the dumbing-down of society in films such as Beavis And Butthead Do... Read More

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  • THE OLD MAN AND THE GUN

    This film was released on 7th of December 2018, and is no longer screening.

    There will be Open Captioned screenings at 13.00 on December 11th and 18.30 on December 18th.

    At nearly 70 years of age, gentleman bank robber Forrest... Read More

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  • THE SILVER BRANCH

    This film was released 5th October 2018, and is no longer screening.

    A cinematic eulogy to nature and agrarian culture and a glimpse into the life of farmer/poet Patrick McCormack, descendant of generations of farmers who have lived off the... Read More

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  • WILD STRAWBERRIES: DAVE

    This film screened on Wednesday 25th & Friday 27th  January 2017.

    When President Bill Mitchell suffers a heart attack during some extra-marital activity, lookalike Dave Kovic (Kevin Kline) is called upon to act as stand-in. Under the tutelage of the... Read More

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