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This film screened on Tuesday 28th & Wednesday 29th March 2017.
Tim Burton’s Batman represented a seismic change in its serious approach to a comic book character, the success of which laid the groundwork for the ongoing success of similar... Read More
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This film was released on Friday 31st March 2017.
★★★★★ Irish Times ★★★★★ The Guardian
In Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s remarkably prolific career, in which he made forty feature films before his death at thirty-seven, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul marked... Read More
This film was released on Friday 24th March 2017.
Director Kleber Mendonça Filho’s debut film, Neighboring Sounds (2012), dealt with an entire Brazilian community; for Aquarius, his second feature, he has narrowed his focus to one endlessly intriguing and contradictory... Read More
Join us for free lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. See www.ifi.ie for more information.
NATIVITIES
CHURCHING OF WOMEN Radharc’s film about an outmoded practice where... Read More
ST PATRICK’S DAZE
PROGRAMME 1
TRIAL AT TARA
A short Hollywood drama where the people of Tara, all druids and non–believers, are pitted against St. Patrick and his followers. The film ends with an address (lasting approximately 7... Read More
A short Hollywood drama where the people of Tara, all druids and non–believers, are pitted against St. Patrick and his followers. The film ends with an address (lasting approximately 7 mins) to camera by... Read More
PROGRAMME 2
AMHARC ÉIREANN NEWSREEL
St Patrick’s Day, Dublin 1960
FILM INFO: 4 mins, 1960, Ireland, Black and White
IRELAND IN SPRING
An Tóstal, a series of festival celebrating Irish culture in the 1950s, was designed to attract tourists into... Read More
This film was released on Friday 3rd March 2017.
Tickets are now on sale. This film closes on Thursday March 16th.
The interconnected lives of four disparate Montana women are explored across three vignettes in Kelly Reichardt’s (Wendy and Lucy;... Read More
This event took place on Monday 27th March 2017.
Animator and musician Clyde Petersen’s debut film is an autobiographical stop-motion animation which touches on issues of mental health and gender identity. It recounts the time when 12-year-old Clyde, uncomfortable in... Read More
This film was released on Friday 10th March 2017.
There will be an Open Captioned (OC) screenings on Mar 15th (18.20). Audio Description (AD) will be available on all screenings.
In 2014 Ukrainian ballet superstar Sergei Polunin conceived a dance... Read More
This film screened on Thursday 2nd March 2017.
The Irish Film Institute proudly presents the Irish premiere of Dancer, followed by a Q&A and live performance by Sergei Polunin, brought to the big screen live via satellite.
Broadcast live from the London... Read More
AUDIO DESCRIPTION (AD) will be available on all screenings.
A thrilling cocktail of sex, violence and deliciously inappropriate humour, Paul Verhoeven’s Elle is by turns a mischievous, controversial and profoundly serious... Read More
This event took place on Wednesday 22nd March 2017.
March’s pairing of a new release and a specially devised main course menu will be Icíar Bollaín’s The Olive Tree, followed by a feast inspired by the film in the IFI... Read More
This film was released on Friday 17th February 2017.
★★★★ Independent
★★★★ The Telegraph
Fences, August Wilson’s play exploring race and familial relations in 1950s Pittsburgh, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987; plans for film adaptations floundered as they failed... Read More
The Dublin Heats of Ireland’s Young Filmmaker Awards at Fresh Festival will take place at the IFI. If you entereted, or would just like an opportunity to see some of the fantastic films being made by Ireland’s latest generation of... Read More
This film screened on Saturday 18th March 2017.
The IFI Irish Film Archive in association with the Saint Patrick’s Festival presents a programme of short silent films about St Patrick himself and about the annual festivities that honour him. The... Read More
This film was released on Friday 24th February 2017.
In 1961 George Best, a shy well-mannered Belfast teenager, was recruited by Manchester United to become what Pelé would call “the greatest player in the world”. A devilishly charismatic figure, Best... Read More
★★★★★ – The Guardian ★★★★ – The Irish Times
A father goes to extreme lengths to ensure his daughter’s academic success in Cristian Mungiu’s (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,... Read More
This film was released 23rd February 2018, and is no longer screening.
This film is F-Rated. Find out more here.
Margot Robbie gives a deliciously exuberant performance as disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding in Craig Gillespie’s imaginative riff on the... Read More
This film screened on Saturday 25th March 2017.
‘Eugene Pallette’ is a programme of works guest curated for PLASTIK by ‘aemi’ (Alice Butler and Daniel Fitzpatrick).
Throughout cinema’s history many have suggested that the presence of film, the medium itself, gives... Read More
“Negotiating an archive is an act of looking back, inevitably – and perhaps even unconsciously – the searcher seeks out content that can help reveal the present with a more concrete perspective.... Read More
This film screened on Friday 24th March 2017.
“Abyss Film presents five found footage works that in different ways speak to the impossibility of cinema’s desire to show the ‘whole world’. Speaking of the breadth of possibility made visible by... Read More
PLASTIK is pleased to feature the work of New York based artist and filmmaker James Kienitz Wilkins. Wilkins’s moving image works foreground performance with an accomplished use of language and script. Operating... Read More
Humour is difficult to do well in art. It takes many forms and approaches, and there are countless attempts and examples; some of them exhilarating, some of them stupid, some of them... Read More
PLASTIK are pleased to present the second edition of the new work award, highlighting an emerging generation of Irish artists engaging with the moving image. Comprising works by Caroline Doolin, Teresa Gillespie, Patrick Hough, Atoosa Pour Hosseini and Saoirse Wall,... Read More
“From extraction to domesticity, from East Germany to Asbestos, Quebec, from the Walter Benjamin monument to Columbus’s first encounter with the Taíno: the films in this programme utilise performative, rather than representational, approaches to engaging with spaces that reveal and... Read More
This film screened on Sunday 19th March 2017.
Tomás is a shy young lad who goes to live with Máire and her husband Alec in a wild coastal village. There he has to adjust to a quiet, rural way of... Read More
This film screened 30th September 2017.
After a short spell in prison, ‘Mad’ Mary McArdle returns home to Drogheda, eager to reunite with best friend Charlene for whom she is about to act as maid of honour. Annoyed by Charlene’s... Read More
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
Recommended age 12+
This beautiful animation in the steampunk sci-fi style, features a young girl, April, voiced by Marion Cotillard. Though set in 1941, France is stuck in the 19th century. There are no technological advancements and the country is... 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
Fáilte roimh Seachtain na Gaeilge 2017. Join us for a selection of Gearrscannáin, including new titles Maidhm and Céad Ghrá.
See www.ifi.ie/gearrscannain
Screening as part of the 2016/2017 IFI Schools Programme.
Download the programme here.
Showing at
Dublin, IFI – Mar 13 &... Read More
This film screened 6th October 2016 & 16th March 2017.
Wide-eyed, rebellious ’gangsta’ Ricky is bounced to yet another foster home on the edge of the New Zealand wilderness. For the welfare worker he’s a ‘real bad egg’, but kindly... Read More
Set in a remote Turkish village, this Oscar-nominated drama depicts the lives of five orphaned sisters and the challenges they face growing up as girls in a conservative community. Longing to have their own freedom, they are forbidden by their... 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
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
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
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
Young female offender, Jamie, has fairly bleak prospects but a remarkable singing voice. Her social worker Kate, (Shirley Henderson), persuades her to join the local choir, where she blossoms, inspired by her soul singing heroes. However, leaving behind her old... Read More
Recommended age 16+. Contains a graphic scene, some strong language and drug-taking.
With many anti-surveillance groups operating from Berlin, and the largest association of hackers founded there, this high-octane tech-thriller has some quite convincing moments. Benjamin is a young computer... Read More
Adaptation of the best-selling Young Adult fantasy tale about an orphaned boy who follows a trail of mysterious photographs that lead him to an abandoned orphanage on a Welsh island. Who better to capture the dark mood... 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
Exclusively at IFI.
A post-screening Q&A with the director will take place on Saturday March 4th at 16.00.
Hidden just outside the town of Kells in County Meath is an enchanting,worn... Read More
This film screened on Wednesday 8th March 2017.
Screening to coincide with International Women’s Day, Kathleen Collins’s Losing Ground was one of the first features to be directed by a black american woman. Largely forgotten for the last 35 years,... Read More
Louis (Gaspard Ulliel), a terminally ill writer returns home to his estranged family after an absence of more than a decade prompting a series of confrontations, revelations and internecine squabbling in... Read More
This film screened on Tuesday 21st March 2017.
Eisenstein’s biopic of the bloody autocratic ruler who sought to unite the country against powerful hereditary boyars. Having already incurred the authorities’ disapproval, Eisenstein’s depiction of Ivan as a Russian hero, with... Read More
This film screened on Tuesday 14th March 2017.
A multi event-pass for the John T. Davis retrospective is available (4 events for €35) by contacting the IFI Box Office by phone or in person ONLY – 01-6793477.
Hobo is an... Read More
This film screened on Sunday 12th March 2017.
POWER IN THE... Read More
This film screened on Saturday 11th March 2017.
SHELLSHOCK ROCK
Shellshock... Read More
This film screened on Wednesday 22nd March 2017.
John T. Davis is internationally recognized as Northern Ireland’s most distinctive documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. To mark his 70th birthday on March 7th, 2017, and in recognition of his over 40 years... Read More
Route 66 is... Read More
The Uncle Jack... Read More
This film screened on Friday 3rd March 2017.
Chemikal Underground has been Scotland’s premier indie label since its establishment in the 1990s, releasing work by a diverse range of fondly-remembered groups such as Bis, Magoo, and Urusei Yatsura, although the... Read More
This film was released on Friday 3rd February 2017.
★★★★★ Entertainment.ie
★★★★ Irish Times
There will be Open Captioned (OC) screenings of Loving on Wednesday, February 15th at 18.10 and Thursday, February 16th at 13.00. Audio Description (AD) will be... Read More
This film was released on Friday 10th February 2017.
Ivor Browne has been a central figure in Irish mental health for many decades. Some people wish he wasn’t. Yet many people owe their lives to him. Browne somehow managed to... Read More
★★★★★ Irish Times
★★★★★ Guardian
★★★★★ RTÉ Ten
There will be OPEN CAPTIONED (OC) screenings of Moonlight on Thursday, February 23rd at 15.30, and Monday, February 27th at 18.00. AUDIO DESCRIPTION... Read More
This film screened on Tuesday 28th March 2017.
Winner of the Best Foreign Film Oscar (1981), this romantic comedy follows three young women in 1950s Moscow. Lyudmila is the flirt; Antonina is the motherly type; Katya is a chemistry student working... Read More
This film was released on Friday 17th March 2017.
★★★★ Irish Times ★★★★ Guardian ★★★★★ Telegraph
There will be OPEN CAPTIONED (OC) screenings on Mar 26th (20.40) and March 29th (13.00). AUDIO DESCRIPTION (AD) will be available on all screenings.
Kristen... Read More
This film was released 9th March 2018, and is no longer screening.
The Northern Territories of Australia, 1929. Rancher Fred Smith (Sam Neill) is a devout Christian with a paternal relationship to his Aboriginal workers; ‘all men are equal in... Read More
EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI
★★★★ – The Irish Times ★★★★ – The Playlist
From the director of I Saw the Devil (2010), The Age of Shadows is a stylish spy thriller set... Read More
Although only a modest success when first released, Singin’ in the Rain has become one of the most enduring and beloved of musicals. The film is set in the late 1920s, when stars Don (Gene Kelly) and leading lady Lina... Read More
Exclusively at IFI
Nicolas Pesce’s strikingly atmospheric The Eyes of My Mother successfully evokes in the viewer a feeling of dread expectation, aided by a narrative that deftly mixes implications and... Read More
★★★★ Guardian
★★★★ entertainment.ie
Frustrated travelling salesman Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton) criss-crosses 1950s America selling a series of underwhelming products that have failed to bring him the success... Read More
This film was released 2nd March 2018, and is no longer screening.
British figure skater John Curry was just 26 when he won the European, Olympic and World titles, single-handedly reinvigorating what had become an unfashionable sport.
James Erskine’s (The... Read More
20-year-old Alma works on a chicken farm in the economically deprived Castellón region of Spain. She has a deep emotional bond with her beloved grandfather, who has not spoken since her... Read More
★★★★ Irish Times ★★★★ Guardian
The latest from Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi (About Elly, A Separation) is an expertly crafted domestic drama where precise plotting and escalating tension are deftly... Read More
After an eclectic range of films in recent years, Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot, In America) returns to Irish themes and material with this adaptation of Sebastian Barry’s acclaimed novel. The... Read More
This film was released 16th February 2018, and is no longer screening.
Guillermo del Toro’s beautiful, romantic fairy tale centres on mute Elisa (the superb Sally Hawkins), who, although she has close... Read More
This film was released 16th March 2018, and is no longer screening.
An exuberant takedown of the contemporary art world, Ruben Östlund’s follow up to the much-admired Force Majeure (2014) is a similarly provocative work. When Swedish gallery director Christian... Read More
Tickets are now on sale. This film closes on Thursday, March 16th.
Oscar-nominated Irish director Juanita Wilson’s second feature is an adaptation of the novel longlisted in 2000 for what was... Read More
★★★★★ Empire
★★★★★ The Times (UK)
This film closes on Thursday, March 16th.
Ines (Sandra Hüller) has become estranged from her retired schoolteacher father Winfried (Peter Simonischek); unhappily... Read More
This film screened on Wednesday 29th & Friday 31st March 2017.
When his dance partner quits, Don Hewes (Fred Astaire) picks Hannah (Judy Garland) and tries to mould her, until he realises she has heaps of her own talent and... Read More
ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH 16:00, 20:45
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: SPRING FORWARD (PROGRAMME 1) 13.20
BALTIMORE 13:30
DUNE: PART TWO (70MM) 19.40
FROM THE VAULTS: ABBAS KIAROSTAMI: THE ART OF LIVING 18.30
IO CAPITANO 15:50
JEANNE DU BARRY 14:30, 18:10
ON THE WATERFRONT 70TH ANNIVERSARY 13:40
PERFECT DAYS 20:30
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 17:15
WILD STRAWBERRIES: THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 11.00 (OC)
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