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This film was released on Friday 30th June 2017 and is no longer screening.
Ove (Rolf Lassgård) is stubborn, principled and extremely short-tempered, the quintessential grumpy old man terrifying his community with arcane strictures that only he adheres to. Privately,... Read More
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Join us for free daily lunchtime screening of science fiction films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office.
STARRY, STARRY NIGHT
PROGRAMME 1
SPACEMEN THREE An astrogeologist in space for the... Read More
SPACEMEN THREE An astrogeologist in space for the first... Read More
PROGRAMME 2
FIFTY PERCENT GREY This Oscar-nominated dark comedy sees a... Read More
This film screened on Monday 10th July 2017.
Ian Brunswick, Head of Programming at Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin, will introduce the screening.
Alfonso Cuarón’s prescient dystopian sci-fi depicts London in 2027 as a city on the brink of... Read More
This film was released on Friday 21st July 2017 and is no longer screening.
Documentarian Matthew Heineman continues to shine a light onto some of the world’s most dangerous places in the extraordinary City of Ghosts.
The film focuses on... Read More
This film screened on Saturday 15th July 2017.
Ant colonies in the Arizona desert are behaving unusually. Two scientists set up camp nearby, linking their behaviour to the titular lunar cycle. Evolving at an alarming rate, the ants’ sophisticated behaviour... Read More
This film screened on Friday 14th July 2017.
This screening will be introduced by Sean Power, Department of Philosophy Trinity College Dublin.
Aaron and Abe, two young engineers dabbling in a side-line entrepreneurial tech project stumble upon a means to... Read More
This film screened on Thursday 13th July 2017.
This screening will be introduced by Dr Maria Boyle, microbiologist Trinity College Dublin.
When a US satellite falls from orbit in the New Mexico desert all but two inhabitants of a nearby town... Read More
This film screened on Sunday 16th July 2017.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Emer Reynolds, former NASA astronaut Daniel M. Tani, Theoretical Physicist Lawrence M. Krauss and Norah Patten, International Space University. The Farthest opens... Read More
Zac Hobson (Bruno Lawrence) awakens to find himself the sole survivor of a catastrophic malfunction in a secret energy project on which he has been engaged; days turn into weeks and Zac... Read More
The tentative first steps of US space exploration are thrillingly realised in Philip Kaufman’s triumphal ode to the test pilots who paved the way for the astronauts of the Mercury Space Programme.
One night the inhabitants of the sleepy British town of Midwich fall mysteriously unconscious; two months later all women of childbearing age are discovered to be pregnant. The resultant children are identikit... Read More
This film was released on Friday 14th July 2017 and is no longer screening.
This film has been classified 15A.
Made by the team who produced 2007’s Lynch, a film which chronicled the making of Inland Empire, David Lynch: The... Read More
This film screened on Sunday 9th July 2017.
John Scheinfeld explores the life of the pioneering saxophonist in this finely crafted film that boasts contributions from such diverse figures as Denzel Washington and Bill Clinton, as well as jazz elder... Read More
This film screened on Wednesday 5th July 2017.
From humble beginnings in Bakersfield, California, Gregory Porter found his voice after an injury put paid to his football ambitions. However, it wasn’t until he was in his forties that he came... Read More
This event took place on Saturday 1st July 2017.
The Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF) and the IFI take to the streets again with two walking tours exploring Dublin’s architecture. The city is experienced at first hand, and also through a... Read More
This film was re-released on Friday 15th December 2017 and is no longer screening.
ALL SHOWS WILL BE IN 70mm. All 70mm tickets are priced €14... Read More
This film screened on Sunday 2nd & Monday 3rd July 2017.
Inspired by a statue of King Harold in the arms of his first wife Edith Swan-Neck, who it is said identified her husband’s body following the Battle of Hastings... Read More
This event took place on Monday 24th July 2017.
Our monthly gastronomic feature followed by a meal in the IFI Café Bar.
July’s pairing of a new release and a specially devised main course menu will be Sofia Coppola’s The... Read More
This film was released on Friday 23rd June 2017 and is no longer screening.
Actress/director Nicole Garcia’s adaptation of Milena Agus’s novella features another wholly immersed performance from Marion Cotillard as Gabrielle, a rebellious spirit in post-WWII France. Beginning in... Read More
This film screened on Tuesday 25th July 2017.
Please note: three of the films in this programme contain a strobe or flicker effect
Artist Susan MacWilliam will introduce this screening.
Presented in partnership with IMMA’s exhibition ‘As Above, So Below:... Read More
This film was released on Friday 24th November 2017 and is no longer screening.
One of the great films noirs, Nicholas Ray’s In A Lonely Place also offers audiences the chance to see Humphrey Bogart in one of his finest... Read More
Istanbul’s abundant feral cat population is the star of Ceyda Torun’s quietly magical documentary that affords a unique perspective on one of the world’s great cities.... Read More
The IFI once again invites audiences to take a chance with us on a Sunday afternoon. Our Mystery Matinee strand is a screening about which only two things will be known: it could be literally anything from the history of... Read More
This event took place on Thursday 20th July 2017.
America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell.
Andrew Garfield... Read More
This event took place on Wednesday 30th July & Thursday 10th August 2017.
America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven... Read More
★★★★ – Irish Independent ★★★★ – RTE
Cistercian monk Brother Geraldus (Stanley Weber) arrives on the shores of early-13th century Ireland with the aim of obtaining... Read More
Revolutions introduces the exciting, sometimes brutal, world of women’s roller derby, a non-traditional sport that is gaining popularity but still operates well outside the sporting mainstream.... Read More
Laura Poitras follows up Citizenfour (2014), her Oscar-winning portrait of Edward Snowden, with an equally candid study of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Poitras was granted extraordinary... Read More
This film was released on Friday 7th July 2017 and is no longer screening.
The 18.30 screening on Friday 7th will be followed by a Q&A with cast members Kieran Coppinger and Charlene Kelly and director Len Collin, hosted by... Read More
★★★★ – Guardian ★★★★ – Irish Independent
Also our Feast Your Eyes pick for July – see it with a main course for €20. Tickets and... Read More
This film was released on Friday 28th July 2017 and is no longer screening.
The irresistibly sweet, charming, and very funny The Big Sick is written by Emily V. Gordon and Silicon Valley’s Kumail... Read More
This film screened on Sunday 23rd July 2017.
This film will be introduced by former child star, Sean Flanagan, now of comedy trio Foil Arms & Hog.
Tying in with this month’s Dark Skies season, this sweet and nostalgic fantasy... Read More
Director Mike Nichols’s timeless classic is reissued on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary in a new digital restoration. Following his graduation from college, 21-year-old Benjamin... Read More
Martin Provost’s (Séraphine) The Midwife is a showcase for star performances from two very different icons of French cinema. Claire (Catherine Frot) is a workaholic midwife... Read More
This film screened on Wednesday 26th & Friday 28th July 2017.
Wild Strawberries is our bi-monthly film club for over 55s.
This charming World War II drama offers an antidote to the weightier war-themed features now showing. Here folk... Read More
This film screened on Tuesday 11th July 2017.
Director Claire Dix will participate in a post-screening Q&A.
We Are Moving is an intimate portrait of Joan Denise Moriarty (1912–1992), a pioneer of early 20th century Irish dance. With a dream... Read More
This film was released on Friday 16th June 2017 and is no longer screening.
British filmmaker Nick Broomfield has popularised a particular strain of investigative journalism, shining a light into the murkier corners of celebrated lives in films such as... Read More
BANEL & ADAMA 13.20, 18.20 (OC)
COPA 71 16.00
MONSTER 13.10, 20.20
MY FRIEND LANRE 13.10, 18.00
PERFECT DAYS 15.15, 20.30
THE BIGGER PICTURE: AMERICAN HONEY 19.50
THE TASTE OF THINGS 15.30
THE ZONE OF INTEREST 18.10
The IFI is supported by The Arts Council
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