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This film screened on Wednesday 27th & Friday 29th September 2017.
Wild Strawberries is our bi-monthly film club for over 55s.
This film is F-Rated. Find out more here.
Director Mike Mills’ previous film, Beginners, was based on the experience... Read More
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This film was released on Friday 11th August 2017 and is no longer screening.
An evocative, highly original meditation on life after death and the enduring connections we make to people and places, A Ghost Story reunites director... 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.
Stephen Burke – early works This month we screen two early Northern Irish narratives by Stephen Burke,... Read More
This film was released on Friday 8th September 2017 and is no longer screening.
One year into their marriage, Séverine (Catherine Deneuve at her most impeccable) and Pierre (Jean Sorel) still sleep in separate beds. Although she is unable to... Read More
This film was released 24th August 2018, and is no longer screening.
Spike Lee’s new film inserts polemic borne of anger and outrage at the division of America along racial lines into his most accessible and straightforwardly entertaining film in... Read More
This film was released on Friday 22nd September 2017 and is no longer screening.
Borg/McEnroe tells the story of the epic rivalry between Swedish tennis legend Björn Borg (Sverrir Gudnason) and his greatest adversary, the hot tempered American John McEnroe... Read More
This film was released on Friday 6th October 2017 and is no longer screening.
Mute midwife Liz (Dakota Fanning) is stricken with terror at the arrival of a charismatic new preacher (Guy Pearce) to the small community in which she... Read More
This is a FREE event – simply collect your ticket on the night, before the showings at 18.10, 19.00 & 19.50.
IFI celebrates Culture Night September 22nd 2017 with three free programmes of family-friendly Irish shorts.
The programmes include a... Read More
This film was released on Friday 29th September 2017 and is no longer screening.
There will be Open Captioned screenings of Daphne on Tuesday, October 3rd at 13.30 and Wednesday, October 4th... Read More
This film was released on Friday 25th August 2017 and is no longer screening.
This film has been classified 15A.
As the Black Lives Matter movement continues to draw attention to institutional... Read More
This film screened on Monday 18th September 2017.
This screening will include a panel discussion featuring: Eoin O’Mahony, Teaching Fellow at the UCD School of Geography Michelle Norris, Head of the UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social... Read More
This event took place on Monday 25th September 2017.
Our monthly gastronomic feature followed by a meal in the IFI Café Bar.
September menu: Farika -Lamb and Cabbage Stew with Potatoes Fiskeboller -Haddock and Cod fishballs with cream sauce Norwegian Coleslaw Salad
This film was released on Friday 1st September 2017 and is no longer screening.
There were Open Captioned screenings of God’s Own Country on Wednesday 6th at 18.30 and Thursday 7th at 14.00.
An emotionally numb Yorkshire sheep farmer experiences... Read More
This film was released 31st August 2018, and is no longer screening.
I, Dolours is the story of one of the first female leaders in the IRA. A member of a crack IRA unit which she claims was run by... Read More
This film screened on Saturday 9th September 2017.
This screening is in association with science gallery at Trinity College Dublin’s SOUND CHECK exhibition, and was followed by a panel discussion.
The panel will include: Siobhan Kane (moderator); UCD academic, founder... Read More
This film screened on Saturday 23rd September 2017.
TIME AND TIDE: TRIBUTE TO PETER HUTTON
A second aemi event takes place at 15.00 on Saturday the 23rd of September – click here for more.
A major figure of American experimental cinema... Read More
In this lyrical portrait ofworking life filmed on Dublin’s docks, a pride emerges within the stories and memories of the custodians of the port.... Read More
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Olga Černovaitė and producer Jeremiah Cullinane.
The Lithuanian town of Visaginas is just forty years old but already it faces an uncertain future.
Created to service a nuclear power plant which showcased the wonders of Soviet technology... Read More
Chavela Vargas revolutionised Mexican traditional singing in the 1950s whilst challenging heterocultural norms in the process.An unabashedly out, trouser-wearing lesbian singing ranchero music typically reserved for men, she was an iconic, hugely successful figure.
With a wealth of archival and concert... Read More
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with directors Patrick Farrelly and Kate O’Callaghan, and Jaha Dukureh, hosted by Susan McKay.
Jaha is a young woman who returns home from the US to the Gambia to lead a campaign against female... Read More
Caring for horses gives purpose and joy to Lorna, a 17-year-old living in the Dublin suburb of Ballymun.
A fiercely capable and determined young woman, she has her heart set on becoming a farrier, a traditionally male preserve. Her unemployed father, who shares her love of horses,... Read More
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Ramona S. Diaz, hosted by Emer Reynolds. A fly-on-the-wall portrait of the Jose Fabella Hospital in Manila, an overcrowded and underfunded facility that boasts the world’s busiest maternity ward; poor... Read More
There will be a post-screening discussion with biographer Rónán Mac Con Iomaire and director Michael Fanning.
Seán Mannion, a talented boxer from the quiet Gaeltacht village of Ros Muc, Co Galway, left Ireland for Boston in the 1970s and rose to the heights... Read More
Jimi Hendrix and Robbie Robertson are just two of the legends featured in this film that sheds welcome light onto the role played by Native Americans in the history of popular music.
Presented as a series of vignettes, with terrific archival footage and interviews from... Read More
A programme of contemporary, short form, documentary filmmaking in Ireland. This year’s shorts programme showcases emerging talent in expository, observational, poetic and participatory forms of documentary filmmaking.
The Irish Shorts Programme Audience Award, presented at the screening, is kindly supported... Read More
The inhabitants of Great Dervent, a scenic yet economically depressed Bulgarian village on the Turkish border are split by opposing responses to the Syrian refugee crisis; some are threatened by the prospect of migrants, others – such as Ivan, the titular postman and town mayoral candidate –... Read More
A rousing tribute to the Ed Wood of Afghan filmmaking, Sonia Kronlund’s delightful The Prince of Nothingwood (the title being a wry spin on a more resourced filmmaking community) follows the gonzo... Read More
The shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown by police in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014 triggered mass demonstrations and rioting; the incendiary Whose Streets? captures the escalating situation with an in-the-moment immediacy, incorporating the perspectives of both newly-radicalised protestors and ordinary... Read More
Barricaded inside her Damascus apartment, Oum Yazan (Hiam Abbass) struggles to keep her extended family safe from harm as conflict rages outside. They are the last... Read More
This film screened on Tuesday 19th September 2017.
Join bestselling author John Connolly for a very special event to celebrate the publication of his new novel, he.
he is an extraordinary re-imagining of the life of one of the greatest... Read More
This film has been classified 12A.
Logan Lucky marks the return of the previously prolific Steven Soderbergh to feature filmmaking after a four year hiatus.
A companion piece of sorts to his Ocean’s trilogy, the film swaps the glamour of... Read More
This film was released 14th September 2018, and is no longer screening.
Versatile actor John Carroll Lynch makes his directorial début with this leisurely portrait of the titular character, played by the late, great Harry Dean Stanton.
A prickly individual... Read More
This film was released on Friday 4th August 2017 and is no longer screening.
Director Aisling Walsh will take part in a career retrospective at the IFI on August 15th.
This film is F-Rated.... Read More
Inspired by the true story of the escape by 38 IRA prisoners from the notorious Maze Prison in 1983 (which left one prison officer dead and... Read More
This film was released on Friday 15th September 2017 and is no longer screening.
There will be Open Captioned screenings of mother! on Tuesday 19th at 13.20 and Monday 25th at 18.20.
Director Darren Aronofsky returns to the fertile terrain... Read More
Drummer Gabriel (Dermot Murphy), recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder, is forced to curb his erratic behaviour when his therapist changes his medication and insists he join... Read More
In The Villainess, Sook-hee (Kim Ok-bin, Thirst) is thrown into a new role after she escapes from her violent past, providing moments of domestic... Read More
Twice a year, Folsom State Prison invites members of the public to enter its gates to participate in a four-day program of intensive group therapy operated... Read More
This film screened on Wednesday 20th September 2017.
September’s Bigger Picture offering is a rare opportunity to experience one of the most acclaimed and controversial documentaries of all time.
Frederick Wiseman, the great chronicler of American institutions and systems, made... Read More
This film screened on Wednesday 6th September 2017.
Successful author Daniel Doran enjoys a luxurious but vacuous London lifestyle funded by a string of international bestsellers of dubious merit.
When his estranged... Read More
This film screened on Sunday 24th September 2017.
It’s all about back to school these days, but in this fun adventure from Spain, naughty twins Zip and Zap are sent to a correctional school during their summer holidays. There, under... Read More
ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH 13:30, 18:30 (Q&A)
BALTIMORE 16:00
IO CAPITANO 20:30
JEANNE DU BARRY 15:50, 20:45
ON THE WATERFRONT 70TH ANNIVERSARY 13:40
PERFECT DAYS 13:00, 18:00
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 15:40, 20:55
THE ZONE OF INTEREST 18:10
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