Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 25/11/2017

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME NOVEMBER 2017: DOUBLE BILL

    SHORT AND SWEET

    PROGRAMME ONE

    Jonathan Swift

    Using striking imagery and odd juxtapositions, Kieran Hickey’s intriguing film playfully explores Swift’s reflections on mental health and his life in Dublin and London, while quoting lavishly from Gulliver’s Travels and other writings.

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.00

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: BARBARA / THE SUMMER MOVIE

    PRIX JEAN VIGO 2017

    The screening of Barbara will be preceded by a screening of Emmanuel Marre’s The Summer Movie.

    This film is F-Rated. Find out more here.

    BARBARA

    Brigitte (Jeanne Balibar), an actress, prepares to play the role of... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15.30

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: BLOODY MILK

    Pierre (Swann Arlaud) a thirty-something bachelor is a solitary character. Obsessed with his work as a dairy farmer on the family farm which he inherited deep in rural France, his life revolves around his 30 cows, his parents, his sister,... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.10

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: FACES PLACES

    This film is F-Rated. Find out more here.

    The indefatigable Agnès Varda, octogenarian and treasure of world cinema, teams up with the mysterious JR, a street artist specialising in large-scale outdoor photographic portraiture, in the delightful Faces Places, a docu-travelogue... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.30

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: HAPPY END

    Happy End will be releasing at the IFI from Friday December 1st. 

    A coolly observed study of familial dysfunction, Michael Haneke’s follow-up to Amour (IFI French Film Festival 2012) has all of the stylistic traits we have come to expect:... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20.30

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: LÉON MORIN, PRIEST

    A four film programme celebrates the centennial of Jean-Pierre Melville – see the full lineup here. 

    Dr Brigitte Le Juez, Associate Professor at DCU, will introduce this screening.

    This brilliant adaptation of Béatrix Beck’s autobiography centres on a young atheist,... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.20

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: LET THE SUNSHINE IN

    This film is F-Rated. Find out more here.

    Inspired by Roland Barthes’s A Lover’s Discourse, Claire Denis teams up with writer Christine Angot to tell, in fragments, the romantic journey of Isabelle (Juliette Binoche), a sensitive, middle-aged, unhappily divorced artist... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.20

  • IN THE NAME OF PEACE: JOHN HUME IN AMERICA

    This film screened on Saturday 25th November 2017.

    This screening was introduced by director Maurice Fitzpatrick. 

    Exploring the decades-long campaign by Nobel Prize winner John Hume to secure peace in Northern Ireland, Maurice Fitzpatrick reveals how Hume, inspired by Martin... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.00

  • JANE

    This film was released on Friday 24th November 2017 and is no longer screening. 

    This film is F-Rated. Find out more here.

    Principally comprised of 50-year-old 16mm footage – until recently considered lost – Brett Morgen’s strikingly intimate portrait of... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.10, 18.45

  • THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER

    This film was released on Friday 3rd November 2017 and is no longer screening. 

    Successful heart surgeon Steven (Colin Farrell) is engaged in a bizarre relationship with sixteen-year-old Martin (Barry Keoghan) in Yorgos Lanthimos’s (Dogtooth, 2009; The Lobster, 2015) outstanding new film that pushes... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.10

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