WHAT'S ON - 04/05/2024

• ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: MCGAHERN: SHORT STORIES (DOUBLE BILL)

  Join us for free screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday. Simply collect your tickets online (with a small booking fee) or at IFI Box Office.

  PROGRAMME ONE

  WHEELS

  Cathal Black’s directorial debut... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 13.20

  

• BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBERRY

  Etero (Eka Chavleishvili) never wanted a husband and has dismissed all thoughts of marriage; however, the flinty, self-sufficient 48-year-old shopkeeper is the subject of malicious gossip in the small Georgian village where she lives, largely because she lives alone and... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 11:00, 20:10

  

• IFI & GAZE: UNMASCED: BEYOND THE AGGRESSIVES: 25 YEARS LATER

  Immersive and sensorial, Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later revisits four of the original subjects from Daniel Peddle’s groundbreaking 2005 film The Aggressives — a seminal documentary centering masculine-presenting people of colour assigned female at birth. The now iconic Kisha,... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 20.30

  

• IFI & GAZE: UNMASCED: BUTCHES AND BOYS

  To defy gender norms is an understated act of bravery. It is to redefine beauty – craft it rather than plagiarise it, and wear queerness like a badge of honour. It is to dare to be different, to stand out... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 18.15

  

• IFI & GAZE: UNMASCED: OUTITUDE

  First screened at GAZE in 2018, Outitude is a multi-award winning documentary which charts the richness of lesbian grass-roots activism, collectives, community, academia and politics across the island of Ireland from the 1970s to the present day. This heartfelt film... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 13.30

  

• IFI & GAZE: UNMASCED: SCANNÁIN SAPPHIC (IRISH LESBIAN SHORTS)

  Ireland is the land of storytellers, and throughout GAZE’s 32-year history, we have had the privilege of platforming many queer tales from Irish filmmakers. This selection of sapphic shorts collates some of the incredible works previously screened at the festival.... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 15.30

  

• KIDNAPPED

  The latest from Italian director Marco Bellocchio depicts the scandalous true story of a Jewish child who was abducted from his family by the church under orders from the Pope. In 1858, in the Jewish quarter of Bologna, the Pope’s soldiers burst... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 14:30

  

• PERFECT DAYS

  Wim Wenders’s return to fiction filmmaking is a poignant character study that extols the virtues of simplicity and humility in its portrait of a man who appears to be genuinely contented with his lot, such as it is. Hirayama (Kôji... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 17:20

  

• THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE

  Carla Nowak (Leonie Benesch) is a new teacher at a German junior high school, teaching maths and physics to a charming bunch of 12-14 year old boys and girls. Her control of the class begins to slip however when a... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 11.20