WHAT'S ON - 28/01/2023

• ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED

  Artist Nan Goldin’s pioneering campaign to hold the Sackler family, the dynastic billionaire founders of Purdue Pharma, producer of OxyContin, accountable for the opioid crisis is explored in Oscar-winning director Laura Poitras’s absorbing documentary, winner of the Golden Lion at... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 12.45, 20.50

  

• AN CAILÍN CIÚIN

  Even before its release, Colm Bairéad’s debut feature has (quite rightly) become one of the most lauded and garlanded Irish films of recent years. Adapted from Foster, a short story by Claire Keegan, it centres on nine-year-old Cáit, a shy... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 15.10

  

• ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: SHORT STORIES

  Join us for free screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 1pm. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. All tickets are only available in-person.

  PROGRAMME 1

  THE HEBREW LESSON

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  BOOK NOW Times: 12.40

  

• FROM THE VAULTS: IFI & TRADFEST: O’DONOGHUE’S OPERA

  Ronnie Drew and his band of bohemian merrymakers, The Dubliners, re-enact the ballad ‘The Night That Larry Was Stretched’, along with young singer Johnny Moynihan. The film finds Drew caught in a hangman’s noose as just reward for being ‘the... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 17.30

  

• IFI & DIFF: FIELDS OF DARKNESS + Q&A

  Centred around the community and landscape of the darkest inhabited place in Ireland, Fields of Darkness explores diverse physical and metaphorical perspectives on darkness, weaving together stories from archaeology, spirituality, astronomy, music, and blindness. An imaginative tapestry of human and... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 18.30

  

• IFI & TRADFEST: DENNIS CAHILL – LITIR Ó DO CHARA

  This intimate portrait, made for TG4 by Aniar TV, tells the story of Dennis Cahill (1954 – 2022), the master guitarist from Chicago, from his work with legendary fiddler Martin Hayes, to his role in the ground-breaking supergroup The Gloaming.... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 13.30

  

• IRISH FOCUS: IFI & TRADFEST: THE JOB OF SONGS

  Travellers from all over the world gather in the village of Doolin, County Clare, hoping to connect with their Irish heritage through traditional Irish music. But things are changing: facing rapid modernisation at the hands of tourism, confronting depression and... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 13.20

  

• THE FABELMANS

  Steven Spielberg reflects upon his formative years in The Fabelmans, a poignant meditation on coming of age in a broken home. We begin with a young Sammy Fabelman re-enacting the spectacular train crash from The Greatest Story Ever Told, a seminal... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 13.50, 17.00, 20.10