Irish Film Institute -REVIEW ROUND-UP: LIES WE TELL & MEAN STREETS

WHAT'S ON - 12/10/2023

  • 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL

    A team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work recording atrocities of the Russian invasion. As the only international reporters who remain in the city, they capture what later became defining images... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.45

  • BLACKBERRY

    The precipitous rise and calamitous fall of the world’s first smartphone – the device you had before you got an iPhone, as one-character quips – is recounted in Matt Johnson’s breathlessly paced, insightful, wryly amusing, and wholly engrossing film which... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.00, 18.00

  • IFI & GOBLIN: SPÁS POIBLÍ

    Coinciding with the launch of its latest magazine, Goblin presents the first in a series of nighttime film and talk-based events which will consider the development of public spaces in Dublin and further afield. Goblin is a publication focussed primarily,... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 23.00

  • OUSMANE SEMBÈNE: XALA

    An adaptation of Sembène’s own 1973 novel, Xala offers a hilarious, caustic satire of political corruption under an inept patriarchy.

    On the night of his third wedding, government official El Hadji (Thierno Leye) is rendered impotent. After suspecting that one... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.15

  • TARRAC

    Aoife (Kelly Gough) returns home to help her father (Lorcan Cranitch) recover from a heart attack. Day to day they get along just fine but never talk about the loss of Aoife’s mother. Over the summer, Aoife gets pulled back... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.30, 20.50

  • THE OLD OAK

    For what will reportedly be his last film as director, Ken Loach, now 87, reunites with screenwriter Paul Laverty for their fourteenth feature together, a collaboration that has seen the duo win two Palmes d’Or. In Northern English city Durham, T.J. Ballantyne (Dave... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.00, 18.30

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