Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 26/11/2023

  • DANCE FIRST

    In Dance First, Gabriel Byrne plays Samuel Beckett – with young Beckett played by Fionn O’Shea – in a sweeping account of the life of this 20th century icon. Parisian bon vivant, World War II resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright,... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15.30

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: A DIFFICULT YEAR

    Compulsive spenders Bruno (Jonathan Cohen) and Albert (Pio Marmaï) bond over their shared financial woes and take hopeless lessons in debt-reduction from Henri (Mathieu Amalric, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), who hides a chronic gambling addiction. Up to their... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20.20

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: BONNARD PIERRE AND MARTHE

    When painter Pierre Bonnard (Vincent Macaigne, Festival Guest, IFI FFF 2019) met Marthe de Méligny (Cécile de France) in a modest Paris studio in 1893, little did he realise that this selfproclaimed aristocrat would come to exert enormous influence over... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15.20

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: IFI FAMILY: CHICKEN FOR LINDA!

    Welcoming family audiences to IFI French Film Festival, this beautiful, award-winning, colourful 2D animation is sure to entertain. The story of young Linda, whose mother Paulette wrongly punishes her, and to make up, offers to cook her favourite dish –... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 11.00

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: LAST SUMMER

    A pioneering filmmaker for nearly 50 years, renowned for explorations of female sexuality, Catherine Breillat returns with a daring portrait of Anne (Léa Drucker), a family lawyer specialising in child protection and parental custody. She lives a very bourgeois life... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.00

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: LES INDÉSIRABLES

    An incendiary indictment of how racist housing policies imperil the vulnerable, Ladj Ly’s angry follow up to Les Misérables (2019) dramatises some of the most divisive social issues of our time. When the mayor of an underprivileged Parisian suburb suddenly... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.00

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: MENUS PLAISIRS LES TROISGROS

    Now aged 93, master documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman immerses us for four hours in one of the best restaurants in the world, the three Michelin-star establishment, La Maison Troisgros. A farm-to-table business nestled in the Loire region, it was at... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 12.00

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: SILENT SHORTS

     We are delighted to present a unique selection of eight silent short films restored by the Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Foundation. They will screen before some of the new features in the main programme. This season is organised with the support of... Read More

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  • MAY DECEMBER

    Hollywood actress Elizabeth Berry (Natalie Portman) has come to Savannah, Georgia, to research the life of Gracie Atherton-Yoo (Julianne Moore), whom she will portray in an upcoming dramatisation of a traumatic period in Gracie’s life, a scandal for which she... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 19.50

  • SO THIS IS CHRISTMAS

    It’s late November, and across the country expectations for a jolly Christmas are growing, with trees being bought and lists being written, and everywhere turning more tinselly by the day.

    So This is Christmas takes us on an emotional journey... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20.10

  • THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER

    Filmmaker Julie (Tilda Swinton) and her mother Rosalind (also played by Tilda Swinton) confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home in Wales, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past. The ever-present swirling fog, eerie happenings... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.10, 17.50

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