Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 01/03/2024

ALL OF US STRANGERS

With 45 Years (2015), director Andrew Haigh displayed a Bergmanesque mastery of portraying emotional devastation. Starring Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott, actors already known to excel in roles of surpassing emotional intensity, whether in Aftersun (Charlotte Wells, 2022) or Simon... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 16.00
IFI & DIFF: BRENDAN GLEESON’S FAREWELL TO HUGHES’S + Q&A

An unassuming pub on a side street behind the Four Courts in Dublin City Centre was a mecca of traditional Irish music for musicians, dancers, singers and listeners for over 35 years. In 2021, Hughes’s pub closed its doors for... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 18.30
IFI & DIFF: THE SWALLOW + Q&A

Authored Works
In a small house by the sea, a woman begins a letter to an unknown correspondent. Surrounded by the books, mementoes and clutter of her life, her home exposed to the waves of a rising ocean, she writes... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 20.30
MY FRIEND LANRE

Irish filmmaker Leo Regan draws on decades of footage to portray the complex life of his friend, photographer Lanre Fehintola. Their friendship began as photography students in London in the early ‘90s. In 1998 Leo directed and Lanre featured... Read More

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SHOWING UP

A sculptor preparing to open a show must balance her creative life with the ongoing dramas of family and friends in Kelly Reichardt’s gentle, acutely observed portrait of the daily stresses and strains of artistic endeavour. Michelle Williams, in... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 20.20
YOUR FAT FRIEND

Aubrey Gordon writes anonymously with candour and humour as ‘Your Fat Friend’ about what it means to be a very fat woman in the world. Her searingly honest writing debunks the lies peddled by the diet and wellness industry and... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 16.00, 18.10