WHAT'S ON - 20/04/2024

• ABBAS KIAROSTAMI: TASTE OF CHERRY

  The co-winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival (along with Shohei Imamura’s The Eel), Kiarostami’s Taste of Cherry is an emotionally complex meditation on life and death. Middle-aged Mr. Badii (Homayoun Ershadi) drives through the hilly... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 18.00

  

• ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH

  The debut feature from eclectic Irish documentarian Paul Duane (Natan, 2013; While You Live, Shine, 2018; Best Before Death, 2019) sees him combine his wide array of interests to create a distinctly Irish entry to the folk horror canon. Anna (Simone Collins)... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 13:10, 18:30

  

• ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: SPRING FORWARD (DOUBLE BILL)

  Join us for free screening of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive every Monday, Wednesday and double-bill Saturday. Simply collect your tickets at IFI Box Office, or book your ticket on our website for a small fee!

   

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  BOOK NOW Times: 12.50

  

• IFI & ONE DUBLIN ONE BOOK: EDUCATING RITA

  Dissatisfied with the routine of her work and social life, working-class hairdresser Rita (Julie Walters) yearns for intellectual stimulus. She signs up for an Open University Course and is assigned a jaded and dissolute tutor, Frank Bryant (Michael Caine), a... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 15.30

  

• IFI TALKS: KIAROSTAMI PANEL DISCUSSION

  Welcome to IFI Talks, the first in a series of opportunities for film discourse at IFI. We look forward to welcoming further guest speakers, local and international, to explore film culture, and engage with IFI’s programme, at public events throughout... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 14.00

  

• IO CAPITANO

  The immigration narrative is reframed as a hero’s quest in Matteo Garrone’s searing depiction of a Senegalese teenager’s attempts to reach Europe’s hallowed shores. 16-year-old Seydou (Seydou Sarr), and his cousin, Moussa (Moustapha Fall), are gravely disillusioned when their journey... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 13:40

  

• JEANNE DU BARRY

  Born in 1743, Jeanne Bécu (played by writer-director Maïwenn), the illegitimate child of a monk and a cook, spent her formative years in a convent, where her taste for contemporary literature scandalised the nuns. Released at the age of 15,... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 15:40, 18:10

  

• THE ZONE OF INTEREST

  In the postscript to his titular novel, from which Jonathan Glazer’s film takes its title and situation but virtually nothing else, Martin Amis refers to Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi being told by one of the concentration camp’s guards, “there is... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 20:50