JUNE 2024 AT THE IFI

May 28th, 2024: This June, the Irish Film Institute (IFI) presents a selection of exciting international new releases, including The Dead Don’t Hurt, The Bikeriders, and Kinds of Kindness. From Saturday 8th to Sunday 22nd, the IFI is delighted to screen a retrospective season dedicated to the films of the legendary Bette Davis. In partnership with the Bloomsday Film Festival, the IFI will celebrate Joyce with a selection of screenings taking place on Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th.

Opening on Friday 7th is Bas Devos’s Here, winner of both the jury and Fipresci prize for best film in the Berlin Film Festival’s Encounters section (also available on IFI@Home from Friday 7th); French drama Rosalie, starring Nadia Tereszkiewicz and Benoît Magimel; and Viggo Mortensen’s second feature The Dead Don’t Hurt, starring Vicky Krieps. The Dead Don’t Hurt will be available to stream nationwide on IFI@Home from Monday, July 29th.

From Friday 14th, Maria Amachoukeli’s self-referential Àma Gloria; Hounds, Kamal Lazraq’s debut feature and winner of the Jury Prize in the 2023 Cannes’s Un Certain Regard programme; and British adaptation Wilding from director David Allen open in IFI Cinemas.

Green Border, from veteran Polish director Agnieszka Holland; Jeff Nichols’s The Bikeriders, starring Jodie Comer and Austin Butler; and Marian Quinn’s latest release Twig open in-cinema from Friday 21st. The opening night screening of Twig will be followed by a Q&A with director Marian Quinn
and actress Sade Malone.

Opening at the IFI from Friday 28th is Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness, with a star-studded cast which includes Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe; new documentary Eternal You, which explores how start-ups around the world are using artificial intelligence to allow users to virtually connect with their deceased loved ones as avatars; and Sidney Lumet’s classic Network.

Screening in-cinema from Sunday 30th is new animation A Greyhound of a Girl, an adaptation of the book of the same name written by beloved Irish author Roddy Doyle, and starring Brendan Gleeson, Sharon Horgan, Rosaleen Linehan, Charlene McKenna, and Mia O’Connor. The film will screen as part of our IFI Family strand on Sunday 30th at 11.00, followed by a Q&A with Roddy Doyle.

From Saturday 8th to Wednesday 26th, the IFI is delighted to present Fasten Your Seatbelts: The Films of Bette Davis, a season dedicated to the life and work of a true Hollywood icon, who is celebrated as one of the greatest actors in film history. Titles screening include classics such as Now, Voyager, All About Eve, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, and more. Full programme and tickets are now available on the IFI website.

On Sunday 2nd, our new strand, IFI Encounters, returns with new documentary Iron Butterflies, which presents the events surrounding the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash in 2014 through an artful yet evidence-driven examination. On Wednesday 5th, the IFI and aemi are proud to co-present The Blue Description Project – a new, experimental iteration of Derek Jarman’s Blue (1993) that builds on the multifaceted nature of his work through newly commissioned and expansive accessibility, including creative captions, audio description, and ISL interpretation.

On Wednesday 12th, the IFI and Small Trans Film Club will present Do It Yourself: Trans Sex on Screen, a programme of short films celebrating trans pleasure and sexual liberation. The programme will be followed by a Q&A with with filmmaker Maz Murray and artist Peter McAteer discussing visual representations of trans sexuality. This month, IFI Spotlight returns on Thursday 13th with a morning presentation by Dr. Roddy Flynn and Dr. Tony Tracy who will offer their incisive review of the year, exploring legislative and other developments in the industry and providing critical analysis of the film and television output, followed by a panel discussion and networking lunch. On Friday 14th and Saturday 15th, the IFI will screen a new 4K digital restoration of Tobe Hooper’s legendary shocker The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, to mark its fiftieth anniversary.

To mark Bloomsday this year, the IFI in partnership with the Bloomsday Film Festival will present three Joycean-related screenings from Saturday 15th to Sunday 16th. Kino Volta, a new documentary exploring the four Triestine partners who collaborated with James Joyce to open Ireland’s first cinema, the Volta, screens on Saturday 15th, followed by a Q&A with director Martin Turk and producer Jeremiah Cullinane. The Disembodied Adventures of Alice, an experimental reimaging of Lewis Carroll’s Alice, featuring passages from Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake, screens on Sunday 16th, followed by a Q&A with director Cléa van der Grijn, hosted by Bloomsday Film Festival’s Tommy Creagh. Also screening on Bloomsday itself is Lenny Abrahamson’s Adam and Paul, accompanied by Kelly Campbell’s short film An Encounter. Both films were written by screenwriter Mark O’Halloran, who will introduce them before the screening. This month’s Archive at Lunchtime programme, Traces of Joyce, presents three short films, screening for free at lunchtime daily throughout June.

June’s The Bigger Picture offering will be David Gleeson’s Cowboys and Angels, introduced by Dublin Pride’s Colm Molloy, screening on Wednesday 19th.The From The Vaults strand this month presents Marian Quinn’s 32A on 35mm, followed by a Q&A with the director and actress Ailish McCarthy, on Thursday 20th.

The IFI Youth Panel, a youth-led programming group formed from 22 & Under cardholders, will present a screening of Barry Jenkins’s Oscar-winning Moonlight on Monday 24th. On Tuesday 25th, the IFI is delighted to welcome writer, director, and film programmer Jane Giles to our Eustace Street venue to present a wide-ranging, informative and entertaining talk on her experiences in the film industry, followed by a screening of a surprise film, chosen by Giles herself.

This month, Wild Strawberries, the monthly film club for over 55s, presents The Birdcage, starring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane, on Wednesday 26th (Open Captioned) and Friday 28th. On Thursday 27th, the IFI is proud to present a special screening of Kiss the Future, a story of
defiance amid the 1990s’s siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War, and Irish band U2’s promise to perform a post-war concert. The Mystery Matinee returns on Sunday 30th, offering audiences the chance to see a surprise film, new or old, for only €6.20.

Tickets for new releases and special events are on sale from the IFI Box Office on (01) 6793477 and from www.ifi.ie, as per the IFI’s Weekly Schedule. Online rentals from IFI@Home are available at www.ifihome.ie. For further information and high-res images, please contact Casey Hynes (chynes@irishfilm.ie) at the IFI Press Office.

SCHEDULE

SUNDAY 2ND
IFI Encounters: Iron Butterflies

WEDNESDAY 5TH
IFI & aemi: The Blue Description Project

FROM FRIDAY 7TH
Here
Rosalie
The Dead Don’t Hurt

SATURDAY 8TH
Bette Davis: Jezebel

SUNDAY 9TH
Bette Davis: Dark Victory

TUESDAY 11TH
Bette Davis: The Letter

WEDNESDAY 12TH
IFI & Small Trans Film Club: Do It Yourself: Trans Sex on Screen

THURSDAY 13TH
IFI Talks: IFI Spotlight

FRIDAY 14TH
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 4K Re-release

FROM FRIDAY 14TH
Àma Gloria
Hounds
Wilding

SATURDAY 15TH
Bette Davis: Now, Voyager
IFI & Bloomsday Film Festival: Kino Volta
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 4K Re-release