Irish Film Institute -Birdsong

WHAT'S ON - 27/07/2024

  • AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS: THE DOOM GENERATION

    As Hollywood ostentatiously mobilised to support the gay community with well-intentioned, issue-based efforts such as Jonathan Demme’s Philadelphia (1993), a New Queer Cinema movement was developing elsewhere. The films of Gregg Araki are exemplary of a cinema that sought to... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 17.00

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: BRITISH & IRISH (DOUBLE BILL)

    Join us for free screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive daily in July. Simply collect your tickets online (with a small booking fee) or at IFI Box Office.

    PROGRAMME ONE

    COME ABOARD

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.40

  • CROSSING

    In honour of her sister’s dying wish, retired history teacher Lia (Mzia Arabuli) has crossed the Black Sea from Batumi in Georgia to Istanbul in search of her trans niece Tekla who has disappeared. Chasing down a sketchy lead, she... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 11:40, 20:40

  • LA CHIMERA

    On his release from prison, Arthur (Josh O’Connor) immediately visits Flora (Isabella Rossellini), mother of his lost love. Although Arthur’s tendency is to keep to himself, he soon falls in with a group of tombaroli, grave robbers who loot the... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14:10

  • NOTES FROM SHEEPLAND

    Orla Barry is a hard-working, lipstick-wearing sheep farmer in rural Wexford. She is also a visual artist, renowned for her video and sound art. She strides confidently from art seminars to the Tullamore Show, lambing in April and shearing in... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14:00, 18:50

  • THE SATURDAY SERIAL: INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY

    In the first decades of cinema, serial films such as The Perils Of Pauline (1914), Fantômas (1913-14), and Les Vampires (1915-16) kept audiences returning week after week, eager to see the resolution of the previous episode’s cliffhanger. Later, the form brought heroes such as Flash... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 11.00

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