Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 30/07/2024

  • ABOUT DRY GRASSES

    An unsparing character study of an everyday misanthrope, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s engrossing film continues in the intellectually stimulating, leisurely, dialogue rich vein of Winter Sleep and The Wild Pear Tree. Art teacher Semet (Deniz Celiloglu) is trudging through his mandatory four year assignment... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13:50, 19:15 (OC)

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: BRITISH & IRISH (PROGRAMME 2)

    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 TWO

    FRIENDLY IRELAND

    In this optimistically-titled promotional... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.00

  • 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: 16:10

  • FROM THE VAULTS: SPAGHETTI SLOW

    Summer in Dublin 1996 and the suburbs fill up with hordes of Spanish, French, and Italian students sent to learn English by their optimistic parents. Simone, a wealthy Italian boy, arrives to spend a few weeks with the Fergusons, a... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.30

  • I SAW THE TV GLOW

    A hypnotic, surreal fever dream of a film, writer-director Jane Schoenbrun’s (We’re All Going to The World’s Fair) I Saw The TV Glow has future cult classic written all over it in bright pink neon. The setting is the late 1990s, where teenager Owen (Justice Smith) and fellow misfit Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine) bond over their shared... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 17:00, 20:30

  • KINDS OF KINDNESS

    Kinds of Kindness is Yorgos Lanthimos’s second film to be released this year, coming hot on the heels of the all-conquering Poor Things; it represents, however, a shift away from the crossover appeal of that baroque, multi-Oscar-winning extravaganza, and a... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 12:50

  • 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: 17:40

  • 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: 15:15, 20:45

  • THE CONVERSATION 50TH ANNIVERSARY 4K RESTORATION

    Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) is the best known surveillance specialist in the business; paranoid, and antisocial, he lives a solitary, guarded life. When a mysterious client and his assistant ask him to spy on a young couple in a San... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 12:45

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