Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 07/08/2024

  • 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: 19:20

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: HOME TRUTHS (PROGRAMME 1)

    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

    7 WINDOWS

    Documentary portraits of seven... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13:10

  • 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: 14:00

  • 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: 15:20, 20:55

  • 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: 20:00

  • 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: 16:30

  • MRS ROBINSON

    A reforming constitutional lawyer and senator in her early career, Mary Robinson detonated an electoral earthquake by winning the Irish Presidential vote in 1990. Later, as a crusading UN High Commissioner, she built a lasting legacy; fearlessly challenging perpetrators of... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.30 (preview + Q&A)

  • MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO

    Hayao Miyazaki’s second film for Studio Ghibli, My Neighbour Totoro was one of the first to draw international attention to Japanese animation, and is now generally considered one of the best in the genre. Its appeal is not hard to... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.20, 16.10

  • 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: 17:30

  • WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES 4K

    Béla Tarr’s mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigmatic, transcendent, philosophical, and mystical experience; coming six years after the epoch-defining work that was Sátántangó, the equally profound and plaintive Werckmeister Harmonies was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. Presented now... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13:00

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