Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 21/08/2024

  • 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: 13.00

  • BÉLA TARR: THE TURIN HORSE

    The Turin Horse, Tarr’s final film to date, is another of his allegories in which human existence is pared down to its barest essentials, with man’s battle against nature assuming apocalyptic dimensions. The qualities that really distinguish a Béla Tarr... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20.10

  • HOLLYWOODGATE

    When the United States withdrew in 2021 from its twenty-year ‘forever war’ in Afghanistan, the Taliban retook control of the ravaged country and immediately found an American base in Kandahar, which they rebrand as Hollywoodgate, loaded with weaponry – a... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.10, 20.30

  • 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: 15.50

  • KNEECAP

    When fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed ‘low-life scum’ Naoise & Liam Óg, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish, KNEECAP fast become the unlikely figureheads of... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.20, 15.40, 18.00

  • LONE STAR 4K RESTORATION

    Following the discovery of human remains in the desert surrounding a windswept Texas town near the Mexican border, Sheriff Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper) is drawn into investigating a forty-year-old disappearance, that of Charlie Wade, the town’s corrupt and brutal former... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 12:50

  • ONLY THE RIVER FLOWS

    Adapted from Yu Hua’s novel Mistakes by the River, the third feature from Chinese writer-director Wei Shujun is set in the 1990s in the rural town of Banpo, Southern China. Ma Zhe (Zhu Yilong), chief of police (and father-to-be) investigates the... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13:50, 18:15 (OC)

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