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WHAT'S ON - 22/08/2024

  • AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS: RUSHMORE

    One of the most distinctive of contemporary filmmakers, it was really withRushmore, his follow-up to debut Bottle Rocket (1996), that what is now so clearly recognisable as Wes Anderson’s style first became identifiable. Anderson regular Jason Schwartzman is Max Fischer, student at... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20.00

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: HOME TRUTHS (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

    ESSIE’S LAST STAND

    In this short... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.00

  • 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: 13.10, 17.50

  • 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: 16.10

  • IFI TALKS: AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS WITH DR LAURA CANNING

    For the latest in our ongoing series of IFI Talks, and to coincide with our current season on American independent cinema of the 1990s, we are delighted to welcome Dr Laura Canning, Irish filmmaker, writer, and academic, whose doctoral research... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.30

  • 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: 13.30, 18.10, 20.30

  • 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: 15:20

  • 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, 20:15

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