Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 29/09/2024

  • IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2024: BLACK BOX DIARIES

    IRISH PREMIERE

    Japanese journalist Shiori Itō embarks on a courageous investigation of her own sexual assault to prosecute her high-profile offender; her quest becomes a landmark case, exposing the country’s outdated judicial and societal systems, and has been credited with... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20.10

  • IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2024: DAHOMEY

    IRISH PREMIERE

    November, 2021. Twenty-six royal treasures of the Kingdom of Dahomey are about to leave the vaults of a Parisian Museum to return to their country of origin, the present-day Republic of Benin. Along with thousands of others, these... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.20

  • IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2024: SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT

    IRISH PREMIERE

    Against the backdrop of the Cold War, the US State Department sends ‘jazz ambassadors’ Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, and Duke Ellington to Congo, a newly independent, resource-rich African nation, to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup that would... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.30

  • IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2024: THE BAN + Q&A

    In 1988, following a wave of IRA atrocities, the British Government introduced a Broadcasting Ban, silencing Sinn Féin and other loyalist and republican paramilitary groups by forbidding broadcasters to allow anyone affiliated with these bodies to speak on television or... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.10

  • IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2024: THE FLATS + Q&A

    Belfast’s New Lodge is a Catholic neighbourhood violently affected by the Troubles. Many of the men who live here engaged in paramilitary activity in their youth and now suffer from disillusionment, unemployment, and poor mental health. The women work to... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15.20

  • 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: 12.20

  • SING SING

    Oscar nominees Colman Domingo (Rustin), and Paul Raci (Sound of Metal) lead a cast of non-professionals, many of whom play themselves, in Greg Kwedar’s inspirational true story, based on the Rehabilitation Through the Arts programme founded at Sing Sing Correctional... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 11.40

  • THE CRITIC

    The Critic is a deliciously dark and sharp-witted thriller set in 1930s London ‘theatreland’ featuring an all-star cast including Ian McKellen, Gemma Arterton, Mark Strong, Romola Garai, and Lesley Manville. Anand Tucker’s reimagining of Anthony Quinn’s novel Curtain Call focuses... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 11.00

  • THE GOLDMAN CASE

    Cédric Kahn revisits the controversial case of Pierre Goldman, a far-left Jewish activist who faced a life sentence for armed robbery and murder in 1969. In his 1975 appeal hearing, Goldman (Arieh Worthalter) pleads not guilty to murder, plunging his... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.30

  • THE OUTRUN

    Rona (Saoirse Ronan) has left her fast-paced life in London for Scotland’s far-flung Orkney Islands, hoping the stark change of scene will help in her battle with alcohol addiction, which led to the recent collapse of her relationship with Daynin... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.50, 17.00, 19.40

  • THE SUBSTANCE

    An aging movie star makes a Faustian pact to regain her youth and beauty in Corelie Fargeat’s smart, funny, and sensationally entertaining body horror that, amid the gleefully grotesque set-pieces, offers genuine insight into the lengths women are forced to... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 19.30

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