WHAT'S ON - 16/11/2024

• ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: FRENCH CONNECTIONS (DOUBLE BILL)

  FRENCH CONNECTIONS

  Join us for FREE lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets online (with a small booking fee) or at IFI Box Office.

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  BOOK NOW Times: 11.45

  

• BIRD

  Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank, American Honey) brings her trademark visual energy and uncanny ability to elicit stunning performances from young actors to this typically bustling coming-of-age story that sees the director introduce a touch of magic realism to her gritty... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 14.40

  

• BLITZ

  As London is bombarded nightly by the German blitzkrieg during World War II, working-class single mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan), on the advice of her father, Gerald (Paul Weller), makes the heartbreaking decision to send her 9-year-old son George (Elliott Heffernan)... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 12.15

  

• FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: BORGO

  When prison warden Melissa (Hafsia Herzi) is transferred to Corsica, she finds the relaxed atmosphere of her new workplace contrasts sharply with the aggressive inhabitants of the neighbourhood where she now lives with her partner Djibril (Moussa Mansaly). Melissa’s integration... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 13.10

  

• FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: SAUVAGES

  From Claude Barra, the director of the memorable, award-winning stop motion, Ma Vie de Courgette, comes this gorgeous environmental-themed fable, set in the rain forest of Borneo, a lush, fertile land, where nature and the life of the indigenous Penan... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 15.50

  

• FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: THE MANY LIVES OF ÉDOUARD LOUIS

  François Caillat first met writer Édouard Louis in 2012, when he was writing what would become his breakout novel, The End of Eddy. A decade later we journey with Louis to Amiens, where he grew up, discovered literature and theatre,... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 12.00

  

• FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: THE SUCCESSOR

  Ellias Barnès (Marc-André Grondin) is the newly-appointed artistic director of a legendary Parisian fashion house. During his opening show, he starts experiencing chest pain. Out of the blue he is called back to Montreal to organise his estranged father’s funeral... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 20.30

  

• FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: TROIS AMIES

  The interconnected romantic entanglements of the titular Lyonnaise friends are played out in Emmanuel Mouret’s wryly amusing fourth feature; redolent of Woody Allen in his heyday, Trois Amies is a beautifully performed and acutely observed treatise on cherche l’amour. Joan (India... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 18.00

  

• SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT

  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 lead to... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 17.10