Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 16/11/2024

  • ANORA

    Mikey Madison is a revelation as charismatic sex worker Anora in Sean Baker’s wildly entertaining, frenetically paced comedy. Ani, as she prefers to be called, meets Ivan (Mark Eydelshteyn), the son of a Russian oligarch, in a New York strip... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20.10

  • 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.

    Whetting appetites for the IFI French Film Festival we... Read More

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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

  • SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE

    An unassuming man in 1980’s Ireland must grapple with his conscience in the face of an overwhelming moment of insight in Tim Mielants supremely confident adaptation of Claire Keegan’s Booker Prize-nominated 2021 novella. The setting is New Ross, Wexford, in... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.10, 16.20, 18.30

  • 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

  • THE ROOM NEXT DOOR

    After years of being out of touch, old friends Martha (Tilda Swinton) and Ingrid (Julianne Moore) meet again in extreme yet poignant circumstances. Martha is terminally ill and has chosen to take her own life; she asks Ingrid to accompany... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20.40

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