Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 17/11/2024

  • 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: 14.50

  • 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: 12.20

  • 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: 20.40

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: DESTROY, SHE SAID

    Duras’s début as a solo director is adapted for the cinema from her eponymous novel. Shot in atmospheric black and white, Destroy, She Said takes place in an isolated hotel on the periphery of a forest, where a young woman... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 12.00

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: JIM’S STORY

    The Larrieu brothers (21 Nights with Pattie) have made films together for over 25 years. Adapting Pierric Bailly’s titular novel, Jim’s Story begins one evening when Aymeric (Karim Leklou) runs into former work colleague Florence (Laetitia Dosch) in the town... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20.45

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: MISERICORDIA

    Jérémie (Félix Kysyl) travels to Saint-Marcial, the village where he grew up, for the funeral of his friend and former boss, Jean-Pierre, the village baker. He decides to stay on for a few days at Martine’s (Catherine Frot), Jean-Pierre’s widow,... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.30

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: SUSPENDED TIME

    During the spring of 2020, two brothers, film director Paul (Vincent Macaigne), and music journalist Etienne (Micha Lescot), spend lockdown with their new partners Morgane and Carole in their family country home. In this suspended time they rediscover the rooms,... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 12.30

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: WHO BY FIRE + Q&A

    Teenager Jeff is invited by his best friend Max to stay in a secluded house deep in the woods. It’s the home of famous filmmaker Blake Cadieux (Arieh Worthalter, The Goldman Case) a long-time friend and collaborator of Max’s father.... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15.00

  • 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, 20.30

  • 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: 20.00

  • 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: 17.40

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