Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 18/11/2024

  • 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: 15.10

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: FRENCH CONNECTIONS (PROGRAMME 1)

    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 present some... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.10

  • 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: 13.20

  • 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: 15.50

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: INDIA SONG

    Considered one of Duras’s best, and based on a play Le Vice-Consul, it draws on her childhood experiences in French-occupied Indochina. Set in Calcutta in the 1930s, Delphine Seyrig plays Anne-Marie Stretter, whose ambassador husband turns a blind eye to... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.00 + INTRO

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: VIVA VARDA!

    An iconoclastic photographer, filmmaker and multimedia artist Agnès Varda (1928-2019) has produced a highly varied and personal body of work, but in the eyes of director Pierre-Henri Gibert, Varda’s greatest work is herself. In this fresh and affectionate documentary, it’s... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20.40

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: WILD DIAMOND

    19-year-old Liane (Malou Khebizi) lives with her divorced mother and doting younger sister in the outskirts of Frejus in the south of France; with her hyper sexualised persona, Liane is single-minded in her determination to become a brand influencer and... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.20

  • 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: 13.00, 20.40

  • 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: 14.20, 19.40

  • 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: 17.20

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