Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 19/11/2024

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: 20.20
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: 13.20
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: BLOCK PASS

Teenagers Jojo (Amaury Foucher) and Willy (Sayyid El Alami) are best friends in the small town of Longué-Jumelles, in western France; full of youthful bravado, Jojo, a competitive motorcross rider, who practices at the La Pampa track constructed by his... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 20.30
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: SOULEYMANE’S STORY

The precarious life of an undocumented migrant is vividly brought to life in Boris Lojkine’s clear-eyed, compassionate and quietly devastating third film. Souleymane (Abou Sangaré), a bike courier navigating deliveries through the frenetic Paris traffic, is two days away from... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 18.30
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: THE MAN WITH A THOUSAND FACES

Ricardo, Alexandre, or Daniel? With different identities he seduces women across the globe. They each love the same man, but one of them begins to doubt Ricardo’s story and it emerges she is not the only one in his life.... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 18.20
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: 15.20
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: 13.10, 18.00