Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 15/12/2024

  • ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT

    A delicate ode to female friendship, Payal Kapadia’s narrative debut brilliantly captures the pace, colours and atmosphere of life in modern Mumbai. Nurse Prabha’s routine is upset when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger, more... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 17:40

  • ARE WE ONE

    Robert Kennedy was one of the first American Catholic priests to be installed as a Zen teacher in the U.S, causing outrage in the U.S. Zen community from people objecting to the installation of a cleric from another faith.

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.00

  • CHASING THE LIGHT

    In the early 1970s, charismatic hippie couple Peter and Harriet Cornish escaped the chaos of the modern world and headed to the wilds of West Cork where they established a spiritual haven which would eventually blossom into Dzogchen Beara, a... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13:30, 20:20

  • CONCLAVE

    When the Pope unexpectedly dies, Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes), Dean of the College of Cardinals, is tasked with presiding over the conclave, the time-honoured and highly secretive process for electing his successor. From all over the world prospective Cardinals descend... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13:20, 15:30

  • HOUSEWIFE OF THE YEAR

    Between 1969 and 1995, women all over Ireland competed to win the Housewife of the Year, a competition celebrating “cookery, nurturing, and basic household management skills”. Broadcast on RTÉ from 1982, the programmes featured not just the competition itself but... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15:50

  • IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE

    In one of the IFI’s most popular traditions, perennial favourite It’s A Wonderful Life, required viewing over the festive period, once again returns to our screens to warm even the coldest of hearts. James Stewart is at his most likeable... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16:20

  • QUEER

    Daniel Craig plays William Lee (the alter ego of author William S. Burroughs, previously played by Peter Weller in Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch), a middle-aged drug addict cruising the ex-pat gay bars of Mexico City in the early ‘50s, where he meets... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13:30, 19:00

  • 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: 11:10

  • THE UNIVERSAL THEORY

    In 1962, against the backdrop of Cold War tensions and a world of paranoid conspiracy, Johannes Leinert (Jan Bülow), a promising young PHD student, travels to a physics conference at an isolated lodge high in the Swiss Alps, where an... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 11:00, 20:10


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