Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 05/02/2025

  • A COMPLETE UNKNOWN

    It would take an epic saga to do justice to the long, storied career of cultural icon Bob Dylan. James Mangold’s excellent biopic hinges instead around his first major reinvention, when he plugged in his electric guitar at 1965’s Newport... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15:40

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: LOVE HURTS (PROGRAMME 2)

    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.

    PROGRAMME TWO

    THE WOMAN WHO MARRIED CLARK GABLE

    Dublin in the... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 12.45

  • BLUE ROAD – THE EDNA O’BRIEN STORY

    In 1960, a young Irish woman named Edna O’Brien wrote The Country Girls, the first of a sexually-frank trilogy of novels. Though the books were banned in Ireland, O’Brien became an international literary sensation, gaining fame and notoriety through her... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13:35, 20:40

  • HARD TRUTHS

    Hard Truths reunites Mike Leigh with Marianne Jean-Baptiste, the star of his Secrets And Lies (1996), and marks his final collaboration with cinematographer Dick Pope, who passed away following filming. Beginning in media res, we meet Pansy, the flipside to Happy-Go-Lucky’s Poppy, a woman... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16:10, 20:40

  • INGMAR BERGMAN: TO JOY

     Taking its title from Friedrich Schiller’s ‘Ode to Joy,’ adapted by Beethoven for his Ninth Symphony, Bergman’s tragic romance opens with a violinist, Stig (Stig Olin), learning of the sudden death of his wife, Marta (Maj-Britt Nilsson). In flashback, Stig... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.30

  • MARIA

    With Maria, Chilean director Pablo Larrain completes his thematically linked triptych of portraits of famous, isolated women, having observed Jackie Kennedy before turning to Diana Spencer; Natalie Portman and Kristen Stewart received Best Actress Oscar nominations for their respective performances,... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13:30

  • PRESENCE

    Despite his prolific and diverse output over the last 35 years, Presence marks director Steven Soderbergh’s first foray into the supernatural. From a screenplay by David Koepp, writer of films such as Carlito’s Way (Brian De Palma, 1993), the story... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 17:05

  • THE BIGGER PICTURE: HANDS ON A HARDBODY: THE DOCUMENTARY

    As outgoing IFI Development Manager, visual artist and festival producer Emily Brennan has chosen this fascinating Texas-set documentary, about a competition in which the winner is the person who stands with their hand on the truck the longest. Over the... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.20

  • THE BRUTALIST (70MM)

    In 1947, architect László Tóth (Adrien Brody) flees persecution in Budapest for the US; initially forced to toil in poverty, circumstances thrust him into the orbit of Harrison van Buren (Guy Pearse), a millionaire businessman who comes to recognise the spark of revolutionary genius in the Hungarian’s innovative... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13:00, 19:00

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