WHAT'S ON - 10/02/2025

• 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: 15:15

  

• 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: 12:30

  

• BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN

  Bernard MacMahon’s long-gestating documentary, announced in 2019 and screened as a work-in-progress at the 2021 Venice Film Festival, covers the formation and early years of one of rock’s seminal bands. Featuring new interviews with the group’s surviving members – vocalist... Read More

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• 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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• BRING THEM DOWN

  Chronicling an escalating feud between neighbouring families in the west of Ireland, Chris Andrew’s debut feature draws us into a world of breathtaking beauty populated by desperate men. Michael (Christopher Abbott), a shepherd still haunted by a tragic incident in... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 13:00, 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: 13:20, 20:50

  

• 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: 15:30

  

• THE LAST SHOWGIRL (WITH PRE-RECORDED Q&A FEBRUARY 10TH)

  The Last Showgirl sees Pamela Anderson mounting an extraordinary comeback performance as Shelly, a Las Vegas dancer who is left adrift after the revue show she has been performing in for 30 years is suddenly closed by stage manager Eddie (Dave... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 18:20 (pre-recorded Q&A)

  

• THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG

  Iman (Misagh Zare), a functionary in the Iranian regime who has been promoted to the role of investigator for the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, grapples with mistrust and paranoia as nationwide political protests intensify. When his gun mysteriously disappears, he... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 12:50, 19:40 (OC)