Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 16/02/2025

  • 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: 13:00, 17:15

  • BRIEF ENCOUNTER (80TH ANNIVERSARY)

    A chance meeting between strangers is the catalyst for one of cinema’s most heart-breaking doomed love affairs in David Lean’s timeless film of Noël Coward’s play Still Life. Middle-class housewife Laura Jesson’s (Celia Johnson) weekly excursion to the... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15:05

  • I’M STILL HERE (PREVIEWS FROM FEBRUARY 14TH)

    Walter Salles, the Oscar-winning director of Central Station and the Motorcycle Diaries, returns with his finest work in many years; I’m Still Here focuses on the true-life story of Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres), whose terrifying experience under Brazil’s military dictatorship... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 12:30, 17:40

  • INGMAR BERGMAN: THE SEVENTH SEAL

    The best known of Ingmar Bergman’s films, and indeed one of the most iconic works in the canon of twentieth century cinema, The Seventh Seal owes its formidable reputation to a series of indelible monochrome images that have become emblazoned... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15.30

  • JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES

    Acknowledged as a key figure in feminist filmmaking even during her lifetime, the work of Chantal Akerman has undergone constant reappraisal and re-evaluation since her tragic death in 2015, culminating in the voting of Jeanne Dielman as the greatest film ever made... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.20

  • MEMOIR OF A SNAIL

    Grace Pudel is a lonely misfit with an affinity for collecting ornamental snails and an intense love for books. At a young age, when Grace is separated from her twin brother Gilbert, she falls into a spiral of anxiety and... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 11:00, 17:05

  • THE BRUTALIST (DIGITAL)

    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: 19:10

  • 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: 19:30

  • TO A LAND UNKOWN

    Chatila (Mahmood Bakri) and Reda (Aram Sabbah) are Palestinian cousins hopelessly stranded in Athens in Mahdi Fleifel’s compelling, tightly plotted, yet ultimately heart-breaking exploration of the migrant experience. Chatila, the more resourceful of the two, is saving every penny to... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 11.10, 20.30

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