Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 22/02/2025

  • 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: 19.50

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: LOVE HURTS (DOUBLE BILL)

    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 ONE

    RADHARC: DEAR ANGELA

    A portrait of Angela McNamara, Ireland’s... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 11:00

  • 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: 18.20

  • 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: 11.20

  • I’M STILL HERE

    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, 15.30 (OC), 17.30, 20.30

  • INGMAR BERGMAN: THE VIRGIN SPRING

    One of Ingmar Bergman’s most controversial films, The Virgin Spring, set in 14th century Sweden, takes its inspiration from a medieval ballad (which the director initially considered adapting as an opera) which recounts the tale of Töre (Max von Sydow),... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15.20

  • 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

  • PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (50TH ANNIVERSARY)

    On Valentine’s Day, 1900, students from Appleyard College, a girls’ private school in Victoria, Australia, embark on a field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, several of the girls wander off.... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.05

  • SEPTEMBER SAYS

    Teenage sisters September and July, born just ten months apart, are as close as sisters can be.  September (Pascale Kann), the elder, is protective, domineering, and distrustful of others while July (Mia Tharia) is increasingly curious about the world around... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 11.00, 20.40

  • THE PEOPLE’S JOKER

    Having finally overcome the legal issues around its appropriation of Bruce Wayne and his nemesis, Vera Drew’s anarchic, funny, and fiercely original autobiographical debut feature is finally available for general screening. Taking the Batman mythos and twisting it into unique... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 17.20

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