Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 20/03/2025

  • EAFFI: BRIEF HISTORY OF A FAMILY

    After a mysterious incident at high school, the lives of classmates Wei, an outgoing only boy from a ‘perfect’ middle-class family, and Shuo, a sharp-eyed introvert from a troubled background, become intertwined. Wei introduces Shuo to his father (a cell biologist) and mother (a... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.15

  • EAFFI: DON’T CRY, BUTTERFLY

    As part of our focus on Vietnamese cinema, we are delighted to premiere the debut feature by Vietnamese writer-director Dương Diệu Linh, winner Venice Film Festival Critic’s Week Grand Prize, 2024. Breadwinner and mother Tam works at a wedding hall... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20.50

  • 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: 13:00, 20:20

  • MICKEY 17

    Answering the question of how to follow 2019’s Parasite, a critical darling that won four Oscars, including best film and international film, and the Palme d’Or at Cannes, Bong Joon Ho has wisely chosen to pivot in a different direction;... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15:10, 20:15

  • O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?

    This twenty-fifth anniversary rerelease is a welcome chance to enjoy the Coen Brothers’ typically idiosyncratic take on Homer’s Odyssey (also the basis for Christopher Nolan’s next film) on the big screen. George Clooney stars as Ulysses Everett McGill, who leads fellow... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.30

  • SISTER MIDNIGHT

    Karan Kandhari’s enjoyably unusual comedy begins with newly-married couple Uma (Radhika Apte) and Gopal (Ashok Pathak) starting their life together at their home in Mumbai. Their pairing seems less a match born of love than an arrangement made due to... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15:50 (OC), 18:00

  • THE IRISH QUESTION

    A provocative meditation on the prospect of a united Ireland from Alan Gilsenan. With the possibility of a border poll becoming an increasing likelihood, do we really understand what that could mean for all those living on the island of... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15:50, 18:10

  • VERMIGLIO

    Maura Delpero’s exquisite second feature, told in four chapters – one for each season – is set in the titular village in the Italian Alps in 1944, as World War II grinds to a halt. Pietro (Giuseppe De Domenico), a... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 12:45

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