WHAT'S ON - 07/04/2025

• ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: DUBLIN CAN BE HEAVEN (PROGRAMME ONE)

  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

  DUBLIN OF THE WELCOMES

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  BOOK NOW Times: 13:00

  

• 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: 13:50

  

• FLOW

  Cat is a solitary creature, but when his woodland home is devastated by a great flood, he is obliged to seek allies in the animal kingdom in Gints Zilbalodis’s animated and dialogue-free adventure for all ages, a captivating, utterly disarming... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 12:40

  

• FOUR MOTHERS + Q&A (SAT 5TH)

  “It’s a love story, but it’s also not a love story”, says Edward (James McArdle), when asked by interviewers about his soon-to-be-published novel. The same is true of Darren Thornton’s follow-up to A Date For Mad Mary (2016), a comedy... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 16:20, 18:20, 20:30

  

• 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: 20:20

  

• IFI & AEMI: AT THE HEART OF THE REAL

  At the centre of the four films in this aemi-curated programme is an interest in how bodies connect to and through their environment, how nature seeps into us and in turn is made and corrupted by us. Made collaboratively in... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 18.30

  

• LA COCINA

  Amidst the lunchtime rush at The Grill, a beloved Manhattan restaurant, a series of events threaten to bring the kitchen to a crashing halt in Alonso Ruizpalacios’s gripping, dynamic adaptation of Arnold Wesker’s acclaimed stage play. While food orders flood... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 13:30

  

• RESTLESS – INTRODUCED BY BARRY WARD (FRI 4TH)

  The all-too-relatable dilemma of what to do about noisy neighbours is the engine that fuels Jed Hart’s tense, lean, blackly comic debut film that delves into themes of personal space invasion, and the lengths to which one might go to... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 14:35, 20:40

  

• THE MOST PRECIOUS OF CARGOES

  During World War II, a French Jewish family is deported to Auschwitz. On the train to the concentration camp, the father, desperate for any chance to save her life, throws one of his twins out into the snow, where she’s... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 16.35, 18.30 (OC)

  

• 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: 16:00