WHAT'S ON - 23/04/2025

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

  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

  DUBLIN’S FAIR CITY

  Filmed in glorious colour, visitors arrive... Read More

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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: 16:10

  

• FOUR MOTHERS

  “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: 18:45

  

• FRÉWAKA

  Haunted by a personal tragedy, home care worker Shoo (Clare Monnelly) leaves her pregnant girlfriend to care for Peig (Bríd Ní Neachtain), a cantankerous old woman who has incarcerated herself in a big house on the edge of a remote... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 18:20 (Q&A)

  

• HOLY COW

  18-year-old Totone (Clement Faveau) lives in the Jura region in south-east France, an area renowned for its dairy cows, agricultural festivals, and award winning Comté cheese. Totone just wants to have fun with his friends, get drunk, and chase girls,... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 20:45

  

• 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: 13:10

  

• ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO

  One to One: John & Yoko focuses on an 18-month period when John Lennon and Yoko Ono fled a life of luxury in the UK for a relatively humble two-room apartment in New York’s West Village, becoming immediate figureheads for... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 16:00

  

• RESTLESS

  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: 14:50

  

• SINS OF IRELAND

  Sins of Ireland, directed by Alex Fegan (Older Than Ireland, The Irish Pub), is a portrait of Ireland through the lens of the confession box. Fifteen Irish priests, who have long heard the sins of others, offer their own confessional... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 16:50, 20:55

  

• THE PENGUIN LESSONS

  Argentina, 1976; disillusioned English schoolteacher Tom Michell (Steve Coogan) arrives at St George’s College, a prestigious all-boys private school on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. It is a politically tumultuous era, with violence exploding on the streets; determinedly unruffled by... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 13:50, 18:10

  

• THE RETURN

  After 20 years away, Odysseus (Ralph Fiennes) washes up on the shores of Ithaca, where he discovers that much has changed in his kingdom since he left to fight in the Trojan War. His beloved wife Penelope (Juliette Binoche) is... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 20:30