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WHAT'S ON - 29/04/2025

BEST OF IRISH 2025: 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: 18:50
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: 13:50, 18:20
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: 13:10
IRISH FOCUS: THE CORDELIA DREAM

Marina Carr’s play comes to life on screen, under Joe O’Byrne’s direction, with the mysterious and tense confrontation of Woman and Man. When Woman (played by Danielle Ryan), haunted by her dream of Cordelia and King Lear, confronts Man (Stephen... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 18.30
JULIE KEEPS QUIET

Nominated for the 2025 Lux Audience Award, see the full nominees here.

Julie (Tessa Van den Broeck) is a highly promising 15-year-old tennis player whose life revolves around the sport she has been devoted to since childhood. Julie’s regimented life at... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 16:10, 20:40
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: 16:45