Irish Film Institute -IFI International May 2025

WHAT'S ON - 30/04/2025

  • DAVID LEAN: MADELEINE

    Lean regarded this, his eighth film in less than a decade, as the least of his films, made largely as a wedding present to Todd, who had played the role of Madeline Smith on stage. Based on a true story,... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.20

  • 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: 16:45

  • 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: 13:50, 20:55

  • 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: 13:25

  • 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, 18:45

  • 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: 20:40

  • WILD STRAWBERRIES: CONCLAVE

    A superb Oscar-winning thriller, adapted from Robert Harris’ book and starring Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci. Directed by German filmmaker Edward Berger, he achieves a studied and complex characterisation and world, as he did with his previous film, All Quiet... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 11.00


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