Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 08/05/2025

  • AMONGST THE WOLVES

    On the streets of Dublin, Danny (Luke McQuillan), a homeless man, tries to maintain contact with his young son despite opposition from the child’s mother (Jade Jordan), who has not forgiven Danny for an accident, caused though his negligence. Haunted... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.30, 20.40

  • 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: 15.45

  • 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: 16.00

  • 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: 18.30

  • OCEAN WITH DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

    OCEAN WITH DAVID ATTENBOROUGH takes viewers on a breathtaking journey showing there is nowhere more vital for our survival, more full of life, wonder, or surprise, than the ocean.

    The celebrated broadcaster and filmmaker reveals how his lifetime has coincided with... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.30

  • PARTHENOPE

    Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty) returns to Naples, the city of his birth, for this languorous, swooningly romantic chronicle of the eponymous Parthenope (Celeste Dalla Porta in her feature debut), born in 1950 and named after a siren in Homer’s Odyssey... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13:10, 18:00

  • TALL TALES

    Electronic music producer Mark Pritchard, songwriter Thom Yorke and groundbreaking visual artist Jonathan Zawada present Tall Tales, a collaborative visual and audio cinema experience a decade in the making. Screening in advance of the release of their titular album, Tall Tales shows the... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20.30

  • THE GRACELESS AGE: THE BALLAD OF JOHN MURRY

    John Murry was on the cusp of greatness with his highly acclaimed album The Graceless Age (2013) when, addicted to heroin and creatively exhausted, he washed up on Irish shores a broken man. Now, he is ready to retrace his... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20.50

  • 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: 13.00

  • 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: 15.30

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