Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 11/05/2025

  • 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: 11:00

  • 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: 11:00, 18:40

  • MOTEL DESTINO

    On the run from the police and the gang he let down following a botched robbery, twenty-one-year-old Heraldo (Iago Xavier) seeks refuge at the Motel Destino, a neon-lit roadside sex hotel on Brazil’s north-eastern coast in Karim Aïnouz’s gripping erotic... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13:05, 17:50

  • 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: 15.30

  • 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: 20:15

  • 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: 15:40

  • 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: 13:10

  • THE WEDDING BANQUET

    Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend, Chris (Bowen Yang), and facing pressure to marry from his wealthy family (to whom he hasn’t yet come out), Min (Han Gi-chan), a queer Korean man living in the US, proposes a marriage of convenience... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13:45, 18:00, 20:45

  • WITHOUT GETTING KILLED OR CAUGHT

    Narrated by Sissy Spacek, this documentary from Paul Whitfield and multiple Grammy-nominee Tamara Saviano, a figure of note for her many activities across the Americana and folk scene over a number of decades, focuses on the careers and relationships of... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.00

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