Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 14/06/2025

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: MASS APPEAL (DOUBLE BILL)

    Join us for FREE daily 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 ONE

    A CHURCH IS BUILT

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13:00

  • CAL

    In Northern Ireland, 19-year-old Cal (John Lynch) is a driver for an IRA gang who kill an RUC constable. Already ambivalent in his allegiance to the cause, Cal struggles to extricate himself when he falls for Marcella (Helen Mirren), the... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16:25

  • LOLLIPOP

    After serving a four-month prison sentence, Molly Brown (Posy Sterling) is eager to reunite with her two young children. However, she discovers that her mother, Sylvie (TerriAnn Cousins), with whom she has a fractious relationship, has placed them into social... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14:15, 18:40

  • QSFF: BEYOND THE KNOWN

    From basketball courts to coastal villages, these six films explore queer joy, resilience, and unexpected tenderness. Through stories of love, survival, and reunion, they capture the quiet revolutions of becoming — even in the face of violence, loss, and distance.

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15:30

  • QSFF: BORN ANEW

    Across borders and memories, these 5 films honour resilience, love, and the quiet fight for authenticity. From Kerala to Paris, Dublin to New York, they weave tender stories of becoming, remembrance, and the fierce beauty of living truthfully.

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    BOOK NOW Times: 17.45

  • QSFF: CACTUS PEARS

    Anand, a 30-something city dweller compelled to spend a 10-day mourning period for his father in the rugged countryside of western India, tenderly bonds with a local farmer who is struggling to stay unmarried. As the mourning ends, forcing his... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20:20

  • QSFF: RESILIENT JOY

    These seven films chart intimate journeys across borders of place, body, and memory. Blending myth, migration, and resilience, they celebrate queer lives in motion — the courage to transform, to remember, and to imagine new worlds beyond the familiar.

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13:00

  • THE PIANO TEACHER

    (LA PIANISTE)

    Erika Khout (Isabelle Huppert) is a teacher at the Vienna Conservatory. Now in her late thirties and living a hermetic, love-hate existence with a tyrannical mother (Annie Giradot), Erika’s sex life has been reduced to voyeurism and masochistic... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15:40

  • TORNADO

    Set in the unforgiving landscape of 1790s Britain, John McLean’s enigmatic and stylish film, his first since Slow West in 2015, follows Tornado (Kōki), a young Japanese woman traveling with her father Fujin (Takehiro Hira) as part of a samurai... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13:30, 18:30


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