Irish Film Institute -AUSTRALIAN DREAMS: WAKE IN FRIGHT

WHAT'S ON - 17/06/2025

  • AEMI: THE SAID AND THE UNSAID

    3 Peonies, DirStephanie Barber, USA, 2017 , 3 mins.

    In Search of the Forenaughts Longstone, Dir. Jonathan O’Grady, Ireland, 2021, 12 mins.

    Nazarbazi, Dir. Maryam Tafakory, Iran/UK, 2022, 19 mins.

    Few Can See, Dir. Frank Sweeney, Ireland, 2023, 42 mins.

    This eclectic programme of work shifts... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.30

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: MASS APPEAL (PROGRAMME ONE)

    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

    This film shows the... Read More

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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: 13:30

  • GARBO: QUEEN CHRISTINA

    As a condition of renewing her contract with MGM, and having immense leverage in negotiations, Garbo, the Swedish actress, stipulated that she star as Christina, the seventeenth-century Swedish queen, in this lavish production. Coming to power during the Thirty Years’... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18:30

  • 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: 16:20, 18:20 (OC)

  • THE ENCAMPMENTS

    The Encampments chronicles the Columbia University Gaza solidarity encampments that began in April 2024. as students faced police raids, media attacks, and political condemnation, their movement spread to universities across the world. Through exclusive footage and intimate interviews, The... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16:10

  • 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: 15:45

  • 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: 13:50, 20:30


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