Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 09/07/2025

28 YEARS LATER

It has been nearly three decades since the outbreak of the rage virus; Britain is under quarantine, where isolated communities cling to life amidst the ever-present threat of infection. One such group lives on an island connected to the mainland... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 13:15
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: AGAINST THE ODDS (PROGRAMME ONE)

Join us for FREE 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

TOP OF THE MORNING This tourist-style film promoted sale... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 13:00
AUSTRALIAN DREAMS: THE LAST WAVE

Perhaps the Australian director who would go on to have the most successful American career with films such as Dead Poets Society (1989) and The Truman Show (1998), Peter Weir’s early works at home, such as The Cars That Ate Paris (1974) and the recently rereleased Picnic... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 18.30
BEAT THE LOTTO

When downtrodden 1980s Ireland inaugurated a National Lottery the people began to dream. For Cork-based mathematician Stefan Klincewicz, it was an obsession. Spotting a flaw in the system, he recruited a ragtag team of chancers, and masterminded an audacious... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 13:45, 18:00
FROM HILDE, WITH LOVE

(IN LIEBE, EURE HILDE)

Berlin, 1942: Hilde (Liv Lisa Fries), a young medical assistant, has fallen in love and married Hans Coppi (Johannes Hegemann). But amid the passion there is grave danger; Hans becomes involved in the Red Orchestra, a... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 20:35
HEARTS OF DARKNESS: A FILMMAKER’S APOCALYPSE 4K RE-RELEASE

A revealing portrait of the making of Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam War epic, compiled from footage shot by his wife Eleanor during the legendarily troubled shoot, with contemporary interviews with members of the cast and crew, Hearts of Darkness offers an unflinching... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 15:50 (OC)
HOT MILK

Sofia (Emma Mackey) has acted as caregiver to her wheelchair-bound mother Rose (Fiona Shaw) for most of her life; the cause of Rose’s chronic pain is unknown, and they have come to a private clinic in Spain, presided over by... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 15:40, 20:45
RAN (40TH ANNIVERSARY)

Ran, Akira Kurosawa’s majestic late masterpiece, reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. At the age of seventy, after years of consolidating his empire, the Great Lord Hidetora Ichimonji (Tatsuya Nakadai) decides to abdicate and... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 20:00
THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME

Wes Anderson returns to his regular theme of the relationship dynamics between flawed fathers (or father figures) and their offspring in The Phoenician Scheme. Zsa-zsa Korda (Benicio Del Toro), arms dealer and one of Europe’s richest men, finds his life... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 16:10
THE SHROUDS

The Shrouds, a typically remote, intellectually rich affair, where provocative ideas are presented sincerely, is notable for being David Cronenberg’s saddest film; steeped in grief, the loss of the director’s wife in 2017 is present throughout this singular work. Vincent... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 13:30, 18:05