Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 14/09/2025

  • BEST OF IRISH 2025: CHRISTY

    When vulnerable 17-year-old Christy (Danny Power) is thrown out of his foster home, he moves in with his estranged older brother Shane (Diarmuid Noyes), once troubled but now gainfully employed, with a loving partner (Emma Willis) and a new baby. ... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13:10

  • BEST OF IRISH 2025: SANATORIUM

    On the outskirts of Odesa, stands Kuyalnyk Sanatorium. Each summer, thousands of Ukrainians come here, drawn by Soviet-era therapies and the chance to relax beside the salt lake. The biggest attraction though, is the mysterious black mud, said to cure... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16:50

  • DEAF

    CINEMAS: FROM FRI 12TH IFI@HOME: FROM FRI, OCT 17TH

    The arrival of a baby puts a strain on the relationship between Ángela (Mirian Garlo), who is deaf, and her hearing partner Héctor (Alvaro Cervantes), in Eva Libertad’s compassionate, sensitive debut... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 11:40, 20:50

  • EDDINGTON

    A multi-target satire that takes aim at conspiracy theories, Covid, fake news, gun ownership, Black Lives Matter, and sundry other causes of contemporary American anxiety, Eddington is destined to be as divisive as Beau is Afraid, Aster’s brilliant, misunderstood previous film. Joe Cross... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13:50

  • FROM GROUND ZERO

    SCREENING FROM FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12TH.

    Charming, wistful, heartbreaking, hopeful and urgent. Palestine’s official entry to the 2025 Academy Awards, From Ground Zero, brings dozens of emerging Palestinian artists to the fore in an urgent cry for humanity from a people... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18:15

  • IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2025: A SHOOTING ON BRANDON + Q&A

    WORLD PREMIERE

    Part documentary, part daydream, part getting lost on purpose, this personal multi-layered essay film positions Kilkenny’s highest peak, Brandon Hill, near the River Barrow and Graiguenamanagh, as the protagonist with supporting roles from a range of colourful characters... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15.20

  • IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2025: ANDRÉ IS AN IDIOT

    IRISH PREMIERE

    When eccentric advertising creative André Ricciardi learns he’s dying from a disease he could have detected with a colonoscopy, he decides to document what time remains. His sobering diagnosis, enduring sense of humour, and insatiable curiosity, send him... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.10

  • IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2025: FACING WAR

    IRISH PREMIERE

    Jens Stoltenberg’s last year as Secretary General of NATO, filmed with unprecedented access to one of the most important political leaders of our time. As Russia’s war in Ukraine rages on, President Joe Biden persuades Stoltenberg, who has... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20.15

  • IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2025: IFI & GALWAY FILM FLEADH: WHERE WE STAND

    SHORTS PROGRAMME

    Irish shorts exploring power, place and belonging. From asylum seekers in Dublin to farmers fighting to hold onto the land, Roma families reclaiming space in Donegal to an intergenerational South Armagh reflection on conflict and memory, a drag... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.00

  • IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2025: MOTHERBOARD + Q&A

    IRISH PREMIERE

    At the age of 38, Victoria Mapplebeck found herself single, pregnant and broke; forced to abandon her career in TV, she turned her camera on herself and her son, Jim. Filmed over 20 years, Victoria recorded hundreds of... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15.40

  • MATERIALISTS

    Lucy (Dakota Johnson) is a New York City matchmaker who pairs up potential mates based on criteria such as height, age, and, crucially, finances. Her philosophy is challenged by Harry (Pedro Pascal), a wealthy stranger she meets at a... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20:40

  • SORRY, BABY

    Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on, at least for everyone around her. Writer-director and lead actor Eva Victor shuffles the chronology of her wonderfully delicate and surprisingly humorous feature debut, presenting fragments of several years in the... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 11:00

  • THE GOLDEN SPURTLE

    Each year the sleepy Scottish highland village of Carrbridge welcomes a diverse group of international contestants as they gather for the prestigious World Porridge Making Championships, each vying for the coveted Golden Spurtle trophy. For ageing, charismatic, and soon-to-retire organiser... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 11:00, 18:50 (OC)

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