Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 26/12/2025

  • 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: 17.10

  • 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: 17.20

  • BOWIE: THE FINAL ACT

    SCREENING FROM FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26TH

    The film explores how David Bowie’s last chapter transcended closure and instead became a bold act of reinvention. Beginning with a period of artistic uncertainty in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the documentary follows... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.50, 19.30

  • MARTY SUPREME

    SCREENING FROM FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26TH

    Loosely based on the life of Martin Reisman, the flamboyant and eccentric American table tennis champion, Marty Supreme stars Timothée Chalamet as Marty Mauser, a talented and ambitious player of the sport. Determined that the... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.20 (OC), 19.20

  • SAIPAN (PREVIEWS + Q&A)

    PREVIEWS FROM 26th DECEMBER

    Following Good Vibrations (2012), their vibrant chronicle of the life and times of Belfast punk maven Terri Hooley, directors Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn turn to more recent national cultural history in Saipan, an account of one of... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 17.30

  • SENTIMENTAL VALUE

    Stage actress Nora (Renate Reinsve) and her sister Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) are reunited with their estranged father, Gustav (Stellan Skarsgård), a once-renowned film director, who reappears after their mother’s death. Gustav offers Nora the lead role in his new... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.40, 19.40


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