Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 21/03/2026

  • BÁITE

    In a pretty Irish village proprietor Peggy Casey (Eleanor O’Brien) prepares for a busy weekend in the pub. But when a body is found in the receding waters of the lake, the community is deeply unsettled. Dublin Detective Sergeant Frank... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 10.55

  • EAFFI: GIRL

    (NÜHAI)

    Taiwanese star Shu Qi, known for her work in Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s films (The Assassin; Millennium Mambo) makes her directorial debut with this stark, deeply personal coming-of-age drama. Set in 1980s Taipei, teenager Hsiao-lee navigates a poisoned home life, enduring... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.10

  • EAFFI: THE RIVER THAT HOLDS OUR HANDS + Q&A

    (ONG6 A7 ONG6)

    Jianhang Chen’s beautiful hybrid docufiction feature, set between Southeast Asia and southern China, is a poetic meditation on memory, migration, and intergenerational trauma within the Teochew diaspora. In Hong Kong, elderly Vietnamese woman Lam Po Wah, whose... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15.45

  • EAFFI: THE WILD, WILD ROSE

    (YE MEI GUI ZHI LIAN)

    One of the finest films in the history of Hong Kong cinema, a musical noir where cigarette smoke becomes a character itself. Director Wong Tin-lam’s expressionistic sets and high-contrast black-and-white cinematography, combined with a sophisticated... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.00

  • EAFFI: TWO SEASONS, TWO STRANGERS

    (TABI TO HIBI)

    Japanese director Shô Miyake (Small, Slow But Steady, 2022; All the Long Nights, 2024) adapts two classic manga pieces by legendary cartoonist Yoshiharu Tsuge, turning the 50-year-old source material into a film that feels both contemporary and... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20.45

  • IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU

    Rose Byrne gives a performance of blistering intensity in Mary Bronstein’s extraordinary second feature; a white-knuckle ride into the psyche of a woman on the brink of despair. Byrne plays Linda, a psychoanalyst caring for her critically ill daughter who... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.45

  • JEAN-LUC GODARD: OH, WOE IS ME (HÉLAS POUR MOI)

    SCREENING SATURDAY 21st MARCH

    Godard’s reimagining of the Greek myth of Alcmene and Amphitryon is set in a contemporary Swiss lakeside town where Rachel (Laurence Masliah) believes her husband Simon (Gérard Depardieu) may have been visited – or replaced –... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.00

  • LA GRAZIA

    OPENING IN CINEMA FRIDAY, MARCH 20TH

    Having found inspiration in the lives of real-life former politicians Giulio Andreotti (Il Divo, 2008) and Silvio Berlusconi (Loro, 2018), Paolo Sorrentino and regular collaborator Toni Servillo, who essayed the previous two men so... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.00

  • MIDWINTER BREAK

    OPENING IN CINEMA FRIDAY, MARCH 20TH

    Stella (Lesley Manville) and Gerry’s (Ciarán Hinds) titular sojourn to Amsterdam becomes an unexpected emotional reckoning for the long-married, retired couple as old memories and unresolved tensions come to the surface, forcing them to... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 11.00, 16.10 (OC), 18.15

  • SIRĀT

    Luis (Sergi López) and his son Esteban journey through southern Morocco searching for Luis’s missing daughter, Mar, who vanished months ago, last seen attending a remote dance party in the desert. They join a group of thrill-seekers bound for an... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 11.20

  • SPILT MILK (+ Q&A ON FRI 20TH)

    OPENING IN CINEMA FRIDAY, MARCH 20TH

    Inspired by his TV hero Kojak, 11-year-old Bobby sets up a private detective agency with his best friend Nell. When his big brother Oisin goes missing, the pair set off on a perilous quest... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.55, 20.50

  • THE SECRET AGENT

    (O AGENTO SECRETO)

    Brazil, 1977. On the run, Marcelo (Wagner Moura) returns to his hometown of Recife where he is welcomed into a covert community of refugees presided over by aging matriarch Dona Sebastiana. He takes a job in an... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20.15

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