Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 12/04/2026

  • ALAN GILSENAN: MARSHA HUNT – MADE IN AMERICA

    One episode of the Made in America series Gilsenan directed focusing on American authors (such as Gore Vidal, Patricia Cornwell, Garrison Keillor) reflecting on the cities they call home. Here African-American icon Marsha Hunt, novelist, memoirist, singer and actor, considers... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.00

  • AMÉLIE (25th ANNIVERSARY)

    Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s wonderfully quirky and irresistibly enchanting Amélie returns to the big screen for its 25th anniversary. After a lonely childhood, the adult Amélie (an adorable Audrey Tautou) devises elaborate, secret stratagems for bringing happiness to those around her. In... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.10

  • ARAB FILM CLUB: AN AFTERNOON OF SHORT FILM

    The Arab Film Club presents an afternoon of award winning short films from the Arab world. These films demonstrate the diverse and inventive ways Arab filmmakers are using the power of cinema to tell their stories on screen and resist... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.20

  • BEFORE SUNRISE

    One of cinema’s great love stories begins on a train from Budapest to Paris, when chance sees Parisienne Céline (Julie Delpy) sit across from American tourist Jesse (Ethan Hawke). The two begin a conversation, and the chemistry is so immediate... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.00

  • FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER

    SCREENING FROM APRIL 10th

    Jim Jarmusch, master of the droll vignette, contemplates family dynamics in a triptych of thematically linked stories concerning the relationships between adult children, their estranged or deceased parents, and each other, and does so in typically... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 17.50, 20.50

  • SPILT MILK

    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 to find him.

    Set against the... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 11.00

  • STAND BY ME (40th ANNIVERSARY)

    SCREENING FROM APRIL 10th

    The late, great Rob Reiner excelled at bringing writers such as William Goldman (The Princess Bride, 1987) and Aaron Sorkin (A Few Good Men, 1992) to the screen. In a crowded field, he also proved to... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.15

  • THE DRAMA

    Kristoffer Borgli’s (Sick of Myself, Dream Scenario) latest is a darkly comic romantic drama about Emma and Charlie, an engaged couple played by Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, whose relationship begins to unravel in the days before their wedding. As long-buried secrets... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15.10, 18.25

  • 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: 20.10

  • THE STRANGER

    SCREENING FROM APRIL 10th

    Albert Camus’s enduring and enigmatic 1962 novella L’Étranger follows Meursault, a detached young man in 1930s Algeria whose indifference to social conventions and emotional expectations sets him apart from others. When he impulsively kills an Arabic... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 12.30, 20.20

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