Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 29/04/2026

  • AKIRA (4K RESTORATION)

    Although the early work of Miyazaki and films such as Barefoot Gen (Mori Masaki, 1983) had made inroads, Akira may be considered the film that brought anime to wider, adult Western audiences. In 2019, thirty years after its destruction in... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20.45

  • 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: 18.00

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: MISSIONS IMPOSSIBLE (PROGRAMME 1)

    GOODBYE TO GLOCAMORRA

    Inwood, Manhattan, has been called the last of the Irish ghettos –  Irish accents can be heard and advertisements for Irish games and functions are on display. There are Irish newspapers for sale. But it looks as... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.00

  • FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER

    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 cool and laconic fashion.... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15.50

  • PRIMAVERA

    SCREENING FROM APRIL 24th

    Venice, early 18th century. Renowned for its exceptional music programme, the Pièta orphanage is home to Cecilia, a young violin virtuoso. Despite her talent, Cecilia’s future seems dim, with the prospect of an arranged marriage her... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.50, 18.15

  • REBUILDING

    In the aftermath of a catastrophic wildfire, Dusty (Josh O’Connor), a taciturn Colorado rancher returns to the charred remains of his property to assess the damage and salvage what he can. Living temporarily in a FEMA camp, he reconnects with... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.10

  • ROSE OF NEVADA

    SCREENING FROM APRIL 27th

    When the titular trawler mysteriously returns, having disappeared from a Cornish fishing village thirty years ago, local man Nick (George Mackay) and brash out-of-towner Liam (Callum Turner), unwittingly take her out to sea. With its grainy,... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15.35, 20.35

  • THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND (+Q&A)

    Eccentric millionaire Charles (Tim Key) reunites his favourite folk-rock duo, McGwyer (Tom Basden) and Mortimer (Carey Mulligan), inviting the estranged bandmates and former lovers to perform on the remote and windswept Wallis Island.

    Hailed by Richard Curtis as one of... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.10

  • 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: 20.55

  • THE STRANGER

    Albert Camus’s enduring and enigmatic 1942 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 man, he must face... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.10

  • THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN

    Olivier Assayas’s adaptation of Giuliano Da Empoli’s novel – a thinly veiled portrait of Vladislav Surkov, renamed Vadim Baranov, Vladimir Putin’s adviser in chief – is a gripping delineation of an impactful period in modern world history. The narrative is... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 12.45

  • WILD STRAWBERRIES: PROBLEMISTA

    This quirky film tells a migration story with a difference, written, directed and starring El Salvador filmmaker Julio Torres. Alejandro is a toymaker in New York on a work visa, keen to bring his whacky ideas to manufacturers who are... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 11.00

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