Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 14/05/2026

  • 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: 15.40

  • FROM THE VAULTS: TALKING TO THE DEAD

    SCREENS THURSDAY 14TH MAY

    Based on the book by Pat Sheeran and Nina Witoszek, Pat Collins’s feature documentary offers fresh insight into Ireland’s funeral culture and its distinctive traditions involving banshees, wakes and keening. The film reflects on our relationship... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.30

  • HOKUM

    A reclusive horror writer (Adam Scott) travels to a remote Irish hotel to scatter his parents’ ashes, only to become entangled in unsettling local lore surrounding the ramshackle building. As strange visions intensify and a mysterious disappearance occurs, his grief... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20.20

  • ONCE UPON A TIME IN A CINEMA

    OPENS MAY 1ST

    A cinema in a small Irish town in the mid-‘80s is the setting for David Gleeson’s (Cowboys & Angels) charming crowd-pleaser which follows weary manager Earl Clancy (Colin Morgan) as he struggles to stay afloat during one... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.20

  • PRIMAVERA

    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 only hope of escape.... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.10, 20.40

  • ROSE OF NEVADA

    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, richly textured 16mm visuals,... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20.30

  • 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: 15.30

  • TRAD

    Donegal teenager Shóna McAnally feels conflicted about her prodigious talent as a traditional Irish fiddle player. She takes to the road with her little brother Mickey and a troupe of wandering musicians, on a cross-country journey of adventure, romance and... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.40, 18.20


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