Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 27/05/2026

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: TO DIE FOR (PROGRAMME 2)

    Join us for free screenings at lunchtime on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Collect tickets at IFI Box Office or online (with a small booking fee).

    TO DIE FOR Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.10

  • HEN (2026)

    OPENS MAY 22ND

    Told entirely from the perspective of its avian protagonist, Hen follows a chicken who escapes an industrial farm only to find herself navigating the pecking order of a crumbling seaside restaurant in Greece. As she fights for survival in... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15.50, 20.30

  • 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: 18.20

  • OBSESSION

    Socially awkward Bear (Michael Johnston) harbours an unrequited crush for childhood friend Nikki (Inde Navarrette). On a whim he buys a ‘One Wish Willow’ novelty toy and wishes for Nikki to love him “more than anything in the world”. His... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15.30, 20.30

  • ONCE WE WERE PUNKS

    OPENS MAY 22ND

    1980s Bailieboro, Co. Cavan, four school friends Justin, David, Noel and Paddy form a punk band and set their sights on world domination. They have fun but not a huge amount of talent and when the big... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.10, 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: 13.00

  • THE CHRISTOPHERS

    Gifted art restorer Lori (Michaela Coel) has been engaged by the estranged children of Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen), a once infamous, now reclusive, London artist, to help them in a scheme to secure their inheritance. Posing as Sklar’s new assistant,... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.40, 18.10

  • THIS MORTAL COIL: AFTER LIFE

    Concluding the season, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s gorgeous, humane film is our final representation of what may await in the great beyond. It puts an idiosyncratic spin on the relationship between death and memory explored in other, more emotionally turbulent films in... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.00

  • 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: 14.10

  • WILD STRAWBERRIES: H IS FOR HAWK

    SCREENING MAY 27th and MAY 29th

    Finding comfort or restoration in nature, a familiar cinema trope, gets a new twist in this beautiful film, an adaptation of the best-selling novel, with screenplay co-written by Emma Donoghue. Claire Foy stars as... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 11.00


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