Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 06/08/2026

ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: HORSE PLAYS (PROGRAMME 1)

Join us for free daily lunchtime screenings in August of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Collect tickets at IFI Box Office or online (with a small booking fee).

PROGRAMME ONE

HORSE

In this melancholic rural drama set... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 12.40
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SCREENING FROM FRIDAY JULY 31st

Set in Luton’s British Muslim community, Imran Perretta’s striking debut, co-written by Enda Walsh, feature follows twelve-year-old friends Ish (Farhan Hasnat) and Maram (Yahya Kitani) as their close bond is fractured by a traumatic police... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 13.30, 18.10
THE INVITE

Spanish comedy The People Upstairs (2020) receives the latest in a line of international adaptations, and its first in English, courtesy of co-writers Rashida Jones and Will McCormack (Celeste And Jesse Forever, 2012).

Joe (Seth Rogen) arrives home only to... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 12.50, 18.10
THE ODYSSEY

Although previous Christopher Nolan films have been grand in scale, this adaptation of the classic poem by Homer, showing exclusively on 70mm at the IFI, is of another order of spectacle entirely, harkening back to the swords-and-sandals and historical epics... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 12:30 (70MM), 16:10 (70MM), 19:50 (70MM)
THE SACRIFICE (4K RESTORATION)

SCREENING FROM FRIDAY JULY 31st

After the head of the Soviet delegation actively (and successfully) campaigned against the awarding of Cannes’ Palme d’Or to Nostalgia, Tarkovsky resolved to stay in the West. The Sacrifice, also screening in a new 4K... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 15.10, 20.10