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IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2025
Now in its 26th year, the
Irish Film Institute’s IFI
French Film Festival
, returns
Wednesday, November 19
th
to Sunday, November
30
th
. Ireland’s largest French cultural event once again shines a light on the wonderful world of French-language cinema, presenting an exciting programme of films and documentaries from some of the world’s greatest filmmakers. This year’s festival will include 22 Irish premieres, a collection of brilliant comedies and dramas, thought-provoking documentaries, and a beautifully animated film for all the family
.
As always, the IFI French Film Festival will be the only opportunity for audiences to experience many of the films on the big screen.
A selection of films will be available on IFI@Home for a limited time only, from 21st to 28th November.
See here for more details
.
The IFI would like to thank the French Embassy in Ireland for their continued support and involvement. Film is an integral part of cooperation and our cultural relationship. The IFI would like to pay special thanks to Peugeot for partnering with the festival. The IFI French Film Festival is supported by The Irish Times, The RTÉ Supporting the Arts, The Dean, Alliance Française Dublin, Institut Français, Europa Cinemas, and UniFrance. IFI is principally funded by the Arts Council.
Booking Information:
Tickets priced €15 each are now on sale. Tickets for the opening film cost €18, which includes a post-screening reception. Great value packages are available for IFI Members: 5 films for €65 and 10 films for €110. Packages are available from IFI ox Office in-person or over the phone on 01-6793477. Membership is required for all in-cinema screenings. Daily membership costs €1.50, with an annual IFI membership costing €40 (€25 concession).
Free list suspended for IFI French Film Festival.
Found 35 films 35!
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: SUMMER BEATS
(MA FRÈRE) Growing up in a less well-off area of Paris, 19-year-olds Shai and Djeneba have always been inseparable. For one summer, the two headstrong girls escape their tower blocks…
Wednesday 19th Nov 2025 19.30
Saturday 29th Nov 2025 15.20
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: THE LITTLE SISTER
(LA PETITE DERNIÈRE) Authenticity and empathy run through actress-turned-director Hafsia Herzi’s tender, beautifully observed coming-of-age tale, adapted from Fatima Daas’s acclaimed autofiction novel of the same name. Set in the…
Thursday 20th Nov 2025 18.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: THE ICE TOWER + Q&A
(LA TOUR DE GLACE) Jeanne (Clara Pacini), a 16-year-old runaway, takes refuge in a film studio where she falls under the spell of the enigmatic Cristina (Marion Cotillard), who is…
Thursday 20th Nov 2025 20.15
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: THE GREAT ARCH
(L’INCONNU DE LA GRANDE ARCHE) In 1983, French President François Mitterrand launches an international architectural competition for his flagship project: the Great Arch of La Défense, aligned with the Louvre…
Friday 21st Nov 2025 18.10
Friday 28th Nov 2025 18.15 (+ Q+A)
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: LUCILE HADŽIHALILOVIĆ MASTERCLASS
Award-winning auteur filmmaker Lucile Hadžihalilović (born 1961 in Lyon) studied filmmaking at the prestigious IDHEC (now La Fémis) in 1983. With fellow filmmaker and partner Gaspar Noé, she founded Les…
Friday 21st Nov 2025 13.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: ENZO
16-year-old Enzo (Eloy Pohu) is training as a masonry apprentice outside Marseilles; his affluent parents worry about what the future has in store for their rudderless son. Enzo is awoken…
Friday 21st Nov 2025 18.20
Saturday 29th Nov 2025 18.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: DOG 51
(CHIEN 51) In a dystopian future, Paris is split into three zones separated by checkpoints, with citizens surveilled by ALMA, the omnipresent AI system. When its creator is murdered, top…
Friday 21st Nov 2025 20.30
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL – CLAUDE CHABROL: THE UNFAITHFUL WIFE
(LA FEMME INFIDELE) Businessman Charles Desvallées (Michel Bouquet) leads a seemingly perfect bourgeois life with devoted wife Hélène (Stéphane Audran) and son Michel in their charming country home near Versailles.…
Saturday 22nd Nov 2025 13.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: LUMIÈRE! THE ADVENTURE BEGINS
(LUMIÈRE ! L’AVENTURE COMMENCE) Louis Lumière, with the help of his brother Auguste invented and perfected the Cinématographe, finding form and a poetic language through composition, tracking shots, comedy, drama,…
Saturday 22nd Nov 2025 15.40
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: LOVE ME TENDER
Clémence (Vicky Krieps, Phantom Thread) has been separated for several years from her husband Laurent (Antoine Reinartz), with whom she shares custody of their son, Paul. When Clémence tells Laurent…
Saturday 22nd Nov 2025 13.00
Wednesday 26th Nov 2025 18.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: THE STRANGER
(L’ÉTRANGER) 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…
Saturday 22nd Nov 2025 20.20
Thursday 27th Nov 2025 18.10
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: THE MUSICIANS
(LES MUSICIENS) Astrid (Valérie Donzelli) finally succeeds in fulfilling her late father’s dream: to bring together a quartet to play exquisite Stradivarius instruments for a unique concert, eagerly anticipated by…
Saturday 22nd Nov 2025 15.30
Wednesday 26th Nov 2025 18.20
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: NOUVELLE VAGUE
The indefatigable and unpredictable Richard Linklater (Boyhood, the Before trilogy) pays heartfelt homage to the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 debut, Breathless, one of the most influential films of all time,…
Saturday 22nd Nov 2025 18.00
Saturday 29th Nov 2025 20.30
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: THAT SUMMER IN PARIS
(LE RENDEZ-VOUS DE L’ÉTÉ) With the Paris 2024 Olympic Games underway, Blandine, a shy 30-year-old, has travelled from Normandy to attend the swimming events. While there, she reconnects with her…
Sunday 23rd Nov 2025 13.30
Tuesday 25th Nov 2025 13.00 (IFI Schools group tickets available)
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL – CLAUDE CHABROL: THE BUTCHER
(LE BOUCHER) After fifteen years serving in Indochina and Algeria, Popaul (Jean Yanne) returns to Tremolat in Périgord following his estranged father’s death to take over the family butcher shop.…
Sunday 23rd Nov 2025 13.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: A MAGNIFICENT LIFE
(MARCEL AND MONSIEUR PAGNOL) At the height of his fame, Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974), one of France’s greatest dramatists and filmmakers, is commissioned by a major women’s magazine to write a…
Sunday 23rd Nov 2025 15.20
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: WE BELIEVE YOU
(ON VOUS CROIT) Alice (Myriem Akheddiou) has been summoned to a court proceeding where a judge will determine whether her children - 10-year-old Etienne and 17-year-old Lila - will stay…
Sunday 23rd Nov 2025 15.30
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: THE PARTY IS OVER
(CLASSE MOYENNE) When tensions escalate between the Trousselards (Laurent Lafitte, Élodie Bouchez), an entitled rich couple, and the Azizis (Laure Calamy, Ramzy Bedia), whom they employ off-book to look after…
Sunday 23rd Nov 2025 19.50
Thursday 27th Nov 2025 18.30
Sunday 30th Nov 2025 15.40
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: A PRIVATE LIFE
(VIE PRIVÉE) Lilian Steiner (Jodie Foster’s first major French-speaking role), a respected American psychiatrist living in Paris, is deeply troubled by the suspicious death of her patient Paula (Virginie Efira,…
Sunday 23rd Nov 2025 17.30
Friday 28th Nov 2025 20.30
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: RIDE AWAY
(Á BICYCLETTE!) Actor-director Mathias Mlekuz lost his son Youri in 2022. Joined by fellow actor and friend Philippe Rebbot, he decides to retrace his son’s bicycle journey to Turkey, from…
Monday 24th Nov 2025 18.10
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: COLOURS OF TIME
(LA VENUE DE L’AVENIR) Brought together by the inheritance of a house in Normandy, four cousins uncover a hidden history. In 1895, their ancestor Adèle (Suzanne Lindon) arrives in Paris,…
Monday 24th Nov 2025 20.10
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: ADAM’S SAKE
(L’INTÉRÊT D’ADAM) Head nurse Lucy (Léa Drucker) works in an understaffed pediatric ward where four-year-old Adam has been admitted for malnutrition. His mother Rebecca (Anamaria Vartolomei) is forbidden access to…
Tuesday 25th Nov 2025 18.30
Friday 28th Nov 2025 16.30
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: LOVE LETTERS
(DES PREUVES D’AMOUR) Married lesbian couple Céline (Ella Rumpf) and pregnant Nadia (Monia Chokri) await the arrival of their first child. While joyful, this is tough for Céline, who, not…
Tuesday 25th Nov 2025 18.20
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: CONNEMARA
Tickets for the 20.30 screening on Tuesday 25th will cost just €13 for both IFI and Alliance Française members. Following a burnout, Hélène (Mélanie Thierry) leaves Paris for the solace…
Tuesday 25th Nov 2025 20.30
Sunday 30th Nov 2025 20.20
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: CASE 137
(DOSSIER 137) Investigating the alleged misdemeanours of fellow police officers proves to be a dangerous task for Internal Affairs officer Stéphanie Bertrand (Léa Drucker), who is determined to find the…
Wednesday 26th Nov 2025 20.40
Sunday 30th Nov 2025 18.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: SILENT REBELLION
(À BRAS LE CORPS) Switzerland, 1943. When 15-year-old Emma (Lila Gueneau) becomes pregnant following an assault, she must navigate the restrictive social and religious mores of her rural Protestant community,…
Thursday 27th Nov 2025 20.30
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: SAVE OUR SOULS
Since 2016, humanitarian ambulance ship Ocean Viking of the NGO SOS Méditerranée has rescued nearly 40,000 refugees attempting to cross from Libya to Europe, the world’s deadliest migratory route. Its…
Friday 28th Nov 2025 18.20
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL – CLAUDE CHABROL: JUST BEFORE NIGHTFALL
(JUSTE AVANT LA NUIT) Respected publicist and family man Charles Masson (Michel Bouquet) has just killed his mistress, Laura, by accident during one of their kinky sex-games. In a local…
Saturday 29th Nov 2025 13.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: STAGES OF LOVE
(LE BEAU RÔLE) In this debut feature from screenwriter Victor Rodenbach (Call My Agent!), respected playwright Nora (Vimala Pons) lives with her lover, actor Henri (William Lebghil). Nora is completing…
Saturday 29th Nov 2025 13.30
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: LUMIÈRE! THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES
(LUMIÈRE ! L’AVENTURE CONTINUE) With commentary by Frémaux and music by Gabriel Fauré, we celebrate Louis Lumière, cinema’s first true filmmaker, who shaped its language and created a vision of…
Saturday 29th Nov 2025 15.30
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL & IFI FAMILY: ARCO
A young girl Iris comes across 10-year-old Arco, a time traveller from the future, who has crash-landed on Earth, using a gloriously rainbow-coloured time travel suit. It is 2075, and…
Sunday 30th Nov 2025 11.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: L’AVENTURA
Following Voyages in Italy, writer-director-actor Sophie Letourneur’s (Festival Guest, 2024) latest film is another slice-of-life family comedy. This time we find Jean-Phi and Sophie with their children — three-year-old Raoul…
Sunday 30th Nov 2025 13.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: LA JETÉE, THE FIFTH SHOT
(LE CINQUIÈME PLAN DE LA JETÉE) Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962) was groundbreaking in its narrative form, comprising only photographs and one brief moment of moving image. In 2018, during…
Sunday 30th Nov 2025 13.10
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: WILD FOXES + Q&A
(LA DANSE DES RENARDS) The future looks bright for Camille (Samuel Kircher), a young boxer at a boarding school for athletes, until he suffers a potentially fatal accident when out…
Sunday 30th Nov 2025 15.20
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL – CLAUDE CHABROL: THE BREACH
(LA RUPTURE) After a brutal assault by her abusive, drug-addict husband Charles, Hélène (Stéphane Audran) moves to a boarding house near the hospital where her son is being treated. Her…
Sunday 30th Nov 2025 16.00