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

PROGRAMME ONE 

IGLOO A THÓGAINT

Something of a curiosity, this film was made by the National Film Board of Canada and later translated into Irish to teach Irish schoolchildren the invaluable skill of igloo-building.

Dir. Douglas Wilkinson. 10 mins, Canada, 1949, Digital

THE MOONMEN

In Kieran Hickey’s first film, members of the Half Moon Swimming Club cycle through Dublin’s Docklands, Ringsend, and Irishtown to brave the grim winter seas
at Dublin’s South Wall in the winter of 1964/65.

Dir. Kieran Hickey. 10 mins, Ireland, 1965, Digital, Black & White

PROGRAMME TWO

BEFORE I SLEEP

Newly unemployed businessman (Brendan Gleeson) wanders the bustling winter streets of Dublin, cocooned in quiet despair.  A film about which Gleeson said, “it’s one of the things I’ve done that I’m most fond of”.

Dir. Paul Mercier. 30 mins, Ireland, 1997, Digital