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Released in 1960, Breathless announced the arrival of a filmmaker who has spent the intervening decades striving to redefine and reshape the medium. Spanning Jean-Luc Godard’s astonishingly prolific first decade, the films in the first part of this two-month season trace the director’s path from the rule-breaking energy of that iconic debut to the increasingly radical, self-reflexive experiments that would come to define his later work. The presence of Anna Karina, his Danish muse - and, for over four years, his wife - looms large throughout. Collectively, the films chart JLG’s shifting preoccupations: the playful reinvention of genre in A Woman Is a Woman, Band of Outsiders, Alphaville, and Made in U.S.A.; the emotional and philosophical depth of collaborations with Anna Karina in Vivre sa vie, The Little Soldier, and Pierrot le Fou; and the sharp critiques of consumerism and contemporary life in A Married Woman, Masculin Féminin, and Two or Three Things I Know About Her. Learn more about Jean-Luc Godard at the latest in our IFI Talks series The Rhythm of Ideas: Jean-Luc Godard and the Cinema of the French New Wave presented by Douglas Morrey, Professor of French Studies at the University of Warwick. Four tiles from Truth, 24 Times Per Second: The Films of Jean-Luc Godard will also be available on IFI@Home. MULTI-FILM PASSES FOR IFI MEMBERS:
The East Asia Film Festival Ireland 2026 (EAFFI) celebrates its tenth edition with a vibrant programme of screenings and events. It features independent filmmakers working across China, Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore, opening new cinematic landscapes, and bringing fresh perspectives and ways of seeing. Exploring themes of displacement, migration, and both collective and personal journeys of identity, these films illuminate what connects us across borders and reframe East Asian cinema as shaped by social, cultural and economic interactions, and the movement of people and ideas. To open the festival, we are delighted to present the Irish premiere of Shanghai Daughter, the debut feature by Chinese filmmaker Agnis Shen Zhongmin on Thursday 19 March. Chinese producer Ziyang Lin will join us on Saturday 21 March to discuss his docu-fiction, The River that Holds our Hands. This year’s focus is dedicated to Hong Kong cinema with three rare classic films presented in 4K digital restorations, a lecture by Prof. Chris Berry entitled Hong Kong's Self-Reinventing Cinema, and a screening of Simon Liu’s short films–all unmissable! Thanks always to the Arts Council, the Irish Film Institute, Asia Market, our partners, and our audiences for supporting EAFFI over ten years. Maria O’Brien and Marie-Pierre Richard, EAFFI (www.eaffi.ie)
With a film and theatre career spanning almost forty years, Alan Gilsenan is one of Ireland’s most prolific and revered directors of drama and documentary film. This selective retrospective, which includes two of his four feature dramas, provides an introduction to the films (many made with his longtime producer Martin Mahon, through their company Yellow Asylum Films). Gilsenan’s documentary mode, which ranges from robust investigation to essayistic reverie to sensitive observation, is distinguished by intellectual rigour and creative innovation, allied to a seemingly unquenchable curiosity about history, literature, culture and society - both in Ireland but also in the wider world. His highly eclectic oeuvre of over 40 films for cinema and television also provides an invaluable compendium of reflection on Irish minds and Irish matters over four decades.
BÁITE 12.45
EAFFI: SHANGHAI DAUGHTER 18.15
EAFFI: THE KILLER 20.45
IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU 18.00
RESURRECTION 20.20
SIRĀT 15.30
SOUND OF FALLING 14.50
THE BRIDE! 12.50
THE LOVE THAT REMAINS 15.50, 18.00
THE SECRET AGENT 20.20
THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE 13.00 (70MM)
The IFI is supported by The Arts Council
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