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IFI to Build Major New Preservation Centre

IFI Announces Plans to Build Major New Preservation Centre at NUI Maynooth

Jimmy Deenihan TD, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, and film director Neil Jordan, earlier today marked the success of the recent IFI Irish Film… Read More

Le Havre

The first in a trilogy of stories about life in port cities, the award-winning LE HAVRE, by the celebrated Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki, features some familiar themes and characters from his earlier films, but these re-enforce rather than repeat ideas… Read More

IFI appoints Ross Keane as new Director

IFI appoints Ross Keane as new Director

The Board of the Irish Film Institute (IFI) is delighted to announce the appointment of Ross Keane as the new Director of IFI (Irish Film Institute) where he currently holds the role of… Read More

IFI appoints Ross Keane as new Director

IFI Press Release                                                                                                                              2nd April 2012

IFI appoints Ross Keane as new Director

The Board of the Irish Film Institute (IFI) is delighted to announce the appointment of Ross Keane as the new Director of IFI (Irish Film Institute) where… Read More

April at the IFI

From the Oscar-winning shorts (The Shore), to the experimental horrors from 1932 (Vampyr) and the exclusive releases (Into the Abyss, Breathing, Damsels in Distress) – welcome to the IFI’s April programme! Read more in our blog [here]. 

Download our April… Read More

Carl Dreyer Season: The Early Films

From importing prints from four different countries, setting up your own electronic subtitling system, running 35mm projectors at slower speeds than normal, translating inter-titles, and arranging musical accompaniment for silent titles… Peter Walsh writes on the early films by CARL… Read More

Teen discounts on a large selection of films in April

Building on our Teen Club, we’ve a teen-tastic film frenzy this month offering all those aged 15-18 a chance to explore a huge range of films from our programme for just €3.

With this special offer, which runs every day… Read More

Free Screenings of Oscar-Winner The Shore

IFI Press Release                                                                                                                              28th March 2012

The IFI presents free screenings of Oscar-winning short film The Shore every Sunday throughout April

The IFI will be celebrating Ireland’s recent Oscar win with free screenings of the film every Sunday throughout April… Read More

Into The Abyss: A Tale Of Death, A Tale Of Life

If Cave of Forgotten Dreams, one of the IFI’s most successful films of last year, appealed to audiences because of its unique inquiry into the origins of human creativity, then Werner Herzog’s latest venture Into the Abyss – a study of a triple… Read More


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