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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]. 

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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

Carl Dreyer Season

IFI Press Release                                                                          … Read More

This Is Not a Film – Blog

“The history of Iranian cinema is a narrative caught between censorship and poetry. Since the inception of the medium, film practitioners have been subject to exile, censure, imprisonment and execution. Jafar Panahi is, rather depressingly, the latest in a long… Read More

From the darkness of the sewers to the Oscar gala

Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars, Polish drama In Darkness tells a remarkable story of survival during the Holocaust: a group of Jews hid for 14 months in the sewers of Lvov after the destruction… Read More

IFI Horrorthon’s next Friday Fright Night on March 30th: The Cabin in the Woods

IFI Horrorthon welcomes the return of Friday Fright Nights on March 30th at 11pm with an exclusive advance screening of the highly-anticipated and critically-acclaimed The Cabin in the Woods written by Joss Whedon of  Buffy The Vampire Slayer fame.

We… Read More


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