Irish Film Institute -IFI Programmer’s Pick: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

IFI Programmer’s Pick: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

‘Beyond all the hype and showbiz hoopla we associate with some of the bigger film festivals, especially Cannes, these high profile jamborees can have a positive effect in establishing reputations for genuinely talented filmmakers whose often challenging work would otherwise… Read More

Director Rebecca Daly on the release of her feature, The Other Side of Sleep

‘The upcoming Irish release is really exciting for me. I have been all over with the film, from Toronto to India, and have experienced incredibly diverse reactions and readings of it so now I am looking forward to the home response;… Read More

Quackser Fortune on St. Patrick’s Day

IFI Press Release                                                                    … Read More

Read all about March at the IFI in our blog

This March at the IFI, there’s a truly global selection of films that spans Iran, Algeria, Turkey and Russia as well as a special profile of some outstanding home-grown talent. Read all about it in our blog.

Jim Sheridan and Lance Daly for Q&A following Kisses on March 11th

Jim Sheridan will interview Kisses Director Lance Daly after the film’s screening on Sunday, March 11th, at 16.00 as part of the IFI Season Fastnet Films: A Runaway Success.

Book online or call the IFI box office on 01 679… Read More

Director Rebecca Daly talks about the writing process behind The Other Side Of Sleep

‘The script started with a newspaper article about a young woman’s body that was found wrapped in a duvet in Northern Ireland. This image of the duvet around a body and a visual confusion between sleep and death stuck, and… Read More

IFI Ireland on Sunday presents Behold the Lamb

IFI Press Release    – 29th February 2012

IFI Ireland on Sunday presents Behold the Lamb, a new darkly comic feature from Northern Ireland

12pm, 11th March 2012

This debut feature from shorts filmmaker, writer and theatre director John McIlduff… Read More

The Curious Case of Laura

‘Though frequently described as a “classic film noir”, Otto Preminger’s Laura is, in fact, a strange and almost unclassifiable hybrid: part whodunit, part high society melodrama, part police procedural – all blended together with just a dash of necrophiliac obsession to… Read More

Waiting for Margaret

While promoting The Iron Lady in Berlin earlier this month, Oscar-winner Meryl Streep bemoaned the shortcomings of the awards season and its lamentable tendency to ultimately focus upon a very narrow field of contenders – a damn shame, it should… Read More


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