Irish Film Institute -IFI HORRORTHON 2017 – FIRST FILMS ANNOUNCED

IFI HORRORTHON 2017 – FIRST FILMS ANNOUNCED

HORROTHON 2017: OCTOBER 26TH – 30TH  – all tickets available now. Click here for info.

Always a highlight of the IFI calendar, we’re delighted that it’s time once again for Horrorthon. As Ireland’s leading genre film festival, the programme features the… Read More

IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2017 RUNS SEP 27TH TO OCT 1ST

The IFI Documentary Festival 2017 launches tonight with a screening of Sonia Kronlund’s Cannes hit, Nothingwood. The festival will run over the next five days, closing on Sunday with the World Premiere of Mark Noonan’s Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect…. Read More

The IFI Schools 2017/2018 Programme Launches Today

IFI Press Release September 26th, 2017 – The Irish Film Institute today launches its exciting 2017/2018 Schools Programme with highlights that include a screening of Dunkirk on 70mm, Emer Reynolds’s compelling documentary The Farthest, a new Short Course in Film for… Read More

WATCH CLIPS FROM HILARIOUS DOCUMENTARY NOTHINGWOOD

IFI Documentary Festival 2017 starts on Wednesday the 27th of September, and we’ve got a truly memorable film to kick things into gear.

It’s all starting with Nothingwood on September 27th at 20.20, which went down a storm at the… Read More

Review Roundup: Maze and Borg/McEnroe

We’ve got two new films this week: Maze and Borg/McEnroe.

The first is an Irish thriller based on the 1983 escape from the Maze prison, starring Tom Vaughan-Lawlor and Martin McCann and directed by Stephen Burke, who will attend a Q&A… Read More

WIN IRISH COMEDY HALAL DADDY ON DVD!

To celebrate the release of hit Irish comedy from Friday September 22nd, we’ve got copies to give away on DVD! Read on to find out how you can win.

HALAL DADDY – Starring Nikesh Patel, Colm Meaney, Deirdre O’Kane and… Read More

MOIRA SWEENEY ON KEEPERS OF THE PORT

Filmmaker Moira Sweeney reflects on her new film Keepers of the Port, which premieres at the Irish Film Institute on Saturday September 23rd at 15.00 as part of  port | river | city a project curated by aemi and Cliona… Read More

The IFI announces its autumn Evening Course – Comic Cuts.

Following four consecutive sold-out Irish Film Institute Evening Courses, the IFI today announces its new six-week autumn Evening Course, Comic Cuts. The course will look at classic comedies and will run on consecutive Tuesdays from October 10th – November 14th.

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TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2017 PART 2

Our head of Cinema Programming David O’Mahony reports from the Toronto International Film Festival 2017 with a second look at the films he’s seen so far.

Read Part 1 here.

Further TIFF updates… 

The wide open spaces of the American… Read More


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