Irish Film Institute -Review Roundup: Cardboard Gangsters, Whitney Can I Be Me, By the Time it Gets Dark

Review Roundup: Cardboard Gangsters, Whitney Can I Be Me, By the Time it Gets Dark

Three new films release today – Irish crime drama Cardboard Gangsters, intimate documentary Whitney: Can I Be Me? and mesmerising Thai film By the Time it Gets Dark.

Read on for some reviews from around the world and pop into… Read More

13 Irish LGBT+ Shorts and Docs Launch for Free on the IFI Player to Celebrate Pride Month

To celebrate Pride month, the Irish Film Institute has released a new collection of Irish LGBT+ short films that are now free to view globally on the IFI Player.

Following the success of the IFI Player’s most recent initiative, The… Read More

Chicks with Flicks and Bricks – Dublin Plays Itself Walking Tour Flashback

Today we’re taking a look back through the archives to a blog post from August 2012 when then IFI Curator Sunniva O’Flynn wrote about the Dublin Plays Itself Walking Tour. Here, you can get an idea of the architectural and… Read More

Review Roundup – My Cousin Rachel, Berlin Syndrome, Destiny

Three new films arrived on Friday the 9th of June – My Cousin Rachel, Berlin Syndrome and Destiny. You can read some selected reviews of them below.

BERLIN SYNDROME  “A young woman is the victim of a kidnapping in this… Read More

TOP 20 FILMS OF 2017 AT THE IFI… SO FAR

We’re almost halfway through 2017 and we’ve seen a huge range of titles come through our doors here at the IFI.

The films have come from around the world and just around the corner, from every genre you can think… Read More

The Irish Film Institute celebrates the success of Irish cinema this June.

At this time of internationally recognised excellence in Irish cinema, national productions will remain central to the IFI programme this year, with upcoming releases to include Mark O’Connor’s Cardboard Gangsters and Laura McGann’s Revolutions.

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The Irish Film Institute, the home of film in Ireland, celebrates the recent success of Irish cinema this June.

IFI Press Release: 6th June 2017

At this time of internationally recognised excellence in Irish cinema, national productions will remain central to the IFI programme this year, with upcoming releases to include Mark O’Connor’s Cardboard Gangsters and Laura McGann’s Revolutions.

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Review Roundup June 2nd – After the Storm, My Life as a Courgette and Daughters of the Dust

Three films arrive at the IFI from Friday the 2nd of June 2017 – After the Storm, My Life as a Courgette and a re-release for Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust.

Read on for a selection of reviews from… Read More

Female Directors at the IFI this June

This month sees the release of a landmark programme at the IFI, where half of the films on June’s slate have been directed by women. Films such as Irish documentary Revolutions, Thai drama By the Time it Gets Dark, and… Read More


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