IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL 2023

The IFI Family Festival is back, August 18th - 20th 2023!

Step into the IFI Family Festival this summer with your young film fans and enjoy some cinematic adventures from around the world. With animations, live action, features and shorts, you’ll find something for the first time cinema-goer to the teen anime fan and all in-between. Opening with a preview of The Inventor, from director Jim Capobianco (Ratatouille), which depicts the final years of Leonardo da Vinci’s life as an inventor, artist, and flight explorer, the weekend programme includes the popular shorts programmes, family adventures from Canada and Sweden, the Irish language version of Puffin Rock, 3D, and popcorn too!

Individual tickets €6.50. Family tickets €20.00 (2 adults, 2 children or 1 adult, 3 children).

IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL: OPENING EVENT

Before our opening film about Leonardo da Vinci, join RTÉjr presenters, Ray Cuddihy and Mary Claire Fitzpatrick, and artists in the IFI Foyer. Bring out your inner genius with some of our…

Friday 18th Aug 2023 17.15

IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL: THE INVENTOR

Ireland premiere of this highly engaging animation about the insatiably curious and headstrong inventor Leonardo da Vinci, who leaves Italy to join the French court, where he can experiment freely,…

Friday 18th Aug 2023 18.30

IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL: SHORT TALES 1

For a first cinema outing or for your very young film fan, this mostly dialogue-free selection of international short films, specially chosen for our Festival, is a perfect introduction .…

Saturday 19th Aug 2023 11.00

IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL: HERITAGE WEEK FAMILY TRAIL

Follow our free, self-guided Family Trail and find out about the IFI. Uncover the building’s hidden history and delve into the inner workings of our unique cinema and archive. See an original cinema…

Saturday 19th Aug 2023 12.00

IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL: SHORT TALES 2

Some hugely imaginative short filmmaking in this programme specially chosen for older children. Filmmakers use felt, drawings, animation and live action in stories that include music-making, sisterhood and the loss…

Saturday 19th Aug 2023 13.00

IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL: ADVENTURES IN THE LAND OF ASHA

For young adventurers, or children who like learning new things, comes this charming tale from Canada about 9-year-old Jules who moves with his family to the countryside in 1940s northern…

Saturday 19th Aug 2023 15.30

IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL: DEEP SEA (3D)

A mesmerising, not-to-be missed animation about a young girl trying to locate her estranged mother. When washed overboard from a cruise ship, Shenxiu finds herself in a wondrous undersea world…

Saturday 19th Aug 2023 18.30

IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL: PUFFIN ROCK AGUS CAIRDE NUA (GAEILGE)

Ar Chreag na bPuifíní, oileán álainn in Éirinn, glacann Oona an tasc dúshlánach uirthi féin a baile féin a bhfuil grá aici dó a chosaint agus a chinntiú go dtiocfaidh…

Sunday 20th Aug 2023 11.00

IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL: PUFFIN ROCK AND THE NEW FRIENDS

Set on the beautiful Irish island of Puffin Rock, a young puffin called Oona undertakes a challenging mission to protect the home she loves and ensure the survival of her…

Sunday 20th Aug 2023 11.15

IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL: EXODUS

A timely, gripping story in which people smuggler Sam reluctantly saves 12-year-old Amal, whose family have gone missing while fleeing the war in Syria. Believing them to be in Sweden,…

Sunday 20th Aug 2023 13.00

IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL: RED, WHITE & BRASS

Get some Rugby World Cup fever at our closing film, from the producers of  Hunt for the Wilderpeople. This ‘based on real events’ underdog tale features Tongan rugby fan Maka, who fails to get…

Sunday 20th Aug 2023 16.00