IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL

IFI Family Festival takes place this August, from Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th!

Highlights include the opening film, Fox & Hare Save the Forest, a hilarious English language animation from Holland in which a fox and hare try to save the forest from an encroaching flood. Saturday starts with the popular international short film programmes, curated for 4+ and 8+. There’s some green screen desert island fun in the afternoon, a very special Brown Bag 30th Birthday celebration event on Sunday morning, along with other premieres of some of the best new international films for children.

Individual tickets: €7.00, Family ticket (2 adults, 2 children or 1 adult, 3 children): €23.00

IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL 2024: FOX & HARE SAVE THE FOREST

Best friends Fox and Hare set out to find Owl, who has gone missing, while ruthless rats are threatening the neighbourhood. Searching in the forest, they come across a huge…

Friday 23rd Aug 2024 18.30

IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL 2024: SHORT TALES 1

What do a baker, a squirrel, and a talking dog have in common? They all appear in this magic selection of mostly dialogue-free short films, especially chosen for our youngest…

Saturday 24th Aug 2024 11.00 | 11.05 (Relaxed Screening)

IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL 2024: SHORT TALES 2

Where can you find birthday boy, a tour-guiding goat, bread that worries, and staying afloat? All this and more in our curated selection for older viewers. Short Tales 2: Scrumpy…

Saturday 24th Aug 2024 13.00

IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL 2024: KENSUKE’S KINGDOM

A special festival screening of this exquisite Michael Morpurgo adaptation, about a schoolboy who finds himself shipwrecked on a desert island, with only his dog Stella and an old Japanese…

Saturday 24th Aug 2024 15.30

IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL 2024: IT’S OKAY!

A Seoul dance academy is the setting for this story of quirky and feisty student, In-Young, unafraid of the mean girls in her class while grieving the tragic loss of…

Saturday 24th Aug 2024 18.00

IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL 2024: BROWN BAG FILMS CELEBRATE 30 YEARS!

Brown Bag Films's animation studio joins IFI Family Festival for a very special, fun-filled celebration of their 30th anniversary. Featuring screenings of their Oscar®-nominated short films Give Up Yer Aul…

Sunday 25th Aug 2024 11.00

IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL 2024: GREETINGS FROM MARS

Ten-year-old Tom finds it difficult to cope with change. His biggest dream is to go on a mission to Mars. When he has to move in with his grandparents, his…

Sunday 25th Aug 2024 13.30

IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL 2024: THE CONCIERGE AT HOKKYOKU DEPARTMENT STORE

Love shopping? Come browsing in this department store like no other, where most of the customers are animals. Based on the award-winning manga series, in which Akino is the new…

Sunday 25th Aug 2024 16.15