IFI French Film Festival 2019

The IFI French Film Festival runs from November 13th to 24th 2019. The full festival brochure can be viewed HERE. 5 tickets for €50 and 10 for €90 available at Box Office.   Please note that IFI French Film Festival screenings are restricted to persons aged 18 years and over.
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2019: PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE
The screening on Wednesday 13th will be followed by a wine reception. 18th century France: Marianne (Noémie Merlant) travels to an island in Brittany having been commissioned by an Italian…
Wednesday 13th Nov 2019 20.00 Saturday 23rd Nov 2019 20.20
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2019: LA BELLE ÉPOQUE
Victor (Daniel Auteuil), a disillusioned sexagenarian, watches helplessly as his marriage falls apart. When Antoine (Guillaume Canet), a rising entrepreneur and family friend offers him the chance to use a…
Thursday 14th Nov 2019 20.45 Sunday 17th Nov 2019 15.20
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2019: SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE
The screening on Thursday 14th will be followed by a Q+A with Cédric Klapisch. 30-somethings Rémy (François Civil) and Mélanie (Ana Girardot) both live alone in Paris. They take the…
Thursday 14th Nov 2019 18.10 (+Q&A) Sunday 17th Nov 2019 20.20
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2019: INVISIBLES
L’Envol, an urban shelter for homeless women in northernFrance, offers a warm shower, a hot meal, a little camaraderie and some career guidance. Threatened with closure by local government, the…
Thursday 14th Nov 2019 16.00 Thursday 21st Nov 2019 20.45
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2019: LULLABY
This film is F-rated. Lullaby centres around Myriam (Leïla Bekhti), a lawyer and mother of two young children, who decides to return to work despite her husband's (Antoine Reinartz) reservations.…
Friday 15th Nov 2019 20.40 Sunday 24th Nov 2019 18.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2019: FAREWELL TO THE NIGHT
Muriel (Catherine Deneuve) is overjoyed that her grandson Alex (Kasey Mottet Klein) will stay on her farm and riding school in the Pyrenees for a few days before he travels…
Friday 15th Nov 2019 16.00 Monday 18th Nov 2019 18.15
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2019: OH MERCY!
It’s Christmas in Roubaix, a crime-ridden town in France, where the local police force is kept occupied by a string of crimes from petty fights to rape. When an old…
Friday 15th Nov 2019 18.15
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2019: CLAUDE SAUTET: DANGER AHEAD
Dr Douglas Smith, Senior Lecturer, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, UCD, will introduce this screening.  Sautet’s second feature, a fatalistic film noir, adapted from a novel by José Giovanni,…
Saturday 16th Nov 2019 13.30
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2019: BURNING GHOST
Juste (Thimotée Robart) wakes up at night in a park. He wanders the streets of Paris until morning like he is invisible. Only one man, who collects people's last memories…
Saturday 16th Nov 2019 13.40
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2019: ARAB BLUES
Due to circumstances beyond our control, we regret that director Manele Labidi Labbé will no longer attend the screening of Arab Blues. This film is F-rated. Having lived many years…
Saturday 16th Nov 2019 18.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2019: HAPPY BIRTHDAY
The screening on Saturday 16th will be followed by a Q&A with actor Vincent Macaigne. Andréa (Catherine Deneuve in a beautifully nuanced performance) reunites her children at the family home…
Saturday 16th Nov 2019 20.30 (+Q&A) Tuesday 19th Nov 2019 18.20
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2019: SIBYL
This film is F-rated. Virginie Efira immerses herself in the role of Sibyl, a psychotherapist and amateur writer. When new patient Margot (Adele Exarchopoulos), an up-and-coming actress, confesses to a…
Saturday 16th Nov 2019 15.50 Tuesday 19th Nov 2019 20.30
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2019: CLAUDE SAUTET: THE THINGS OF LIFE
Middle-aged Parisian architect Pierre (Michel Piccoli), victim of a violent car crash, lies waiting for an ambulance. Drifting in an out of consciousness, his life flashes before him, as we…
Sunday 17th Nov 2019 13.30
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2019: WHO YOU THINK I AM
To spy on her lover Ludo, a photographer many years her junior, Claire (Juliet Binoche), a fifty-year-old university professor and single mother of two teenagers, creates a fake profile on…
Sunday 17th Nov 2019 13.15 Thursday 21st Nov 2019 16.10
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2019: PURE AS SNOW
The screening on Sunday 17th will be followed by a Q&A with actor Vincent Macaigne. Maud (Isabelle Huppert), stepmother to the beautiful young Claire (Lou de Laâge), is consumed by…
Sunday 17th Nov 2019 17.40 (+Q&A) Wednesday 20th Nov 2019 20.15
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2019: ALICE AND THE MAYOR
The Mayor of Lyon, Paul Theraneau (the always fabulous Fabrice Luchini) remains completely devoted to serving his city and his country but his knack for generating new ideas has evaporated.…
Monday 18th Nov 2019 20.30 Saturday 23rd Nov 2019 18.10
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2019: JOAN OF ARC
In the early 15th century, as France and England contest the French throne, young Joan (Lise Leplat Prudhomme) leads the army of the King of France, believing God has chosen…
Tuesday 19th Nov 2019 16.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2019: YVES SAINT LAURENT: THE LAST COLLECTIONS
Moving between workshop and catwalk backstage, from sketches to final collections, Yves Saint Laurent is captured at the twilight of his career, frail yet still vibrant. Co-founder Pierre Bergé, meanwhile,…
Wednesday 20th Nov 2019 16.30
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2019: PARTICLES
This film is F-rated.  In this adolescent coming-of-age story, with its awkward collisions of hopes, feelings, fears and desires, teenager P.A. (Thomas Daloz) lives in a small town near Geneva,…
Wednesday 20th Nov 2019 18.10
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2019: OH, LES FILLES!
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with co-screenwriter Bayon. “What if it wasn’t Elvis who invented rock’n’roll, but Edith Piaf when, in 1949 her lover, middleweight champion Marcel…
Thursday 21st Nov 2019 18.20 (+Q&A)
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2019: AMANDA
A Parisian in his early twenties, David (a fantastic Vincent Lacoste) sees his life brutally turned upside down with the sudden tragic death of his sister. In shock and in…
Friday 22nd Nov 2019 18.15 Sunday 24th Nov 2019 15.40
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2019: CARWASH
The Birth, The Life, The Death of Christ (La Naissance, la vie et la mort du Christ) by director Alice Guy-Blaché, 35 mins, will screen before Carwash. Somewhere in France,…
Friday 22nd Nov 2019 16.10
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2019: MATTHIAS AND MAXIME
Maxime (Xavier Dolan) is preparing to move from his hometown of Montreal to Australia, leaving behind his troubled mother (Anne Dorval) and boisterous group of twenty-something friends, including lifelong best…
Friday 22nd Nov 2019 20.30
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2019: CLAUDE SAUTET: VINCENT, FRANÇOIS, PAUL AND THE OTHERS
The biggest public success of Sautet’s career, this is a melancholic and richly textured portrait of three lifelong friends grappling with being fifty, supporting each other in marital situations, break-ups,…
Saturday 23rd Nov 2019 13.30
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2019: THE GIRL WITH THE BRACELET
Lise Bataille (newcomer Melissa Guers) was 16 when her best friend Flora Dufour was murdered. Accused of the crime, first put on remand for six months and then placed under…
Saturday 23rd Nov 2019 16.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2019: AILO’S JOURNEY
Age recommendation 7+. Subtitles will be read by an experienced reader. Tickets €5.50 per person, €16.50 family tickets (2 adults + 2 children, 1 adult + 3 children). Follow the…
Sunday 24th Nov 2019 11.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2019: CLAUDE SAUTET: A HEART IN WINTER
Middle-aged Stéphane (Daniel Auteuil) – of a single and solitary nature – makes and repairs violins in his Paris shop with friend and business partner Maxime (André Dussollier), an extrovert,…
Sunday 24th Nov 2019 13.20
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2019: BE NATURAL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ALICE GUY-BLACHÉ
This film is F Rated.  Short films by Alice Guy-Blaché will screen throughout the festival. This insightful documentary follows Alice’s rise, from Gaumont secretary to her appointment as Head of…
Sunday 24th Nov 2019 14.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2019: ON A MAGICAL NIGHT
Chiara Mastroianni heads the cast as Maria in Christophe Honoré’s inventive comedy about a failing marriage after Maria’s infidelity with her young student is exposed. Following a confrontation with her…
Sunday 24th Nov 2019 20.00