IFI French Film Festival 2022

The IFI’s flagship festival, the IFI French Film Festival, returns from November 16th to 27th, bringing the best of current French cinema to audiences along with a slate of beloved classics. Highlights in the programme include Brother and Sister by festival favourite Arnaud Desplechin; Winter Boy by Christopher Honoré, and The Super 8 Years by Annie Ernaux, a recent recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. This year will also see a tribute to Jean-Luc Godard, with four of his most celebrated '60s films in the line-up, and to Jean-Louis Trintignant, with a screening of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s masterpiece, Three Colours: Red. Supported by Ambassade de France en Irlande.

Ticket bundles are available from IFI Box Office on (01) 679 3477 or in-person. 5 films for €50 or 10 for €90.* Free list suspended for IFI French Film Festival.

*Excludes opening night gala screening of Rise

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: RISE

OPENING NIGHT GALA SCREENING Writer-director Cédric Klapisch follows 26-year-old Elise (Marion Barbeau), a ballet dancer who suffers career-threatening injuries on-stage. During recovery, she gets a job at an artists’ residency…

Wednesday 16th Nov 2022 20.20 Sunday 20th Nov 2022 13.20

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: PACIFICTION

Set on the island of Tahiti, we follow the enigmatic De Roller (Benoît Magimel), High Commissioner of French Polynesia, clad in a white suit with sapphire blue sunglasses, as he…

Thursday 17th Nov 2022 20.00

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: TORI AND LOKITA

Siblings Tori and Lokita (Pablo Schils and Joely Mbundu) have undertaken a perilous journey from Africa to Belgium; in dire financial straits, they sell drugs for a petty crook to…

Friday 18th Nov 2022 20.40 Thursday 24th Nov 2022 16.20

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: RODEO

Writer-director Lola Quivoron’s fast-paced debut follows teenage Julia (brilliant first-time actress Julie Ledru), an atypical heroine in search of herself and looking for her own tribe. Julia, aka ‘the stranger’,…

Friday 18th Nov 2022 18.30 Tuesday 22nd Nov 2022 18.20

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: SAINT OMER

Young novelist and scholar Rama (Kayije Kagame) attends the trial of Laurence Coly (Guslagie Malanga), a young Senegalese immigrant woman and philosophy student, accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter Lili…

Friday 18th Nov 2022 20.40

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: THE WHEEL

PLEASE NOTE THIS FILM IS SCREENING IN TWO PARTS. ONE TICKET WILL ALLOW ADMISSION TO BOTH SCREENINGS. The Wheel screening in 2 parts: Part 1 – Saturday 19th November at…

Saturday 19th Nov 2022 10.00 Sunday 20th Nov 2022 10.00

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA

The inner workings of the human body are laid bare in this extraordinary, immersive documentary by Lucien Castaing Taylor and Véréna Paravel, the Harvard Sensory Ethnographic Lab duo behind Leviathan…

Saturday 19th Nov 2022 13.10

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: JLG: VIVRE SA VIE

The impeccable black-and-white Vivre sa vie tells the tragic story of Nana (an extraordinary Anna Karina) an aspiring actress. Nana (a reference to both Zola’s novel and Renoir’s 1926 film…

Saturday 19th Nov 2022 14.00

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: THE MOUNTAIN

Pierre (Thomas Salvador), a forty-something Parisian engineer, travels to the resort of Chamonix in the French Alps on business. During a meeting something mysterious outside the window catches his eye.…

Saturday 19th Nov 2022 20.40 Friday 25th Nov 2022 16.00

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: GODARD CINEMA

With À bout de souffle (1960), Godard came to embody the ‘auteur’ figure more than any other director. Truffaut wondered, ‘Will Godard be more popular than the Pope... just a…

Saturday 19th Nov 2022 18.20

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: JLG: CONTEMPT

Based on the novel by Alberto Moravia, this is Godard’s most commercial, star-studded film. Shot in Cinemascope at the iconic modernist Villa Malaparte, it stars Brigitte Bardot as Camille who…

Sunday 20th Nov 2022 13.30

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: DIARY OF A FLEETING AFFAIR

Single mother Charlotte (Sandrine Kiberlain) and married man Simon (Vincent Macaigne) are having an affair. Charlotte’s carelessness fascinates the more cautious Simon. They both agree to a relationship with no…

Sunday 20th Nov 2022 15.50 Thursday 24th Nov 2022 18.20

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: EVERYBODY LOVES JEANNE

Following a professional, and much publicised embarrassment involving a malfunctioning and hugely expensive ocean cleaning device, entrepreneur Jeanne (Blanche Gardin) finds herself facing a mountain of unpayable debt. Struggling to…

Sunday 20th Nov 2022 18.00 Friday 25th Nov 2022 18.20

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: UNDERCOVER

October 2015: French Customs seize seven tons of cannabis in the heart of the capital. Informant Hubert Antoine (Roschdy Zem) contacts Libération journalist Stéphane Vilner (Pio Marmaï) with documentation to prove…

Sunday 20th Nov 2022 20.10

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: PETITE SOLANGE

Curious, pensive Solange (Jade Springer) lives in Nantes with bookish brother Romain (Grégoire Montana-Haroche), mother Aurélia (Léa Drucker), an actress, and her dad (Philippe Katerine) who runs a music shop.…

Monday 21st Nov 2022 18.30

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: THREE COLOURS: RED

Tribute to Jean-Louis Trintignant Presented in new 4K restoration with the support of MK2 Films and Curzon. The third part of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colours trilogy, following Blue (1993) and…

Monday 21st Nov 2022 20.30

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: BROTHER AND SISTER

Louis (Melvil Poupaud), a poet/teacher, lives an isolated life in the Pyrenees with wife Faunia (Golshifteh Farahani) following the tragic death of his son Jacob. Louis’s estranged sister Alice (Marion…

Tuesday 22nd Nov 2022 20.30 Saturday 26th Nov 2022 18.20

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: LOVE ACCORDING TO DALVA

Twelve-year-old Dalva (Zelda Samson), who wears the make-up and clothes of a much older woman, lives alone with her father. Following a police raid of their home, Dalva’s father is…

Wednesday 23rd Nov 2022 18.30

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: WINTER BOY

Seventeen-year-old Lucas (Paul Kircher) is enjoying his last year at boarding school in beautiful mountainous Chambréy. His life is suddenly derailed when his father dies in a car accident, casting…

Wednesday 23rd Nov 2022 20.30 Sunday 27th Nov 2022 20.00

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: OUR BROTHERS

December 5th, 1986: thousands of students protest for higher education reforms. Two young men of North African origin, Abdel Benyahia and Malik Oussekine, are killed by police. When Chief Inspector…

Thursday 24th Nov 2022 20.30

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: THE PASSENGERS OF THE NIGHT

Mikhaël Hers follows Amanda with another contemplative, delicate film, this time set in 1980s Paris, beginning on the day of President Mitterrand’s election. Newly single mother Elisabeth (a magnetic Charlotte…

Friday 25th Nov 2022 20.20 Sunday 27th Nov 2022 15.40

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: ANOTHER WORLD

Factory manager Philippe (Vincent Lindon) is divorcing his wife Anne (Sandrine Kiberlain) when his American bosses ask him to downsize the business. Relations with the workers sour as rumours of…

Saturday 26th Nov 2022 13.20

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: JLG: WEEKEND

Another acclaimed film from his ’60s period, this was Godard’s last collaboration for over a decade with cinematographer Raoul Coutard. Casting big film stars of the time, Jean Yanne and…

Saturday 26th Nov 2022 13.40

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: HARKIS

During the Algerian War (1954-1962), many young Algerian men, often from impoverished backgrounds, volunteered to fight with the French army while their nation was struggling for independence; Philippe Faucon’s sensitive…

Saturday 26th Nov 2022 16.10

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: BAMBI, A FRENCH WOMAN

Bambi, born Jean-Pierre Pruvot in a small Algerian village in 1935, refused to accept her gender assigned at birth, and instead, she chose to be Marie-Pierre Pruvot, aka Bambi, emigrating…

Saturday 26th Nov 2022 20.30

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL & IFI FAMILY: KING

Join us for an IFI French Film Festival special family showing of King, an affecting and thrilling story about a trafficked lion cub who escapes the airport and ends up…

Sunday 27th Nov 2022 11.00

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: JLG: TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER

Derived from a newspaper report — the so-called ‘shooting stars’ about housewives in the new vast housing projects around Paris — the film follows the daily life of Juliette Janson…

Sunday 27th Nov 2022 13.20

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: THE SUPER 8 YEARS

Annie Ernaux, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize for literature, recalls, ‘In reviewing our Super 8 films…it occurred to me that they comprised not only a family archive but a…

Sunday 27th Nov 2022 18.10