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
18th century France: Marianne (Noémie Merlant) travels to an island in Brittany having been commissioned by an Italian countess (Valeria Golino) to make a portrait of her daughter Héloïse (Adèle…
Wednesday 13th Nov 2019 20.00 Saturday 23rd Nov 2019 20.20
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: 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: 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