IFI French Film Festival 2018

The IFI French Film Festival runs from November 14th to 25th 2018. See the full programme here.
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: REAL LOVE
The festival's gala opening screening of Real Love on November 14th will be followed by a Q&A with director Claire Burger and producer Isabelle Madelaine, moderated by Celine Haddad of Screen…
Wednesday 14th Nov 2018 20.00 Sunday 25th Nov 2018 16.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: SINK OR SWIM
Ticket deal: 5 films for €45 / 10 films for €80 available from the Box Office or on 01 679 3477. Bertrand (Mathieu Amalric), an unemployed family man in midlife crisis,…
Thursday 15th Nov 2018 20.40 Saturday 24th Nov 2018 18.00 | 20.40
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: SOFIA
Ticket deal: 5 films for €45 / 10 films for €80 available from the Box Office or on 01 679 3477. 20-year-old Sofia (Maha Alemi) is from a traditional middle-class Moroccan…
Thursday 15th Nov 2018 16.15 Friday 16th Nov 2018 18.40
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: SORRY ANGEL
Ticket deal: 5 films for €45 / 10 films for €80 available from the Box Office or on 01 679 3477. Jacques (Pierre Deladonchamps, Stranger by the Lake), a middle-aged, HIV-positive…
Thursday 15th Nov 2018 18.00 Saturday 17th Nov 2018 20.15
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: THE PRAYER
Ticket deal: 5 films for €45 / 10 films for €80 available from the Box Office or on 01 679 3477. The screening on Friday 16th will be followed by a Q&A…
Friday 16th Nov 2018 20.20 Saturday 24th Nov 2018 15.40
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: OUR STRUGGLES
Ticket deal: 5 films for €45 / 10 films for €80 available from the Box Office or on 01 679 3477. Romain Duris (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) and Laetitia…
Friday 16th Nov 2018 16.40 Wednesday 21st Nov 2018 20.45
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: CÉDRIC KAHN MASTERCLASS
Ticket deal: 5 films for €45 / 10 films for €80 available from the Box Office or on 01 679 3477. We are delighted to welcome screenwriter, director and actor Cédric…
Saturday 17th Nov 2018 13.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: CLOUZOT: THE RAVEN
Ticket deal: 5 films for €45 / 10 films for €80 available from the Box Office or on 01 679 3477. In German-occupied France, the populace of a provincial town are…
Saturday 17th Nov 2018 13.30
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: ROBERTO SUCCO
Ticket deal: 5 films for €45 / 10 films for €80 available from the Box Office or on 01 679 3477. This screening will be introduced by Cédric Kahn. He will…
Saturday 17th Nov 2018 15.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: SCHOOL’S OUT
Ticket deal: 5 films for €45 / 10 films for €80 available from the Box Office or on 01 679 3477. When the teacher of an elite class of intellectually advanced…
Saturday 17th Nov 2018 18.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: AT WAR
Ticket deal: 5 films for €45 / 10 films for €80 available from the Box Office or on 01 679 3477. The sudden closure of a profitable automobile parts factory in…
Saturday 17th Nov 2018 15.30 Monday 19th Nov 2018 20.20
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: LITTLE TICKLES
Ticket deal: 5 films for €45 / 10 films for €80 available from the Box Office or on 01 679 3477. The screening on Thursday 22nd will be followed by a Q&A…
Sunday 18th Nov 2018 13.10 Thursday 22nd Nov 2018 20.15 (+Q&A)
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: CLOUZOT: THE WAGES OF FEAR
This screening will be introduced by Dr Douglas Smith, Senior Lecturer, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, UCD. Trapped in a remote South America town, four men are hired to…
Sunday 18th Nov 2018 13.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: PLACE PUBLIQUE
Director, writer and star Agnès Jaoui (I Got Life! and last year’s Festival guest of honour) reunites with her regular collaborator Jean-Pierre Bacri for this droll comedy of manners set over…
Sunday 18th Nov 2018 20.10 Thursday 22nd Nov 2018 16.10
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: AMIN
Migrant labourer Amin (Moustapha Mbengue) has come to France to provide for his wife and three children who have remained back home in Senegal. Having lived in Paris for nine…
Sunday 18th Nov 2018 18.10 Thursday 22nd Nov 2018 18.15
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: THE TROUBLE WITH YOU
Detective Yvonne (Adèle Haenel), widow of French Riviera police chief and local hero Santi, learns that her beloved husband was corrupt. Trying to right his wrongs she crosses paths with…
Sunday 18th Nov 2018 16.00 Friday 23rd Nov 2018 18.30
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: JOHN MCENROE: IN THE REALM OF PERFECTION
Ticket deal: 5 films for €45 / 10 films for €80 available from the Box Office or on 01 679 3477. ‘Movies lie, not sports’ declares Jean-Luc Godard in a 2001…
Monday 19th Nov 2018 18.15
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: YOUNG AND ALIVE
Ticket deal: 5 films for €45 / 10 films for €80 available from the Box Office or on 01 679 3477. Paris, fifty years on from May '68: In the wake…
Tuesday 20th Nov 2018 18.15
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: KNIFE+HEART
Ticket deal: 5 films for €45 / 10 films for €80 available from the Box Office or on 01 679 3477. Set in the lurid underworld of the gay porn industry…
Tuesday 20th Nov 2018 20.10
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: MEMOIR OF WAR
Ticket deal: 5 films for €45 / 10 films for €80 available from the Box Office or on 01 679 3477. Nazi-occupied France 1944: Marguerite (Mélanie Thierry) fights with the Resistance…
Wednesday 21st Nov 2018 18.10 Friday 23rd Nov 2018 16.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: SAUVAGE
Ticket deal: 5 films for €45 / 10 films for €80 available from the Box Office or on 01 679 3477. 22-year-old Léo (Félix Maritaud) is a rent boy on the…
Friday 23rd Nov 2018 20.40
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: CLOUZOT: LES DIABOLIQUES
Ticket deal: 5 films for €45 / 10 films for €80 available from the Box Office or on 01 679 3477. Based on the novel by Boileau and Narcejac (She Who…
Saturday 24th Nov 2018 13.10
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: I FEEL GOOD
Ticket deal: 5 films for €45 / 10 films for €80 available from the Box Office or on 01 679 3477. Jean Dujardin (Oscar-winning star of The Artist) is Jacques, a…
Saturday 24th Nov 2018 20.30
IFI FAMILY: BELLE AND SEBASTIAN, FRIENDS FOR LIFE
Ticket deal: 5 films for €45 / 10 films for €80 available from the Box Office or on 01 679 3477. The hugely successful French family film trilogy, adapted from the…
Sunday 25th Nov 2018 11.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT
Ticket deal: 5 films for €45 / 10 films for €80 available from the Box Office or on 01 679 3477. On the 50th anniversary of May 1968, a period of…
Sunday 25th Nov 2018 12.30
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: CLOUZOT: THE MYSTERY OF PICASSO
Ticket deal: 5 films for €45 / 10 films for €80 available from the Box Office or on 01 679 3477. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film…
Sunday 25th Nov 2018 13.15
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: GIRL
Ticket deal: 5 films for €45 / 10 films for €80 available from the Box Office or on 01 679 3477. A gender non-conforming teenager prepares for imminent sex reassignment surgery…
Sunday 25th Nov 2018 18.00
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: MAYA
Ticket deal: 5 films for €45 / 10 films for €80 available from the Box Office or on 01 679 3477. 32-year-old war photographer Gabriel (Roman Kolinka) returns to Paris having…
Sunday 25th Nov 2018 20.10