IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2017

The 2017 IFI French Film Festival ran from November 15th to 26th 2017. Guests include writer-director-actress Agnès Jaoui, writer-director Robin Campillo, and writer-director Léa Mysius.

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: LET THE SUNSHINE IN

This film is F-Rated. Find out more here. Inspired by Roland Barthes’s A Lover’s Discourse, Claire Denis teams up with writer Christine Angot to tell, in fragments, the romantic journey…

Wednesday 15th Nov 2017 20.00 [SOLD OUT] Sunday 26th Nov 2017 18.10 [SOLD OUT] Saturday 25th Nov 2017 18.20

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: THE PRICE OF SUCCESS

This film is F-Rated. Find out more here. Brahim Mecheri, the new comic sensation, comes from a North African working-class family in the Parisian suburbs. His rising fame begins to…

Thursday 16th Nov 2017 16.20 Wednesday 22nd Nov 2017 18.30 Sunday 26th Nov 2017 14.00

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: REDOUBTABLE

Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) tackles a key moment in the life of iconic French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard. The year is 1967; Godard’s latest film, La Chinoise, has been…

Thursday 16th Nov 2017 20.40 Sunday 19th Nov 2017 15.30

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: ENDANGERED SPECIES

Based on a collection of short stories by American writer Richard Bausch, this ambitious film vibrantly depicts the interweaving fates of three troubled families, reflecting on the mutability of relationships…

Thursday 16th Nov 2017 18.30

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: THE HOUSE BY THE SEA

The latest classically composed family drama from Robert Guédiguian (The Snows of Kilimanjaro) boasts much of this director’s trademark humanism and empathy for working-class lives. When their elderly father falls…

Friday 17th Nov 2017 20.50 Sunday 19th Nov 2017 13.10

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: FÉLICITÉ

This film is F-Rated. Find out more here. Félicité (singer-turned-actress Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu) is a proudly independent music club performer in the DR Congo city of Kinshasa in Franco-Senegalese…

Friday 17th Nov 2017 15.50 Thursday 23rd Nov 2017 18.10

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: AURORA

This film is F-Rated. Find out more here. The 18.30 screening on Friday, November 17th will be followed by a Q&A with actress Agnès Jaoui hosted by Orla Barry from…

Friday 17th Nov 2017 18.30 (+Q&A) Monday 20th Nov 2017 20.30

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: 120 BPM (BEATS PER MINUTE)

Director Robin Campillo will take part in a Q&A after the 19.30 screening on Monday November 20th, hosted by GCN's Brian Finnegan. Tickets on sale now. Set in the 1990s at…

Saturday 18th Nov 2017 15.45 Thursday 23rd Nov 2017 20.40 Monday 20th Nov 2017 19.30 (Q&A)

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: THE TASTE OF OTHERS

This film is F-Rated. Find out more here. THIS SCREENING IS SOLD OUT This screening will be introduced by director Agnès Jaoui. Castella (Jean-Pierre Bacri) is a boorish provincial businessman…

Saturday 18th Nov 2017 15.00 [SOLD OUT]

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: AGNÈS JAOUI MASTERCLASS

Tickets: €5 This masterclass will be moderated by director Rebecca Daly. Agnès Jaoui is a multi-award winning actress, screenwriter, director and singer. Her acting and screenwriting collaborations with former partner…

Saturday 18th Nov 2017 13.00

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: THE SILENCE OF THE SEA

A four film programme celebrates the centennial of Jean-Pierre Melville - see the full lineup here. Dr Douglas Smith, Senior Lecturer, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, UCD, will introduce…

Saturday 18th Nov 2017 13.30

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: LOVER FOR A DAY

This film is F-Rated. Find out more here. 23-year-old student Jeanne (Esther Garrel) has just been kicked out by her boyfriend. Heartbroken, she moves back in with her university professor…

Saturday 18th Nov 2017 18.40 Friday 24th Nov 2017 16.30

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: JUST TO BE SURE

This film is F-Rated. Find out more here. Forty-five-year-old bomb disposal expert Erwan (François Damiens) has discovered, quite by accident, that the man who raised him isn’t actually his real…

Saturday 18th Nov 2017 20.30

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: BOB THE GAMBLER

Dr Douglas Smith, Senior Lecturer, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, UCD, will introduce this screening. Melville’s most memorable character, Bob Montagné, with his silver-hair, trench-coat and Bogartesque style, is…

Sunday 19th Nov 2017 13.00

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: AVA

This film is F-Rated. Find out more here. The screening on Sunday, November 19th will be followed by a Q&A with Léa Mysius, moderated by Dr. Maeve Connolly of IADT.…

Sunday 19th Nov 2017 17.40 (Q&A) Wednesday 22nd Nov 2017 16.15

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: ISMAEL’S GHOSTS

This film is F-Rated. Find out more here. The screening on Sunday, November 19th will be introduced by the film's co-writer Léa Mysius. In Ismael’s Ghosts, Mathieu Amalric reprises the…

Sunday 19th Nov 2017 20.40 (+intro) Friday 24th Nov 2017 20.45

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: THE PARIS OPÉRA

Bron’s unobtrusive camera turns the backstage of Paris’s Palais Garnier into a show itself, from the top floor of the director’s office to the basement, featuring meetings, audition day, the…

Monday 20th Nov 2017 18.15

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: FACES PLACES

This film is F-Rated. Find out more here. The indefatigable Agnès Varda, octogenarian and treasure of world cinema, teams up with the mysterious JR, a street artist specialising in large-scale…

Tuesday 21st Nov 2017 18.20 Saturday 25th Nov 2017 18.30

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: A SEASON IN FRANCE

Abbas (Eriq Ebouaney) is an asylum seeker who has fled civil war in the Central African Republic to live in Paris where he works menial jobs to provide for his…

Tuesday 21st Nov 2017 20.20

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: HAPPY END

Happy End will be releasing at the IFI from Friday December 1st. A coolly observed study of familial dysfunction, Michael Haneke’s follow-up to Amour (IFI French Film Festival 2012) has…

Wednesday 22nd Nov 2017 20.30 [SOLD OUT] Saturday 25th Nov 2017 20.30

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: GAUGUIN

An atmospheric tale of adventure and the mysteries of creation, the film is inspired by Noa Noa, Gauguin’s illustrated travelogue created during his first visit to Tahiti (1891-93). ‘There’s no…

Thursday 23rd Nov 2017 16.00 Sunday 26th Nov 2017 16.00

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: A WOMAN’S LIFE

This film is F-Rated. Find out more here. A startling and deeply moving costume drama set in 19th century rural Normandy, the film portrays the life of noblewoman Jeanne (the…

Friday 24th Nov 2017 18.20

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: BLOODY MILK

Pierre (Swann Arlaud) a thirty-something bachelor is a solitary character. Obsessed with his work as a dairy farmer on the family farm which he inherited deep in rural France, his…

Saturday 25th Nov 2017 13.10

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: LÉON MORIN, PRIEST

A four film programme celebrates the centennial of Jean-Pierre Melville - see the full lineup here. Dr Brigitte Le Juez, Associate Professor at DCU, will introduce this screening. This brilliant…

Saturday 25th Nov 2017 13.20

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: BARBARA / THE SUMMER MOVIE

PRIX JEAN VIGO 2017 The screening of Barbara will be preceded by a screening of Emmanuel Marre’s The Summer Movie. This film is F-Rated. Find out more here. BARBARA Brigitte…

Saturday 25th Nov 2017 15.30

FANNY’S JOURNEY (IFI FAMILY)

This film screened on Sunday 26th November 2017. This film is F-Rated. Find out more here. This award-winning tale of courage, determination and survival starts in occupied France where Jewish…

Sunday 26th Nov 2017 11.00

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: ARMY OF SHADOWS

A four film programme celebrates the centennial of Jean-Pierre Melville - see the full lineup here. Dr Tony Tracy, Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway, will introduce…

Sunday 26th Nov 2017 13.10

FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: JEUNE FEMME

This film is F-Rated. Find out more here. Jeune Femme tells the story of Paula, who finds herself alone in Paris after a break-up. With little to her name, other…

Sunday 26th Nov 2017 20.10