Irish Film Institute -25 & Under Films

25 & Under Films

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Films listed here are eligible for the 25 & Under card pricing, offering €5.00 to people aged 16-25 (excludes free-list suspended events such as festivals/70mm screenings).

  • FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER

    Jim Jarmusch, master of the droll vignette, contemplates family dynamics in a triptych of thematically linked stories concerning the relationships between adult children, their estranged or deceased parents, and each other, and does so in typically cool and laconic fashion.... Read More

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  • ROSE OF NEVADA

    When the titular trawler mysteriously returns, having disappeared from a Cornish fishing village thirty years ago, local man Nick (George Mackay) and brash out-of-towner Liam (Callum Turner), unwittingly take her out to sea. With its grainy, richly textured 16mm visuals,... Read More

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  • THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN

    Olivier Assayas’s adaptation of Giuliano Da Empoli’s novel – a thinly veiled portrait of Vladislav Surkov, renamed Vadim Baranov, Vladimir Putin’s adviser in chief – is a gripping delineation of an impactful period in modern world history. The narrative is... Read More

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  • AMÉLIE (25th ANNIVERSARY)

    Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s wonderfully quirky and irresistibly enchanting Amélie returns to the big screen for its 25th anniversary. After a lonely childhood, the adult Amélie (an adorable Audrey Tautou) devises elaborate, secret stratagems for bringing happiness to those around her. In... Read More

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  • SOUND OF FALLING

    (IN DIE SONNE SCHAUEN)

    Spanning roughly a century, from WW1 to contemporary times, Mascha Schilinski’s extraordinary, novelistic film delineates the effects of intergenerational trauma on four girls – Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka – who each spend their youth in... Read More

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  • THE BRIDE!

    Following her auspicious directorial debut with The Lost Daughter (2021), Maggie Gyllenhaal reunites with Jessie Buckley in this self-penned adaptation of James Whale’s classic The Bride of Frankenstein (1935). Placing Frankenstein’s monster (Christian Bale) in the unexpectedly glamorous setting of 1930s Chicago, it... Read More

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  • LA GRAZIA

    OPENING IN CINEMA FRIDAY, MARCH 20TH

    Having found inspiration in the lives of real-life former politicians Giulio Andreotti (Il Divo, 2008) and Silvio Berlusconi (Loro, 2018), Paolo Sorrentino and regular collaborator Toni Servillo, who essayed the previous two men so... Read More

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  • BÁITE

    In a pretty Irish village proprietor Peggy Casey (Eleanor O’Brien) prepares for a busy weekend in the pub. But when a body is found in the receding waters of the lake, the community is deeply unsettled. Dublin Detective Sergeant Frank... Read More

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  • THE LOVE THAT REMAINS

    OPENING IN CINEMA FRIDAY, MARCH 13TH

    (ÁSTIN SEM EFTIR ER)

    Hlynur Pálmason’s (A White, White Day; Godland) tender drama captures a year in the life of Anna and Magnús as they navigate separation while raising their three children on a... Read More

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  • RESURRECTION

    OPENING IN CINEMA FRIDAY, MARCH 13TH

    (KUANGYE SHEDAI / 狂野时代)

    An enigmatic elegy for cinema itself, Bi Gan’s (Long Day’s Journey into Night) unclassifiable Resurrection is an epic, sensory portmanteau drama exploring memory, dreams, and the seduction of image making.... Read More

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  • MIDWINTER BREAK

    OPENING IN CINEMA FRIDAY, MARCH 20TH

    Stella (Lesley Manville) and Gerry’s (Ciarán Hinds) titular sojourn to Amsterdam becomes an unexpected emotional reckoning for the long-married, retired couple as old memories and unresolved tensions come to the surface, forcing them to... Read More

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  • IN TIME: DÓNAL LUNNY

    Dónal Lunny is one of Ireland’s outstanding artists, a peerless contributor to Irish culture and music. As a founding member of Planxty, The Bothy Band and Moving Hearts, Lunny helped revive and transform Irish traditional and folk music. The film reveals how significant events... Read More

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  • SPILT MILK (+ Q&A ON FRI 20TH)

    OPENING IN CINEMA FRIDAY, MARCH 20TH

    Inspired by his TV hero Kojak, 11-year-old Bobby sets up a private detective agency with his best friend Nell. When his big brother Oisin goes missing, the pair set off on a perilous quest... Read More

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  • IFI YOUTH PANEL: PUNCH DRUNK LOVE

    Stricken with loneliness, Barry Egan (Adam Sandler) goes to the only place he can find someone to listen: a phone-sex hotline. As he begins to fall for a friend of his sisters, the phone business operators put both their lives... Read More

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  • IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU

    Rose Byrne gives a performance of blistering intensity in Mary Bronstein’s extraordinary second feature; a white-knuckle ride into the psyche of a woman on the brink of despair. Byrne plays Linda, a psychoanalyst caring for her critically ill daughter who... Read More

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  • SIRĀT

    Luis (Sergi López) and his son Esteban journey through southern Morocco searching for Luis’s missing daughter, Mar, who vanished months ago, last seen attending a remote dance party in the desert. They join a group of thrill-seekers bound for an... Read More

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  • THE SECRET AGENT

    (O AGENTO SECRETO)

    Brazil, 1977. On the run, Marcelo (Wagner Moura) returns to his hometown of Recife where he is welcomed into a covert community of refugees presided over by aging matriarch Dona Sebastiana. He takes a job in an... Read More

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