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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).

  • THE SIX BILLION DOLLAR MAN

    SCREENING FROM FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19TH. ON SALE FROM MONDAY, DECEMBER 15TH.

    Eugene Jarecki’s gripping documentary traces the fifteen-year legal and political battle between WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, and various U.S. administrations, culminating in his 2024 plea deal and ultimate return... Read More

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  • IFI YOUTH PANEL: SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN

    “What a Glorious Feelin’”, the IFI’s youth panel is screening Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen’s Singin’ In The Rain (1952) as their December choice. This classic film follows the dazzling journey from silent films to talkies, and stars Gene Kelly,... Read More

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  • BOWIE: THE FINAL ACT

    SCREENING FROM FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26TH

    The film explores how David Bowie’s last chapter transcended closure and instead became a bold act of reinvention. Beginning with a period of artistic uncertainty in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the documentary follows... Read More

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  • MARTY SUPREME

    SCREENING FROM FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26TH

    Loosely based on the life of Martin Reisman, the flamboyant and eccentric American table tennis champion, Marty Supreme stars Timothée Chalamet as Marty Mauser, a talented and ambitious player of the sport. Determined that the... Read More

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  • DOG DAY AFTERNOON

    Re-released on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, Dog Day Afternoon recounts the true story of an attempted bank robbery in Brooklyn, 1972. Sonny (Al Pacino, reuniting with his Serpico director) and Sal (the great John Cazale) go ahead... Read More

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  • SENTIMENTAL VALUE

    Stage actress Nora (Renate Reinsve) and her sister Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) are reunited with their estranged father, Gustav (Stellan Skarsgård), a once-renowned film director, who reappears after their mother’s death. Gustav offers Nora the lead role in his new... Read More

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  • HORSESHOE

    Four estranged siblings return home to the West of Ireland after the death of their father where they attempt to navigate inheritance, grief, and long-buried grudges. All are at a crossroads in their lives and could do with the support,... Read More

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  • IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT

    The titular mishap is the catalyst for an escalating series of unfortunate occurrences in Jafar Panahi’s latest broadside against the Iranian government.

    A man is driving at night with his pregnant wife when he accidentally runs over a dog, damaging... Read More

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  • THE SHINING (45th ANNIVERSARY)

    SCREENING FROM 12th DECEMBER 2025.

    The best adaptation of Stephen King’s work, regardless of what the author himself thinks, The Shining is set in the snowy Colorado Rockies, where author and recovering alcoholic Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) acts as... Read More

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  • SUNSET BOULEVARD (75th ANNIVERSARY RE-RELEASE)

    Faded silent film star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) resides in Miss Havisham-esque seclusion, planning her comeback (though she hates that word) in an industry that has left her behind. When struggling screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) happens upon Norma’s mansion... Read More

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  • IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE

    A film to warm even the coldest of hearts, It’s A Wonderful Life returns to IFI screens for Christmas. James Stewart is at his most likeable as George Bailey, loyal family man and friend whose selfless nature has seen him... Read More

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  • BLUE MOON

    Before Rodgers and Hammerstein, there was Rodgers and Hart. March 31st, 1943: legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke in one of his finest performances) sees his professional and private life unravel during the opening night party for his former partner... Read More

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  • PILLION

    An unassuming young man has his head turned in spectacular fashion by a charismatic biker with an interest in extreme role-play in Harry Lighton’s erotically charged debut. Colin (Harry Melling) still lives at home, and although out as a gay... Read More

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  • DIE MY LOVE

    Jennifer Lawrence positively burns up the screen as Grace, a mother experiencing post-partum depression in Lynne Ramsay’s intoxicating fifth film. With Die My Love, which Ramsay adapted with co-writers Alice Birch and Enda Walsh from the 2012 novel by Ariana Harwicz,... Read More

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  • BUGONIA

    Teddy (Jesse Plemons) and his cousin Don (Aidan Delbis) are preparing to kidnap Michelle (Emma Stone), the CEO of a local pharmaceutical company, for which Teddy works as a box packer, an audacious ploy that if successful will save both... Read More

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