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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).

  • IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU

    SCREENING FROM FEBRUARY 20TH.

    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... Read More

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  • SIRĀT

    SCREENING FROM FEBRUARY 20TH.

    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... Read More

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  • THE PRESIDENT’S CAKE

    SCREENING FROM FEBRUARY 13TH.

    (MAMLAKET AL-QASAB)

    Hasan Hadi’s award-winning debut feature follows nine-year-old Lamia, who has been selected to bake the cake for her class’s obligatory celebration of President Saddam Hussein’s birthday, a nearly impossible task in a country ravaged... Read More

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  • MY FATHER’S SHADOW

    SCREENING FROM FEBRUARY 6TH.

    Against the backdrop of the 1993 Nigerian election crisis, two young brothers, Akin and Remi, accompany their estranged father, Folarin (Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù), on a journey through the sprawling metropolis of Lagos as he tries to reclaim... Read More

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  • IT’S NEVER OVER – JEFF BUCKLEY

    SCREENING FROM FEBRUARY 13TH.

    An intimate portrait of the singer-songwriter’s brief, incandescent career and enduring influence. Drawing on extensive archival footage, studio recordings, and interviews with family, collaborators, and peers, the film traces Buckley’s artistic development, emotional intensity, and restless... Read More

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  • IFI YOUTH PANEL: BLUE VALENTINE

    Featuring a pre-Barbie Ryan Gosling and another brilliant, sensitive performance from Michelle Williams. Husband and wife Dean and Cindy are a couple with a young daughter, whose mutual regard has faded over the years. Dean books a hotel night to... Read More

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  • THE SECRET AGENT

    (O AGENTO SECRETO)

    SCREENING FROM FEBRUARY 20TH. PREVIEWS FROM FEBRUARY 13TH.

    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... Read More

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  • THE HISTORY OF SOUND

    1917; Lionel (Paul Mescal), a gifted singer from rural Kentucky, and David (Josh O’Connor), a privileged musicologist at the Boston Music Conservatory have an intense yet necessarily clandestine affair. They reconnect on a New England field recording trip in 1919... Read More

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  • NOUVELLE VAGUE

    The indefatigable and unpredictable Richard Linklater pays heartfelt homage to the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 debut, Breathless (À Bout de Souffle), one of the most influential films of all time, and a defining example of what became known as The New... Read More

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  • NO OTHER CHOICE

    A victim of downsizing at the paper mill where he has worked for many years, middle manager Man-Soo (Lee Byung-hun) finds himself cast adrift in an unforgiving job market; with bills piling up and his house in danger of foreclosure,... Read More

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  • HAMNET

    Northern Irish novelist Maggie O‘Farrell’s Hamnet (2020) managed to captivate not just the many awards juries who bequeathed garlands upon it, but also a wide general readership. This beautiful, moving adaptation, created in collaboration with Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao (Nomadland, 2020), is... Read More

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  • THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB

    January 29th, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call from Hind Rajab, a six-year-old girl who is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. Alongside her are the bodies of six members of her family.... Read More

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  • MARTY SUPREME

    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 world knows his name, Marty... 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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  • ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

    ★★★★★ – The Irish Times

    ★★★★★ ‘An instant classic’ – Empire

    ★★★★★ ‘A masterpiece… extraordinary’ – The Times

    ‘Needs to be seen on the big screen’ – FM104

    After his freewheeling, shaggy dog adaptation of Inherent... Read More

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