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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).

  • TRAIN DREAMS

    Clint Bentley’s lyrical second feature, adapted from Denis Johnson’s 2011 novella, is a poignant character study of one Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), a logger and railroad worker traversing the Pacific Northwest during the early decades of the 20th century. Orphaned... Read More

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  • ANEMONE

    Most commentary on Ronan Day-Lewis’s debut feature has focused on the return of Daniel Day-Lewis to acting following his withdrawal in 2017. While this is indeed something to celebrate, and Day-Lewis, who co-wrote the film with his director son, turns... Read More

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  • ALPHA

    From the director of Raw (2016) and the Palme d’Or-winning Titane (2021) comes another singular exploration of body horror. When 13-year-old Alpha (Mélissa Boros) allows a classmate to give her a tattoo at a typically hedonistic high school party, the... Read More

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  • NUREMBERG

    In the immediate aftermath of World War II, US Army psychiatrist Lt. Col. Douglas Kelley (Rami Malek) has been assigned to assess whether high-ranking Nazi prisoners are mentally fit to stand trial, among them the eerily charismatic Hermann Göring (Russell... 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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  • BORN THAT WAY

    In a small wooden house in County Kilkenny, Patrick Lydon’s life is ebbing away. Throughout his final year he reflects on an extraordinary life that took him from a budding career in rock journalism in America to trailblazing in Ireland... Read More

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  • FROM THE VAULTS: SWEETY BARRETT

    Sweety Barrett (Brendan Gleeson) is a giant of a man with the mind of a child. Having lost his job with the travelling circus, he arrives in the seedy port of Dockery (Balbriggan) looking for work. He befriends a local... Read More

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  • FIVE AND A HALF LOVE STORIES IN AN APARTMENT IN VILNIUS, LITHUANIA

    Winner of the Rebels With A Cause award at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, director Tomas Vengris’s admirable ability to deftly weave narratives is illustrated in this variety of love stories involving international visitors to an Airbnb apartment in... Read More

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  • IFI YOUTH PANEL: DOG DAY AFTERNOON

    Amateur robbers Sonny (Al Pacino) and Sal (John Cazale) get in way over their heads when a simple bank hold up turns into a bizarre nightmare, and everything that can go wrong does. Pacino and director Sidney Lumet (collaborators on... 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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  • PALESTINE 36

    Annmarie Jacir’s ambitious historical drama focuses on the turbulent year of 1936, when Palestinian resistance to British colonial rule and the pressures of mass displacement exploded into revolution. The film follows Yusuf, a young man torn between his rural home... 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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  • THE MASTERMIND

    In 1970, Massachusetts, unemployed carpenter J.B. (Josh O’Connor) lives with his wife Terri (Alana Haim) and their two young sons. In an ill-conceived bid to turn around his ailing fortunes, J.B. plans to rob a local modern art gallery, and... Read More

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