Irish Film Institute -What’s On
  • HAVE YOU NEVER HEARD OF BILL FULLER?

    SCREENING FROM AUGUST 7th

    The truly astonishing story of Bill Fuller, a Kerry-born Irish emigrant, and one of the most important figures in popular music in the 20th century, he was the owner of 23 iconic music venues in Ireland,... Read More

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  • TONY

    SCREENING FROM AUGUST 14th

    In 1975, on failing to win a writing fellowship, 19-year-old Tony Bourdain (Dominic Sessa) flees to a small town on Cape Cod with no plan other than to chase his high school crush Nancy (Emilia Jones).... Read More

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  • SUNNY DANCER

    SCREENING FROM AUGUST 14th

    Seventeen-year-old Ivy (Bella Ramsey) has been reluctantly dispatched to a summer camp for young cancer survivors where she arrives armed with cynicism and a fierce determination not to belong. Yet amid a community of fellow outsiders,... Read More

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  • & SONS

    SCREENING FROM AUGUST 21st

    Twenty years after a devastating family rupture, Andrew Dyer (Bill Nighy), a celebrated but reclusive novelist, summons his estranged sons, Jamie (George MacKay) and Richard (Johnny Flynn), home with news that promises to rewrite their shared... Read More

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  • THE SUMMER BOOK

    SCREENING FROM AUGUST 7th

    Based on Tove Jansson’s beloved 1972 novel, The Summer Book tells the story of Sophia, a nine-year-old girl, and her grandmother (Glenn Close) who, together with Sophia’s father (Anders Danielsen Lie), spend a transformative summer at their... Read More

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  • BITTER CHRISTMAS

    SCREENING FROM AUGUST 28th

    After the death of her mother, advertising director Elsa (Bárbara Lennie) throws herself into her work before escaping to Lanzarote with a close friend, where unresolved desires and buried anxieties surface. Interweaving Elsa’s story, set in... Read More

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  • DE GAULLE: RÉSISTANCE

    SCREENING FROM AUGUST 28th

    The first part of Antonin Baudy’s ambitious portrait of one of modern France’s defining statesmen follows Charles de Gaulle (Simon Abkarian) from the collapse of France in 1940 to the emergence of the Free French movement... Read More

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  • I WANT YOUR SEX

    SCREENING FROM AUGUST 28th

    When Elliot (Cooper Hoffman) lands a job with artist and provocateur Erika Tracy (Olivia Wilde), she announces that he will be her sexual muse, regardless of his current relationship with Minerva (Charli XCX). Initially relishing his... Read More

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  • LADY

    SCREENING FROM AUGUST 14th

    A mockumentary about a narcissistic aristocrat who dupes a gullible director into filming her every move, Lady blends eccentricity and poignant character study to winning effect. Lady Isabella (a gloriously fearless turn from Sian Clifford), an eccentric... Read More

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