Irish Film Institute -What’s On
  • THE BRUTALIST (70MM PREVIEW)

    In 1947, architect László Tóth (Adrien Brody) flees persecution in Budapest for the US; initially forced to toil in poverty, circumstances thrust him into the orbit of Harrison van Buren (Guy Pearse), a millionaire businessman who comes to recognise the spark of revolutionary genius in the Hungarian’s innovative... Read More

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  • WE LIVE IN TIME

    The new film from Irish director John Crowley (Brooklyn, 2015), an unabashed weepie, tells the love story of Almut (Florence Pugh) and Tobias (Andrew Garfield, with whom Crowley previously worked in 2007’s Boy A). Doing so across jumbled timelines, the... Read More

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  • IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE

    In one of the IFI’s most popular traditions, perennial favourite It’s A Wonderful Life, required viewing over the festive period, once again returns to our screens to warm even the coldest of hearts. James Stewart is at his most likeable... Read More

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  • CINÉ-CONCERT: A FOCUS ON FLORA KERRIGAN

    Amateur filmmaker Flora Kerrigan was a keen member of the Cork Cine Society in the late 1950s and 1960s. Over eight years, she crafted remarkable animation and live-action shorts on 8mm film, earning international accolades and an airing on RTÉ.... Read More

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  • IFI FAMILY: TABBY MC TAT & THE HIGHWAY RAT

    These Magic Light adaptations of Julia Donaldson & Alex Scheffler stories make the perfect pre-Christmas family cinema outing. Featuring the musical adventures of London street cat and busker Fred, followed by the travels of a very greedy rat, in search... Read More

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  • THE BIGGER PICTURE – MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS

    Paul Schrader’s visually stunning portrait of acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima (Ken Ogata) investigates the inner turmoil and contradictions of a man who attempted an impossible harmony between self, art, and society. Taking place on Mishima’s last day,... Read More

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  • WILD STRAWBERRIES: THE HOLDOVERS

    Seems there is always space for a new Christmas film, and this latest from US director Alexander Payne, (Nebraska, Sideways) fits the bill. Paul Giametti is unforgettable as the grumpy boarding school master, Mr Hunham, who is left with the... Read More

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  • ARE WE ONE

    Robert Kennedy was one of the first American Catholic priests to be installed as a Zen teacher in the U.S, causing outrage in the U.S. Zen community from people objecting to the installation of a cleric from another faith.

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  • CHASING THE LIGHT

    In the early 1970s, charismatic hippie couple Peter and Harriet Cornish escaped the chaos of the modern world and headed to the wilds of West Cork where they established a spiritual haven which would eventually blossom into Dzogchen Beara, a... Read More

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