IFI PROGRAMME
December 2024 Programme
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A COMPLETE UNKNOWN (OPENS JANUARY 17TH)
It would take an epic saga to do justice to the long, storied career of cultural icon Bob Dylan. James Mangold’s excellent biopic hinges instead around his first major reinvention, when he plugged in his electric guitar at 1965’s Newport... Read More
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NOSFERATU (35MM & DIGITAL)
All screenings on 35mm film unless otherwise stated.
There will be Digital Open Captioned screenings at 13.00 on Monday 6th, and 20.30 on Thursday 9th.
1838; Estate agent Thomas Hutter (Nicholas Hoult) is tasked with securing a property in the... Read More
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I’M STILL HERE (PREVIEWS FROM FEBRUARY 14TH)
Tickets for preview screenings are on sale from Monday, December 16th.
Walter Salles, the Oscar-winning director of Central Station and the Motorcycle Diaries, returns with his finest work in many years; I’m Still Here focuses on the true-life story of... Read More
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THE LAST SHOWGIRL (WITH PRE-RECORDED Q&A FEBRUARY 10TH)
The Last Showgirl sees Pamela Anderson mounting an extraordinary comeback performance as Shelly, a Las Vegas dancer who is left adrift after the revue show she has been performing in for 30 years is suddenly closed by stage manager Eddie (Dave... Read More
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A REAL PAIN (OPENS JANUARY 8TH)
Multi-hyphenate Jesse Eisenberg’s second film as writer-director also sees him take on the roles of producer and star. Sharing lead acting duties with Kieran Culkin (best known for his television work, most notably as Roman Roy in Succession), the pair... Read More
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IRISH FOCUS: GAMA BOMB – SURVIVAL OF THE FASTEST
When their seventh album Sea Savage hit the American Billboard charts, cult Irish thrash band Gama Bomb were trapped by lockdowns, missing a drummer, and unable to tour.
Survival of the Fastest captures their quest to make it to Hellfest... Read More
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FROM THE VAULTS: THE DEAD (2025)
Join us on the Feast of Epiphany for our annual screening of John Huston’s pitch-perfect adaptation of James Joyce’s The Dead.
As the New Year dawns in 1904, the elderly Misses Morkan and their niece Mary Jane,... Read More
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THE BRUTALIST (70MM PREVIEWS FROM JANUARY 18TH)
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.
Dónal... Read More
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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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HOW TO MAKE MILLIONS BEFORE GRANDMA DIES
Once top of his class, teenager M (Putthipong Assaratanakul) now wastes his days on a game-casting enterprise whilst living off his mother’s generosity. When his grandmother, Amah (Usha Seamkhum), is diagnosed with terminal cancer, M spies an opportunity; driven by... Read More
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SPIRITED AWAY
Founder of Studio Ghibli, director Hayao Miyazaki is responsible for some of contemporary animation’s most beloved films, including My Neighbour Totoro (1988), Howl’s Moving Castle (2004), and of course Spirited Away, a film of rare and rich beauty. The film... Read More
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THE UNIVERSAL THEORY
In 1962, against the backdrop of Cold War tensions and a world of paranoid conspiracy, Johannes Leinert (Jan Bülow), a promising young PHD student, travels to a physics conference at an isolated lodge high in the Swiss Alps, where an... Read More
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IFI International: December 2024
11 December // NICE X Irish Film Festa // Lies We Tell, North Circular // Cinema La Compagnia, Florence, Italy
The IFI International programme is supported by Culture Ireland.
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: KEEP THE FAITH (PROGRAMME 2)
KEEP THE FAITH
Archive at Lunchtime – Join us for FREE lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive.
Simply collect your tickets online (with a small booking fee) or at IFI Box Office.
PROGRAMME 2
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: KEEP THE FAITH (PROGRAMME 1)
KEEP THE FAITH
Archive at Lunchtime – Join us for FREE lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive.
Simply collect your tickets online (with a small booking fee) or at IFI Box Office.
PROGRAMME 1 ... Read More
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IFI & FIRST FORTNIGHT: THE DAYS OF TREES
In this highly original feature documentary, Tomás, a middle-aged film producer, embarks on a journey of discovery with his friend and colleague, film director, Alan. As they progress, we witness first-hand Tomás’s unearthing of fresh and startling childhood happenings which... Read More
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IFI & FIRST FORTNIGHT: SILENT MEN + Q&A
Why do so many men struggle to show their feelings? Part therapy, part road trip, BAFTA award winning filmmaker Duncan Cowles asks men how they open up in order to directly address his own difficulties in being intimate and open... Read More
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The Gap in Consent
This extraordinary anthology of interviews with 14 leading Irish filmmakers represents a new body of knowledge in the field of documentary studies. Filmmaker and PhD candidate Tom Burke invites filmmakers to speak about ethics, consent, and relationships with the subjects... Read More
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IFI International: November 2024
1 November // Razor Reel Flanders Film Festival [17th edition] // The Outcasts [restoration] + Q&A with director Robert Wynne-Simmons // Bruges, Belgium
7-8 November // Irish Film Festival of India // My Left Foot // Film... Read More
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SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT
Against the backdrop of the Cold War, the US State Department sends ‘jazz ambassadors’ Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, and Duke Ellington to Congo, a newly independent, resource-rich African nation, to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup that would lead to... Read More
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HOUSEWIFE OF THE YEAR
Between 1969 and 1995, women all over Ireland competed to win the Housewife of the Year, a competition celebrating “cookery, nurturing, and basic household management skills”. Broadcast on RTÉ from 1982, the programmes featured not just the competition itself but... Read More
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ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT
A delicate ode to female friendship, Payal Kapadia’s narrative debut brilliantly captures the pace, colours and atmosphere of life in modern Mumbai. Nurse Prabha’s routine is upset when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger, more... Read More
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SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE
An unassuming man in 1980’s Ireland must grapple with his conscience in the face of an overwhelming moment of insight in Tim Mielants supremely confident adaptation of Claire Keegan’s Booker Prize-nominated 2021 novella. The setting is New Ross, Wexford, in... Read More
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IFI International: October 2024
2-6 October 2024 // Dinard Festival du Cinema Britannique et Irlandais | Dinard Festival of British & Irish Film // Bring Them Down, September Says, That They May Face the Rising Sun, The Flats, The Irish Question, Baltimore, Dance... Read More
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IFI International: September 2024
16-21 September // British & Irish Film Festival Luxembourg – 15th edition // Kneecap, In the Land of Saints and Sinners, The Banshees of Inisherin, Puffin Rock and the New Friends, Blurred Lines + Q&A with director and actor... Read More
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IFI International: August 2024
9-10 August // Baton Rouge Irish Film Festival // That They May Face the Rising Sun, Baltimore, Tarrac, Apocalypse Clown, The Graceless Age – The Ballad of John Murry // Manship Theatre, Baton Rouge, USA
18-25 August... Read More
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Don’t Forget to Remember
This unconventional documentary from Ross Killeen (Love Yourself Today) is an emotive human story featuring the artist Asbestos and his journey through the slow decay of his mother’s memories as they disintegrate due to her advancing Alzheimer’s disease. His work... Read More
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IFI International: July 2024
12 July at 15:30 // Galway Film Fleadh: Culture Ireland and IFI International present Festival Programmers’ Panel & Networking Session // Veranda Lounge, Galmont Hotel, Galway, Ireland
19-20 July // Irish Film Festa Rome in association with... Read More
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GAZE 2024: DESIRE LINES
Hands down the sexiest, queerest opening sequence of any film in this year’s festival, Desire Lines tells the eye-opening, heart-opening, shirt-opening stories of gay men who are trans and trans guys coming out as gay. Mixing documentary and interviews, the... Read More
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GAZE 2024: BREAKTHROUGH SHORT FILMS SHOWCASE
Queer visionaries shaping tomorrow’s cinema. Eight films that dare to shatter cinematic norms with flair and style, as we see bold content meet experimental form. Playful yet profound, a collection that honours the fearless creativity of filmmakers who break the... Read More
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GAZE 2024: INDIA’S FIRST BEST TRANS MODEL AGENCY
The hijras in India are the oldest ethnic transgender community in the world, traditionally considered to be a third gender, alternately feared and respected, and attributed with powers for both good luck and bad. Rudrani Chettri is a hijra activist... Read More
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GAZE 2024: LIFE IS EXCELLENT
David Robilliard was a talented British artist who died in 1988, aged just 36 years old, one of the many young gay men of his generation lost to AIDS. In this emotional documentary, actor and contemporary art devotee Russell Tovey... Read More
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GAZE 2024: TEACHES OF PEACHES
At the dawn of the new millennium, Canadian musician Merrill Nisker unleashed the mighty Peaches onto an unsuspecting world with her soon-to-be iconic album, The Teaches of Peaches. Minds were duly blown. Berlin was the centre of the universe and... Read More
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GAZE 2024: TABOO SHORT FILMS SHOWCASE
From maligned pleasure seekers to disruptive activists, this programme dives deep into an array of subjects that remain risqué within the queer community today. Risky sex takes centre stage in shorts on chemsex and cruising; films face facts with direct... Read More
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GAZE 2024: ALL OF US STRANGERS
This haunting tale of urban alienation, childhood reckoning, and regret brought together two of Ireland’s finest actors in performances that broke hearts and re-energised our appetite for cinema at a grand yet human scale. We are so excited to return... Read More
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GAZE 2024: HIDDEN MASTER: THE LEGACY OF GEORGE PLATT LYNES
George Platt Lynes is the brilliant American gay photographer you’ve almost certainly never heard of. By day, Lynes was one of the most sought after celebrity and fashion editorial photographers of his day, but throughout the rest of his creative... Read More
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GAZE 2024: DARKLANDS: ARE YOU READY TO GO DEEP?
Roland Javornik’s documentary Darklands unveils the tantalizing secrets of the renowned queer kink festival. Behind the closed doors of Antwerp’s awe-inspiring Waagnatie, the spectacular fetish event brings around eight-thousand international visitors ready to explore their sexual imaginations and find their... Read More
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GAZE 2024: RIPTIDE
Afrad Vk’s debut feature is a beautiful tragic romance between two young men preparing for the final days of college life. Suku and Charlie are roommates-turned-lovers cocooned in their own private world, filling their days with literature, sex, drinking, and... Read More
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GAZE 2024: SCALA!!!
A must-see for lovers of underground cinema, queer culture, the bizarre and the renegade. Pre-gentrification King’s Cross, London. The Scala cinema stands as a forlorn reminder of the neighbourhood’s former glory. But it is soon to be adopted by a... Read More
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GAZE 2024: THE QUEEN OF MY DREAMS
Director Fawzia Mirza presents The Queen of My Dreams, a vivid comic drama about rich family history and the journey of migration that contrasts the timelines of two coming of age tales – one a young Muslim woman in Pakistan,... Read More
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GAZE 2024: RIVIÉRE
Manon Rivière (Flavie Delangle) is seventeen years old, angry, abandoned, and a true star of the ice hockey rink. In search of her absent father Franck, she ups sticks from her Alpine village and heads off to the town where... Read More
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IFI International: June 2024
15 June // Ciné Gael Montréal with Montréal Bloomsday Festival // The Future Tense // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
16 June // Cinema D’iDEA // Verdigris + Q&A with director Patricia Kelly // Scena,... Read More
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Dead On Arrival
Nurses Shelley and Kate must work out how to cover up the murder of Kate’s husband. But what to do with the body? The knife? The nosy neighbour?
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Conveyance
Between being constantly outbid on dilapidated houses, and their odd roommate penchant for being naked, house hunting has not been easy for young couple Brian and Suzanne. After years of living in sub-par rented accommodation, they can’t believe their luck... Read More
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For the Land is Mine
Peggy runs the family farm as well, if not better, than her mother and father did before her. Her brother Joe is pushing 50, suicidal and depressed. He’s more than a reluctant farmer and an alcoholic. Joe becomes sole heir... Read More
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Fairview Park
Declan Flynn, a man struggling for self-acceptance, is preyed upon by a gang of self-described ‘Queer-bashers’ in Dublin, 1982. Based on a true story, and seen as a major catalyst for Ireland’s LGBTQ Pride movement.
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The Painted Man
A street performer arrives in a dreary suburb and discovers an unlikely kinship with a young person. Inspired by the science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury’s own story of how he became a writer.
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Why the Sun and Moon Live in the Sky
In a small Irish town teens Diana and Sol are finally graduating. Diana once dreaded this day, fearing a mundane and adult future, but now has a plan for adventure among the stars with her best friend Sol. When doubt... Read More
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The Crucible
A red warning comes into place on the eve of Hannah’s surf assessment. Sensing an ill omen, her anxiety rises. Her worst fears are realised when a surf accident forces her into the eye of her own repressed storm of... Read More
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Remote Strutting
Working remotely, Mia excels in software development while imagining a lively office. Challenges from her boss, and support from a colleague, push her to overcome her insecurities.
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The Iron Man
Tony is your average, working class Irish hero who runs a door-to-door ironing service. When the perils of modern day competition come for him, does he have what it takes to overcome them?
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The Wilde Sisters
After sisters Emily and Mary Wilde lose their lives at a party in 1871 they find themselves stuck in purgatory unable to move on. The sisters navigate through unraveling the hidden truths of their past. But who is really in... Read More
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Fadó, Fadó
When a brother and sister come across the dead body of legendary Irish warrior hero, Cú Chulainn, they come up with an idea to help them save Ulster from Queen Méabh.
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Below the Window
Maria, a new mother living in isolation, encounters a mysterious wayfarer seeking shelter from an approaching storm. The stranger reveals a disturbing interest in Maria’s personal life that will challenge her notion of what is real.
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Young People of Ireland
It’s the 29th of September, 1979, and everyone in Dublin is going to see Pope John Paul II. Everyone, except Marian and Pamela.
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Where it All Began
A transgender woman arrives in her rural hometown for her mother’s funeral and is met by the father she left behind.
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Night Glances
A drug-infused end-of-school house party breaks down barriers between two best friends with an unspoken love for each other.
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Swedish Death
Seeking a sense of control in her life, Caroline becomes a minimalist. In an ironic twist of fate, a severe winter storm leaves her trapped without power, and she must burn her few belongings in order to survive.
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An Chathair Mhór
New York’s first Irish language film tells the story of Éanna O Connor, a lost twenty-something, who moves away from home in search of a new life in the big city. In need of money he takes a job minding... Read More
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West of the Horizon
On the remote coast of Connemara, a runaway trans-teenager has a chance encounter with a bereaved, suicidal fisherman that sees the two form an unlikely bond.
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The Island
After suffering a recent loss, a young mother brings her daughter on a trip to Inis Oírr. Set over three days in spring, this film explores the rebuilding of a fractured mother-daughter relationship.
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Céard atá i d’Intinn
Troubled by a recent tragedy, Sean is visited by an old friend, PJ. PJ tries to cheer his friend up, but his own thoughts are occupied by a donkey he saw earlier that day.
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Scríofa sna Réaltaí
An uplifting tale about defying the odds. Seán, a nine-year-old neurodivergent boy, dreams of acting, despite the challenges he faces. With unwavering determination and the support of his family, Seán decides to audition for the community play.
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Introducing Bovina Creamcracker Buttermilk
Liam is a lonely farmer who dreams of a more glamorous life. His neighbours help him to realise his dreams by hosting a talent show in the local hall.
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The Last White Rhino
This is a story about our responsibility to a world we have doomed, our division in the face of its peril, and the splintered morality of our efforts to save it.
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Póg mo Pigeon
Mikey’s new friend, Pidgey, follows him home for family prayer time. Unfortunately, the sanctity of Mammy’s sitting room is no place for a chaotic pigeon.
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Wind and the Shadow
As the line between reality and memory blurs, a mother confronts her fears and uncertainty, revealing a narrative of resilience and love. This journey leads to a profound moment when her daughter bravely discusses her illness. Starring Niamh Algar and... Read More
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To Break a Circle
When a young man accepts an ill-fated job offer to construct a motorway that will run straight through an old stone circle, he quickly learns that a road built at such expense does not lead very far.
Awards: James Horgan... Read More
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Retirement Plan
In the throes of his overstimulated, energy-poor midlife, Ray (Domhnall Gleeson) fantasises about everything he’d love to do in retirement, once he finally has “the time”. He will pursue his curiosities, challenge his limiting beliefs, embrace fear, beauty, even the... Read More
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IFI International: May 2024
3 May // Ciné Gael Montréal // Young Plato // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
16-26 May // European Union Film Festival Bangkok // Sunlight // House Samyan, Bangkok, Thailand // Presented in association with... Read More
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Conor Walsh – Selected Piano Works
Conor Walsh wrote his heart in minimalist piano compositions. Described in the press as ‘meticulously crafted’ and ‘genuinely spellbinding’, his music came from a practice of non-directedness, directing us only to transcendence from our quotidian existence. This musical reverie celebrates... Read More
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Blurred Lines
When six friends get together for New Year’s eve and a drink gets spiked, secrets and conflicts reveal themselves begging the question, who is really responsible? Who has consented?
Focussing on the modern day stigmas of consent, stereotypes, inner turmoil,... Read More
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ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH + Q&A
The debut feature from eclectic Irish documentarian Paul Duane (Natan, 2013; While You Live, Shine, 2018; Best Before Death, 2019) sees him combine his wide array of interests to create a distinctly Irish entry to the folk horror canon. Anna (Simone Collins)... Read More
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IFI International: April 2024
2-15 April // Festival L’Europe autour de l’Europe // That They May Face the Rising Sun [In competition] // Les 7 Parnassiens, Paris, France
4-7 April // Irish Film Festa Rome // Shakes vs Shav, Notes from... Read More
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Lie of the Land
About to lose everything, the Wards prepare to escape crippling debts for a new life via a mysterious stranger, with big promises for the right fee. But last-minute doubts see the pair fighting for everything they were about to abandon.
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IFI International: March 2024
8 March // Cine Gael Montreal // Rose Plays Julie // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
8-17 March // Écrans Britanniques // Lies We Tell, Barber, How to Tell a Secret, Silent films ciné-concert: The... Read More
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IFI International: February 2024
9 February // Ciné Gael Montréal // Ann // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
23 February // Ciné Gael Montréal // Sunlight // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
29 February –... Read More
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The Building and Burning of a Refugee Camp
Three men seeking sanctuary in Ireland find themselves caught on the streets between a hostile asylum policy and an increasingly militant far-right.
Awards: Best Irish Short Documentary, Dublin International Film Festival 2024 Honourable Mention, Tempo Short Film Awards, Tempo Documentary... Read More
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Kiss of the Con Queen
[IFI International – do not amend. Ireland + European premiere Galway2024]
A struggling actor on the verge of success is contacted by Hollywood producers for a huge role in a blockbuster film, but when he’s sent to shoot in Jakarta,... Read More
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IFI International: January 2024
11-15 January // Norient Festival // North Circular // Kino Reitschule, Bern, Switzerland
19-28 January // Chandler International Film Festival // An Cailín Ciúin [The Quiet Girl], An Irish Goodbye // LOOK Dine-In Cinemas, Chandler, AZ, USA... 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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The Graceless Age – The Ballad of John Murry
John Murry was on the cusp of greatness with his highly acclaimed album The Graceless Age (2013) when, addicted to heroin and creatively exhausted, he washed up on Irish shores a broken man. Now, he is ready to retrace his... Read More
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I Dream in Photos
This documentary profile explores the life and work of Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Cathal McNaughton, who quit “the best job in the world” at the peak of his career aged just 40. As chief photographer for Reuters in India, McNaughton... Read More
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IFI International: November 2023
US non-theatrical tour of An Cailín Ciúin [The Quiet Girl] and An Irish Goodbye, in association with Super Ltd and Network Ireland Television 4 November // Irish Repertory Theater // New York, NY 7 November // Berry College //... Read More
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Quintessentially Irish
With a distinguished cast including former 007 actor Pierce Brosnan, two Presidents, a Prince, and an unconventional Irish Lord, director Frank Mannion looks at the influence of the Irish diaspora, and asks what it means to be Quintessentially Irish with... Read More
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IFI International: October 2023
4-8 October // The Irish Festival of Oulu // An Cailín Ciúin [The Quiet Girl], The Banshees of Inisherin, My Sailor, My Love // Cultural Centre Valve, Oulu, Finland
05 October – 05 November // Irish Film... Read More
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John Behan – Odyssey
John Behan RHA is Ireland’s best-known living sculptor. He is as busy as ever in his early 80s, with regular exhibitions in Ireland and abroad. In addition to this heavy workload, he feels so strongly about the suffering of refugees... Read More
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God’s Creatures
A sleepy Irish fishing community is destabilised by the return of Brian (Paul Mescal), the errant son of Aileen O’Hara (Emily Watson), who shows up unexpectedly at the funeral for a local fisherman, announcing his intention to revive his brother-in-law’s... Read More
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Bricks, Beds and Sheep’s Heads
A Moroccan immigrant looks back at his life on Aid El Kbir. Aid El Kbir is a celebratory Islamic holiday that occurs two months after Ramadan.
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Suspicious Minds
A romance at a trippy Halloween rave goes wrong. Lola’s public breakup is disrupted when an Elvis impersonator comes to the rescue. Sharing confidences and ghosts from their past they reminisce and find meaning in their newly shared bond.
Awards:... Read More
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Tumbling Towards Home
An Irish immigrant moves to New York in 1989 to study acting. He works through the grief from the loss of his mother’s passing and the death of his friend Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Awards: Director’s Choice Award, Thomas Edison... Read More
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Eggs and Soldiers
A single Irish Dad forgets the tree on Christmas Eve. Ned the older brother’s humanity is challenged when he risks everything to have his younger brother Marco experience a real Irish Christmas.
Awards: Best Screenplay, Blow-Up Chicago International Arthouse Film... Read More
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IFI International: September 2023
13-28 September 2023 // British & Irish Film Festival Luxembourg // A Greyhound of a Girl, The Miracle Club, Ballywalter, Sunlight, The Eternal Daughter, Breaking Out, The Ghost of Richard Harris, An Irish Goodbye, Movers and Shapers, Nothing to... Read More
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IFI International: August 2023
11-26 August // Heimat Europa Film Festspiele // North Circular // Pro-Winzkino Hunsrück, Simmern, Germany
20-27 August // SANFIC – Santiago International Film Festival // Sunlight // Santiago de Chile, Chile
18-31 August // European... Read More
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My Lost Russian Mother
Irish filmmaker Sam Jones, in his first feature documentary, welcomes the newfound friendship of US citizen Gabe, and follows him to a remote Russian village in search of the mother he and his sister were taken from in childhood when... Read More
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The United Irishmen
The names of the United Irishmen – Theobald Wolfe Tone, Robert Emmet, William Drennan, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, and Mary Ann McCracken – have become the stuff of legend, but the reality of what they achieved is often forgotten. In their... Read More
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All You Need is Death
Young couple Anna and Aleks collect folk ballads, the rarer the better. Following a tip from a fellow collector, they secretly record a song so ancient that it is in a forgotten dialect. However, once they begin to translate the... Read More
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Ceist an Taibhse
A talented mandolin player who prefers his own company, discovers an unexpected sparring partner in a remote place. After taking the time to listen to himself, he realises that his talent must be shared in order to progress.
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I Must Away
Dennis left Ireland in the midst of the global financial crisis in order to find work abroad. Hashem was a politician in Bangladesh, but had to flee for Spain after a change in government and threats on his life. Alicia... Read More
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Terraforma
The remote volcanic island of Ascension sat smouldering for a million years, largely devoid of life, until its radical transformation by process of ‘terraforming’ into a tropical paradise.
But there is more to this island than meets the eye. The... Read More
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Apocalypse Clown
A troupe of failed clowns and an intrepid reporter embark on a chaotic road trip of self-discovery after a mysterious solar event plunges the world into anarchy. When international clown master Jean DuCoque dies suddenly, Bobo (David Earl), a hobo... Read More
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IFI International: July 2023
14 July at 15:30 // Galway Film Fleadh: Culture Ireland and IFI International in partnership with Screen Ireland: Networking at the Fleadh // Galmont Hotel, Galway, Ireland
The IFI International programme is supported by Culture Ireland.
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One Night in Millstreet
One Night in Millstreet is the story of Ireland in 1995, a snapshot of a country told through a high-stakes prize fight in Millstreet, Cork between the then-unknown underdog Steve ‘The Celtic Warrior ’Collins and the larger-than-life champion Chris ‘Simply... Read More
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Poor Things
The incredible tale about the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter.
[IFI International]Awards: Golden Lion Award for Best Film, Venice International Film Festival, 2023... Read More
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Prospect House
A group of protesters film a period re-enactment in a dilapidated 18th century house in a last ditch effort to save it from demolition.
Shot in Enniscoe House in Mayo, the conflict between heritage and development and
The cast... Read More
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Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania
A collection of intertwined stories told through the eyes of an old AirBnB apartment. Within the walls of this apartment, we witness five guests experiencing a crisis of love, unaware of the stories that have transpired within the same walls... Read More
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That They May Face the Rising Sun
Based on internationally acclaimed Irish author John McGahern’s award winning novel of the same name, That They May Face the Rising Sun is a vivid evocation of nature, humanity and life itself, set in a 1980’s rural community in Ireland.
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Wild Reconnection
Humans were originally hunter-gatherers and foraging for wild foods and plant medicine was a fundamental skill of our ancestors. Restoring this sacred practice we have always known but yet forgot, may help us awaken our deep-rooted power.
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Translating Ulysses
Kawa Nemir is a walking dictionary of the Kurdish language, wandering from one exile to another, retaining and never forgetting every new word and idiom of his language, wondering how to transfer this collective memory onto paper.
James Joyce’s... Read More
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A Greyhound of a Girl
11 year old Mary has a huge passion for cooking and dreams of becoming a great chef. Her grandmother Emer, with whom she has a very special relationship, encourages her to make this dream come true, despite the obstacles in... Read More
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Lies We Tell
An orphaned heiress in an isolated manor is forced to adapt to embrace her family’s dark legacy, in this adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu’s Uncle Silas.
Note: film currently on competitive circuit and not available for screening at cultural festivals
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Double Blind
Seven strangers enrol in an apparently routine drug trial at a pharmaceutical facility, but soon discover an unexpected side effect – they are unable to fall asleep. Concerned for the safety of the patients, the supervising doctor advises the pharmaceutical... Read More
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Much Ado About Dying
Filmmaker Simon finds his life drastically interrupted when he is called back from Delhi to London to care for his dying uncle David, an eccentric, cantankerous, flamboyant thesp obsessed with King Lear. David has been given months to live but... Read More
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IFI International: June 2023
2-15 June // Irish Film Festival Tokyo // This Other Eden // Kadokawa Cinema Yurakucho, Tokyo, Japan // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Tokyo
16-25 June // Europe on Screen Festival // Ann, Sunlight,... Read More
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The Glenarma Tapes
On March 13th 2020, five students and two faculty members from the Mid Ulster College of Arts disappeared without trace. They were last seen near the village of Glenarma, over sixty miles away from their campus. Two years later, footage... Read More
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Surrender Your Horns
After snorting a line of powdered horn, a lonely Irishman undergoes a Kafkaesque metamorphosis that turns him into a rhino-head man. Embodying both hunter and hunted, he guides us into an eclectic series of real and fantasy worlds, from the... Read More
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IFI International: May 2023
2-10 May // European Film Festival // Wolfwalkers // Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano [CCFM], Maputo, Mozambique // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Maputo
4-14 May // Festival Eurocine Colombia // The Cry of Granuaile // Cinema... Read More
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Notes from Sheepland
Notes from Sheepland bursts with candid observations of the lipstick-wearing, always swearing, no-nonsense artist and shepherd, Orla Barry. Through her fields, her digital diaries, and the pedigree sheep she cares for, we discover how the art is in the doing.... Read More
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IFI International: April 2023
31 March-16 April // Visions of Europe Season // This Other Eden // QFT, Belfast, UK
14 April // Cine Gael Montreal // Arracht // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
14-16 April //... Read More
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IFI International: March 2023
2-5 March // Capital Irish Film Festival // An Cailín Ciúin [The Quiet Girl] + Q&A with director Colm Bairéad, Nothing Compares, Ghosts of Baggotonia, The Ghost of Richard Harris, Ballywalter, Homebird, Young Plato + Q&A with director Neasa... Read More
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IFI International: February 2023
1-2 February // St Brigid’s Day: Women Creating Change // The 34th: The Story of Marriage Equality + Q&A with Gráinne Healy // Kino Atlantic, Warsaw, Poland // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Warsaw
... Read More
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IFI International: January 2023
6 January // Irish Film Festa Rome takes part in Casa del Cinema’s 13 giorni in festa // Redemption of a Rogue // Casa del Cinema, Rome, Italy
20-29 January // London Short Film Festival // The... Read More
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Piano Dreams
When Gary Lennon (I Dream in Photos) lived next door to a Music Conservatory in Shanghai he became acutely aware of the piano-mania sweeping the country. With over 40 million piano students in China, the competition to secure places in... Read More
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The Job of Songs
Travellers from all over the world gather in the village of Doolin, County Clare, hoping to connect with their Irish heritage through traditional Irish music. But things are changing: facing rapid modernisation at the hands of tourism, confronting depression and... Read More
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IFI International: December 2022
9-11 December // European Food & Film Festival Laos // Steps of Freedom: The Story of Irish Dance // Vientiane Center, Vientiane, Laos // Presented in association with Embassy of Ireland, Hanoi
9-18 December // European Film... Read More
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The Artist and the Wall of Death
When Glaswegian performance artist Stephen Skrynka learns that a life-long obsession with building and riding a century-old fairground attraction, the ‘Wall of Death’, was shared with Michael Donohoe and Connie Kiernan (who built a wall in 1979 and inspired the... Read More
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IFI International: November 2022
4-12 November // Seville European Film Festival // Hole in the Head + Q&A with director Dean Kavanagh // mk2 Cinesur Nervión Plaza, Seville, Spain
13-25 November // European Film Festival Jordan // Here Before // Amman,... Read More
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Clouded Reveries
Clouded Reveries concerns the life and work of poet and essayist Doireann Ní Ghríofa. Ní Ghríofa was catapulted into the international literary spotlight in 2020 with the publication of her debut novel A Ghost in the Throat. Lauded by the... Read More
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The Ghost of Richard Harris
In a career spanning five decades, a broad range of film genres and a glittering array of best actor awards, Limerick-born Richard Harris (1930 – 2002) brought an electric presence to both stage and screen. He was nominated for Oscars... Read More
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Ghosts of Baggotonia
An evocative film-poem exploring the literary and other ghosts of the bohemian quarter bordering Dublin’s Baggot Street during the mid-20th century where there was a radical flourishing of artistic and intellectual activity.
‘Baggotonia’ was both an area and a cultural... Read More
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North Circular
This musical odyssey traveling the length of Dublin’s North Circular Road, from the Phoenix Park to Dublin Port, explores the history, music and residents of this richly storied street. While exploring many dark narratives from the city’s history, from colonialism,... Read More
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Atomic Hope: Inside the Pro-Nuclear Movement
Atomic Hope follows a tiny global movement of unpopular pro-nuclear activists, who strongly believe we need nuclear power in order to decarbonize our energy systems and avoid calamitous climate change. Filmed over a ten-year period, these advocates for nuclear energy... Read More
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IFI International: October 2022
10-12 October // Irish Film Days // Róise & Frank, Doineann [Storm], Breaking Out // Rainbow Theatre, Amman, Jordan // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Amman in partnership with the Royal Film Commission
11-16... Read More
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The Banshees of Inisherin
The perils of petty grievances are imaginatively explored in Oscar-winning writer-director Martin McDonagh’s (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) latest comedy-drama, set on the fictional island of Inisherin off the west coast of Ireland during the time of the Civil War,... Read More
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FUNNY PAGES
Robert (Daniel Zolghadri), an eighteen-year-old with aspirations to be a cartoonist, rejects the comforts of suburbia and strikes out to make his fortune as a comic book artist. Robert’s tentative friendship with the unhinged Wallace (Matthew Maher), whom he meets... Read More
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IFI International: September 2022
25 August – 16 October // Irish Film Festival Australia // Steps of Freedom: The Story of Irish Dance, Love Yourself Today, You Are Not My Mother, Into the West, Young Plato, Let the Wrong One In, An Cailín... Read More
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IFI International: August 2022
4-7 August // Festival DEVAră // Steps of Freedom: The Story of Irish Dance // Magna Curia Palace – Sala Șemineului, Deva, Romania // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Bucharest
5-14 August // Festival... Read More
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The Sparrow
When wild teen Kevin Coyle accidentally causes a tragic incident he does something seemingly unforgivable: he keeps the tragedy a secret. Kevin must watch in horror as the consequences of his lie unfold before his eyes, with the sparrow he... Read More
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The Peculiar Sensation of Being Pat Ingoldsby
This creative documentary investigates the idiosyncratic world of Irish writer Pat Ingoldsby. Ingoldsby’s poems and candid anecdotes bear witness to a visceral relationship with his beloved Dublin and its many social, institutional and architectural changes over 80 years. He is... Read More
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How to Tell a Secret
Robbie Lawlor was diagnosed with HIV at 21 and became one of the youngest people to come out on Irish television. Enda McGrattan, also known as Veda, promised to keep their HIV status a secret but eventually broke free with... Read More
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Arena: James Joyce’s Ulysses
This new feature-length documentary from Adam Low (Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens) unlocks Joyce’s masterpiece in all its surprising, poetic, moving, verbose, sexually explicit and endlessly hilarious glory, from its earliest crossed out manuscript pages to the... Read More
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Million Dollar Pigeons
Pigeon racing is now a multi-million dollar industry, attracting high-stakes competitors from all around the globe.
Pigeon fanciers register their prize racers, box them up and dispatch them to faraway places to compete in a series of lucrative races, but... Read More
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Continuing Traditions
Acclaimed Indian classical musician and composer Ustad Wajahat Khan and much-loved and renowned Irish musician and composer Peadar Ó Riada come together in a unique exploration of the shared musical heritage of their beloved native traditions.
Compiled from over 40... Read More
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IFI International: July 2022
6 July // London Pride: free screening of The 34th: The Story of Marriage Equality // Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith, London
8 July // Galway Film Fleadh: Networking at the Fleadh // Galway, Ireland // Presented in... Read More
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Questionable Treatment
The subject of an illegal “cure” for autism is discussed by Fiona Pettit O’Leary, a woman who is trying to stop the abuse of vulnerable people.
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Hole in the Head
While Irish director Dean Kavanagh’s latest film sees him take a step away from his previous, more purely experimental work towards a traditional, narrative style, the playful approach to the medium of cinema on display and the healthy dose of... Read More
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IFI International: June 2022
8-15 June // International Filmfest Emden-Norderney // Foscadh [Shelter] // CineStar 5, Emden-Norderney, Germany
9 June // Mois des fiertés: Pride screening // Queen of Ireland // Cinema Star, Strasbourg, France // Presented in association with the... Read More
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Steps of Freedom: The Story of Irish Dance
Steps of Freedom, a spectacular performance-based documentary, follows the evolution of Irish dance from humble origins to present-day global phenomenon which sees weekly Irish dance classes held in more than 60 countries around the globe, millions attending theatre shows and... Read More
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IFI International: May 2022
3-15 May // Festival Eurocine // Foscadh [Shelter], Doineann [Storm], Breaking Out // Bogotá [Cinemateca de Bogotá, Cinemanía], Cali [Cinemateca La Tertulia], Medellín [Procinal Las Americas, Colombo Americano], Manizales [Teatro Fundadores], Colombia
5 May // London Irish... Read More
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The Cellar
Keira Woods’ daughter mysteriously vanishes in the cellar of their new house in the country. Keira soon discovers there is an ancient and powerful entity controlling their home that she will have to face or risk losing her family’s souls... Read More
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IFI International: April 2022
3 April // Irish Arts Center New York presents Féile na Gaeilge // Arracht // Irish Arts Center // New York, USA
8-14 April // Irish Film Festival Ottawa [HYBRID] // In person at the Arts Court... Read More
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IFI International: March 2022
3-6 March // Capital Irish Film Festival // Redemption of a Rogue, You Are Not My Mother, Secrets from Putumayo [Segredos do Putumayo], The Tribe of Gods, Brian Friel – Shy Man, Showman, An Irish Goodbye, Here Before, Let... Read More
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IFI International: February 2022
13 February // London Irish Centre and IFI presents // The 34th: The Story of Marriage Equality + Q&A with Vanessa Gildea hosted by Vanessa Monaghan, Chair of the London Irish LGBT Network // London Irish Centre, Camden, London,... Read More
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Bring Out the Fear
A couple in a doomed relationship become trapped in their favourite forest. The endlessly winding paths lead nowhere, the trees never end, the sun never sets, and a sinister presence stalks them, trying to drive them insane. There is no... Read More
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Keep it a Secret
In the early 1970s, the world-class waves of Ireland were uncharted waters for the international surfing community. Amidst the conflict of the Troubles, pioneers in both Dublin and Belfast transcended political hostilities to host the 1972 Eurosurf championship, while every... Read More
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IFI International: January 2022
27-30 January // Internationale Filmwochenende Würzburg [International Film Weekend] // Arracht // Central im Bürgerbräu // Würzburg, Germany
The IFI International programme is supported by Culture Ireland.
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Áine Tyrrell – Irish Troubadour
An exploration of Irish musician Áine Tyrrell’s journey as she plays Australia’s largest folk festival, Woodford Festival, just north of Brisbane with her new band over New Year’s Eve 2019/20. She has emigrated to Australia, partly to escape domestic violence... Read More
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Nothing Compares
At the peak of Sinéad O’Connor’s rise to worldwide fame her iconoclastic actions resulted in her exile from the pop mainstream. Focusing on her prophetic words and deeds from 1987-1993, the film reflects on the legacy of this fearless trailblazer... Read More
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IFI International: November 2021
1-30 November // Encuentro de Cine Europeo Argentina // The Silver Branch // Buenos Aires, Argentina // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland Buenos Aires
4 November // Outdoor Cultural screening of The Silver Branch... Read More
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Hillwalkers
For five city friends, a day out hiking in the Irish countryside takes a turn for the worse when one of them suffers an accident. Forced to take a shortcut off the mountain, the friends cross onto private property in... Read More
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You Are Not My Mother
Teenager Char and her mother, Angela, share a house with grandmother, Rita. Relations are fraught as Angela’s poor mental health and erratic behaviour cause Rita to become increasingly impatient and Char to isolate from her bullying classmates. When Angela disappears... Read More
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IFI International: October 2021
6 October // Arracht [Monster] // Cinema Space, Abu Dhabi, UAE // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Abu Dhabi
16-17 October // Open House at the Chicago Irish American Heritage Center // Brief Encounters:... Read More
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The Irish Wedding
Celebrating the joys of an Irish Wedding in all its pleasant predictability – the requisite chats about the weather, the haggle over the beef or salmon, the losing of the rings, the ditching of the heels, the intergenerational whirl around... Read More
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IFI International: September 2021
1-4 September // EFACIS [the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies] EFACIS Conference 2021: Interfaces and Dialogues // Tomorrow is Saturday, Henry Glassie: Field Work, The Great Book of Ireland. Guests confirmed as panellists:
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Let the Wrong One In
Matt 16, is a nice kid from Northside Dublin. A little too nice for his own good and it has been holding him back his whole life. He always puts other people’s needs before his own but will he ever... Read More
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Here Before
When a new family moves in next door, their young daughter, Megan, quickly captivates Laura, stirring up painful memories of her own daughter who died several years previously. Before long, Laura’s memories turn to obsession as Megan’s unsettling behaviour begins... Read More
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The Queen v Patrick O’Donnell
The fascinatingly complex story of how Pádraig Ó Dónaill/Patrick O’Donnell, a man from the Donegal Gaeltacht with no overt political affiliations, came to shoot and kill one of the leading figures of the assassination squad The Invincibles, and Ireland’s most... Read More
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Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane McGowan
Crock of Gold – A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan deep dives into the life of the tortured Irish vocalist, best known as the lead singer and songwriter of The Pogues, who famously combined traditional Irish music with the visceral energy... Read More
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Untold Secrets
Untold Secrets voices the experiences of survivors of Ireland’s Mother & Baby Homes, and focuses on the life and upbringing of one survivor, Anne Silke, who was fostered out of the Bon Secours Mother & Baby Home in Tuam. A... Read More
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Who We Love
Lily, a girl with a secret, is on the cusp of becoming a young woman. With her best friend, the fiercely loyal and flamboyant Simon, she navigates the treacherous waters of school life. When a misunderstanding with the beautiful and... Read More
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Ryan McMullan: Debut
Ryan McMullan and his musical team gather on Cruit Island, Co Donegal for an intense 4-day recording and listening session as they work on Ryan’s debut album, a pivotal moment in his career. Against the majestic landscape, we meet singer/songwriter... Read More
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IFI International: August 2021
11-15 August // Serile Filmului Romanesc // Adam & Paul: The 12th edition of the festival is dedicated to the actor and director Ion Caramitru who will be in attendance. // Iași, Romania // Presented in association with the... Read More
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Ballywalter
A university drop-out living with her mum, and making money as an unlicensed minicab driver, picks up a budding stand-up comic whose marriage has recently broken up. A bittersweet life-affirming story about the unexpected connections that can change the course... Read More
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Black Medicine
A black-market medic carrying out illegal operations for the criminal underworld gives refuge to a young girl, and must choose between breaking her medical oath or crossing her ruthless employers.
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Bicycle Thieves: Pumped Up
Mags, a hot-headed pizza delivery cyclist who reckons herself to be entirely self-sufficient, is just about getting by during the property crisis in Dublin. When her bike is stolen and she loses her job, her eviction seems inevitable. With nowhere... Read More
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Love Yourself Today
Every Christmas in Dublin, the crowds gather for Damien Dempsey’s Christmas gig at Vicar Street. For many, these shows have become a cathartic ritual, a safe space where emotions can be laid bare.
We meet Dempsey and three members of... Read More
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IFI International: July 2021
17 July // Pride event // The 34th: The Story of Marriage Equality // Letní kino Kinská, Prague, Czech Republic // Presented by the Embassy of Ireland, Prague, in association with Mezipatra Queer Film Festival
21 July... Read More
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Groundswell
In 2011, Ireland became a frontline state as the oil and gas industry attempted to introduce the controversial practice known as Hydraulic Fracturing – or “fracking” – into Europe. A ten year groundswell campaign started in the border counties of... Read More
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À propos de Joan
At the corner of a street in Paris, Joan Verra runs into her first love, a once young Irishman. Overwhelmed, she leaves for her country house and revisits the last 40 years, building a fantasized picture of her life. Her... Read More
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Young Plato
Headmaster Kevin McArevey illustrates how critical thinking and pastoral care can empower and encourage children to see beyond the boundaries and limitations of their own community, in a marginalized, working class community in Belfast’s Ardoyne, which for generations has been... Read More
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IFI International: June 2021
10-27 June // EU Film Festival Chile [online] // Redemption of a Rogue // Santiago de Chile // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Santiago de Chile
12 June // CraicFest presents: Craic LGBT Film... Read More
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IFI International: May 2021
6-8 May // EU Film Festival Malawi // The Camino Voyage [7th May] // Lilongwe, Malawi // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Lilongwe, and the EU Ambassador
21-23 May // Fundación Iguales en colaboración... Read More
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Broken Law
The story of two estranged brothers on opposite sides of the law; Dave Connolly is a respected member of the Garda Síochána but his loyalty to the force is tested by his ex-convict brother Joe following a botched robbery. Suddenly... Read More
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IFI International: April 2021
1-10 April [Postponed from 13-22 January] // Panorama of European Films // Arracht // Karim Cinema and Zamalek Cinemas // Cairo, Egypt // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Cairo
9-13 April // Irish Film... Read More
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Gaze on Tour 2020
The GAZE on Tour 2020 Irish LGBT shorts programme spans an array of Irish talent from all sides of the border creating an excitingly diverse collection of drama, animation and documentary.
This programme, curated for GAZE festival 2020, reflects the... Read More
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To All My Darlings
Yet another tragic miscarriage sends Adaeze’s life out of kilter. The medical diagnosis that further pregnancy attempts will be difficult means Adaeze must face the reality of the situation with her husband, Nonso. Adaeze evaluates the emptiness now left inside... Read More
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The Yellow Dress
To help her mother regain her joie de vivre after breast cancer and to cushion the blow of her father’s news, sassy 14-year old Aisling sets her up on what she hopes will be the perfect date but when the... Read More
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The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine
Narrated by Liam Neeson, this landmark documentary marks the 175th anniversary of the start of the Great Irish Famine and provides a comprehensive guide to one of most defining moments in Irish history which led to the loss of over... Read More
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IFI International: March 2021
4-8 March // Chicago Irish Film Festival // The Edge of Chaos, The Evening Redness in the South, I Never Cry, The Winter Lake, Arracht, The Hunger, A Call to Arts, Tomorrow is Saturday, Violet Gibson: The Irish Woman... Read More
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The Funeral Director
Gillian Marsh’s portrait of David McGowan, a Sligo funeral director, confronts the business of death and how it is ritualised within Irish society, where we are known to grieve better than anyone else. With unprecedented access to the procedures, science... Read More
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IFI International: January 2021
23-27 January // Al Ain Film Festival // Arracht // Screening on 24th and 26th at Star Cinema, Bawadi Mall, Al Ain, UAE // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Abu Dhabi and Dubai, UAE
The... Read More
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The Great Book of Ireland
Renowned Irish documentarian Alan Gilsenan explores The Great Book of Ireland, a lavish vellum manuscript dubbed a “modern-day Book of Kells”. This extraordinary tome contains the original work of 9 composers, 121 artists and 144 poets including Eavan Boland, Samuel... Read More
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IFI International -extras-postponed programme-Nov2020
4-6 September // Irish Film Weekend presented by Irish Film Festival Russia // Animals, Comedy shorts: Procession, A Quack Too Far, Father Father, Psychic, Mary, Ghost Gaff, The Ladies, Barbershop; Dark Lies the Island, The Last Right // Moskino... Read More
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An Cailín Ciúin
Even before its release, Colm Bairéad’s debut feature has, quite rightly, become one of the most lauded and garlanded Irish films of recent years. Adapted from Foster, a short story by Claire Keegan, it centres on nine-year-old Cáit, a shy... Read More
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IFI International: November 2020
8 November // European Arthouse Cinema Day // A Bump Along the Way // Spazju Kreattiv Cultural Centre // Valletta, Malta // Presented by the Embassy of Ireland, Valletta
19-29 November [Online + Rescheduled from 13-17 May]... Read More
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Tomorrow is Saturday
Tomorrow is Saturday is an intimate portrait of the life and work of Irish collage artist Sean Hillen. Diagnosed in his late 50s with Aspergers, Hillen has reached a point where he finds it almost impossible to work in his... Read More
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IFI International: October 2020
2-4 October // Immagini e Suono del Mondo [Ethnomusicological film festival] // Lomax in Éireann // Firenze, Italy
4-11 October // ZagrebDox: International Documentary Film Festival // The Camino Voyage [VOD for 60 days in Croatia] //... Read More
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Bongo Bong
A little commentary from the valley of the squinting windows.
Also available as part of Wardrop’s Shorts, a programme of five shorts directed by Ken Wardrop and produced by Andrew Freedman.
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Bojayá: Caught in the Crossfire
Bojayá: Caught In The Crossfire follows the story of LeynerPalacios, a community leader and Nobel peace prize nominee, who lost 32 relatives in one massacre. The 2002 Bojayá massacre was and remains, one of the worst mass atrocities in Colombia’s... Read More
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IFI International: September 2020
6 September // LGBT Film Festival Poland launch event // Queen of Ireland // Warsaw, Poland // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Warsaw
12 September // Gasra na Gaeilge and The Adelaide Irish Club... Read More
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Town of Strangers
There are only two stories: a person goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
A stranger arrives to a rural village and calls for auditions asking people to tell her ‘dreams, lies, memories and gossip’.
Together, they... Read More
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Hostage to the Devil
A child possessed. An exorcist locked in combat with an ancient evil. Using firsthand interviews, dramatic reconstruction, archival evidence and Martin’s own words, this documentary film tells the true story of Father Malachi Martin, and asks, in the battle for... Read More
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Lost in France
Chemikal Underground has been Scotland’s premier indie label since its establishment in the 1990s, releasing work by a diverse range of fondly-remembered groups such as Bis, Magoo, and Urusei Yatsura, although the label’s greatest successes came from Arab Strap, Mogwai,... Read More
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Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami
Bloodlight And Bami – Jamaican patois for the red light of a recording studio and bread – follows the incomparable Grace Jones across the globe as she visits family in Jamaica, appears on French television, and performs in Dublin’s Olympia... Read More
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Situations Vacant
There’s only three ways to succeed in life…lie, lie and lie. Situations Vacant is a contemporary comedy set in the world of Dave Bracken. It’s a film about self esteem, how to have it, how to lose it and how... Read More
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Essential Killing
The film follows the story of Mohammed, who is captured by the US military in Afghanistan and transported to a secret military black site. When the army convoy he is riding in plummets off a steep hill, Mohammed finds himself... Read More
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This Must be the Place
Cheyenne, a wealthy former rock star now living in listless retirement in Dublin, embarks on a quest to find his father’s persecutor, a Nazi war criminal hiding out in the US. Estranged from his father for over 30 years, Cheyenne... Read More
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Albert Nobbs
19th century Ireland; a woman with no husband or family and without work would face a bleak life of poverty and loneliness. Albert, a shy butler who keeps himself to himself, has been hiding a deep secret for years –... Read More
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Lotus Eaters
For Alice, an ex-model and struggling actress, for Charlie, a sweet and gifted musician who has lost all control of his life; and for Felix, with nothing in his head and a teenage girlfriend whom he’s been trying to leave... Read More
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The Last Right
A comedy-drama road movie telling the story of a man bringing the body of someone he barely knows for burial with his family. His good intentions are motivated by trying to patch up his relationship with his own brother. However,... Read More
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Sonja: Queen of Ice
The inventor of modern ice skating, Sonja Henie was always surrounded by her family, never alone, and with an appetite for money, men, parties and alcohol. After eleven World Championships and three Olympic gold medals as a figure skater, she... Read More
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Cellar Door
Racing from young love to tortured loss and back again this story follows Aidie, a fighter inside and out, as she searches for her son while in the grip of the Church.
With a unique point of view on... Read More
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She’s Missing
Heidi and Jane are best friends living in a small town in the desert. When Jane, a Rodeo Queen contestant and military wife goes missing Heidi, now alone in the world, must begin a search across the desert for her... Read More
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Vita and Virginia
Vita and Virginia details the intimate relationship between literary trailblazer Virginia Woolf (Elizabeth Debicki) and her muse, the novelist and poet Vita Sackville-West (Gemma Arterton). Drawing on their passionate correspondence, the film celebrates the unconventional and intoxicating relationship which flourished... Read More
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The Belly of the Whale
After breaking free from his foster home, feral teenager Joey Moody returns to Laytown, a rural Irish town just over the horizon, in a bid to reclaim his family’s caravan park and salvage his friendship with his best mate and... Read More
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Shooting the Mafia
Sicilian Letizia Battaglia began a lifelong battle with the Mafia when she first pointed her camera at a brutally slain victim. A woman whose passions led her to eschew traditional family life and become a photojournalist, she found herself... Read More
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Get Up and Go
Coilin and Alex are part of Dublin’s bohemian underworld of musicians, artists and comedians, who eschew hard work in favour of changing the world. But over the course of twenty-four hours of degradation, they are forced to look the real... Read More
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Cherry Tree
Faith is in a bad place. Her Dad, Sean, is ill – she fears he is dying and is haunted by the prospect of a life alone. Faith confides in her teacher and sports coach Sissy – who tells her... Read More
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L’Accabadora
Set in Sardinia, during the bombardment of World War II, Annetta is an Accabadora, a woman who helps people die with dignity, a practice existing in Sardinia until the 1950s. She searches for acceptance and love with a deep desire... Read More
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The Surprise
An eccentric multi-millionaire signs an agreement to have his life ended. While selecting his coffin he meets a young woman who has signed up for the same arrangement. Trouble ensues when the couple fall in love and wish to get... Read More
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The Witness
A junior officer at the Hague Tribunal of Justice, Vince is young and ambitious. Nikola Radin (“the General”) was a highranking officer in the Yugoslav Army. When the wars in Socialist Yugoslavia started, he resigned his post and disappeared into... Read More
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I am Not a Serial Killer
When a series of mysterious murders happen in Clayton, a small mid-west town, John Wayne Cleaver, a 16 year old obsessed with serial killers, is suspicious. Fearing he might become a serial killer himself, John makes a list of rules... Read More
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Tomato Red
Oscar-nominated Irish director Juanita Wilson’s second feature is an adaptation of the novel longlisted in 2000 for what was then the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award by ‘country noir’ author Daniel Woodrell, whose work has previously been brought to the... Read More
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A Dark Song
A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.
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Love & Friendship
An adaptation of Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, a posthumously published early epistolary novella, Love & Friendship sees Whit Stillman transpose his urbane, ironic brand of humour to 18th-century England with delightful results. A director of literary sensibility, Stillman incorporates playful... Read More
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Return to Montauk
It is winter in Montauk, at the far end of Long Island. There are two deck chairs on the windswept beach. The chairs are waiting for two people who have, for a long time, been lost to each other. He... Read More
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The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Successful heart surgeon Steven (Colin Farrell) is engaged in a bizarre relationship with sixteen-year-old Martin (Barry Keoghan) in Yorgos Lanthimos’s (Dogtooth, 2009; The Lobster, 2015) outstanding new film that pushes the director’s signature style to extremes of inky-black humour and horror.
Steven introduces Martin to... Read More
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Halal Daddy
Raghdan Aziz’s new home in the west of Ireland seems to be the perfect getaway from his controlling Bradford-based Muslim father, Amir. However, when Amir lands on his doorstep with a birthday present of the keys to a former abattoir... Read More
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The Poet, the Shopkeeper and Babu
The story of Cathal Ó Searcaigh, the Irish gay poet, who spends part of every year in Nepal where he has ‘adopted’ a family and their country. Neasa NÍ Chianáin’s film follows Ó Searcaigh to his adopted home and contrasts... Read More
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The Invisible Boy
When a young girl goes missing in a small town, a troubled fisherman is forced to confront the past that destroyed his family.
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The Appointment
A young man deals with the struggles of everyday life, while trying to get his mother to an important medical appointment.
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Panic Attack
Alex, a trans teenager, sets himself a challenge to confront his anxieties about how the world sees him and how he sees himself.
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How to Fall in Love in a Pandemic
A capsule romance accelerates dramatically against the backdrop of the pandemic as two filmmakers are forced to move in together after two weeks of knowing each other.
Awards: Best Short Documentary, Galway Film Fleadh 2020
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Saving the Turf
A man and his dog travel by tractor to a bog where turf and memories are ignited and the future pondered.
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Iarscoláire
An abandoned school building in Dublin’s City Centre opens its doors to former pupils for one day only.
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Spread the Wings
Despite being forced off the road in the 1980s, sisters Maggie and Nora still travel back to Connemara every summer to rekindle their connection with the land. With their caravans pulled up on the side of the road they recall... Read More
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Dear Little Sophia
Sophia Murphy writes a letter to her younger self to make sense of the lifelong abuse she suffered at the hands of her father.
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We Don’t Choose How
Homeless artists Jenny and James survive day to day in their tent, living off money collected from street art. When James is confronted with a sudden, life altering event, he must overcome his loss by finding solace and meaning in... Read More
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My Other Suit is Human
Zoe, grieving for her deceased son, has become distant from her emotionally unavailable husband who buries himself in work. Dealing with her grief alone, she seeks refuge in the form of a homemade robot suit. Slowly, she works to rediscover... Read More
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Acre Fall Between
On a desolate Northern Ireland border, a man begins a desperate search for his family knowing the future he feared is nigh.
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The Octopus Nest
Claire and Timothy are chilled to discover that the same strange woman keeps popping up in the background of their holiday snaps. Who is this apparent stalker?
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Everything Looks Better in the Sunshine
Patsy, the traffic warden, after getting clipped by a pushbike while crossing the road, must ‘follow his nose’ to find the girl of his dreams who hit him.
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The Dead Hands of Dublin
Sidney is a failed pianist who comes into possession of a pair of enchanted gloves. Upon wearing them, he soon finds himself playing the piano like a maestro and all his dreams are quickly realised! Just when he thinks he... Read More
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Girl and Robot
A Girl meets a Robot while fleeing across an empty desert. They must work together if they hope to survive their pursuers.
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Wet and Soppy
A man just wants to dry his underwear. Tormented by the weather, he is forced to use the local laundromat each evening, instead of his garden washing line. But another customer is watching him from afar.
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Subconscious Voyage
The story of a young boy named Brian who tries to escape the hardships of reality.
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Sunday’s Child
Boy is awoken in the middle of the night, following an entity that may be connected to a group of missing kids.
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Legends from the Mists
The story of how Cnoc Mordaáin was formed. According to local legend there was a giant who terrorised the local people. A hero ‘Ciarain’ sailed across the water to save the people from the giant and in doing so, turned... Read More
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Smooth Mouth
Willy watches his favourite western every night before bed, until this faithful eve in which he takes a bump to the noggin, leaving him in the local old folk’s home, which spurs his own spaghetti western of a situation.
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Ascending Grace
First Officer Maedhbh has high hopes for her first day of work. But when she fails to impress her hero, Captain Cara, and with a cabinful of restless passengers, it’s far from what she expected.
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Tyre Kickers
A son, determined to salvage his fractured relationship with his father, embarks on a journey to find a classic car from their past.
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The Lucky Man
A lonely simple-minded barman working in a dead-end pub in the middle of nowhere rural Ireland has a fleeting encounter with a stranger that lights a flicker of something that might have been, or a glimpse of how things could... Read More
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Kathleen was Here
Kathleen is 18 and alone. The system has no place for her now. What does the future hold when the past is all you’ve got? This visually arresting and emotionally-taut tale depicts the ongoing problems surrounding young adults who age... Read More
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IFI International: August 2020
21-31 August // The Histories and Film Festival in Rasnov (FFIR) // The Wind that Shakes the Barley [25Aug] // Rasnov Citadel, Bucharest, Romania // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Bucharest 26 August – 6 September... Read More
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IFI International: July 2020
11 July // Programming Irish Film Worldwide panel // Galway Film Fleadh // Presented by IFI International and Culture Ireland:
Dónal Ó Céilleachair, Director The Camino Voyage, Dreamtime Revisited Barry Ward, Actor Extra Ordinary, Dating Amber, Maze Kelly O’Connor,... Read More -
The Lodgers
1920, rural Ireland. Anglo Irish twins Rachel and Edward share a strange existence in their crumbling family estate. Each night, the property becomes the domain of a sinister presence (The Lodgers) which enforces three rules upon the twins: they must... Read More
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Breaking Out
Fergus O’Farrell was the charismatic voice of Interference, one of the most influential bands on the Irish music scene in the ’80s and ’90s. Although diagnosed with muscular dystrophy at a young age, Fergus did not define himself by his... Read More
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A Girl from Mogadishu
This inspiring drama of female empowerment is based on the testimony of Ifrah Ahmed, Female Genital Mutilation activist. Fleeing a forced marriage in war-torn Somalia in 2006, Ifrah (Aja Naomi King) is trafficked to Ireland where a medical examination when... Read More
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Here are the Young Men
Matthew, a troubled teenager on the cusp of adulthood, finishes school along with the menacing Kearney and nihilistic Rez. In a final summer of excess, Matthew falls in love with his childhood sweetheart Jen, but is dragged into shocking acts... Read More
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To the Moon
A vast compendium of moony sequences combine to create this cinematic ode to the moon. Drawing on a wealth of international cinematic archive (including sequences from the IFI Irish Film Archive) Tadhg O’Sullivan, director and editor extraordinaire, deftly interweaves the... Read More
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Father of the Cyborgs
A famous neurologist Phil Kennedy made global headlines in the late 1990s for implanting wire electrodes in the brain of a ‘locked-in patient’ to control a computer cursor with their mind. Compared to Alexander Graham Bell in The Washington Post,... Read More
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Phil Lynott: Songs for While I’m Away
Telling the story of a black, working-class boy who comes of age in 1960s Dublin, this feature documentary from maestra Emer Reynolds (The Farthest) paints a warm and detailed portrait of one of Ireland’s greatest rock legends.
As lead singer... Read More
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The Other Lamb
Life in her cloistered, self-sufficient commune is the only life Selah has ever known. She has grown up cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune with a band of young women who are presided over by a... Read More
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Death of a Ladies Man
Samuel O’Shea, a hard-drinking womaniser, has seen better days. His second marriage is ending, his first wife and grown children have turned against him, and he has begun seeing strange things. Looking for answers, Samuel discovers he has a terminal... Read More
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My New York Year
New York in the 1990s: after leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a writer, Joanna gets hired as an assistant to Margaret, the stoic and old-fashioned literary agent to J.D. Salinger. Fluctuating between poverty and glamour, she... Read More
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Redemption of a Rogue
Dishevelled Jimmy Cullen returns to Co Cavan after seven years of exile to make peace with his dying father and seek redemption for past sins before he too bids this world farewell. Moments after his arrival, his father breathes his... Read More
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Róise & Frank
Bríd Ní Neachtain stars as the recently widowed Róise, who believes that a stray dog embodies the spirit of her late husband Frank. Isolated since his death two years ago, the appearance of the dog shakes her out of herself.... Read More
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Puffin Rock and the New Friends
Based on the award-winning TV series, a young puffin called Oona undertakes a challenging mission to protect the home she loves and ensure the survival of her puffin community.
As a huge storm approaches, the last Little Egg of the... Read More
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Deadly Cuts
A black comedy set in a working-class Dublin hair salon where the stylists become accidental vigilantes and community heroes as they take on the gang members and gentrifiers threatening their community.
Notes courtesy of Screen Ireland
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Wolfwalkers
In what might soon be termed the Cartoon Saloon magic, the hugely talented Kilkenny studio bring their fifth animated feature to the screen. Directed by Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart, this stunningly imagined world draws on history and mythology to... Read More
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IFI International: June 2020
16-23 June // Days of European Film Festival // Extra Ordinary // Kino Lucerna, Prague [16th], Kino Světozor, Prague [20th], Bio Central, Hradec Králové [20th], Czechia // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Prague
The IFI... Read More
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Behind the Blood
Priest and furniture maker Daniel Pacheco works in one of the most dangerous cities in the world: San Pedro Sula, Honduras. He tries to save lives, but that’s no simple matter in a country with staggeringly high murder rates. The... Read More
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Dating Amber
A coming-of-age comedy drama about two closeted teenagers, Eddie and Amber, who fake a relationship in order to stop all the speculation around them.
At first they love the reaction and begin to enjoy their peculiar arrangement. They become close... Read More
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Two by Two: Ooops! Noah is Gone
It’s the end of the world. A flood is coming. Luckily for Dave and his son Finny, a couple of clumsy Nestrians, an Ark has been built to save all animals. But as it turns out, the obscure Nestrians aren’t... Read More
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Ooops 2: The Adventure Continues
Life in an Ark with 50,000 others has many dangers: icebergs, unwelcome visitors, storms, woodworm and a very fragile truce between carnivores and herbivores. All hopes are pinned on a dove dispatched into the wild in search of land. The... Read More
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Boys from County Hell
In the backwater town of Six Mile Hill, local lads Eugene and William scam hapless tourists visiting the burial place of Abhartach, a blood-thirsty vampire said to have inspired the creation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Eugene’s relations with his father... Read More
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Ordinary Love
This film was released on 6th December 2019 and is no longer screening.
Retired Belfast couple Joan (Lesley Manville) and Tom (Liam Neeson) have, over the years, learned to live with the death of their teenage daughter. Their existence is... Read More
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When Women Won
Coinciding with the second anniversary of the historic referendum which saw over 1.4m Irish citizens vote to overturn the Irish Constitution’s controversial 8th amendment, the film tells the emotional inside story of the Together for Yes campaign. In the aftermath... Read More
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Violet Gibson: The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini
The extraordinary true story of the Irish woman who shot Mussolini is brought to life in Barrie Dowdall’s documentary. Violet Gibson, daughter of the Lord Chancellor to Ireland, shot the dictator at point-blank range as she faced a fascist mob... Read More
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New York Our Time
Celebrated filmmaker and artist Vivienne Dick weaves a personal and philosophical documentary remembering 1970s New York in its heyday for bohemian artists and musicians. Featuring contributions from many of her contemporaries at that time, the film also contrasts the “No... Read More
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Rose Plays Julie
Veterinary student Rose (Ann Skelly) is an only child who has always wanted to know who her biological parents are. Having traced her birth mother Ellen (Orla Brady) who has no wish to have any contact, Rose travels from Dublin... Read More
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Innocent Boy
An all-Traveller cast stars in this drama about a young boy who uses the power of his imagination to cope with some tough realities in his life. Jack lost his mum at a young age, has a hearing impairment and... Read More
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Street Leagues
Street Leagues follows the men and women of the Irish Homeless Street Leagues as they overcome homelessness and addiction through the power of sport. The film documents their journey to playing in the Homeless World Cup and features contributions from... Read More
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The Grass Ceiling
Three successful female athletes explore how being physically courageous, unapologetically competitive and deeply passionate in team sport can unlock a freedom to really occupy your own skin. Based on ‘The Fear of Winning, an essay by Eimear Ryan.
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A Cat Called Jam
An affable cat that is new in town just wants to make friends. When he tries to befriend three dogs he struggles to make them see him as he sees himself. He is just one of the dogs.
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Corporate Monster
After being phased out of his job, a dangerously unstable man’s life spirals out of control when the prescription pills he takes start to have a side effect, allowing him to see the parasitic beings that have long been puppeteering... Read More
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Sister This
Two sisters talk on the phone about an upcoming birthday; tempers flare as promises are broken. Secrets are revealed and tears are shed. Both women eventually realise that shame is one thing they can’t afford if they’re going to survive.... Read More
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A Better You
Set in a Neo-Steampunk world, a shy introvert named Douglas enlists the help of A Better You, a customizable carbon clone to help him win the girl of his dreams.
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Welcome to a Bright White Limbo
Combining documentary and dance performance, this visually arresting film dives into the mind and creative process of Oona Doherty’s award winning dance show Hope Hunt.
Awards: Best Irish Short Film, Dublin International Film Festival, 2020
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Above the Law
Traversing the same bodies of land and water this short film conceptually links the intercontinental routes of migratory birds with the journeys of refugees and migrants. Above the law, they traverse the same bodies of land and water.
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The Flight to Memmingen
A darkly comic relationship drama based on a short story by Icelandic writer Gyrðir Elíasson, The Flight to Memmingen tells of the rise and tragic demise of standup comedian Dave Murphy. He just wants some peace to write his famine... Read More
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The Girl at the End of the Garden
A slapstick comedy about an unhappy young girl whose life is turned upside-down when she finds a mysterious runaway with psychic powers in her back garden.
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The First was a Boy
Set in the heart of Dublin’s ever-changing Ringsend, this experimental film explores the special bonds between grandparents and grandchildren, grief and ageing.
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The Last Organist
93-year-old organist George takes us though his love of music and his move from Belgium to Ireland almost 60 years ago.
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Ramón: Notes from a Beekeeper
Colombian beekeeper Ramón Galvis Rodríguez reflects on the future of our planet as a direct result of the gradual extinction of bees.
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Blankets of Hope: Cork Cancer Care Centre
A look at the Cork Cancer Care Centre and their mission to deliver ‘blankets of hope’ to cancer patients around Ireland.
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John Don’t Know Nothin’!
John, the successful star of a family sitcom, has a heated conversation with his taxi driver on his way home from work.
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Leave the Road Behind You
As his life changes outside his control, a young man struggles to keep his car on the road.
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Hasta la Vista
A genre-blending short film which sets dance, music and an ethereal aesthetic against a backdrop of friendship, love, lust, and betrayal.
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The House Fell
Feeling trapped at her sister’s wedding, Fiona must face the past to escape the ruins of a life she once dreamed of.
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The Space Between Us
A family drama between three estranged siblings who are forced to reconnect when a tragedy occurs in their family.
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In the Narrow Shade of a Pen
George is mourning a death that did not come to pass, and Lucianne’s bemused sympathy makes some sense of this;
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Coming to Terms
After caring for her elderly father for years, Lisa is unable to deal with his passing and begins to see him everywhere.
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Young Mother
A lone teenage girl roams the streets of Dublin urgently trying to buy alcohol in this intense family drama.
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The Dream Report
A deadpan sci-fi, interweaving moments of familiar routine with esoteric messages from deep space.
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Outside the Box
Who do we see when we look at people? By putting people in a box do we restrict our own true potential?
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The Bogman
A bog worker in the Irish midlands struggles to come to terms with the end of his era.
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Legend Has It
In a perfect Celtic society, a young girl finds herself face-to-face with a dark family secret.
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Featherweight
A father and daughter struggle to cope with the death of a central family member. They choose to express their grief in opposite ways.
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Streets of Fury
Violent Max Punchface gets trapped in an alien land with only some friend sheep for company/punch practice.
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Wear & Tear
A girl wakes up to discover that a creature from her nightmares has materialised into reality. Will she decide to run, or will she face this demon head on?
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CTRL + Alt + T
20,000 words and four years of hard work deleted, in one clumsy click. How would you react?
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Archie’s Bat
A lonely young boy builds a unique bond with an unsuspecting creature and learns that sometimes it’s better to let go and move on.
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Postcard from a Crisis
As the refugee crisis quietly continues, four Irish clowns travel to Greece to perform for children living and waiting in temporary shelters.
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The Sunny Side Up
Peter Pringle and Sunny Jacobs both served years in prison for crimes they didn’t commit. After being exonerated, what are the chances they both met and fell in love?
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Billy Willy
Exploring residue, trauma and memory through the eyes of two best friends and their shared identities. Billy and Willy guide us through their world of jazz.
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Lady Isobel & the Elf Knight
A cautionary tale. If a strange bloke appears at your window in the middle of the night and asks you out on a date, just say no.
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Abe’s Story
In Victorian London an overworked writer, Abe, is inspired by his day job in the theatre to create a bloody brilliant novel.
Awards: Golden Knight, Malta International Film Festival 2019 Best Animated Sequence, Galway Film Fleadh 2019
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Something Doesn’t Feel Right
A weary slasher villain puts in the hours necessary to pull off perfect kills until he encounters victims that don’t behave as they should.
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Girl Alone
A girl with a dark past finds herself alone and on the run. Sometimes moving forward is harder than it seems.
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Pale Saint
Summer, 1991, 17-year-old Kat escapes from her family for a night of freedom and fun with the local teenagers but struggles to stave off a pressing responsibility.
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The Bridge
Cormac is consumed by historical demons, living with the aftermath of a childhood accident. Could he have done something to prevent the tragic event?
Awards: Best Actor in a Male Role, Peter Coonan, Richard Harris International Film Festival 2019
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A White Horse
When 17-year-old Bridget escapes from a psychiatric hospital, she rings home from a rural phone box…but her parents are waiting for the call.
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Rip to the Rescue!
In a post-apocalyptic Irish midlands, an overconfident American jet pilot tries to rescue a beautiful young woman from her domineering mammy, but around here, getting involved with family can be deadly.
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Welcome to the Dark Ages
In 2017, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, formerly known as The KLF, returned after 23 years of silence – but they were no longer a pop group. They were now undertakers, planning to build a monument, The People’s Pyramid, out... Read More
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Best Before Death
In 1992, Bill Drummond’s enormously successful pop group The KLF ceased activities. Since 2014, he’s been on a world tour visiting Kolkata, North Carolina and elsewhere. In each place he carries out his self-imposed ‘work’ – building beds, baking cakes,... Read More
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Starry Night
Cara must make a choice – abandon her sisters and pursue her dreams, or sacrifice herself so that one day they too might stand a chance.
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Was That a Yes?
Date night disaster as Mark’s perfect evening with Jane leaves a lot of questions unanswered.
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A Sense of Joy
A cantankerous musician endeavours to break a magical curse by passing on a sense of joy to others; something which doesn’t come naturally to him.
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Goose & Gander
A young couple find themselves growing apart in their new rural life until a masked figure appears and things come to a head.
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Loving Alex
For Dan, ALEX is more than a virtual assistant; he’s his soulmate. Love, jealousy and control all play a part in this dark comedy that was written, produced and edited in 48 Hours as part of the Little Cinema, Galway... Read More
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Pigeons of Discontent
In the otherwise tranquil Dublin neighbourhood of Stoneybatter, one local issue has divided neighbours: the pigeons.
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Making Tom
An iconic statue of Big Tom McBride, created by artist Mark Richards, was commissioned by Monaghan County Council, for the market square in Castleblayney. From the initial commission to the unveiling, an emotional journey is taken in art and in... Read More
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Squared Circle
A veteran troupe of wrestlers assemble a ring on a seaside promenade. A summer festival prepares for their exhibition of physical drama.
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Farmer Michael (The Life and Times of a Social Pariah)
Farmer Michael is a Galway-based, divisive character getting millions of views online. But his creator, Stevo Timothy, has a past with far more twists and turns than anyone would expect.
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Recommended Rapper
The story of Danny Rock, a 22 year-old unemployed young man from a small tourism-dependent town in the West of Ireland, who raps. Drawing inspiration from the likes of Tupac Shakur and NWA, he uploads self directed, edited and written... Read More
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Our Land
A short documentary detailing Ireland’s reputation, culture, and future from the perspective of seven young inhabitants of the country. Stylised as a light-hearted reflection piece, Our Land provides the spectator with an understanding of how the interviewees’ regard Ireland as... Read More
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IFI International: March 2020
6 March // Cine Gael Montreal Spring Season // The Man Who Wanted to Fly // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University // Montreal, Canada CANCELLED: 6-8 March // LadyFest Riga // GAZE on Tour 2018: Breast Friends, Thirst, Cat Calls,... Read More
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A Song for Ireland
A Song for Ireland is one of eight documentaries made in Northern Ireland by Irish-American filmmaker Arthur MacCaig. It traces a history of Ireland through music and explores how the nation’s musical heritage has been influenced by its long and... Read More
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The New Music
Adrian (Cilléin McEvoy) is a talented pianist with a promising career ahead of him. Playing music is the only thing he lives for until his world falls apart when he is diagnosed with Young Onset Parkinson’s Disease. Afraid of the... Read More
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IFI International: February 2020
7-15 February // EU Film Festival Ghana // The Silver Branch // Kumasi [7-8 Feb], Accra [9-15 Feb], Ghana // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Abuja, Nigeria 9 February // Niall Tobín tribute at the Irish... Read More
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Dark Lies the Island
Sara (Charlie Murphy) has married into the feuding Mannion family and is embroiled in a complex web of erotic dysfunction. Though husband Daddy Mannion (Pat Shortt), 20 years her senior, is a big cheese in a small town, she is... Read More
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GAZE on Tour 2019
The GAZE on Tour 2019 Irish LGBT shorts programme reaffirms the quality of LGBT film and filmmaking talent within Ireland, as well as the standard of work being produced internationally by Irish creators. The sheer scope in the exploration in... Read More
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Calm with Horses
Douglas ‘Arm’ Armstrong (Cosmo Jarvis) is an enforcer for the Devers, a family of criminals in an Irish seaside town. Quicker with his fists than his wits, Arm had a brief moment of glory when he represented his county in... Read More
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IFI International: January 2020
15 January // Georgia Public Broadcasting presents a special screening of Black 47 with special guest James Frecheville // Atlanta, GA, USA // Presented in association with the Consulate General of Ireland, Atlanta 21 January // One World Film... Read More
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Seamus Heaney and the music of what happens
Six years after his unexpected death in 2013, Seamus Heaney’s wife Marie and their three children talk intimately about their family life and read the poems he wrote for them. His surviving brothers remember their childhood and the shared experiences... Read More
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Lost Lives
Lost Lives is an ambitious cinematic film inspired by the book of the same name. Written over seven years by five journalists, it is a book recording the circumstances of every single death in the Northern Irish Troubles: 3,700 entries document... Read More
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IFI International: December 2019
4 December // REEL TIME: Poetry, Performance and Internal Politics: On Black Mountain + the Poets’ Theatre by Jonathan Creasy, UCD // By Accident with introduction and post-screening conversation with Fanny Howe, daughter of Mary Manning // Harvard //... Read More
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A Bump Along the Way
After a one-night-stand with a younger man on her 44th birthday, party-loving single mother Pamela (played effortlessly by Bronagh Gallagher) discovers that she is pregnant. Meanwhile her disapproving, strait-laced daughter Allegra (Lola Petticrew), who sees herself as the adult of... Read More
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The Ballymurphy Precedent
Largely unknown outside Northern Ireland, the deaths of eleven innocent people at the hands of the British Army in a Catholic estate in Belfast is one of the most significant events in the Troubles.
In one small Belfast housing... Read More
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The Man with the Hat: The Revolutionary Life and Times of Sean Garland
Documentary about Irishman Sean Garland, known as the man in with the hat, a former Workers’ Party president and Official IRA Chief of Staff, and about what he has seen not only in Ireland, but in places as far away... Read More
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Unquiet Graves
Unquiet Graves: The Story of the Glenanne Gang details how members of the RUC and UDR (a British Army regiment) were centrally involved in the murder of over 120 innocent civilians during the recent conflict in Ireland. It reveals how... Read More
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The Meeting
Prolific Irish director Alan Gilsenan has throughout his career frequently addressed issues of social interest. Following the success last year of documentary Meetings With Ivor and the release earlier this year of fiction feature Unless, The Meeting blends the two... Read More
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Damo & Ivor: The Movie
Damo and Ivor embark on the mother of all adventures across Ireland to track down their long lost brother John Joe.
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The Young Offenders
Inspired by Ireland’s biggest cocaine seizure of €440 million off the coast of Cork in 2007, The Young Offenders follows two Cork inner-city teenagers, Conor and Jock, as they embark on a 160km road trip on stolen bikes in the... Read More
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DEREK JARMAN: THE LAST OF ENGLAND
This film screened on 10th December 2019.
Jarman’s angriest film, a striking collage of Super 8mm, home video footage, and new material, is a distressing, nightmarish vision of a country which had, under Thatcher’s rule in the 1980s, as the... Read More
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IFI International: November 2019
2 November // Irish Screen America // Float Like a Butterfly + Q&A with director Carmel Winters // Ahrya Fine Arts by Laemmle // Los Angeles, USA
6-10 November // Noordelijk Film Festival // The Dig //... Read More
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Heyday: The Mic Christopher Story
Celebrating the legacy of a prodigiously talented Irish singer-songwriter, Heyday charts Mic Christopher’s musical journey from Grafton Street busker to The Mary Janes and rock stardom to the near-fatal accident that radically changed his world view and ignited a drive... Read More
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Journey to the Edge
Every four years, an elite group of sailors endeavour to sail single-handed, non-stop in a circumnavigation of the planet, through the most unpredictable and perilous conditions imaginable. They are the competitors in the Vendee Globe Race – one of the... Read More
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Citizen Europe
This engaging compendium follows five young students as they embark on their transformative cross-border Erasmus journeys leaving the comfort of their homes (in France, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria and Ethiopia), overcoming their fears and adapting to new cultures (in Lithuania, Finland,... Read More
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Extra Ordinary
Following in the tradition of Flann O’Brien, Kevin McAleer, and Father Ted, Extra Ordinary views rural Irish life through a surreal comic lens. Lonely driving instructor Rose Dooley (Maeve Higgins), believing herself responsible for the death of her paranormal investigator... Read More
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The Blizzards: Behind the Music
Frustrated by the music scene’s increasing omission of guitar music in festival line-ups and the exclusion of punk rock from national radio playlists, once-popular band The Blizzards take matters into their own hands, blowing their whole budget on a music... Read More
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The Lobster
In the near future – or perhaps an alternate version of the present – those without a soulmate are dispatched to a grand hotel in the countryside where they have 40 days to rectify the situation by engaging in a... Read More
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IFI International: October 2019
2-6 October // Irish Festival of Oulu // The Camino Voyage, Lomax in Éireann, Making the Grade, Black 47, Patrick’s Day// Cultural Centre Valve // Oulu, Finland
4-6 October // Bangkok Irish Film Festival // Brooklyn, Black... Read More
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The Hole in the Ground
Trying to escape a broken past, Sarah (Seána Kerslake) is rebuilding her life on the outskirts of an isolated rural town with her young son, Chris (James Quinn Markey). Following the discovery of a mysterious sinkhole in the vast forest... Read More
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The Devil’s Doorway
Two priests are sent to a 1960s Magdalen laundry to investigate a statue of the Virgin Mary weeping blood in a found footage film whose setting adds a level of genuine horror to proceedings.
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Never Grow Old
When a ruthless gang of outlaws terrorises a sleepy frontier town, the local undertaker, Patrick, faces a profound moral dilemma. He plays a dangerous game, providing for his family as he profits in the wake of the violence sweeping the... Read More
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Let Your Colours Run Free
Charting the path of TransGreystones, a group created to support the trans community in Wicklow, the film delineates their emotional journey to create their first art exhibition. Heartening in its depiction of subjugating vulnerability and isolation, the film explores the... Read More
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Outitude: The Irish Lesbian Community
A heartfelt documentary that explores the definitions, connections and commonalities of what it means to be lesbian. Through interviews and group discussions with all facets of the Irish LGBTQI+ community, the film delves into the lives of rural and urban... Read More
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IFI International: September 2019
7 September // Czech Film Archive // Come on Over ciné-concert with musical accompaniment by pianist Elaine Loebenstein // Ponrepo Cinema // Prague, Czech Republic // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Prague
9 September... Read More
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Strong at the Broken Places
Raped at 14 by a Catholic Priest, human rights activist Colm O’Gorman challenges Pope Francis to tell the truth about the cover up of abuse during his divisive visit to Ireland in August 2018.
Awards: Best Irish Documentary Short, Docs... Read More
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Citizen Lane
This docu-drama follows Hugh Lane’s hard-fought venture to establish a public modern art gallery in Dublin in the early years of the 20th century – a time of political agitation and the forging of a new Irish cultural identity.
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Papi Chulo
In Los Angeles, the perfect world of gay TV weatherman Sean (Matt Bomer) is shaken with the end of a significant relationship and a very public on-air meltdown.
Forced to take time off, he fills his empty days and his... Read More
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Metal Heart
This film was released on Friday 28th June 2019 and is no longer screening.
Fraternal twin sisters Emma (Jordanne Jones) and Chantal (Leah McNamara) are worlds apart. Emma is self-conscious, and unsure of which path to take in life; she... Read More
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Horrible Creature
In 1915, James Joyce and Nora Barnacle travelled with their young children Giorgio and Lucia to Switzerland to escape the turmoil of World War I. Lucia later trained as a dancer and performed throughout Europe. Her career ended when, in... Read More
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IFI International: August 2019
2 August // Embassy of Ireland screening during Pride Festival // Queen of Ireland // Hanover House // The Hague, The Netherlands // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, The Hague
22-25 August // aGLIFF... Read More
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Little Old New York
A delightful emigrant comedy about a young Irish girl who comes to America disguised as a boy in order to claim a fortune left to her late brother. Marion Davies shines as Patricia O’Day masquerading impishly as a boy and... Read More
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Losing Alaska
The 375 residents of Newtok, Alaska watch their homes disappear into rolling seas as winter storms steal their coastline and melting permafrost erodes the edges of their town. Tom Burke’s (The Liberties) elegiac study follows the community as they struggle to maintain their... Read More
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IFI International: July 2019
24 June-31 August // EU Film Festival // Black 47 // Instituto Cervantes, New Delhi [2 July] // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, New Delhi
5 July // Navigatio Asociación de Santander // The... Read More
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IFI International: June 2019
5 June // Sofia Pride Film Festival // GAZE on Tour short films: Breast Friends, Thirst, Cat Calls, Wren Boys, Johnny, The Red Tree // Sofia, Bulgaria // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Sofia, and GAZE LGBT... Read More
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True North: Paud Mulrooney’s Irish-Canadian Adventures in Super 8
Offering a unique representation of the Irish-Canadian experience, Paud Mulrooney’s Super 8 films and self-developed photographs of life on Cat Lake and Ogoki Post Reserves with his young family (including his daughter the film-maker) are a rare window into the... Read More
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The Overcoat
The Overcoat is a warm and unique Christmas story about an office worker that saves all his money to buy a new coat in time for Christmas, only to have fate take a ghostly hand.
Notes by Screen Ireland
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Máirín de Búrca: A Loner’s Instinct
This film screened on Monday 8th April 2019.
This profile of 80-year-old feminist activist Máirín de Búrca takes us from her childhood in Chicago, to her membership of Sinn Féin, to her role as a founder of the Irish Women’s Liberation... Read More
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IFI International: May 2019
1-12 May// Irish Film Festival Australia // Float Like a Butterfly, The Camino Voyage, Unquiet Graves, The Drummer and the Keeper, Dublin Oldschool, The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid, Metal Heart, Between Land and Sea, No Party for Billy... Read More
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The Red Tree
The Red Tree is a “powerful and poetic” short film that tells the little known history of Italian gay men being arrested and exiled to a remote island during Mussolini’s Fascist regime.
Available as part of a curated series of... Read More
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Tuesday Night
A dark comedy about the sensationalised media representation of trans people, and the burdens of local planning regulations.
Available as part of a curated series of shorts GAZE on Tour 2017.
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GAZE on Tour 2018
The GAZE on Tour 2018 Irish LGBT shorts programme reaffirms the quality of LGBT film and filmmaking talent within Ireland, as well as the standard of work being produced internationally by Irish creators. The sheer scope in the exploration in... Read More
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Earthy Encounters
15-year-old garden centre worker Kyle battles shadowy agents so he can save his dying older brother with a special plant.
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My Father, My Blood
A man and his child live a nomadic existence. After he murders a woman, their relationship begins to break apart.
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Earthly Bonds
An imaginative girl tries o create a spaceship after he loss of her Mother, while her grieving father descends into alcoholism.
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Joe, Searching
A man who searches for missing women is frustrated by the lack of official response.
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The Condom Man
The valiant individuals, who provided front line and core services for HIV-AIDS patients in the late ’80s.
Available as part of a curated series of shorts GAZE on Tour 2017.
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IFI International: April 2019
3 April // Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith // Keepers of the Flame + Q&A with director Nuala O’Connor // London, UK
4-21 April // Days of European Film // Black 47 // Světozor [8th] and Lucerna [10th],... Read More
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The Whistle-Blower
Reflecting on the Sallins Mail Train Robbery case and a miscarriage of justice.
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Breathe Out
A woman’s attempts to control her new life are being challenged by a person from her past.
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Lost Memories
Sean races against the clock to his mother’s deathbed while dealing with inter-family politics over the phone.
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Jelly Baby
A young mother is forced to find the balance between her maternal duties and her own desires.
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I’m Roger Casement
Dancing with the queer bones of British knight, Irish rebel and international humanitarian, Roger Casement.
Available as part of a curated series of shorts GAZE on Tour 2017.
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Everything Alive is in Movement
The power of the female spirit to transcend and transform the human body.
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Jack Scott’s Wood
Five friends go on a mountain bike ride in a isolated wood. But someone does not want them to be there.
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The Tell-Tale Heart
He loses his mind caring for an old man… An Irish retelling of Edgar Allen Poe’s classic Gothic tale.
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Immaculate Heart
Two thieves on the lam witness a phenomenon that may prove to be their salvation… or their doom.
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The Secret Market
Chief surgeon Dr.Amy McCarthy has a near perfect life until her past comes back to haunt her.
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The Wedding Speech
As the best man, Ed, doesn’t realise that his speech will be the most important that he will ever make.
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Bless Me Father
In a small Irish town where secrets are rare, a local man goes to church to confess his.
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Angels Guard Thee
Two ex-paramilitaries attempt to heal old wounds, but the secrets of the past won’t let the present lie.
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Hope – The Story of Yes
A deeply personal assessment of the highs, lows and personal risks of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement Referendum.
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Far From the Reach of the Sun
A corporation markets a drug that can alter your sexuality, targeting wealthy straight customers and vulnerable gay people.
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An Open Door
A pioneering initiative within the Mental Health Service provides a space for hope and recovery for the local community.
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Breast Friends
A young driven female relay runner begins to question her sexuality when a new member joins the team.
Available as part of a curated series of shorts GAZE on Tour 2018.
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I Didn’t… I Wasn’t…I Amn’t… (An Un-romantic Comedy)
A pitch-black comedy on the social contract of human endeavour between men and women in the paradox of modern life.
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Northern Star
Sarah, a young writer, returns home to Ireland to face the challenges of what she ran away from.She attempts to see with mature eyes and to form a steady relationship amongst family drama surrounding her. When faced with a man... Read More
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Five Letters to the Stranger who will Dissect My Brain
Five Letters to the Stranger who will Dissect My Brain describes the soul-searching journey of first-year medical student Viv, whose first encounter with a cadaver in the anatomy room sends her a quest into the nature of what it means... Read More
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Venus in Retrograde
‘In the beginning, the earth was without form, and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep…’
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Battleship
After discovering that they were both married to the same man at the same time, two women try to cultivate a relationship between their children.
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Early Days
A new mother finds that having a baby causes her post-natal anxiety and intrusive thoughts.
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Inner Child
A woman’s inner child knows why she hurts herself and other’s around her. Is she ready to listen?
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The Cocaine Famine
The Cocaine Famine is an Irish black comedy about cocaine and the futility of nationalism.
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Grá & Eagla
Despite a grá for our native language, many Irish people fear speaking it. Comedian Aine Gallagher explores why.
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That Old Feeling
Daniel, a trumpet player whose best audience is his cows, must leave his rural surroundings to search for the uncle who inspired him, and the dream which eludes him.
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The Ledge End of Phil (From Accounting)
Stuck outside looking in, Phil is forced to face the world he’s been ignoring. Now he must take a leap of faith or be trapped forever.
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Ghost Train
Once a year, estranged brothers Michael and Peter make a reluctant pilgrimage to the old fairground where their friend Sam went missing three decades ago. This time, Michael has a secret to confess.
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Beirt le Chéile
Tar éis Éirí Amach na Cásca, iompraíonn Tom a dheartháir gortaithe trí bhunchnoic Chill Mhantáin chun cabhair a fháil. Ach mar gheall ar chluiche páistí a bhaineann le haithne contráilte, ní thiteann rudaí amach mar ba chóir.
It is the... Read More
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Sophie at the Races
A child’s journey to reunite her parents leads Sophie to the realisation that ‘family’ comes in many guises.
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Seventh Son
Since ancient times the seventh son has been said o possess great magic. They are healers, in tune with nature, animals, and all living things.
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An Engineer Imagines
This sumptuous documentary pays homage to the life and ideas of Peter Rice, widely regarded as one of the most distinguished engineers of the late twentieth century. Without his innovations and collaborations with the leading architects of his time, some... Read More
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Personal Development
Fintan’s already fragile relationship with his youngest daughter is put to the test with the arrival of some unexpected news.
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Cutting Grass
It’s a hot summer and a young inner-city boy, Donal, is trying his hand at cutting lawns for pocket money. When he meets Gerry, his luck changes.
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Somewhere Down the Line
Somewhere Down the Line follows a man’s life, loves and losses, shown through the exchanges he has with the passengers in his car.
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They Shoot People
Jane is a neglected 12 year old working in the family shooting range. She’s always been good with guns, and one evening at the local carnival she gets a chance to prove it – forever altering the course of her... Read More
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The Great Fall
Up in the clouds, a nervous, young raindrop is terrified about his first fall to earth as an imminent storm rapidly approaches.
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January Hymn
A reflection on the intangible experience of grief, January Hymn sees Clara return home for the first anniversary of her father’s death.
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Filleadh an Athair
Scaoiltear fear as an bpríosún le castáil ar a iníon fásta. Ach cuireann trioblóid agus náire sa bhaile baol ar saoirse an fir.
A man gets out of prison to see his adult daughter. Shame, rejection and trouble with his... Read More
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City of Roses
One Halloween night a smouldering suitcase was pulled off a bonfire in Dublin, saving a true story of love, loss and hope.
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St. Patrick’s Day
A sensitive but slightly oddball student enters the life of her unsuspecting teacher and wreaks havoc.
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The Lost Letter
When a young boy asks Santa Claus for the ultimate gift, he sets out to prepare the entire neighbourhood for the big day. But the boy’s plans are turned upside down when he meets the one lady who doesn’t want... Read More
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Second to None
A black comedy in stop motion about the world’s second oldest man who learns that ambition can be a killer.
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Bending Glass
Since the beginning of the neon industry in Ireland in the 1930s, the community has been incredibly closed and tight knit. There is no formal training, with only five glass benders in the country today. Eighty year old Paddy Dignam... Read More
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Reality Baby
A group of friends are given lifelike baby dolls to care for over twenty four hours, but how will they rise to the challenges of teenage motherhood?
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The Butcher
Retired butcher Joe Williams runs a boxing club in Rathkeale, Co. Limerick. He trains boxers from both settled and traveller communities. In a dying town where most of the buildings are empty, the boxing club is one of the few... Read More
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The Vasectomy Doctor
Dr Andrew Rynne was the first doctor to perform vasectomies in Ireland, estimating that he has performed over 35,000. Persevering in the face of opposition from the Church and State in Ireland during the 1970s and 1980s, Dr Rynne continued... Read More
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Lady Black Eyes
Nora and Devon live in a bubble of electronic music, dance and intense young love in a tiny flat in Dublin city until they set out to confront someone from Nora’s childhood. Once there, Nora comes to the realisation of... Read More
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An Gadhar Dubh
A young man and his elderly father are terrorised by a mysterious black dog in Connemara in 1910.
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The Wiremen
Set in Ireland in the 1960s, The Wiremen is the fantastic tale about six-year-old Rosie as she hunts through the dark for a fairy only to encounter the mystical and terrifying Wiremen.
Awards: Best Irish short film, China Ireland International Film Festival,... Read More
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Q4L (quest for love)
Arriving at a new home in Paris, Eve begins to explore the city, wandering through crowds devouring the freedom, with Max drifting around her — a companion, a burden, a mystery. Eve faces and tests herself, tests their bond and... Read More
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Frida Think
A woman walks into a party dressed as Frida Kahlo, only to find that her version of unique has mass appeal.
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Procession
A community of bedraggled misfits gather to mourn one of their own the only way they know how — an eccentric folk music funeral.
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Where is Eva Hipsey?
Where is Eva Hipsey? is an experimental animated film that blends documentary, fiction and poetry. Driven by curiosity and a desire to listen deeply, Eva explores and attempts to capture the world around her, stepping further and further away from... Read More
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Tomato Can
Danny ‘Danger’ Kelly is a retired journeyman boxer who accepts a last-minute fight. But there’s one problem – it’s his weekend to look after his teenage daughter, Leah. He thinks he has nothing to lose, while Leah just thinks he’s... Read More
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Time Traveller
A Back To The Future-obsessed traveller boy strives to finish building his own DeLorean replica before his family are evicted from their halting site.
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The Tattoo
A Holocaust survivor working in a New York funeral home makes a distressing discovery.
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The Swimmer
Delving into the peculiar, solitary psyche of West Cork open-water swimmer Stephen Redmond (the first person ever to complete the world-famous Ocean’s Seven Challenge), The Swimmer looks at the beauty and poetry of Stephen’s passion and touches the lives of... Read More
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Take Me Swimming
A son must overcome his own conflicted feelings and honour his father’s intentions to keep his mother alive, despite her expressed wish to the contrary.
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Smithy & Dickie
Smithy & Dickie celebrates old love letters, while questioning how the current digital age is potentially obliterating any record of our most precious moments.
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Nice Night For It
Ground down by endless nights awake, an insomniac takes a nighttime walk, where she finds comfort in a fellow sleepless stranger.
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Mother & Baby
Discarded in death as they were in life, Mother & Baby bears witness to children of the ‘fallen’ women of Ireland.
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Macarooned
A desperate castaway navigates shark-infested waters to reach a nearby island paradise, and pits his wits against an escalating run of extraordinary bad luck.
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Late Afternoon
An elderly woman drifts back through her memories. She exists between two states, the past and the present.
Nominated for Academy Awards 2019.
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Hey Ronnie Reagan
In 1984, a tiny anonymous Tipperary village was thrust in to the world’s spotlight when US President Ronald Reagan arrived to visit his ancestral home. It was said that Ballyporeen would never be the same again…
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Bordalo II: A Life of Waste
An intimate portrait of Portuguese street artist Artur Bordalo as he aims to highlight the extent of our wastefulness and the impact this has on our environment through his ‘Trash Animals’ sculptures.
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The Bird and the Whale
A baby whale separated from his family encounters a caged bird – the sole survivor of a shipwreck.
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Bellwether
On a remote beach in the west of Ireland, Anne begins her journey to become the Bellwether – the sheep that can lead the flock.
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A Different Kind of Day
A random encounter between two young adults who have Down Syndrome and a group of youths has unexpected consequences which change the day for everyone.
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IFI International March 2019
1-3 March // Toronto Irish Film Festival // Under the Clock, Dublin Oldschool, Anseo i Lár an Ghleanna [In the Shadow of the Glen], The Camino Voyage, The Dig // TIFF Bell Lightbox, Cinema 3 // Toronto, Canada
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I, Dolours
I, Dolours is the story of one of the first female leaders in the IRA. A member of a crack IRA unit which she claims was run by Gerry Adams, Dolours Price participated in the Old Bailey car bomb attack... Read More
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IFI International: February 2019
1-9 February // Clermont Ferrand Film Festival // Yu Ming is Ainm Dom // Clermont Ferrand, France
8 February // Cinegael Montreal // Float Like a Butterfly // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University // Montreal, Canada
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We Ourselves
We Ourselves is a formally unconventional film dealing with the lives of a group of seven friends over a period of more than two decades. In consecutive monologues, the film tells the story of Irish characters who worked together in... Read More
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Float Like a Butterfly
In rural Ireland in the 1960s, Frances (Hazel Doupe) is a young Traveller who has coped with tragedy from an early age. When her father Michael (Dara Devaney) is imprisoned, Frances learns to fend for herself and her brother, developing... Read More
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Murdair Mhám Trasna
A feature length docu-drama centered on an infamous event in Irish history, the brutal slaying in 1882 of a family of five in the remote village of Mám Trasna in the west of Ireland.
A swift and severe response from... Read More
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Battlefield
Mick O’Dea RHA is one of Ireland’s most renowned living painters. His diverse range of work includes a ten-year study of the War of Independence, culled from found and researched images. As he prepares a monumental exhibition “The Foggy Dew”... Read More
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Under the Clock
This documentary (from the makers of Older than Ireland) celebrates the century-long tradition, firmly embedded in the hearts and minds of Dubliners, of meeting under Clery’s clock. This once-popular meeting place provides a starting point for a fascinating journey through... Read More
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Keepers of the Flame
This feature-length documentary tells the story of generations dealing with the consequences of war and civil war in Ireland. It brings to light the diverse experiences of some of the 85,000 ordinary Irish men and women who made pension and... Read More
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Shooting the Darkness
A powerful new documentary about the men who unwittingly became war photographers on the streets of their own Northern Irish towns. They did not leave home in search of war and adventure: the violence erupted around them. They expected a... Read More
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Starboard Home
Featuring the highly successful Starboard Home album and showcase gigs at the National Concert Hall, Dublin this documentary celebrates the formative bond between Dublin’s port, city and river through music, song and spoken word.
The film illustrates the songs, airs... Read More
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Slán Leis an gCeol
A lyrical portrait of a brilliant yet tormented artist, Slán leis an gCeol (Farewell to Music) explores the complexities of a talented and philosophical man. Tony MacMahon, one of Ireland’s most remarkable traditional musicians, was recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s and... Read More
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The Favourite
Two rivals vie for the affections of Queen Anne in Yorgos Lanthimos’s deliciously caustic black comedy. Lady Sarah Churchill (Rachel Weisz), the Duchess of Marlborough, has long been the trusted companion of the insecure, jealous and physically ailing monarch (Olivia... Read More
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IFI International: January 2019
11 January // Cinegael Montreal – Spring season launch // Black 47 // J.A. DeSève Cinema, Concordia University // Montreal, Canada
24 January // Irish Cultural Centre // I, Dolours + Q&A with director Maurice Sweeney //... Read More
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The Man Who Wanted to Fly
Eighty-something Cavan bachelor Bobby Coote left school at 13 and says his reading and writing isn’t great. He spends his days fixing clocks and making violins from old furniture. But he’s never lost sight of a lifelong dream to take... Read More
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Lomax in Éireann
In 1951 American musicologist Alan Lomax travelled to Ireland and, guided by piper Séamus Ennis, began recording and collecting traditional Irish songs and music. Released as the album Ireland, and credited with the folk and traditional music revivals of the... Read More
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IFI International: December 2018
4th December // Embassy of Ireland lecture and cinema cycle dedicated to the work of Irish director Thaddeus O’ Sullivan // Citizen Lane // Lisbon, Portugal // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland Lisbon, Portugal
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Good Favour
Secluded deep in the forests of Central Europe, a strictly devout Christian community is suffering a crisis of faith following a series of unsettling incidents and a devastating loss. When a young man stumbles onto their compound bearing scars of... Read More
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The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid
An eccentric north Kildare cattle farmer campaigns for his rights against the planning decisions of the Industrial Development Authority (IDA) in Feargal Ward’s beautifully nuanced documentary.
The film charts Reid’s halting progress in his long battle with the IDA which... Read More
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IFI International: November 2018
2nd to 3rd November // Copenhagen Irish Festival // Natural Grace, The Yellow Bittern // Copenhagen, Denmark // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Copenhagen
5th, 7th and 11th November // Irish Film Festival, Nova... Read More
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Keep it Reel
1994’s Eurovision, hosted by Ireland, featured interval act Riverdance, which would become an overnight sensation and an iconic worldwide cultural phenomenon, spawning an unprecedented interest in Irish dancing around the world. One such place was Finland, a country far more... Read More
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No Stone Unturned
One of cinema’s most prolific and impactful documentary directors, Alex Gibney, is best known for tackling big stories of international significance: Enron, Scientology, clerical sex abuse, and Al Qaeda. Here, he narrows his focus to explore the 1994 Loughinisland Massacre... Read More
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Moscow Never Sleeps
Diving headlong into the volatile intersections of contemporary Moscow and the intimate lives of five people, Moscow Never Sleepsis multi-narrative drama about the hidden bonds that connects us all. An entrepreneur whose business empire comes under siege by powerful bureaucrats,... Read More
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The Limit Of
James Allen (Laurence O’Fuarain) is a successful, controlling, thirty-something banker living alone and working in Dublin city at the tail-end of the recession. When a family tragedy occurs at the hands of his employer he decides to take action which... Read More
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IFI International: October 2018
3rd to 7th October // The Irish Festival of Oulu // Inside I’m Racing, Kíla: Pota Óir, Anseo i Lár an Ghleanna [In the Shadow of the Glen], Revolutions, In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America, Song... Read More
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The Image You Missed
The complexities of a father/son relationship are explored in this documentary from Irish director Donal Foreman.
Foreman, a passionate cinephile and keen filmmaker since childhood, grapples with the legacy of his estranged father, the late documentarian, Arthur MacCaig, whose decades-long... Read More
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Lost & Found
Inspired by true stories, seven interconnecting stories are set in and around the lost and found office of a train station in Ireland.
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IFI International: September 2018
14th to 23rd September // Irish Culture Foundation / Fundacja Kultury Irlandzkiej // In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America, After 16 short films: The Party, My Life for Ireland, Goodbye Darling, A Father’s Letter, Granite and... Read More
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IFI International: August 2018
24 August // PolskaEire Festival // Sing Street // Ruda Śląska, Poland
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Coming Home
The history of Ireland has been deeply affected by emigration, with almost 10 million people emigrating from the island of Ireland between 1800 and 2015. Charting the journeys of five Irish emigrants across four continents as they pursue a common... Read More
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Shelter Me
On the 16th of December 2016 a group of housing activists and trade unionists commandeered Apollo House, an empty Nama-controlled office block on Dublin’s Poolbeg Street and opened a shelter for homeless people. Joined by well-known public figures, including film... Read More
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The 34th: The Story of Marriage Equality
Spanning a decade that culminated in the 34th amendment to the Irish constitution, Linda Cullen and Vanessa Gildea’s IFTA-nominated documentary feature follows the founders and members of the Marriage Equality in Ireland organisation as they campaigned for the extension of... Read More
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IFI International: July 2018
5th July // London Irish Centre Film Club // The Rocky Road to Dublin + The Making of The Rocky Road to Dublin // London, UK // Supported by Culture Ireland as part of GB18: Promoting Irish Arts in... Read More
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Dublin Oldschool
Emmet Kirwan’s play was a hit on the Irish stage, drawing from the author’s own experiences as he played Jason, an aspiring DJ whose life revolves around ‘the session’, but who is stopped in his tracks by a chance encounter... Read More
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The Delinquent Season
Two couples appear content in their middle-class Dublin lives: rewarding jobs, good work/life balance, happy kids and entertaining friends. Cracks begin to appear when Jim (Cillian Murphy) and Danielle (Eva Birthistle) discover that Yvonne (Catherine Walker) and Chris (Andrew Scott)... Read More
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A Woman’s Place
To celebrate one hundred years of women’s suffrage, artist Noel Murphy embarked on a six-month journey to paint the 53 sitting women members of the Houses of the Oireachtas in one single portrait, unveiled in the Oireachtas on International Women’s... Read More
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Kissing Candice
This atmospheric, hallucinatory drama about youth at risk in small-town Ireland represents an auspicious feature debut for Northern Irish director Aoife McArdle, who brings to the cinema screen the dynamic visual sense she honed through working on celebrated music videos.
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The Breadwinner
The Kilkenny-based Cartoon Saloon animation studio (The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea) returns with another Oscar-nominated triumph; directed by Nora Twomey – co-director of Kells – The Breadwinner is a beautifully realised ode to resilience under oppression and... Read More
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Michael Inside
Dafhyd Flynn plays Michael McCrea, an impressionable 18-year-old living with his grandfather Francis (Lalor Roddy) in a Dublin housing estate. His life is derailed when he is caught holding a bag of drugs for a friend’s older brother and sentenced... Read More
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Making the Grade
Over 30,000 students prepare for piano exams each year in Ireland. In this delightfully quirky and uplifting documentary, we are invited into the world of the piano lesson. The film examines the special bond between piano teachers and their pupils,... Read More
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Animal Kingdom
Experimental filmmaker Dean Kavanagh’s latest work is a genre-defying exploration of the cinematic apparatus. The film concerns a character (played with corporeal intensity by Cillian Roche) who happens upon a group undergoing bestial metamorphosis. Narrative is not at the forefront... Read More
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Phantom Islands
Phantom Islands is an experimental film that exists at the boundaries of documentary and fiction. Directed by Rouzbeh Rashidi, with the visual intensity that has marked him as one of Ireland’s most radical and unique filmmakers, it follows a couple... Read More
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The Science of Ghosts
Director Niall McCann’s observational drama centres on well-known Irish musician Adrian Crowley. While being interviewed by a film crew for his latest album, an interruption causes Adrian to ponder – what would a film about his life be like? Could... Read More
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Barracks Estate
Following the success of Fortune’s Wheel (about Bill Stephens, the Fairview lion tamer), director Joe Lee focuses now on another Dublin neighbourhood, Inchicore, to tell the extraordinary story of life as lived over 200 years in Richmond Barracks, Keogh Square and St... Read More
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Inside I’m Racing
A young autistic boy fascinated with motorsport unexpectedly finds a chance to put his passion to the test.
Director Aleksander Szeser captures the essence of Formula racing in this short film shot at Dublin’s Mondello Park, while Ethan Dodd embodies an... Read More
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The Camino Voyage
A crew of explorers takes to the beloved, sacred Camino de Santiago – not by land but by sea – in this evocative, immersive documentary by director Dónal Ó Ceilleachair (Aisling Gheal, Ó Chúil Aodha go hÓileán Í). The adventurers,... Read More
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IFI International: June 2018
3rd June // Eve Film Festival // Revolutions // Ottawa, Canada
3rd June // European Film Festival // Kissing Candice // Sibiu, Romania // Presented in association with the Embassy of Ireland, Bucharest
7th June // Equality... Read More
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IFI International: May 2018
2nd May // Festival Eurocine // The Drummer and the Keeper // Medellín, Colombia
3rd May // Festival Eurocine // The Drummer and the Keeper // Calí, Colombia
7th to 13th May // European Film Festival // Kissing... Read More
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IFI International: April 2018
3rd April // Centre Culturel Irlandais // Maze // Paris, France
4th April // Irish Film Festival London presents a UK tour of In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America and Q&A with director Maurice Fitzpatrick //... Read More
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IFI International: March 2018
1st – 4th March // Chicago Irish Film Festival // In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America, A Little Bit of Tear, I’m Talking to You, Markey’s Bad Week, Writing Home, Thespish, The Breadwinner, Zoo, Keep it... Read More
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The Peacemaker
26/02/2018
James Demo’s feature documentary is an intimate portrait of international peacemaker Padraig O’Malley, an Irish man who helps make peace for others but struggles to find it for himself. Padraig has worked in conflict resolution for over 40 years. Among... Read More
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IFI International: February 2018
3rd – 11th February // Cine O’Clock: Cinéma britannique & irlandais // A Date for Mad Mary, Patrick’s Day // Lyons, France
6th February // Centre Culturel Irlandais // It’s Not Yet Dark, The Sound of People // Paris, France
23rd... Read More
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Kila: Pota Óir
Kíla: Pota Óir is a portrait of one of Ireland’s most respected cult bands who merge folk and world music traditions into a euphoric live experience. Now in their 30th year, Kíla, formed by a bunch of musical youths in... Read More
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IFI International: January 2018
5th – 14th January // Fenians, Fremantle and Freedom Festival // Maze, In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America, Sing Street, Song of the Sea // Fremantle, Australia
26th January // Irish Language, A Day of Irish Literature,... Read More
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Eliza Lynch: Queen of Paraguay
Alan Gilsenan’s feature documentary tells the incredible story of Eliza Lynch, the Cork-born woman who became lover to Francisco Solano López, later the president of Paraguay. Maria Doyle Kennedy captures the spirit of Eliza in her later years, while Paraguayan... Read More
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Noel Hill: Aisling Ghéar
A searing portrait of one of Ireland’s most renowned traditional musicians, concertina player Noel Hill, as he recovers from a serious assault that left him a battered shadow of his former self. Noel Hill’s dream of a new life with... Read More
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Older than Ireland
Featuring 30 men and women, all born before 1916, Older than Ireland is something of a landmark documentary that explores what it means to have lived 100 years, and more, in Ireland. Director Alex Fegan, who recently took the measure... Read More
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The Queen of Ireland
Panti Bliss – AKA Rory O’Neill – is many things: Ireland’s premiere drag queen, successful businesswoman and, most recently, an accidental activist and campaigner on the world stage championing LGBT rights. Described by long-time co-conspirator Niall Sweeney as a “glamorous... Read More
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Dreams of a Life
This piercing new film by Carol Morley offers us the true story of an ill-fated modern-day Eleanor Rigby. In 2006, council officials forcibly entered a north London flat with an eviction notice, only to recoil at the decomposing body of Joyce Carol Vincent, a woman... Read More
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It’s Not Yet Dark
Screening in tribute to filmmaker Simon Fitzmaurice, this is an inspirational portrait of a filmmaker who recently lost his battle against Motor Neurone Disease (MND).
When he was diagnosed with MND in 2008, Simon was told he had four years... Read More
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I am Belfast
Part documentary, part reverie, I Am Belfast is Mark Cousins’ film exploration of the city he calls home.
Incorporating contemporary dream-like sequences, archival film and a haunting score by David Holmes, the film portrays the city in an ethereal light not... Read More
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Wardrop’s Shorts
This film screened 13th July 2016.
This compendium of short films invites us into the quirkily observed world of director Ken Wardrop and producer Andrew Freedman. Their early work as classmates at the National Film School at IADT in Dun... Read More
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Born and Reared
Born and Reared explores contemporary Northern Ireland through the lives of four men living in the aftermath of violent conflict. In Northern Ireland today communities struggle to come to terms with the horrors and sacrifices of the past. Four men, of... Read More
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George Best: All By Myself
In 1961 George Best, a shy well-mannered Belfast teenager, was recruited by Manchester United to become what Pelé would call “the greatest player in the world”. A devilishly charismatic figure, Best achieved celebrity status early. His football was transcendent (playing... Read More
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The Road to God Knows Where
The Road to God Knows Where was a breakthrough, iconoclastic film for Alan Gilsenan and remains a memorable zeitgeist movie of Ireland in a transformational decade. The 1980s was a period of social regression, emigration and political crisis. Capturing the... Read More
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Song of Granite
This film was released on Friday 8th December 2017 and is no longer screening.
Acclaimed filmmaker Pat Collins (Silence) presents the life story of legendary sean nós singer Joe Heaney (Seosamh Ó hÉanaí). The film celebrates the genius of the musician while painting... Read More
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The Welfare of Tomás Ó Hallissy
The Welfare of Tomás Ó Hallissy is a new film work by Irish-born, Turner Prize-winning artist Duncan Campbell. Filmed in and around the Kerry village of Dún Chaoin the film integrates newly-scripted dramatised material with footage from The Village (1968),... Read More
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GAZE on Tour 2017
The GAZE on Tour 2017 Irish LGBT shorts programme explores the past, present and future of the Irish LGBT experience, and portrays the spectrum of storytelling produced on our island.
Tuesday Night Director: Michael Healy A dark comedy about the... Read More
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Mom and Me
In this keenly anticipated second feature documentary, Ken Wardrop explores a series of mother/ son relationships to reveal the universality of their experience. Zooming in on the state of Oklahoma, recently voted the manliest state in the USA, Wardrop finds his... Read More
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The Truth Commissioner
In this provocative political thriller which deals with the complexities of post-Troubles Northern Ireland, diplomat Henry Stanfield (Roger Allam) has been appointed by the PM to lead the recently established Truth Commission. His attention is brought to focus on three... Read More
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Further Beyond
In their documentary debut Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor take as their point of departure the compelling 18th Century figure Ambrose O’Higgins (father of Bernardo O’Higgins, the first leader of independent Chile) and attempt to retrace his remarkable journey from... Read More
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Strange Occurrences in a Small Irish Village
In 1879, fifteen people in the village of Knock, Co. Mayo witnessed an apparition of the Virgin Mary. The village was declared a Marian Shrine and today welcomes over one million pilgrims annually. Aoife Kelleher (One Million Dubliners) builds a... Read More
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Bobby Sands: 66 Days
This film was released 5th August 2016, and is no longer screening.
In the spring of 1981 Bobby Sands, a Republican prisoner in Belfast’s H-Block, began a sixty-six day hunger strike which drew the attention of the world to his... Read More
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The Randomer
This film screened 28th September 2016.
Free-spirited Meg thinks she has everything she wants, a great job and an exciting social life. But things are suddenly turned upside-down when she finds herself needing the one thing that she least expected... Read More
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How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story
In 1975 Irish immigrant Denis Mulcahy of the NYPD bomb squad began a scheme offering children from Northern Ireland respite from the Troubles. Project Children ultimately brought more than 20,000 Catholic and Protestant children to suburban USA for summer-long visits... Read More
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The Waiting Game
In 2008 a troupe of seasoned players set off on the most ambitious theatrical tour of Ireland ever undertaken. Stephen Brennan, Alan Stanford, Barry McGovern and Johnny Murphy had first performed Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot at the Gate Theatre... Read More
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Crash and Burn
For a fleeting moment in the early 1980s Tommy Byrne was the world’s greatest Formula 1 driver, a man who looked set to rival Senna and Schumacher with his fearless style and his record-breaking speeds. Coming from humble Dundalk roots... Read More
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Meetings with Ivor
Ivor Browne has been a central figure in Irish mental health for many decades. Some people wish he wasn’t. Yet many people owe their lives to him. Browne somehow managed to be part of the establishment while still being one... Read More
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Between Land and Sea
This observational feature – at times intimate, at times epic – embeds itself in a community of surfers in Lahinch, Co. Clare, following their on-and off-season lives over the course of a sea-buffeted year. The surfers have dedicated their lives... Read More
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The Secret Scripture
After an eclectic range of films in recent years, Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot, In America) returns to Irish themes and material with this adaptation of Sebastian Barry’s acclaimed novel. The elderly Rose (the inimitable Vanessa Redgrave) is the last... Read More
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School Life
Hidden just outside the town of Kells in County Meath is an enchanting, worn and weathered country house now home to Headfort, Ireland’s only boarding school for primary school children.
At its heart is a bemused elderly couple, John and... Read More
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Revolution in Colour
Revolution in Colour reclaims the story of the Irish struggle for independence during the first quarter of the 20th century from the remote world of black and white to the vibrant world of living colour. A meticulous job of colourisation brings a... Read More
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Handsome Devil
Returning to boarding school after the holidays, Ned (Fionn O’Shea), a bullied but resilient outsider, is dismayed to find he has been assigned a new roommate, Conor (Nicholas Galitzine), a rugby-playing Adonis. When Conor is drafted into the gang of... Read More
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Blood Fruit
Blood Fruit takes us back to the height of the apartheid regime in South Africa in 1984 when Mary Manning, a 21-year-old Dunnes Stores checkout girl, refused to sell Outspan grapefruits under direction from her union in support of the anti-apartheid... Read More
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Amanda Coogan: Long Now
Amanda Coogan: Long Now is an exploration of Coogan’s durational performance art practice. The film follows Coogan during a grueling six week live durational exhibition; I’ll sing you a song from around the town.
Hosted in Dublin’s RHA Gallery, the exhibition became... Read More
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Without Name
Director Lorcan Finnegan’s debut feature sees land surveyor Eric (Alan McKenna) working in a remote woodland area.
Having begun his task alone, the location has unsettled Eric, a situation not alleviated by the arrival of assistant and mistress Olivia (Niamh... Read More
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Revolutions
Revolutions introduces the exciting, sometimes brutal, world of women’s roller derby, a non-traditional sport that is gaining popularity but still operates well outside the sporting mainstream. Director Laura McGann followed a number of women over four years as they commit... Read More
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Cardboard Gangsters
John Connors plays Jay Connolly, a part-time DJ and low-level drug dealer living in Darndale, an area rife with gangland violence, drugs and social problems. When his welfare payments are cut off, he decides it’s time to start dealing more... Read More
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Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect
Still working at the age of 95, Pritzker Prize-winning Irish-American architect Kevin Roche is an enigma. He is at the very top of his profession but has little interest in fame or fortune. Roche’s architectural philosophy is that “the responsibility... Read More
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A Cambodian Spring
An intimate portrait of three people caught up in the chaotic and often violent developments shaping modern-day Cambodia.
Shot by BAFTA-nominated Irish director Chris Kelly over six years, the film charts the gradual politicisation of two young mothers and one Buddhist monk,... Read More
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Condemned to Remember
Bergen-Belsen survivor Tomi Reichental has embarked on a lifelong quest to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive so that its horrors will never be repeated. Now Tomi symbolically celebrates his 80th birthday in a Dublin mosque and embarks on... Read More
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The Farthest
Emer Reynolds’s enthralling documentary details NASA’s ambitious Voyager program which, in 1977, launched two probes whose original mission was to study the outermost planets of the Solar System, but went on to become the first human-created object to enter interstellar... Read More
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Butterfly City
The Lithuanian town of Visaginas is just forty years old but already it faces an uncertain future.
Created to service a nuclear power plant which showcased the wonders of Soviet technology to the West, the city floundered with its closure following the disintegration of the USSR. The inhabitants,... Read More
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Loving Lorna
Caring for horses gives purpose and joy to Lorna, a 17-year-old living in the Dublin suburb of Ballymun.
A fiercely capable and determined young woman, she has her heart set on becoming a farrier, traditionally a male preserve. Her unemployed father, who shares her love of horses,... Read More
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Pilgrimage
Cistercian monk Brother Geraldus (Stanley Weber) arrives on the shores of early-13th century Ireland with the aim of obtaining a religious relic of great significance from a remote community of fellow monks.
His ultimate goal is to present the object... Read More
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In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America
Exploring the decades-long campaign by Nobel Prize winner John Hume to secure peace in Northern Ireland, Maurice Fitzpatrick reveals how Hume, inspired by Martin Luther King and rising from the riot-torn streets of Northern Ireland, enlisted an army of heavy-weight... Read More
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It Tolls for Thee
Irishwoman Mary Elmes (1908-2002) is a remarkable unsung heroine who saved hundreds of children from the horrors of the Spanish Civil War and from the concentration camps of World War II.
In a film narrated by Winona Ryder, Andrew Gallimore pieces together the jigsaw of her... Read More
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The Drummer and the Keeper
Drummer Gabriel (Dermot Murphy), recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder, is forced to curb his erratic behaviour when his therapist changes his medication and insists he join a special football team.
When he meets goalkeeper Christopher (Jacob McCarthy), a 17-year-old with... Read More
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Rocky Ros Muc
Seán Mannion, a talented boxer from the quiet Gaeltacht village of Ros Muc, Co Galway, left Ireland for Boston in the 1970s and rose to the heights of New York’s Madison Square Gardens where, in October 1984, he fought for the WBA light middleweight crown.
This... Read More
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Writing Home
Successful author Daniel Doran enjoys a luxurious but vacuous London lifestyle funded by a string of international bestsellers of dubious merit.
When his estranged father falls ill, he reluctantly returns home to the Irish village of Darlingford where he faces... Read More
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IFI International: November 2017
3rd – 4th November // IrishFest Atlanta // Atlanta, USA
4th November // How Green is the Emerald Isle? // University of St Thomas in Minnesota, Center for Irish Studies // Atlantic // Minnesota, USA
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IFI International: October 2017
5th – 9th October // Irish Film Week, Oulu // The Summit, Mairead Farrell : Unfinished Conversation, My Name Is Emily, Brooklyn, The Sea // Oulu, Finland
6th – 8th October // Irish Film Festival, Bangkok... Read More
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IFI International: September 2017
13th, 14th, 17th, 21st September // Semana de Irlanda de Zaragoza // Eden, His and Hers, Newsreel Programme, 1916: The Irish Rebellion // Zaragoza, Spain
21st – 23rd September // Irish Film Festival, San Francisco // A... Read More
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IFI International: August 2017
17th – 20th August // Irish Focus at the Festival Hviezdne noci Bytča // The Dead Man of ARAN, Young Cassidy, The Quiet Man, Poitín, Irish Destiny, My Left Foot, Sing Street, The Secret of Kells, Adam and Paul, A Date... Read More
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IFI International: June 2017
9th – 30th June // A Celebration of James Joyce // Ulysses, Bloom // Vilnius, Lithuania
16th June // Centre Culturel Irlandais // Bloom // Paris, France
22nd June // Irish Film London ‘Irish Film Makers Meet... Read More
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Talking to My Father
Modern architecture in Ireland reached a high point in the early ’60s and one of its most celebrated figures was Robin Walker. Robin studied under Le Corbusier and later worked alongside Mies van der Rohe in Chicago. His return to... Read More
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Cowboys and Angels
Set in Limerick City, Cowboys and Angels explores the alienation of Shane Bulter (Michael Legge), a young adult who moves away from home for the first time. His introverted personality is transformed by his outgoing, gay roommate Vincent (Allen Leech),... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME OCTOBER 2011: DOUBLE BILL
Join us for FREE screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office when visiting.
DEBUT: A continuing strand showing first works by established filmmakers.
PROGRAMME 1: ALAN GILSENAN Alan Gilsenan... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME OCTOBER 2011: PROGRAMME 2
Join us for FREE screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office when visiting.
DEBUT: A continuing strand showing first works by established filmmakers.
PROGRAMME 2: THADDEUS O’SULLIVAN Programme 2... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME SEPTEMBER 2011: PROGRAMME 1
Join us for FREE screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office when visiting.
DEBUT: This month sees the beginning of a new strand showcasing first films from established filmmakers.
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME SEPTEMBER 2011: PROGRAMME 2
Join us for FREE screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office when visiting.
DEBUT: This month sees the beginning of a new strand showcasing first films from established filmmakers.
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME SEPTEMBER 2011: DOUBLE BILL
Join us for FREE screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office when visiting.
DEBUT: This month sees the beginning of a new strand showcasing first films from established filmmakers.
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME AUGUST 2011: PROGRAMME 1
Join us for FREE screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive (please see calendar for screening times). Simply collect your free tickets at the IFI box office. Our August programme presents public information films designed to promote health... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME AUGUST 2011: PROGRAMME 2
Join us for FREE screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive (please see calendar for screening times). Simply collect your free tickets at the IFI box office. Our August programme presents public information films designed to promote health... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME JULY 2011: PROGRAMME 1
LOOK UP! IT’S AER LINGUS
Join us for free lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your FREE tickets at IFI Box Office (two programmes alternate daily throughout July).
This month we celebrate Aer Lingus’... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME JULY 2011: PROGRAMME 2
LOOK UP! IT’S AER LINGUS
Join us for free lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your FREE tickets at IFI Box Office (two programmes alternate daily throughout July).
This month we celebrate Aer Lingus’... Read More
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UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES
This film was released 1st December 2010, and is no longer screening.
A man comes home to his tamarind and honey farm in Northeast Thailand to die, confident that he will be reincarnated because he can recall past lives, including... Read More
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CUTTER’S WAY
This film screened 22nd February 2010.
EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI
If ever a movie deserved the moniker ‘neglected classic’, it’s this one. Pitched somewhere between Chinatown and Hamlet no, really! this adaptation of Newton Thornburg’s classic counter-culture novel Cutter... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME JUNE 2011: PROGRAMME 1
Join us for free screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive (please see calendar for times). Simply collect your free tickets at the IFI Box Office when visiting.
June’s programme continues our annual Joycean celebration with two films... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME JUNE 2011: PROGRAMME 2
Join us for free screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive (please see calendar for times). Simply collect your free tickets at the IFI Box Office when visiting.
June’s programme continues our annual Joycean celebration with two films... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME APRIL 2011: PROGRAMME 1
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME
Join us for free screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive (please see calendar for dates and times). Simply collect your FREE tickets at the IFI Box Office when visiting.
PROGRAMME 1: HONEYMOON IN IRELAND
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME APRIL 2011: PROGRAMME 2
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME
Join us for free screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive (please see calendar for dates and times). Simply collect your FREE tickets at the IFI Box Office when visiting.
PROGRAMME 2: TIDE ON THE... Read More
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THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
This film screened 7th February 2010.
EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI
The pinnacle of former critic Peter Bogdanovich’s directorial career, this evocative portrait of idling lives in early 1950s’ small-town America is a far more grown-up offering than almost anything from today’s... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME MAY 2011: PROGRAMME 1
Join us for free screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive (please see calendar for dates and times). Simply collect your FREE tickets at the IFI Box Office when visiting.
As we prepare for Obama’s flying visit to... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME MAY 2011: PROGRAMME 2
Join us for free screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive (please see calendar for dates and times). Simply collect your FREE tickets at the IFI Box Office when visiting.
As we prepare for Obama’s flying visit to... Read More
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JDIFF: IFB SHORTS
This event screened 19th February 2010.
The Irish Film Board, in association with Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, presents a selection of the very best short films from Irish filmmakers. With stories ranging in geographic scope from post-WWII France to... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME MARCH 2011: PROGRAMME 1
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME
Join us for free screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive (please see calendar for dates and times). Simply collect your tickets at IFI Box Office when visiting.
This month we present a programme of... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME MARCH 2011: PROGRAMME 2
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME
Join us for free screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive (please see calendar for dates and times). Simply collect your tickets at IFI Box Office when visiting.
This month we present a programme of... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME FEBRUARY 2011: PROGRAMME 1
Join us for FREE screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive (please see calendar on pages 4 and 5 for dates and times). Simply collect your free tickets at the IFI Box Office.
This month we present Love... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME FEBRUARY 2011: PROGRAMME 2
Join us for FREE screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive (please see calendar on pages 4 and 5 for dates and times). Simply collect your free tickets at the IFI Box Office.
This month we present Love... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME JANUARY 2011: PROGRAMME 1
Join us for FREE screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive (please see calendar on pages 4 & 5 for dates and times). Simply collect your free tickets at the IFI Box Office.
This month we present Island... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME JANUARY 2011: PROGRAMME 2
Join us for FREE screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive (please see calendar on pages 4 & 5 for dates and times). Simply collect your free tickets at the IFI Box Office.
This month we present Island... Read More
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OF GODS AND MEN
This film was released 3rd December 2010, and is no longer screening.
A group of French monks in Algeria’s Atlas Mountains find their faith put to the test when the 1990s Islamic terror campaign threatens their remote community in this... Read More
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BLACK NARCISSUS
This film screened 5th December 2010.
For Powell and Pressburger, after their run of topical original stories, this melodrama about nuns in the Himalayas, based on Rumer Godden’s novel, was a bold change of direction; the image of one of... Read More
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NEUKÖLLN UNLIMITED
This film screened 8th December 2010.
Lial, Hassan and Maradona Akkouch are talented dancers and musicians who have lived in the Berlin district of Neukolln since early childhood, but the family’s residency status is still unresolved and they live in... Read More
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EXILE FAMILY MOVIE
This film screened 9th December 2010.
A film about home and exile for an extended Persian family, many of whom have emigrated and more of whom have stayed at home. They decide to meet again after 20 years in Mecca,... Read More
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WELCOME TO SHELBYVILLE
This film screened 9th December 2010.
Longtime African-American and white residents in the heart of America’s Bible belt struggle to integrate with a growing Latino population and recently-arrived Somali refugees of Muslim faith. Set on the eve of the 2008... Read More
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SHE, A CHINESE
This film screened 10th December 2010.
Mei is an enigmatic young Chinese woman whose longing for a different life takes her from her Chinese village to England. Drifting and rootless yet learning more about herself all the time, we sense... Read More
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RETURN TO HANSALA
This film screened 11th December 2010.
After identifying the body of her brother, who has, like so many illegal immigrants before him, drowned on Spanish shores, Moroccan immigrant Leila decides to bring his body back to her parents in Morocco.... Read More
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THE ARRIVALS
This film screened 11th December 2010.
Social workers Caroline and Colette are at the front line in dealing with the non-stop arrival of asylum seekers to France. Two very different women, they respond in distinctive ways to the often overwhelming... Read More
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THE RED SHOES
This film screened 11th & 12th December 2010.
No ballet film before this had been so ambitious either in its casting (headed by A-list dancers in Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann and Leonide Massine) or in its spectacular staging. The Red... Read More
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IRELAND ON SUNDAY: STAND UP: BEST FRIEND
This film screened 12th December 2010.
Ireland on Sunday is our monthly showcase for new Irish Film.
Made as part of a campaign by LGBT youth service BelongTo, Stand Up: Best Friend features a series of interviews with LGBT individuals... Read More
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PEEPING TOM
This film was released 17th December 2010, and is no longer screening.
When Peeping Tom was first released in 1960, one not untypical critical response was that it should be ‘shovelled up and flushed down the nearest sewer’. The controversy... Read More
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BOUDU SAVED FROM DROWNING
This film was released 17th December 2010, and is no longer screening.
This restored version of Jean Renoir’s timeless social satire offers a welcome reminder how the greatest films never grow old. When an impeccably right-on Paris bookseller selflessly jumps... Read More
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MEET JOHN DOE
This film screened 18th December 2010.
A tramp (Gary Cooper) is hired to embody the frustrations of the common man in a publicity stunt concocted by a desperate reporter (Barbara Stanwyck). Quickly becoming a national hero, he starts to believe... Read More
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GONE TO EARTH
This film screened 19th December 2010.
The break with Rank over The Red Shoes drove Powell and Pressburger back into the seductive embrace of Alexander Korda, who had brought them together in 1938 and who was now, after years in... Read More
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ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
This film screened 19th December 2010.
‘Insanity runs in the family,’ confesses a theatre critic (Cary Grant) to his new bride (Priscilla Lane), adding, ‘in fact, it practically gallops.’ He is thinking primarily of his two aunts, who are in... Read More
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THE TALES OF HOFFMANN
This film screened 19th December 2010.
‘I remembered other European films of magic and fantasy, and my imagination took wings’: this is how Powell recalled The Tales of Hoffmann in part two of his compelling autobiography, Million Dollar Movie. Made... Read More
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ALL GOOD CHILDREN
This film was released 27th December 2010, and is no longer screening.
IFI IRISH SHORTS This screening will include Tom Merilion’s IFB-funded dance short Flatbed. 3 minutes, 2010, Colour.
This highly atmospheric first feature by Alicia Duffy was inspired by... Read More
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OH . . . ROSALINDA!!
This film screened 27th December 2010.
Here is an unmissable chance to catch the least seen but by no means least interesting of the Powell-Pressburger collaborations: the second exclamation mark of the title is no misprint, but a pointer to... Read More
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THE WAY BACK
This film was released 27th December 2010, and is no longer screening.
With a track record including Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli and The Truman Show, any new film from director Peter Weir is an event. His mature, exacting artistry... Read More
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THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER
This film was released 27th December 2010, and is no longer screening.
RE-RELEASE
Made between the more famous Ninotchka (1939) and To Be or Not to Be (1942), and now re-released, this is director Ernst Lubitsch’s supreme romantic comedy, a... Read More
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AGE OF CONSENT
This film screened 28th December 2010.
After the anti-climax of two late-’50s war films, the Powell-Pressburger partnership went into amicable abeyance. Powell’s solo British career was brought to an end by the critical and commercial failure both of Peeping Tom... Read More
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WILD STRAWBERRIES: BLARNEY/ IRELAND’S BORDER LINE
This film screened 29th December 2010.
Wild Strawberries is our bimonthly film club for the over 55s. Please note there will be no screening on December 31st.
What better way to ring out the old year than with a few... Read More
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IFI FAMILY: THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA
This film screened 29th December 2010.
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE
C.S. Lewis’ classic story tells the adventures of the Pevensie children in the snow-covered land of Narnia, after they make their magical way... Read More
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IFI FAMILY: THE MARCH OF THE PENGUINS
This film screened 30th December 2010.
One of the most loved documentaries of recent years, the ‘penguin film’ traces the miles-long journey across ice of the Emperor penguins to their breeding ground in Antarctica. For Happy Feet and nature fans... Read More
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THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNETS’ NEST
This film was released 1st December 2010, and is no longer screening.
This final, riveting instalment of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy finds bisexual Goth hacker Lisbeth Salander under heavy police guard in a hospital room, nursing the bullet wounds inflicted... Read More
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MERCI POUR LE CHOCOLAT
This film screened 4th December 2010.
The late filmmaker, Claude Chabrol, is in fine form here with this tale of suspense and quiet terror, deliciously dark and bitter like the chocolate it features. Isabelle Huppert is chocolatier, Mika, whose second... Read More
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WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
This film screened 5th December 2010.
Roald Dahl’s delicious story was first brought to life on the big screen with Gene Wilder in the title role as the reclusive factory owner who offers five children a tour of his factory... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME DECEMBER 2010: PROGRAMME 1
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME
Join us for FREE screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive (please see calendar for dates and times on pages 4 & 5). Simply collect your free tickets at the IFI Box Office.
This month... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME DECEMBER 2010: PROGRAMME 2
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME
Join us for FREE screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive (please see calendar for dates and times on pages 4 & 5). Simply collect your free tickets at the IFI Box Office.
This month... Read More
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THE BITTER TEA OF GENERAL YEN
This film screened 2nd December 2010.
Capra made no bones about this film: it was intended to win him an Oscar. The subject-matter was suitably daring: about the growing attraction between an American missionary in revolutionary Shanghai (Barbara Stanwyck) and... Read More
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THE PIPE: ROSSPORT AND THE CORRIB GAS PROJECT
This film screened 4th December 2010.
Director Risteard O Domhnaill, who has spent five years filming the people of Rossport and their response to the Corrib Gas Project, will be joined by Terence Conway (Shell to Sea), John Monaghan (Pobol... Read More
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THE PIPE: POLITICS and FILM
This film screened 11th December 2010.
One of the issues The Pipe raises is the role art and filmmaking can play within a political campaign and The Pipe’s producer Rachel Lysaght will be joined by filmmakers and artists, including Seamus... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME NOVEMBER 2010: PROGRAMME 1
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME
Join us for FREE screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive every Monday and Wednesday at 13.10. Simply collect your free ticket at the IFI Box Office.
Sign up for a special tour of the... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME NOVEMBER 2010: PROGRAMME 2
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME
Join us for FREE screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive every Monday and Wednesday at 13.10. Simply collect your free ticket at the IFI Box Office.
Sign up for a special tour of the... Read More
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THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
By 1937, Powell had been working in British cinema for ten years: in minor capacities for Hitchcock, and then as director of low-budget ‘quota quickies’, films made in response to legislation that countered Hollywood dominance by forcing cinemas to show... Read More
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WE ARE WHAT WE ARE
This film was released 1st December 2010, and is no longer screening.
This arresting Mexican debut delivers both visceral horror and moral fable in its portrait of a family whose survival rests on picking off the weakest in society. It’s... Read More
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UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES
This film was released 1st December 2010, and is no longer screening.
Winning this year’s Cannes Palme d’Or marked the final confirmation of longtime critics’ favourite Apichatpong Weerasethakul among world cinema’s most mesmerising talents.’ A beautiful, strange dream’ was jury... Read More
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UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES
This film was released 1st December 2010, and is no longer screening.
We’re pleased to host the Irish premiere of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, winner of the Palme d’or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. This... Read More
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I’M STILL HERE (2010)
Industry observers were taken aback when actor Joaquin Phoenix, seemingly on top of his game after the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, announced he was giving up acting and turning to music instead. An artist in turmoil, or was... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME OCTOBER 2010: Programme 1
Join us for FREE daily screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your free ticket at the IFI Box Office.
This month a two-part programme will be presented on alternating days.
IRELAND: The Tear and The... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME OCTOBER 2010: Programme 2
Join us for FREE daily screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your free ticket at the IFI Box Office.
This month a two-part programme will be presented on alternating days.
IRELAND: The Tear and The... Read More
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WILD STRAWBERRIES: THE LAST STATION
This film screened in February 2010.
Wild Strawberries is our bimonthly film club for the over 55s.
A beautiful, finely-acted film about Tolstoy and his wife during his later years. The writer of novels (Christoper Plummer in great, whiskered form)... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME SEPTEMBER 2010: PROGRAMME 1
Join us for FREE daily screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive in this timely Back to School programme. Simply collect your free ticket at the IFI Box Office when visiting.
PROGRAMME 1: AMHARC EIREANN PICTIuIRI LE PAISTI... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME SEPTEMBER 2010: PROGRAMME 2
Join us for FREE daily screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive in this timely Back to School programme. Simply collect your free ticket at the IFI Box Office when visiting.
PROGRAMME 2: AMHARC EIREANN : CuRSAI OSTAN... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME JULY 2010: PROGRAMME 1
We’re all going on our summer holidays!
Join us every Monday and Wednesday for free lunchtime screenings of short films from the IFI Film Archive collections.
PROGRAMME 1: AMHARC EIREANN COMPILATION Stories from Gael Linn’s newsreel showing holiday camps for... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME JULY 2010: PROGRAMME 2
We’re all going on our summer holidays!
Join us every Monday and Wednesday for free lunchtime screenings of short films from the IFI Film Archive collections.
PROGRAMME 2: BUTLINS MOSNEY WEEKLY NEWSREEL Jolly scenes from the very early days of... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME JULY 2010: PROGRAMMES 1 & 2
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME
We’re all going on our summer holidays!
Join us every Monday and Wednesday for free lunchtime screenings of short films from the IFI Film Archive collections.
PROGRAMME 1: AMHARC EIREANN COMPILATION Stories from Gael Linn’s newsreel showing... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME AUGUST 2010: Programme 1
Seaside Fun from North and South
Due to popular demand, this free series of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive collections will now screen alternating programmes DAILY at 13.10. Simply collect your free ticket from the IFI Box Office.
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EASY RIDER
This film screened 14th & 15th February 2010.
Bob Rafelson was one of the producers of the late Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider, which became a film industry milestone and a statement of the Zeitgeist of ‘going to look for America’... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME AUGUST 2010: Programme 2
Seaside Fun from North and South
Due to popular demand, this free series of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive collections will now screen alternating programmes DAILY at 13.10. Simply collect your free ticket from the IFI Box Office.
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME JUNE 2010: PROGRAMME 1 & 2
Join us every Monday and Wednesday for free lunchtime screenings of short films from the IFI Irish Film Archive collections.
Throughout June (and with a double bill on Bloomsday, June 16th) we celebrate the work of James Joyce with two... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME MAY 2010: Double Bill
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: Double Bill PROGRAMME 1: AMHARC EIREANN: TEARNAMH AS POLIO This short film produced by Gael Linn shows fundraising and therapeutic work in the early days of the Central Remedial Clinic, then in Goatstown, Co. Dublin. Directed by... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME JUNE 2010: PROGRAMME 1
Join us every Monday and Wednesday for free lunchtime screenings of short films from the IFI Irish Film Archive collections.
Throughout June (and with a double bill on Bloomsday, June 16th) we celebrate the work of James Joyce with two... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME JUNE 2010: PROGRAMME 2
Join us every Monday and Wednesday for free lunchtime screenings of short films from the IFI Irish Film Archive collections.
Throughout June (and with a double bill on Bloomsday, June 16th) we celebrate the work of James Joyce with two... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME MAY 2010: PROGRAMME 1
Join us every Monday and Wednesday for free lunchtime screenings of short films from the IFI Irish Film Archive collections.
PROGRAMME 1: AMHARC EIREANN: TEARNAMH AS POLIO This short film produced by Gael Linn shows fundraising and therapeutic work in... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME MAY 2010: PROGRAMME 2
Join us every Monday and Wednesday for free lunchtime screenings of short films from the IFI Irish Film Archive collections.
PROGRAMME 2: CLUBS ARE TRUMPS (1959) Made at the request of Augustinian Fr. James McGrath to raise funds for Our... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME APRIL 2010: PROGRAMME 1
This new series of free lunchtime screenings is drawn from the IFI Irish Film Archive collections.
All programmes are free and under a half hour in length making this a perfect way to spend your lunch hour. This month’s programmes... Read More
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DORIAN GRAY (2009)
This film screened 5th April 2010.
Oliver Parker (St Trinians, The Importance of Being Earnest) directs a ravishing cast in a new adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece. Dorian Gray, played by Ben Barnes (The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian) is... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME APRIL 2010: PROGRAMME 2
This new series of free lunchtime screenings is drawn from the IFI Irish Film Archive collections.
All programmes are free and under a half hour in length making this a perfect way to spend your lunch hour. This month’s programmes... Read More
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THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
This film screened 10th April 2010.
This excellent adaptation of Wilde’s infamous novel is littered with characters of blurred sexuality and undescribed vice. Director Albert Lewin’s complex blend of Griffithian nightmare and moralising merges with a near-expressionist vision of Dorian’s... Read More
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SHADOW OF A DOUBT
This film screened in April 2010.
‘The stronger the villain, the stronger the film’ was a formula that Hitchcock liked to repeat, and Joseph Cotten as ‘Uncle Charlie’, soon revealed as a serial killer of wealthy widows, is his strongest... Read More
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CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH
This film was released 16th April 2010 and is no longer screening.
More than seven decades later, a sense of outrage still burns in China over the so-called ‘Rape of Nanking’. This impassioned fresco recreates the dark days of 1937,... Read More
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SPELLBOUND
This film screened in April 2010.
‘Will he kiss me or kill me?’ was the original poster tagline for Spellbound, showing an apprehensive Ingrid Bergman in the arms of a preoccupied Gregory Peck, who is holding Bergman with one hand... Read More
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STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
This film screened in April 2010.
Misleadingly hailed at the time as a ‘return to form’ by critics unimpressed with the merits of its more experimental predecessors, Rope and Under Capricorn, Strangers on a Train did mark a reassuring return... Read More
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NT LIVE: THE HABIT OF ART
This event screened 22nd April 2010.
A NEW PLAY BY ALAN BENNETT The Habit of Art, a new play by Alan Bennett, marks the third screening in our NT Live series, a new initiative to broadcast live performances of National... Read More
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LA DANSE: THE PARIS OPERA BALLET
This film was released 30th April 2010 and is no longer screening.
From the talent and application of individual dancers and choreographers to the infrastructure of a venerable Parisian institution, this expansive portrait surveys the totality of presenting world-class ballet... Read More
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LIFE DURING WARTIME
This film was released 23rd April 2010 and is no longer screening.
Eleven years on from that masterpiece of comic unease Happiness, Todd Solondz revisits the same characters repairing their shattered lives in his latest rueful report on American manners... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME APRIL 2010: PROGRAMMES 1 & 2 (DOUBLE BILL)
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME
This new series of free lunchtime screenings is drawn from the IFI Irish Film Archive collections.
All programmes are free and under a half hour in length making this a perfect way to spend your lunch hour.... Read More
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IRELAND ON SUNDAY: TONIGHT IS CANCELLED
This film screened 26th April 2010.
Ireland on Sunday is our monthly showcase for new Irish film. An opportunity for Dublin audiences to see the first feature from talented Irish director Brendan Grant. Tonight is Cancelled, produced by Fastnet Films... Read More
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IFI FAMILY: PONYO
This film screened 25th April 2010.
IFI FAMILY Our monthly screening, bringing you and your young film fans some of the best family films from around the world.
Japanese master animator Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film, so popular when previewed at... Read More
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WILD STRAWBERRIES: AN EDUCATION
This film screened 28th & 30th April 2010.
Wild Strawberries is our bimonthly film club for the over 55s. Combine the memoir of highly-regarded and ironic journalist Lynn Barber, the adaptation skills and wit of novelist Nick Hornby (About a... Read More
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FAMILY PLOT
This film screened in April 2010.
Although many critics, including Robin Wood, considered Hitchcock’s final film to be a minor if pleasant entertainment, Jonathan Rosenbaum thought it one of the director’s finest. ‘Unlike Hitchcock’s other late films (Torn Curtain, Topaz... Read More
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NIGHTWATCHING
This film was released 30th April 2010 and is no longer screening.
In creating his greatest large-scale work, the painter Rembrandt may have sown the seeds of his own fall from prosperity by taking on the powerful Amsterdam establishment. That’s... Read More
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ART THROUGH A LENS: THE BATTLE OF ORGREAVE
This film screened 2nd March 2010.
IRISH PREMIERE Mike Figgis’ film of Jeremy Deller’s The Battle of Orgreave Run in conjunction with NCAD, this session focuses on contemporary artists whose work is directly informed by different genres of filmmaking such... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME MARCH 2010: IRELAND IN SPRING
This new series of free lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive allows audiences to explore the remarkable collections of shorter films.
All programmes are free and under a half hour in length making this a perfect... Read More
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IRELAND AT THE OSCARS®
This event screened 3rd March 2010.
The Secret of Kells: 75 mins, Ireland, 2009, Colour The Door: 17 mins, Ireland, 2008, Colour Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty: 6 mins, Ireland, 2008, Colour
Join us for a last chance to view Ireland’s... Read More
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THE FATHER OF MY CHILDREN
This film was released 12th March 2010, and is no longer screening.
What starts as a tribute to a hero of the European art film becomes an affecting meditation on the pursuit of happiness in this hauntingly beautiful offering from... Read More
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ESSENTIAL CINEMA: OUT OF THE PAST
This film screened 8th March 2010.
For the month of March, in conjunction with the National Film School at IADT, we are showing four classic Hollywood films that are essential viewing for any film fan. Tom Kennedy of IADT will... Read More
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STRANGER THAN FICTION: THE WHITE STRIPES UNDER GREAT NORTHERN LIGHTS
This film screened 11th March 2010.
IRISH PREMIERE We’re delighted to present the Irish premiere of The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights. In the Summer of 2007 The White Stripes set out on an unusual tour; visiting every... Read More
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THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
This film was released 12th March 2010 and is no longer screening.
IFI STUDENTS Special discounted screening for third level students on Mar 22nd, 8.00. Tickets 5.
For fans of Wallander, this shockingly gruesome crime thriller plays like an epic... Read More
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THE FADING LIGHT
This film was released 12th March 2010 and is no longer screening.
A study of a family in crisis, Ivan Kavanagh’s fifth feature is an intense affair, by turns touching, fierce and chilling. Returning home to their widowed and dying... Read More
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IFI FAMILY: FLIGHT OF THE DOVES
This film screened 14th March 2010.
Our monthly screening, bringing you and your young film fans some of the best family films from around the world.
This month’s family screening, in celebration of St. Patrick’s Festival, is Flight of the... Read More
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ESSENTIAL CINEMA: BONNIE AND CLYDE
This film screened 15th March 2010.
For the month of March, in conjunction with the National Film School at IADT, we are showing four classic Hollywood films that are essential viewing for any film fan. Tom Kennedy of IADT will... Read More
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THE SCOUTING BOOK FOR BOYS
This film was released 19th March 2010 and is no longer screening.
More growing pains for This Is England and Somers Town star Thomas Turgoose in this vivid rites of passage tale set in an out-of-season English caravan park. His... Read More
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EVANGELION 1.11
This film screened 20th March 2010.
For ages 12+
Tokyo-3 still stands after most of civilization was decimated in the Second Impact. Now the city endures the ceaseless onslaught of the deadly Angels, bizarre creatures bent on eradicating the human... Read More
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EVANGELION 2.0
This film screened 20th March 2010.
IRISH PREMIERE For ages 12+ The second film in the Evangelion saga sees the aftermath of Shinji’s initial forays into piloting one of several giant robots known as Evangelion. The city continues to endure... Read More
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SUMMER WARS
This film screened 21st March 2010.
IRISH PREMIERE For all ages Summer Wars is the captivating and spectacular new animated feature from Mamoru Hosoda, director of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. Millions are addicted to the vast online world... Read More
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GUNDAM UNICORN & BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE DOUBLE BILL
This film screened 21st March 2010.
For ages 15+
Gundam Unicorn (2010) The year is U.C. 0096. Three years have passed since the end of the Second Neo Zeon War. It is said that the Vist Foundation manipulates both the... Read More
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THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME
This film screened 21st March 2010.
For ages 12+
What would you do if you could ‘leap’ backward through time? When tomboyish 17 year old Makoto Konno gains this ability after an accident in her high school chemistry lab, she... Read More
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ESSENTIAL CINEMA: THE SEARCHERS
This film screened 22nd March 2010.
For the month of March, in conjunction with the National Film School at IADT, we are showing four classic Hollywood films that are essential viewing for any film fan. Tom Kennedy of IADT will... Read More
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WILD STRAWBERRIES: THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE
This film screened 24th & 26th March 2010.
Wild Strawberries, our bimonthly film club for the over 55s. Despite having John Travolta and Denzel Washington in the leading roles, the 2009 remake of the subway hijack drama hadn’t a patch... Read More
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LION’S DEN
This film was released 26th March 2010 and is no longer screening.
Forget all those cliches about women-in-prison movies, this Argentine saga of motherhood behind bars tells a story of resilience and hope rather than repression and exploitation. Martina Gusman’s... Read More
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NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT PERSIAN CATS
This film was released 26th March 2010 and is no longer screening.
This undercover portrait of rock musicians in Tehran is both a courageous statement of artistic liberty and scintillating cinema in its own right.
Stymied by delays in getting... Read More
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IRELAND ON SUNDAY: THE REMARKABLE PRODUCTIONS OF ANDREW LEGGE
This film screened 28th March 2010.
FILM INFO: The Unusual Inventions of Henry Cavendish: 15 minutes, 2005, Black and White The Chronoscope: 20 minutes, 2009, Black and White
Ireland on Sunday, our monthly showcase for new Irish film.
Perhaps the... Read More
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DOUBLE TAKE
This film was released 2nd April 2010 and is no longer screening.
Zapping from Hitchcock to his real-life double, from JFK to Khrushchev, from Cold War paranoia to vintage coffee adverts, this provocative and witty celluloid collage is quite unlike... Read More
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SAMSON & DELILAH
This film was released 2nd April 2010 and is no longer screening.
IFI TEEN SCREEN Special Samson & Delilah screening for our monthly film club (age 15-18). April 21st, 4.30. Email teenscreen@irishfilm.ie for more information.
In its native Australia, Warwick... Read More
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JDIFF: THE BEHOLDER
This film screened 21st February 2010.
The making of a portrait is an intimate experience, one which can be a pleasurable event for both parties or one that’s fraught with difficulties. Either way, to paint someone’s picture is a unique... Read More
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JDIFF: OUTLIVING DRACULA
This film screened 23rd February 2010.
LE FANU’S CARMILLA ? Irish writer J.S. Le Fanu’s creation, the female vampire Carmilla, has established a fascinating lineage through filmic adaptations, arguably inspiring a more radical and transgressive creative wellspring than her literary... Read More
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JDIFF SEMINAR
This film screened 23rd February 2010.
Ireland On Screen Tues 23 Feb / IFI 3 / 5.00pm
From the Wind that Shakes the Barley to Once, from The Quiet Man to Leap Year, there have been very different images of... Read More
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WILD STRAWBERRIES: SLEEP FURIOUSLY
This film screened 24th & 28th February 2010.
Wild Strawberries, our bimonthly film club for the over 55s.
Described by John Banville as ‘simply a masterpiece’, Gideon Koppel’s enthralling documentary is set in Treufeurig, a hill-farming community in mid-Wales, a... Read More
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JDIFF: THE FADING LIGHT
This film screened 24th February 2010.
Featured Cast: Valene Kane, Patrick O’Donnell, Bibbi Larsson, Emma Eliza Regan.? With his previous feature, Our Wonderful Home (shown in JDIFF 2009), Ivan Kavanagh proved to be an acute observer of the fissures and... Read More
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THE FISHER KING?
This film screened 25th February 2010.
After the debacle of Baron Munchausen, Terry Gilliam took on his first project as director-for-hire, and made a triumph of this modern-day fairy-tale, blending madness, murder, and quixotic romanticism. Jeff Bridges grounds the proceedings... Read More
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JDIFF: IVUL
This film screened 29th February 2010.
Principal Cast: Aurelia Petit, Jean-Luc Bideau, Adelaide Leroux, Jacob Auzanneau. Filmmaker, artist and wild man of British cinema Andrew Kotting reinvents himself in French as a Franco-Swiss filmmaker with this intimate and... Read More
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JDIFF: CHILD OF THE DEAD END
This film screened 25th February 2010.
With his customary grace and skill, acclaimed Irish documentary maker Desmond Bell has mixed early cinema archive film and new material to retrace the story of navvy poet, novelist, dramatist and screenwriter Patrick?MacGill. Born... Read More
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THE BIG LEBOWSKI
This film screened 28th February 2010.
Still a major cult movie, The Big Lebowski is the Coen brothers’ funniest creation and probably the film for which Jeff Bridges is now best known. Jeffrey Lebowski (Bridges), aka the Dude, is a... Read More
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BEYOND THE FIRE
This film screened 28th February 2010.
Ireland on Sunday, our monthly showcase for new Irish film.
Beyond the Fire is a feature film by London-based Irish filmmaker Maeve Murphy in which a former Catholic priest (Scot Williams), recently released from... Read More
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THE RED BALLOON
This film screened 28th February 2010.
Our family film for February is this classic Oscar-winning French film. Mostly without dialogue (ideal for those who are unsure about subtitles!) the 34-minute film tells the story of a young boy, Pascal, who... Read More
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KENNETHANGER: PROGRAMME THREE
This event screened 27th February 2010.
INVOCATION OF MY DEMON BROTHER RABBIT’S MOON LUCIFER RISING
In 1967, the footage for Anger’s magnum opus Lucifer Rising was stolen by Anger’s Lucifer, Bobby Beausoleil, who was later convicted for his participation in... Read More
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THE NATIONAL FILM SCHOOL/IADT @ 25
This event screened 19th February 2010.
To celebrate a quarter of a century of the teaching of filmmaking in Dun Laoghaire, the JDIFF is delighted to present a selection of its live action graduate films. Beginning in the academic year... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME MARCH 2010: HAIL GLORIOUS ST. PATRICK
This new series of free lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive allows audiences to explore the remarkable collections of shorter films.
All programmes are free and under a half hour in length making this a perfect... Read More
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ESSENTIAL CINEMA: THE ROARING TWENTIES
This film screened 1st March 2010.
For the month of March, in conjunction with the National Film School at IADT, we are showing four classic Hollywood films that are essential viewing for any film fan. Tom Kennedy of IADT will... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME JANUARY 2010: CIALL CHEANNAIGH & LIFFEY FACES
DOUBLE BILL
A new series of lunchtime screenings of short films from the IFI Irish Film Archive provides new access to the vast collection of its shorter films professional and amateur, educational and informational, travelogues, sports films and dramas... Read More
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LATE AUTUMN
This film screened 29th January 2010.
RE-RELEASE Made late in his career, this 1960 production shows Ozu’s sensibility at its most playful and yet somehow serious. Not untypically for the director, it turns around the question of marriage: Yoko Tsukasa... Read More
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THE QUEEN OF SPADES
This film screened 29th January 2010.
The late 1940s marked a high point for British cinema, which had developed a new confidence under the pressures of war. Dickinson’s version of Pushkin’s story, out of circulation for decades but now handsomely... Read More
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READ MY LIPS
This film screened 30th January 2010.
Jacques Audiard has a fascination with life’s underdogs and the ingenious means they employ to overcome their lowly status. The heroine of Read My Lips is downtrodden office secretary Carla (Emmanuelle Devos), who suffers... Read More
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THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG
This film screened 30th January 2010.
Many cinema memories begin with Walt Disney Animation Studios. Join us for a complimentary preview of their latest film, the Golden Globe nominated The Princess and the Frog (with thanks to Disney), a joyous... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME FEBRUARY 2010: IRISH GOSSAMER
This new series of free screenings from the IFI Irish Film Archive presents a wide range of material from the collections of shorter fiction and non-fiction film, which provides a unique insight into Irish society. The programmes are free and... Read More
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THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
This film screened 12th February 2010.
The pinnacle of former critic Peter Bogdanovich’s directorial career, this evocative portrait of idling lives in 1950s small-town America is a far more piercing and grown-up offering than the bulk of today’s Hollywood output.... Read More
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THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT
This film screened 13th February 2010.
In The Deer Hunter, Michael Cimino created an unforgettable portrait of the stresses and strains of male loyalty, but his directorial debut shapes a no less well-observed portrait of rutting manhood in the form... Read More
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A SINGLE MAN
This film was released 12th February 2010, and is no longer screening.
The finest performance of Colin Firth’s career illuminates this affecting adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s early ’60s novel about an English professor adrift in Los Angeles after the loss... Read More
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LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN
This film was re-released 12th February 2010, and is no longer screening.
Increasingly recognised as one of cinema’s greatest stylists, German-born Max Ophuls made films in France and the U.S., and died at 55 in 1957 after completing Lola Montes.... Read More
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HOLLYWOOD COWBOY
This film screened 13th February 2010.
An underrated gem, Howard Zieff’s delightful 1975 comedy proved an ideal vehicle for Jeff Bridges, utilising to the full his winning combination of youthful innocence and unforced charm. He plays a country hick with... Read More
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EASY RIDER
This film screened 14th & 15th February 2010.
Re-released in a new 35mm print that does justice to its outstanding visuals and inspired soundtrack, Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider(1969) became famous as one of those film industry milestones that could be... Read More
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THE FABULOUS BAKER BOYS
This film screened 18th February 2010.
The Bridges boys are cannily cast in this perceptive character drama about a jobbing piano duo on the supper-club circuit, with Beau the steady, serious one in frequent conflict with Jeff, his loose-cannon sibling.... Read More
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JAGGED EDGE
This film screened 19th February 2010.
A courtroom thriller in the classic mould, this teaser from the pen of Joe Basic Instinct Eszterhas is constructed with old-fashioned respect for the audience’s intelligence. When a rich socialite is brutally murdered, prime... Read More
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THE LAST STATION
This film was released 19th February 2010, and is no longer screening.
A stellar cast and genuinely fascinating subject matter make this fictionalised account of the final days of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy an engrossing watch. Since the... Read More
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CRAZY HEART
This film was released 19th February 2010, and is no longer screening.
IFI TEEN SCREEN Special Crazy Heart screening for our monthly teen film club (age 15-18). For more information text your name to 085 1737232.
In a career spanning... Read More
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THE HEADLESS WOMAN
This film was released 19th February 2010, and is no longer screening.
Argentine writer-director Lucrecia Martel, long-regarded among the most promising new voices in world cinema, takes a significant step forward with this exquisitely rendered cinematic puzzle. Produced by Pedro... Read More
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KENNETHANGER: PROGRAMME ONE
This event screened 20th February 2010.
FIREWORKS PUCE MOMENT RABBIT’S MOON EAUX D’ARTIFICE
Shot when the filmmaker was just seventeen, Fireworks (1947, 20 minutes) remains a landmark of both experimental and gay cinema, a homo-erotic dream within a dream in... Read More
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KENNETHANGER: PROGRAMME TWO
This event screened 21st February 2010.
INAUGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS SCORPIO RISING
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954) is directly inspired by the life and teachings of the notorious occultist Aleister Crowley: its dense, multi-layered imagery... Read More
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IFB MUSICALS
This event screened 20th February 2010.
New mini musicals from the Irish Film Board’s Short Shorts scheme.
The Man In 301 (Director: David Freyne), Separation’s Agency (Director: Shane Martin), Moore Street Masala (Director: David O’Sullivan), Dental Breakdown (Director: Ian Power),... Read More
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CUTTER’S WAY
This film screened 25th February 2010.
Perhaps the most shamefully neglected masterpiece of 1980s American cinema, this complex and compelling modern film noir actually improves on its source material, Newton Thornburg’s fine post-Vietnam novel Cutter and Bone. Whereas the novel... Read More
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NOWHERE BOY
This film was released 26th December 2010, and is no longer screening.
Before Mark Chapman, before Yoko, before The Beatles, there was a John Lennon we hardly know: the Liverpool teenager (believably played by newcomer Aaron Johnston) who went to... Read More
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TOKYO STORY
This film screened 2nd January 2010.
Not without reason did Japanese critics recently vote Ozu’s family drama their nation’s greatest ever cinematic achievement. There’s a sense of inevitability and rightness in this ostensibly ordinary story about elderly parents visiting their... Read More
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EARLY SPRING
This film screened 2nd & 3rd January 2010.
This multi-character drama intently dissects the fortunes of the generation which served in or survived the war, then spent the 1950s trying to settle down to family life and white-collar jobs. It’s... Read More
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DEPARTURES
This film was released 2nd January 2010, and is no longer screening.
Winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, director Yojiro Takita’s drama conjures an arresting story from unlikely subject matter: the travails of a cash-strapped cellist who takes... Read More
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AN AUTUMNAFTERNOON
This film screened 4th January 2010.
Ozu’s last film is a piercing meditation on a man’s twilight years. Chishu Ryu, the elderly father in Tokyo Story, is just as extraordinary here as a widower who’s grown too used to having... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME JANUARY 2010: LIFFEY FACES
A new series of lunchtime screenings of short films from the IFI Irish Film Archive provides new access to the vast collection of its shorter films professional and amateur, educational and informational, travelogues, sports films and dramas all... Read More
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ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME JANUARY 2010: CIALL CHEANNAIGH
A new series of lunchtime screenings of short films from the IFI Irish Film Archive provides new access to the vast collection of its shorter films professional and amateur, educational and informational, travelogues, sports films and dramas all... Read More
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IT MIGHTGET LOUD
This film was released 8th January 2010, and is no longer screening.
The electric guitar isn’t so much an instrument, more of a calling in this affectionate triple-portrait of rock royalty Led Zeppelin’s legendary Jimmy Page, U2’s very own... Read More
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TREELESS MOUNTAIN
This film was released 8th January 2010, and is no longer screening.
The fortunes of two little Korean girls, seven-year-old Bin and her younger sister Jin, dumped with relatives when their mum heads off to find their errant father, become... Read More
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IRELAND ON SUNDAY: HAPPINESS AND FEAR
This film screened 18th January 2010.
Ireland on Sunday, our monthly showcase for new Irish film.This programme presents two half-hour experimental shorts, one about happiness and one about fear. In each, director Conor Horgan presents a captivatingly broad range of... Read More
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STILL WALKING
This film was released 15th January 2010, and is no longer screening.
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s previous work (After Life, Nobody Knows) has been impressive, but this family drama is so wise and true that it affirms his position at the forefront... Read More
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THE ARSENAL STADIUM MYSTERY & GASLIGHT
This film screened 16th & 17th January 2010.
THE ARSENAL STADIUM MYSTERY 84 minutes, U.K., 1940, ?Black and White, 35mm
Who, with any sporting interest, could resist a film with this title? It refers, of course, to the famous ‘marble... Read More
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FLOATING WEEDS
This film screened 16th January 2010.
Arguably the most pictorially beautiful of Ozu’s films, this hearty drama about a kabuki troupe on tour in a remote coastal province packs more melodramatic punch than the familiar restrained Ozu fare. Ganjiro Nakamura... Read More
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THE END OF SUMMER
This film screened 17th January 2010.
A direct translation of the Japanese title, The Autumn of the Kohayagawa Clan, helps give a fuller idea of the tone of Ozu’s penultimate film. There is a sense that winter’s in the air... Read More
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SEE HOW THEY FALL
This film screened 23rd January 2010.
The moral ambivalence, playful approach to narrative and fascination with male identity that characterise Jacques Audiard’s later work are already evident in his first feature as director. Regarde les hommes tomber is ingeniously structured... Read More
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A SELF-MADE HERO
This film screened 24th January 2010.
This is the film that brought Jacques Audiard international recognition following its triumph at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. The most overtly satirical of his movies, it’s a wonderfully imaginative adaptation of the novel... Read More
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WILD STRAWBERRIES: GLORIOUS 39
This film screened 27th & 29th January 2010.
Wild Strawberries, our bimonthly film club for the over 55s.
Fans of Hitchcock, conspiracy thrillers or period dramas will enjoy this adventure set in London and Norfolk, 1939.
Glorious 39 stars Romola... Read More
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Wild Strawberries: REBECCA
This film screened in April 2010.
Wild Strawberries is our bi-monthly film club for older people, running on the last Wednesday and Friday of each month. Showing a range of films from contemporary to classic, we aim to provide a... Read More
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VIVRE SA VIE
This is a previous screening of VIVRE SA VIE. Click here for the IFI French Fesitval 2022 screening.
If you want an instance of the singular magic worked by a director and actress in perfect synch, look no further... Read More
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THE BIG LEBOWSKI
This film screened 28th February 2010.
AFTER THE FAIRLY TRADITIONAL NARRATIVE THAT WAS FARGO, THE BIG LEBOWSKI REPRESENTED SOMETHING OF A RETURN TO THE MADCAP COMIC STYLE OF RAISING ARIZONA. Its central protagonist is an amalgam of some lovably eccentric... Read More
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PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME
THIS FILM SCREENED ON WEDNESDAY 10th OCTOBER 2011.
This screen adaptation of Brian Friel’s masterpiece, which premiered at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 1964, features remarkable performances from Donal McCann in the lead and Des Cave as his troubled alter-ego.... Read More
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INLAND EMPIRE
Shot with a $3,000 video camera, this three-hour opus is a compendium of Lynchian obsessions and motifs.
In her Hollywood mansion, fading star Nikki Grace (Laura Dern) receives a surprise visit from a new neighbour (Grace Zabriskie). In a strong... Read More
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BOUDU SAVED FROM DROWNING
This film was released 17th December 2010, and is no longer screening.
One of Renoir’s best loved films, Boudu celebrates the battle of the human spirit against the stifling aspects of bourgeois civilisation. Boudu, incarnated by the shambling, shaggy beast... Read More
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Fellini Satyricon
Based on fragments of a novel from the court of Nero, this story of two students and their ownership of a boy is a celebration of Roman decadence. Visionary, phantasmagoric, at times vulgar and, by the way, often tenderly gay,... Read More
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Days of being wild
An idiosyncratic reinvention of Hong Kong in 1960, centred on the figure of a jaded playboy (Leslie Cheung) who toys with the affections and fates of everyone around him and then disappears to Manila to look for his motheror perhaps... Read More
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As tears go by
For his directorial debut, Wong came up with a (fully scripted!) riff on Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets. Andy Lau plays the two-bit punk torn between romancing the innocent-but-ailing Ngor (Maggie Cheung) and trying to keep his hopelessly self-destructive buddy Fly... Read More
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SONG FOR A RAGGY BOY
In 1939,Franklin is appointed to St Jude ‘s Reformatory School as the only lay teacher amongst the Christian Brothers.He tries to build up a relationship based on trust with the boys,who are used to the verbal and physical abuse doled... Read More
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If I Should Fall From Grace
A moving,highly personal portrait of a rock icon.Shane MacGowan tells of his early problems with drink and drugs and his subsequent breakdown,his discovery of punk and the voice he found through music.IF I SHOULD FALL FROM GRACE includes interviews with... Read More
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Le Corbeau
Recently re-released in a superb new print, Henri-Georges Cluzot’s Le Corbeau has been one of the great unseen classics of French cinema. Now considered a masterpiece from a director with one of the bleakest visions of human nature in the... Read More
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In the Mood for Love
Wong Kar-Wai’s most delicate and erotic film to date is a memory piece that takes place in the lost world of early-60s Hong Kong. Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung play next-door neighbours who are attracted to each other at first... Read More
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Vivre sa vie
This is a previous screening of VIVRE SA VIE. Click here for the IFI French Fesitval 2022 screening.
If you want an instance of the singular magic worked by a director and actress in perfect sync, look no further than... Read More
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Chungking Express
Wong Kar-Wai’s dazzling Chungking Express is probably the most exciting film we’ll see all year and has already had audiences in raptures after its Dublin Film Festival preview. Radiating kinetic energy and humour from every memorable frame, it’s a quirky... Read More
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Careers in Film and Media Open Day
Interested in learning more about courses in film? To respond to the many requests we get each term about opportunities for studying film at third level, we are holding a Careers Day for students. Representatives from the major colleges will... Read More
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The Outcasts
Set in rural, pre-famine Ireland, a time when poverty and magic were accepted as facts of life, this is the haunting tale of a young girl’s discovery of her own powers through a ‘a wild, ungodly man’ and the passage... Read More
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In the Mood for Love
Echoing David Lean’s Brief Encounter with its tale of soul-mates teetering on the brink of an impossible affair, In the Mood for Love is beautifully orchestrated, supremely stylish and hypnotically executed. Displaying a masterly command of colour, composition and music,... Read More
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Lost Highway
David Lynch’s first film in nearly five years, Lost Highway is the director’s darkest, most dream-like and mysterious work since Eraserhead. As a painter who moved into feature film-making (‘to make my paintings move,’ he once said), Lynch has never... Read More
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The Cry of Granuaile
A grieving American filmmaker (Dale Dickey) and her Irish assistant (Judith Roddy) tour the west of Ireland, researching a film about Granuaile, the legendary 16th century rebel and ‘pirate queen’. The women develop an uneasy intimacy as they journey towards... Read More
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