IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL 2021

The IFI Family Festival is back, August 27th to 29th!

Our annual three days of fun and film for ages 4-12 will look a bit different this year. With socially-distant seating and child-friendly precautions, you can feel safe with your family in our venue and enjoy some of the best new films from around the world on the big screen. With help from RTÉ Home School Hub’s Emer and Ray, we’ll also have a mix of virtual and live activities. So grab your goodie bag and take your seats, it’s time to enjoy the sights and sounds of cinema again at IFI.

Read our festival brochure with our full film lineup here.

Read about our Covid Safety Precautions here.

IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL 2021: AINBO – SPIRIT OF THE AMAZON

Age recommendation: 5+ Enjoy the spirit of the Amazon in this fun animated feature about young Ainbo and her spirit guides, Dillo, the armadillo and oversized tapir, Vac. With her…

Friday 27th Aug 2021 17.30 Saturday 28th Aug 2021 15.00

IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL 2021: SHORT TALES 1

Age recommendation: 4+ Your youngest film fans will love this animated collection, mostly dialogue free and with all kinds of creatures, fierce and friendly! There’s a ladder-climbing fish, a fly…

Saturday 28th Aug 2021 11.00

IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL 2021: SHORT TALES 2

Age recommendation: 8+ A fantastic mix of live action and animations for older viewers, featuring healing stones from Hawaii, a polar bear against the northern lights; two French warrior bands,…

Saturday 28th Aug 2021 13.00

IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL 2021: LOS LOBOS

Age recommendation: 11+ This wonderfully moving migrant family tale from Mexico combines drama with magic, innocence, and poetry to yield a wonderful story of hope. Lucia and her two sons…

Saturday 28th Aug 2021 18.30

IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL 2021: ZOG + ZOG AND THE FLYING DOCTORS

Film classification: G Get your dragon wings on for these adaptations of the much-loved stories of accident-prone Zog and his flying adventures. Magic Light Pictures bring Zog to the big…

Sunday 29th Aug 2021 11.00

IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL 2021: MEZQUITE’S HEART

Age recommendation: 8+ How to mend a broken heart? Lucia is a young girl of the indigenous Yorume people in Mexico, whose harpist father has not gotten over his wife’s…

Sunday 29th Aug 2021 13.00

IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL 2021: POUPELLE OF CHIMNEY TOWN

Age recommendation: 10+ The story of young Lubicchi who lives among the thick smoke from the chimneys of his isolated town, yearning to see the “stars” his father always told…

Sunday 29th Aug 2021 16.15