★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★★ The Upcoming
Bowie-esque rock star Marianne Lane (Tilda Swinton) is vacationing with her documentary filmmaker boyfriend Paul (Matthias Schoenaerts) on the Italian island of Pantelleria. She has undergone surgery on her vocal cords, and is forbidden... Read More
The first in a three-part programme that seeks to examine the possibilities of collectivism through a diverse selection of recent works, AEMI Projections presents Paris-based artist Marylène Negro’s X+, an intricate and provocative collage-work that combines material from ten key... Read More
Bord Scannán na hÉireann/The Irish Film Board Short Films
A programme of nine short films inspired by the subject of 1916 and what it has left in its wake, commissioned by the IFB. Programme includes fiction and non-fiction, live-action and... Read More
Following a screening of Howard Hawks’ 1940 screwball comedy His Girl Friday starring Cary Grant as sardonic newspaper editor Walter Burns and Rosalind Russell as his ex-wife and star reporter Hildy Johnson (originally written as a male role), a panel... Read More
★★★★★ Movies.ie ★★★★★ RTÉ Ten ★★★★★ The Guardian
Following the commercial failure of his directorial debut, Synecdoche, New York (2008), Charlie Kaufman, the brilliantly inventive writer of films such as Being John Malkovich (1999) and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004),... Read More
Join us for FREE lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. Please check here regularly for updated dates and times.
SEACHTAIN NA GAEILGE ABÚ!
Programme 2:
POBAL Louis... Read More
FREE EVENT This event is free but ticketed. Please book in person, by emailing boxoffice@irishfilm.ie or by calling 01 679 3477.
Free lunchtime screenings of four programmes of short 1916-related films from the IFI Irish Film Archive.
Programme 1: This... Read More
FREE EVENT This event is free but ticketed. Please book in person, by emailing boxoffice@irishfilm.ie or by calling 01 679 3477.
Free lunchtime screenings of four programmes of short 1916-related films from the IFI Irish Film Archive.
Programme 2: An... Read More
FREE EVENT This event is free but ticketed. Please book in person, by emailing boxoffice@irishfilm.ie or by calling 01 679 3477.
Free lunchtime screenings of four programmes of short 1916-related films from the IFI Irish Film Archive.
Programme 3: Eireville... Read More
FREE EVENT This event is free but ticketed. Please book in person, by emailing boxoffice@irishfilm.ie or by calling 01 679 3477.
Free lunchtime screenings of four programmes of short 1916-related films from the IFI Irish Film Archive.
Programme 4: Irland... Read More
★★★★★ Entertainment.ie
Another month, another revisionist western starring Kurt Russell; S. Craig Zahler’s striking debut feature is a confident twist on the classic frontier yarn. When cannibal savages kidnap a group of settlers from the town of Bright Hope, an... Read More
With a live solo performance of score by composer Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin.
We are delighted to present the premiere performance of Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin’s solo piano accompaniment to Irish Destiny – re-orchestrated to launch our 1916 Centenary programme. Irish Destiny... Read More
This film opens on March 25th. Tickets on sale now!
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India’s legal system comes under scrutiny in Chaitanya Tamhane’s remarkably assured and quietly angry debut feature. Narayan Kamble (Vira Sathidar) is a 65-year-old part-time educator and social... Read More
This film opens on March 25th. Tickets on sale now!
Vincent (Matthias Schoenaerts) is a young soldier recently returned from combat in Afghanistan. Aimless and suffering from acute post-traumatic stress disorder, he takes a job as a security guard for... Read More
One of the ‘first wave films’, set in 1970s Ballyfermot in the then new suburb of Dublin. A gang of boys plan a raid on an orchard in neighbouring territory. The Irish People called it “savage, sad, bitter, happy, tender,... Read More
Easter Sunday presentation of a ciné-concert featuring a programme of newsreels documenting events immediately preceding and following the Uprising in Dublin in 1916. This British, German, American and Irish newsreels in this short programme were presented in 1916 in cinemas... Read More
Join us on Mar 31st at 18.30 for our Feast your Eyes screening of Sing Street with a meal afterwards for just €20. Free list suspended. ‘Film only’ tickets not available.
For regular Sing Street screenings click here and open captioned... Read More
This film opens on March 4th. Tickets on sale now!
Produced by Ulrich Seidl, and Austria’s submission for the Best Foreign Language Film at this year’s Oscars, Goodnight Mommy is a stylish, tense, and thoroughly unnerving entry in the arthouse... Read More
Audio Description is available for all screenings of this film. Visit our Accessible Cinema page for more information.
Following a brace of films which saw the Coen Brothers adopt a more sombre perspective on life’s shortcomings,... Read More
★★★★★ The Independent
Audio Description (AD) will be available on all screenings.
Moving into an imposing brutalist skyscraper on the edge of an unnamed English metropolis, suave neurologist Laing (Tom Hiddleston) becomes enraptured by neighbouring occupants, particularly the building’s... Read More
There will be Open Captioned (OC) screenings on Mar 21st (18.15) and 29th (16.00).
Moving into an imposing brutalist skyscraper on the edge of an unnamed English metropolis, suave neurologist Laing (Tom Hiddleston) becomes enraptured by neighbouring occupants, particularly... Read More
This film opens on March 4th. Tickets on sale now!
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Fifty years ago French New Wave luminary François Truffaut published a monograph on director Alfred Hitchcock, the result of a week-long series of probing interviews with his idol.... Read More
This beautiful, award-winning animation from Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon is showing in conjunction with St. Patrick’s Festival.
After their mother’s disappearance, Ben and Saoirse are sent to live with their Granny in the city. When they resolve to return to their home... Read More
This screening is sold out.
On the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising, Telefís Éireann produced Insurrection, an eight-part drama that depicted the events of Easter Week 1916 as they might have been covered if television had existed. Insurrection has... Read More
This screening is sold out.
On the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising, Telefís Éireann produced Insurrection, an eight-part drama that depicted the events of Easter Week 1916 as they might have been covered if television had existed. Insurrection has... Read More
Join us for our focus on new Irish film and filmmakers.
We’re delighted to welcome the filmmakers to this event.
We are delighted to premiere seven of the short films commissioned by the Arts Council and TG4, in association with... Read More
★★★★★ The Irish Times
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Fifteen-year-old Jack (Charlie Plummer) doesn’t have many friends, lives in a rough part of town and is also in the middle of a heated feud with local bully Shane (Danny Flaherty). His home... Read More
★★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★ The Guardian
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Wealthy socialite Marguerite Dumont (Catherine Frot) lives for music; an amateur soprano, she loves nothing more than to host private recitals in her well-appointed home. She is, however, quite hopelessly... Read More
The IFI presents, in collaboration with St. Patricks Festival, a 20th-anniversary screening of Neil Jordan’s historical epic, Michael Collins in which Liam Neeson’s intelligently calibrated performance captures Collins’ seductive charisma and complexity, and Jordan’s direction brings startling ferocity to the... Read More
Donal Foreman’s acclaimed first feature proposes what recessionary Dublin might look like to a returned émigré. Twenty-something-year-old Fionn returns home and tries to reconnect with his friends, the city and the social scene.
The Irish Times’ film critic Tara Brady... Read More
Tickets €5
Film practitioners and historians will reflect on the Appraising the Uprising programme, exploring the value and veracity of representations of Irish history on film; the impact and purpose of different genres; the exhibition history and reception of historical... Read More
Brothers Gummi (Sigurður Sigurjónsson) and Kiddi (Theodór Júlíusson) haven’t spoken in 40 years. Both men are sheep farmers in the starkly beautiful Icelandic countryside; neighbours in a small community, they are rivals in all things, especially the annual hotly contested... Read More
★★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★★ Entertainment.ie
Adapted by Emma Donoghue from her own novel, Room tells the story of Ma (Brie Larson) and her five-year-old son Jack (Jacob Tremblay), who are being held captive by a man known only as Old... Read More
David Lean’s sumptuous Academy-Award-nominated film presents a tale of passion and small-town intrigue against a backdrop of the 1916 Rising in faraway Dublin. In the village of Kirrary, Co. Kerry, newly-wed Rosy (Sarah Miles) is dissatisfied with her marriage to... Read More
★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★★ Movies.ie ★★★★ RTÉ TEN
Audio Description (AD) will be available on all screenings.
With money tight in a boozy, middle-class 1980s Dublin household, youngest son Conor (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) is forced to transfer from his private school to... Read More
Open Captioned (OC) screenings of Sing Street will take place on Mar 23rd (16.10) and 30th (18.30).
★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★★ Movies.ie ★★★★ RTÉ TEN
With money tight in a boozy, middle-class 1980s Dublin household, youngest son Conor (Ferdia... Read More
The shocking revelations of clerical and institutional abuse of children have become a much-referenced theme in Irish film. This debut film feature casts the theme differently, avoiding sensation and challenging the viewer to accept a domestic context for the horrific... Read More
★★★★★ The Independent ★★★★★ Entertainment.ie ★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★ The Guardian
Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams and Mark Ruffalo, amongst others, excel in this gripping slow-burn procedural which observes the actions of the titular Boston Globe investigative reporting team, and its Pulitzer... Read More
Our monthly programme strand in which a key film is presented in the context of a notional film canon.
This month, The Bigger Picture turns to comedy, one of the most difficult and unfairly maligned of genres. Although they represented... Read More
This film opens on March 25th. Tickets on sale now!
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Four older men share an unassuming house in an isolated Chilean fishing village; cared for by a housekeeper, they live discrete, secluded lives, using their free time... Read More
Brunch + film €16; film only is normal IFI pricing. Sunday brunch is served 12pm – 4pm.
Our monthly indulgent Sunday afternoon of brunch and a classic film.
This month’s Hangover Lounge complements the release of Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise (see... Read More
FRIDAY & SATURDAY SOLD OUT. TICKETS SELLING FAST FOR MON-THURS!
The much-anticipated Roadshow Release of Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, exclusive to the IFI, pays homage to and recreates the grand exhibition style popularised in the ‘50s and ‘60s that brought... Read More
In the spring of 1916, hostility towards the British is brewing on the streets of Dublin. Nora Clitheroe (Barbara Stanwyk) tries in vain to keep her husband Jack (Preston Foster) from joining the rebel forces for fear he will die... Read More
This film opens on February 26th. Tickets on sale now!
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Spanish director Álvaro Longoria is granted exclusive access to North Korea to film in any location he wants, provided it is on a controlled, government-sanctioned route through the... Read More
Eminent filmmaker John Boorman will present his doppelgänger drama, which stars Brendan Gleeson as property tycoon Liam O’Leary. At the top of his game in prosperous Ireland, O’Leary is propelled into a downward spiral by the reappearance of his impoverished... Read More
Opening Night Event: Director Declan Recks will attend a post-screening Q&A hosted by Dr Harvey O Brien from UCD on February 26th at 6.30pm. Tickets on sale now!
In this provocative political thriller which deals with the complexities of post-Troubles Northern Ireland, diplomat Henry Stanfield (Roger... Read More
★★★★★ Irish Examiner ★★★★ The Irish Times
A family of settlers in 17th century New England are exiled from their village and forced to live in the outskirts of a foreboding forest. Their isolation from the community is total, and they... Read More
This witty and satirical look at 1950s Ireland, adapted from Louis D’Alton’s stage play, begins with a Black and Tans’ shooting. Years later, plans to erect a statue in honour of the dead soldier reveal some of the complexities of... Read More
Wild Strawberries is our bi-monthly film club for over 55s.
Wes Anderson’s award-winning film recounts the adventures of M. Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes) the owner of the Grand Budapest Hotel, and his lobby boy Zero Moustafa. Echoing the chaotic hotel... Read More
Though only loosely based on the early life of Sean O’Casey (renamed Johnny Cassidy), this colourful drama includes key historical moments from 1911 to the late 1920s – the 1913 Lockout, 1916 Rising, and the riots at the opening of... Read More
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