On its release, it was always the IFI’s intention that The Master receive a screening here on 70mm. For reasons entirely beyond our control, it has taken until now for this to happen, but we are delighted to finally be... Read More
This film opens on April 22nd. Tickets will go on sale on Monday April 18th.
Robert Mapplethorpe died of AIDS in 1989; his life and work, which juxtaposed beautiful still life images and striking celebrity portraits with wilfully confrontational material,... Read More
MORE DUBLIN IN THE RARE OUL’ TIMES Join us for free screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive.
DOUBLE BILL: PROG 1 & 2 CLERY’S ADVERTISEMENT An advert enticing shoppers and diners to Clery’s, Dublin’s late lamented department... Read More
MORE DUBLIN IN THE RARE OUL’ TIMES Join us for free screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive.
PROGRAMME 2: SAFE CYCLING Liam O’Laoghaire’s humorous public information film urges caution while cycling. FILM INFO: 10 mins, 1949, Black and... Read More
MORE DUBLIN IN THE RARE OUL’ TIMES Join us for free screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. PROGRAMME 1 CLERY’S ADVERTISEMENT An advert enticing shoppers and diners to Clery’s, Dublin’s late lamented department store. FILM INFO: 3 mins, 1930s,... Read More
This film opens on April 29th. Tickets will go on sale on Monday April 25th. Tickets for the opening night screening +Q&A are available now.
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We’re delighted to welcome director Risteard O Domhnaill who will be joined... Read More
This film opens on April 15th. Tickets on sale now!
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God (Benoît Poelvoorde) lives in an apartment in Brussels; a mean-spirited curmudgeon in mangy pyjamas, he wreaks petty torments and large-scale disasters upon his subjects. His wife (Yolande... Read More
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
Our monthly Feast Your Eyes event when we screen Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan followed by a specially devised main course in the IFI Café Bar. (Click here for the main Dheepan event page.)
When a Tamil Tiger finds himself in a refugee camp... Read More
In this fresh coming-of-age drama, super-smart but socially awkward Emily (Evanna Lynch) is concerned when she doesn’t receive a birthday card from her loving but absent father. When she hooks up with fellow outcast Arden (George Webster) at her new... Read More
This film opens on April 22nd. Tickets will go on sale on Monday April 18th.
Three years have passed since the death of acclaimed war photographer Isabelle Reed (Isabelle Huppert) – her family, especially husband Gene (Gabriel Byrne), struggles to... Read More
This film opens on April 22nd. Tickets will go on sale on Monday April 18th.
By the late ‘70s Miles Davis (Don Cheadle) had become a borderline recluse, holed up in his New York apartment in a fug of drugs,... Read More
This film opens on Friday, April 15th. Tickets on sale now!
After learning of the death of their long-estranged father, grown-up sisters Sachi (Haruka Ayase), Yoshino (Masami Nagasawa) and Chika (Kaho) travel to attend his funeral where, for the first... Read More
This film opens on April 29th. Tickets will go on sale on Monday April 25th
Set in Auschwitz in 1944 and depicting a day in the life of a Jewish-Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando – a unit of prisoners charged... Read More
Wild Strawberries is our bi-monthly film club for over 55s.
Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander brings real emotional depth to this portrait of writer, pacifist and feminist Vera Brittain from her autobiography.
As a young woman, Vera sought and won a... Read More
Iconic American environmental pioneer Aldo Leopold believed the most challenging task for human inhabitants of the earth was “to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.”
In this feature documentary, Leopold’s biographer Curt Meine guides us through the life... Read More
Our monthly indulgent Sunday afternoon of brunch and a classic film.
This month’s Hangover Lounge complements the overall theme in April of how film of the past has imagined our future, and indeed in this context William Cameron Menzies’... Read More
In the 25th century sex and emotion are outlawed; the drug-controlled populace toil anonymously for an all-powerful and unseen leader. THX 1138 (Robert Duvall) is one such drone in a factory which makes the fearsome robotic police force that keeps... Read More
The year is 2022 and society is on the brink of collapse; runaway population growth has outstripped food resources, the oceans are dying and the greenhouse effect is raising temperatures across the globe.
The world’s population survives on rations produced... Read More
Throughout April at the IFI we are looking at films that have imagined a future, in conjunction with Science Gallery Dublin, and for IFI Family what could be more apt than the Pixar vision in WALL-E?
This waste-covered earth has... Read More
In the not-too-distant future, success and failure are determined at birth; the bio-engineered occupy the highest societal rungs, while the naturally born are destined to a life of menial labour.
Vincent (Ethan Hawke) was born the old-fashioned way, and as... Read More
Jan Benes, a brilliant scientist working in communist Russia, has discovered the technology to miniaturise objects, albeit briefly.
The CIA attempt to smuggle him across the Iron Curtain but an attack en route leaves him in a coma with a... Read More
This month’s Bigger Picture presentation, which argues for a film’s place within the canon, chimes with IFI’s Futures Past season throughout April, exploring how cinema of the past has imagined our future.
The screening will be introduced by Lynn Scarff,... Read More
Following Rome, Open City (1945) and Paisan (1946), Roberto Rossellini turned to the ruined city of Berlin to complete his trilogy of films exploring the destruction wrecked by World War II. A devastating portrait of an obliterated post-war Europe, Germany,... Read More
We are pleased to welcome artist Jesse Jones, Director of the Feminist Film Festival Karla Healion and IFI’s Alice Butler to take part in a panel discussion after the screening.
A key reference point for Jesse Jones in the development... Read More
Left to look after himself by his widowed father in their run-down shack in Woop Woop, Western Australia, 11-year-old Dylan discovers the art of folding paper planes. Motivated by his friends and a passion for flight that is shared by... Read More
The dystopian franchise The Hunger Games (based on the equally popular novels by Suzanne Collins) has been a phenomenon for teen audiences. Featuring Jennifer Lawrence in the leading role as the reluctant hero Katniss Everdeen, the trilogy has provided an... Read More
Arguably the most important playwright in the English language, Shakespeare lives today through his continued influence on culture, language and education. Anytime you ‘wear your heart on your sleeve’, or you use any of the numerous, quotable Shakespearean phrases, you... Read More
Elser
This gripping, tough drama is based on the true story of carpenter Georg Elser and his failed attempt to assassinate Hitler with a bomb that detonated 13 minutes too late. The film follows Elser’s arrest and brutal interrogation, while... Read More
What drives an entrepreneur? Is ruthlessness a necessary ingredient of being a top CEO? With a fast-paced script by Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) and directed by Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire), this gripping drama centres on three formative products in Jobs’... Read More
El laberinto del fauno
One of the most popular Spanish language films of recent years, this acclaimed combination of history and fantasy tells of Ofelia, a young girl living in the midst of Franco’s Spain. Sent with her expectant... 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
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