Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 23/11/2024

  • ANORA

    Mikey Madison is a revelation as charismatic sex worker Anora in Sean Baker’s wildly entertaining, frenetically paced comedy. Ani, as she prefers to be called, meets Ivan (Mark Eydelshteyn), the son of a Russian oligarch, in a New York strip... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20:20

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: FRENCH CONNECTIONS (DOUBLE BILL)

    FRENCH CONNECTIONS

    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.

    Whetting appetites for the IFI French Film Festival we... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 12:10

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: A WOMAN OF PARIS

    Having built his career as both an actor and director of silent cinema, Chaplin confounded audiences when he followed up his first feature, The Kid, with a serious melodrama, A Woman of Paris. Applauded by the press but rejected by... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 12.00

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: BEATING HEARTS

    Gilles Lellouche’s epic drama, adapted from Irish writer Neville Thompson’s 1997 Dublin-set novel Jackie Loves Johnser, OK?, explores the star-crossed romance between two teenagers, one a diligent student, the other a budding criminal, who are separated for a decade before being... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 19.50

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: LA MUSICA

    Moving behind the camera, Duras co-directed her first feature with Paul Seban, an adaptation of her 1965 play La Musica. Estranged couple (Robert Hossein and Delphine Seyrig) meet just after their divorce in the provincial town of Évreux, where they... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.00

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: NIKI + Q&A

    In this vibrant and moving biopic – actress Céline Sallette’s directorial debut – French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle (Charlotte Le Bon) leaves the US for Paris with husband, writer Harry Mathews (John Robinson), joining the Parisian art scene of... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.15

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: OUT OF SEASON

    OPENING NIGHT GALA SCREENING + RECEPTION

    Piano teacher Alice (Alba Rohrwacher) lives in a small seaside town. She and Mathieu (Guillaume Canet), a well-known actor living in Paris, have not seen each other since separating 15 years ago. They meet... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.50

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: STÉPHANE BRIZÉ IN CONVERSATION

    Writer and director Stéphane Brizé (1966, Rennes, France) moved to Paris to study drama and work as a television technician. His first feature, Le Bleu des villes, won the Michel Ornano prize at the Deauville American Film Festival 1999. Mademoiselle... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 12.30

  • 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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    BOOK NOW Times: 13:40, 18:30

  • 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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    BOOK NOW Times: 16:00, 18:10

  • 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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    BOOK NOW Times: 15:30

  • THE ROOM NEXT DOOR

    After years of being out of touch, old friends Martha (Tilda Swinton) and Ingrid (Julianne Moore) meet again in extreme yet poignant circumstances. Martha is terminally ill and has chosen to take her own life; she asks Ingrid to accompany... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20:30

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