Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 24/11/2024

  • 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

    More

    BOOK NOW Times: 15:30

  • BIRD

    Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank, American Honey) brings her trademark visual energy and uncanny ability to elicit stunning performances from young actors to this typically bustling coming-of-age story that sees the director introduce a touch of magic realism to her gritty... Read More

    More

    BOOK NOW Times: 11:10

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL – IFI FAMILY: SAUVAGES

    From Claude Barra, the director of the memorable, award-winning stop motion, Ma Vie de Courgette, comes this gorgeous environmental-themed fable, set in the rain forest of Borneo, a lush, fertile land, where nature and the life of the indigenous Penan... Read More

    More

    BOOK NOW Times: 11.00

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: AGATHA AND THE LIMITLESS READINGS

    An adult sister and brother, played by Bulle Ogier and Yann Andréa (Duras’s partner at the time), united by a forbidden love, meet in a vacant seaside villa bathed in a cold winter light. Overlooking the deserted beach and incessant... Read More

    More

    BOOK NOW Times: 14.10

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: BEING MARIA

    Jessica Palud takes a sensitive, post-#MeToo look at the life of actress Maria Schneider (played by Anamaria Vartolomei), who made her name at the age of 19 in 1973 in Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris, starring Marlon Brando (Matt Dillon).... Read More

    More

    BOOK NOW Times: 15.10

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: JIM’S STORY

    The Larrieu brothers (21 Nights with Pattie) have made films together for over 25 years. Adapting Pierric Bailly’s titular novel, Jim’s Story begins one evening when Aymeric (Karim Leklou) runs into former work colleague Florence (Laetitia Dosch) in the town... Read More

    More

    BOOK NOW Times: 17.30

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: MARCELLO MIO

    Actress Chiara Mastroianni, daughter of cinema legends Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve, sees her father’s face transposed onto hers in the mirror one night. Auditioning for a new project, director Nicole Garcia tells her that she should be more Mastroianni... Read More

    More

    BOOK NOW Times: 19.50

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: SCÉNARIOS + EXPOSÉ DU FILM ANNONCE DU FILM ‘SCÉNARIO’

    At the time of Godard’s assisted death on 13 September 2022, he had been working on his final feature, Scénario, but in the days before this, Godard instructed his assistants Jean-Paul Battaggia and Fabrice Aragno to complete the feature in... Read More

    More

    BOOK NOW Times: 12.10

  • FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: SOULEYMANE’S STORY

    The precarious life of an undocumented migrant is vividly brought to life in Boris Lojkine’s clear-eyed, compassionate and quietly devastating third film. Souleymane (Abou Sangaré), a bike courier navigating deliveries through the frenetic Paris traffic, is two days away from... Read More

    More

    BOOK NOW Times: 13.00

  • 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

    More

    BOOK NOW Times: 13:40, 18:20

  • 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

    More

    BOOK NOW Times: 16:20, 18:30

  • 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

    More

    BOOK NOW Times: 20:10

  • 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

    More

    BOOK NOW Times: 20:40

Programme


The IFI is supported
by The Arts Council

Arts Council of Ireland