Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 18/05/2025

  • BLUE ROAD – THE EDNA O’BRIEN STORY

    In 1960, a young Irish woman named Edna O’Brien wrote The Country Girls, the first of a sexually-frank trilogy of novels. Though the books were banned in Ireland, O’Brien became an international literary sensation, gaining fame and notoriety through her... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16:10

  • DAVID LEAN: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (4K)

    Lean wanted to follow the action and adventure of Lawrence with something more intimate and romantic; the result was another epic, one that still holds a position in the top ten highest-grossing films ever made. Set in Russia (for which location shooting... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.30

  • E.1027: EILEEN GRAY AND THE HOUSE BY THE SEA

    A love triangle in the Parisian art scene of the 1930s is brought to life in this stylish docufiction about iconic Irish artist and architect Eileen Gray, who built her modernist dream house on the Riviera, only to be upstaged... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 11:00, 18:30

  • GOOD ONE

    17-year-old Sam (Lily Collias) is preparing to leave for a camping trip with her divorced father Chris (Lames Le Gros), and his best friend Matt (Danny McCarthy), whose son has elected to stay at home, making Sam the sole youngster.... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13:00, 20:30

  • IFI & OUTHOUSE – THE 34TH

    Joining with Outhouse LGBTQ+ Centre, we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the historic marriage equality referendum with a screening of this powerful film which follows the founders and members of the Marriage Equality campaign from Katherine Zappone and Ann Louise... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 15.00

  • MOTEL DESTINO

    On the run from the police and the gang he let down following a botched robbery, twenty-one-year-old Heraldo (Iago Xavier) seeks refuge at the Motel Destino, a neon-lit roadside sex hotel on Brazil’s north-eastern coast in Karim Aïnouz’s gripping erotic... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13:30

  • PARTHENOPE

    Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty) returns to Naples, the city of his birth, for this languorous, swooningly romantic chronicle of the eponymous Parthenope (Celeste Dalla Porta in her feature debut), born in 1950 and named after a siren in Homer’s Odyssey... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13:20

  • RIEFENSTAHL

    German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl has always been a divisive and ambiguous figure. Although she has been lauded as a filmmaker of note whose technical prowess and grasp of the medium pointed to a singular talent, it was these same abilities... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 17:45

  • THE MARCHING BAND

    Thibaut (Benjamin Lavernhe), an internationally renowned orchestra conductor, is diagnosed with leukaemia, and is in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant. His search for a donor leads him to discover that that he was adopted, a revelation that introduces... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 11:15, 20:40

  • THE WEDDING BANQUET

    Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend, Chris (Bowen Yang), and facing pressure to marry from his wealthy family (to whom he hasn’t yet come out), Min (Han Gi-chan), a queer Korean man living in the US, proposes a marriage of convenience... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20:10

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