JUNE 2025 AT THE IFI

May 27th, 2025: This June, the Irish Film Institute (IFI) offers up a jam-packed programme of carefully curated, thought-provoking and all-round entertaining film experiences. From highly-anticipated Irish and international releases, to a host of incredible special events, including our month-long season dedicated to the works of legendary icons Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo, a retrospective on renowned Austrian director Michael Haneke, the second edition of the Queer Spectrum Film Festival, and much, much more!

And remember, film buffs nationwide can explore a host of incredible Irish and world cinema from the comfort of the couch on IFI@Home, anywhere in the Republic of Ireland!

As the summer kicks off here at the IFI, we are already looking ahead with excitement for our festival season, which starts with a bang with IFI Family Festival in August. In anticipation of our celebration of all things non-fiction, IFI Documentary Festival, taking place Wednesday, September 24th to Sunday, September 28th, submissions for Irish feature documentaries are now open! Submission entry, guidelines and further information are available here, and the deadline for submitting is 18.00 on Friday, July 4th.

Tickets for new releases and special events are on sale from the IFI Box Office on (01) 6793477 and from www.ifi.ie, as per the IFI’s Weekly Schedule. Online rentals from IFI@Home are available at www.ifihome.ie.

ENDS.

For further information and high-res images, please contact Casey Hynes ([email protected]) at the IFI Press Office.

 

June Programme Highlights

IFI Seasons
Sunday 1st – Sunday 29th
This June, we’re excited to bring some of the greatest works featuring screen legends and rivals Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo back to the big screen! Starting in the final days of the Silent Era, our season of cinematic delights includes titles such as The Blue Angel, Anna Christie, Morocco, and Ninotchka, and highlights the full talents of these two beloved actresses.

This season has been supported by the Goethe-Institut Irland. Tickets and full season programme are available on the IFI website; season bundles available in-person or by phone at IFI Box Office.

Saturday 7th – Sunday 29th
Few contemporary filmmakers have interrogated modern life with the unflinching precision, moral clarity, and formal rigour of Michael Haneke. Known for his stark visual style, chilling precision, and provocative storytelling, the Austrian director holds a mirror to the darker corners of modern society. The films in this season challenge the viewer to engage with Haneke’s cinematic world, a stark, sometimes brutal, yet intellectually rich landscape where emotional comfort is rare, and easy answers are refused.

Tickets and full information for Complicit: The Films of Michael Haneke are available on the IFI website; season bundles available in-person or by phone at IFI Box Office, and are applicable to screenings of The Piano Teacher and Hidden. See below for more information on their re-releases. The works of Michael Haneke will be available to stream nationwide on IFI@Home from July – more information coming soon!

 

IFI Festivals
Friday 13th – Saturday 14th
This June, the IFI is delighted to welcome the Queer Spectrum Film Festival to our Eustace Street venue for the first time as they mark their second edition! This year’s line-up includes two incredible feature films: documentary Neirud, directed by Fernanda Faya and investigating the life of Brazilian wrestler Neirud, which opens the festival on Friday 13th, and drama Cactus Pears, directed by Rohan Kanawade and tenderly illustrating the bond formed between two men as one of them returns to his homeplace to mourn his father, which closes the festival on Saturday 14th. Across the second day of the festival, three incredible shorts programmes (Resilient Joy; Beyond The Known; Born Anew) will project onto the big screen to IFI audiences, examining a dearth of themes and showcasing truly beautiful, inspirational queer stories.

Tickets and full programming information are available now on the IFI website; season bundles available in-person or by phone at IFI Box Office.

 

IFI Regulars
Weekly, Monday, Wednesday & Saturday
This month’s Archive at Lunchtime programme, Mass Appeal, presents two short episodes from RTÉ television series Radharc, “A Church is Built” and “Churches for Our Children”, screening for free at lunchtime every day in June.

Sunday 4th
The IFI From The Vaults strand this month partners with the Bloomsday Film Festival to present A Volta Ciné Concert – a selection of seven short films that have been identified as having screened at the Volta Cinematograph (Ireland’s first dedicated cinema, once located on Mary Street, and managed by James Joyce himself), and are now preserved by the British Film Institute.

The programme will be introduced by Joycean scholar Dr Keith Williams (University of Dundee), and early cinema historian Dr Denis Condon (Maynooth University), with live piano accompaniment by Morgan Cooke.

Wednesday 18th
For this month’s The Bigger Picture, we screen Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci’s delectable celebration of Italian cooking Big Night, chosen and introduced by food writer and blogger Sian Conway, in association with Film in Dublin.

To mark the occasion, our own IFI Café Bar will offer a film-inspired Italian dish, available only on the night! Celebrate with us in style with our special Ticket & Meal Combo deal – only €29.50.

Monday 23rd
Continuing the IFI Irish Focus strand, the IFI is delighted to present Making Dust, a powerful portrait of the demolition in 2021 of the Church of the Annunciation in Finglas, once the second-largest Catholic Church in Ireland. The film is structured around an insightful essay by architectural historian Ellen Rowley, and features oral interviews with Finglas locals recorded at the site and in a nearby hairdresser’s. The screening will be followed by a conversation, moderated by Emmett Scanlon (Director, Irish Architecture Foundation), with director Fiona Hallinan, Ellen Rowley, and poet Paula Meehan, who came of age in Finglas.

Wednesday 25th & Friday 27th
Wild Strawberries, our monthly film club for over 55s, presents The Friend, directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel, and starring Naomi Watts.

Tickets are just €5.50 for IFI Members and €6.00 for non-members, and include a free tea or coffee!

Sunday 29th
This month’s IFI Family presents Fantastic Mr Fox, filmmaker and quirk-meister extraordinaire Wes Anderson’s stop-motion masterpiece. Tickets are just €7.00, with a Family of 4 ticket available for €23.00!

On the same day, the Mystery Matinée returns! Let us take the hassle out of choosing the movie. Grab a ticket, sink into your comfy cinema seat and prepare to enjoy a surprise film. Will it be a brand-new release hot off the presses, or a forgotten cult classic that you missed on the big screen? One thing’s for sure, it will always be a brilliant and unexpected piece of quality cinema, with tickets costing just €6.50 for IFI Members, and €7.00 for non-members.

 

IFI Special Events
Thursday 5th
The IFI is delighted to partner with the National College of Art and Design to present Whiteface. Based on found footage and featuring Candice Breitz in the guise of a series of white avatars, Whiteface observes the rising anxiety of white people as calls to dismantle white supremacy intensify across the globe.

This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Candice Breitz.

Wednesday 11th
In anticipation of this year’s IFI Kinopolis Polish Film Festival in December, the IFI is delighted to screen Scarborn, the winner of the top prize at the Gdynia Film Festival, and starring three of Polish cinema’s most established stars, Robert Więckiewicz, Jacek Braciak, and Agnieszka Grochowska. Set in 1794, the film takes a Tarantino-inspired approach to the story of Polish war hero Tadeusz Kościuszko.

This screening supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Dublin and co-produced by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the international cultural programme of the Polish Presidency of the EU Council.

Tuesday 17th
The IFI is delighted to welcome the aemi Touring Programme to our Eustace street venue in June. This eclectic programme of work, The Said and The Unsaid, features a wide set of pieces which collectively describe a variety of creative means of expression borne out of the necessity to speak, however indirectly. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers Frank Sweeney (Few Can See) and Jonathan O’Grady (In Search of the Forenaughts Longstone).

Monday 30th
IFI Spotlight returns for its second installation of the year on Monday 30th with discussion on the development of a film and television culture that is inclusive. This event, Reclaiming The Frame, will include a keynote address by Melanie Iredale, film curator, cine-activist, and Director of Reclaim The Frame – a charity (formerly known as Birds’ Eye View). Melanie will discuss the need to champion marginalised gender-led films, to build community for them, to advocate for equity in all film spaces and to create safer spaces within cinema exhibition.

This will be followed by a panel discussion, moderated by Roe McDermott (Film Editor, Hot Press; Columnist, Irish Times), with Dr Susan Liddy (Women in Film and Television, Catalyst Film Festival), David O’Mahony (IFI Head of Cinema Programming), Jennifer Davidson (Chair, Writers Guild of Ireland), and Kate McColgan (Head of Television, Screen Ireland) to discuss progress in implementation and success of Screen Ireland and other initiatives in achieving gender parity in film and television production and in increasing diversity in production and exhibition.Tickets are €15.00, and include a networking lunch.

Later that day, we present Masaki Kobayashi classic Kwaidan on our biggest screen! Irish Greek writer Lafcadio Hearn’s Japanese folk tales are the source of Kobayashi’s extraordinary portmanteau film, with exquisite hand-painted sets, luminous photography, lavish costumes, and abstract score combining to achieve the film’s singular atmosphere.

The screening will be introduced by Paul Murray, author of A Fantastic Journey: The Life and Literature of Lafcadio Hearn. Presented in partnership with the OPW whose Kwaidan: Encounters with Lafcadio Hearn exhibition is currently at Farmleigh Gallery.

 

Irish & International Film Releases
From Friday 6th
New documentary The Encampments chronicles the Columbia University Gaza Solidarity Encampments that began in April 2024; and Michael Haneke’s well-known The Piano Teacher which targets are not only the role pornography plays in modern life but also the terrible repression that can be engendered by a misplaced devotion to unattainable values as represented by classical music.

Are you an IFI Friend? Join us for our next IFI Cinema Club discussion after the screening of The Encampments at 18:30 on Tuesday 10th.

From Friday 13th
Pat O’Connor’s vivid Cal, a faithful adaptation of Bernard McLaverty’s novella which saw Helen Mirren win Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival for her performance; Daisy-May Hudson’s debut feature Lollipop, which follows a young mother as she confronts a bureaucratic system that seems designed to keep her from reclaiming her family; and Tornado, John McLean’s enigmatic and stylish film which follows a young Japanese woman setting off on a relentless chase for revenge across a rugged, windswept land.

From Friday 20th
Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later, the latest edition to his beloved post-apocalyptic franchise; and Michael Haneke’s Hidden, an ambiguous, claustrophobic which fuses repressed memories with the guilt and shame of a nation.

From Friday 27th
Andreas Dresen’s From Hilde, With Love, capturing the life and tragedies of anti-Nazi revolutionary Hilde Coppi; Akira Kurosawa’s classic Ran, re-releasing to mark its 40th anniversary; and Loren Taylor’s debut feature The Moon is Upside Down, a bittersweet triptych following three women struggling with their New Zealand lives.

 

IFI@Home
A world of incredible Irish and international cinema awaits in the IFI@Home library, with huge collections of classic and new films to rent and stream from the comfort of your couch. New releases and more available this June:

From June 2nd
Mark O’Connor’s Amongst The Wolves is set on the streets of Dublin, as Danny, a homeless man, tries to maintain contact with his young son despite opposition from his child’s mother.

From June 9th
Andres Veiel’s extraordinarily clear-eyed documentary Riefenstahl acknowledges all sides of German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl’s legacy, life, and ties to the Nazi party.

From June 16th
Karan Kandhari’s Sister Midnight, a genre-bending comedy about a frustrated newlywed who undergoes a strange transformation.

From June 30th
Emmanuel Courcol, director of The Big Hit (2022), delivers a warm, funny, and socially conscious crowd-pleaser with The Marching Band, which captures the tale of a successful orchestra conductor who discovers new family following a serious diagnosis.

 

IFI Film Shop
This June
Available at the IFI Film Shop this month are some very exciting limited edition Blu-ray releases, including Joseph Sargent’s 1974 masterclass in relentless suspense The Taking of Pelham One Two Three; Jacques Demy’s colourful classic The Umbrellas of Cherbourg; Peter Weir’s Witness, starring Harrison Ford; Sally Potter’s Orlando, adapted from Virginia Woolf’s classic novel, and starring Tilda Swinton; and Alex Proyas’s (The Crow) Dark City.

Coming later in the month is everyone’s favourite Cat, with Gints Zilbalodis’s Flow arriving on DVD and Blu-ray.

All this and more at the IFI Film Shop – in-person at the IFI in Temple Bar, and online worldwide!

IFI is principally funded by the Arts Council.