Irish Film Institute -

WHAT'S ON - 13/12/2025

  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: COLD COMFORT (DOUBLE BILL)

    Join us this December for FREE lunchtime screenings on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets online (with a small booking fee) or at IFI Box Office.

    PROGRAMME ONE 

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.10

  • BLUE MOON

    Before Rodgers and Hammerstein, there was Rodgers and Hart. March 31st, 1943: legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke in one of his finest performances) sees his professional and private life unravel during the opening night party for his former partner... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 18.50

  • BUGONIA

    Teddy (Jesse Plemons) and his cousin Don (Aidan Delbis) are preparing to kidnap Michelle (Emma Stone), the CEO of a local pharmaceutical company, for which Teddy works as a box packer, an audacious ploy that if successful will save both... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 17.30 (35mm)

  • DIE MY LOVE

    Jennifer Lawrence positively burns up the screen as Grace, a mother experiencing post-partum depression in Lynne Ramsay’s intoxicating fifth film. With Die My Love, which Ramsay adapted with co-writers Alice Birch and Enda Walsh from the 2012 novel by Ariana Harwicz,... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 11.00

  • HAMNET: FROM PAGE TO SCREEN

    IN CONVERSATION WITH CHLOÉ ZHAO AND MAGGIE O’FARRELL. HOSTED BY RICK O’SHEA.

    Hamnet screenwriter and director Chloé Zhao and Hamnet author and film co-writer Maggie O’Farrell will come together at the Irish Film Institute on Saturday December 13th for an... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.30

  • HORSESHOE

    Four estranged siblings return home to the West of Ireland after the death of their father where they attempt to navigate inheritance, grief, and long-buried grudges. All are at a crossroads in their lives and could do with the support,... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 16.50

  • IFI KINOPOLIS: HOME SWEET HOME

    A peerless chronicler of the ills of Polish society, Wojciech Smarzowski turns his fierce gaze on relationships of coercive control and domestic violence. Vivacious, luminous Gosia (Agata Turkot) meets recently divorced politician Grzesiek (Tomasz Schuchardt) on a dating site. When... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 17.20

  • IFI KINOPOLIS: THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT

    We celebrate the centenary of one of the great Polish directors with this screening of one of his best-known films. The work of Wojciech Has is famed for its rich, often surreal imagery, a characteristic very much in evidence in... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 13.30

  • IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT

    The titular mishap is the catalyst for an escalating series of unfortunate occurrences in Jafar Panahi’s latest broadside against the Iranian government.

    A man is driving at night with his pregnant wife when he accidentally runs over a dog, damaging... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 20.55

  • IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE

    SCREENING FROM 12th DECEMBER 2025.

    A film to warm even the coldest of hearts, It’s A Wonderful Life returns to IFI screens for Christmas. James Stewart is at his most likeable as George Bailey, loyal family man and friend... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 14.10

  • PILLION

    An unassuming young man has his head turned in spectacular fashion by a charismatic biker with an interest in extreme role-play in Harry Lighton’s erotically charged debut. Colin (Harry Melling) still lives at home, and although out as a gay... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 11.45, 20.10

  • SUNSET BOULEVARD (75th ANNIVERSARY RE-RELEASE)

    Faded silent film star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) resides in Miss Havisham-esque seclusion, planning her comeback (though she hates that word) in an industry that has left her behind. When struggling screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) happens upon Norma’s mansion... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 11.00

  • THE SHINING (45th ANNIVERSARY)

    SCREENING FROM 12th DECEMBER 2025.

    The best adaptation of Stephen King’s work, regardless of what the author himself thinks, The Shining is set in the snowy Colorado Rockies, where author and recovering alcoholic Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) acts as... Read More

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    BOOK NOW Times: 19.50


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