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FEBRUARY 2025 AT THE IFI 🌼
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This Christmas, give the gift of Cinema with the IFI!
The perfect present, an Irish Film Institute Gift Card, gives your friends and family something to look forward to whether they want to access the great films and events on at the IFI, purchase a gem in the IFI Film Shop, or relax over a meal in the IFI Café Bar.
IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: BLOCK PASS
Written by ChangYu Lee, IFI Youth Panel Member
IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: STÉPHANE BRIZÉ IN CONVERSATION THIS SATURDAY
The 25th annual IFI French Film Festival is in full swing and, as a top festival highlight, we're honoured to be welcoming Stéphane Brizé this Saturday for an In Conversation event with film critic and journalist, Paul Whitington.
IFI KINOPOLIS 2024 PROGRAMME ANNOUNCEMENT 🎞
Join us at the Irish Film Institute, Dublin (IF) for this year's IFI Kinopolis, our annual celebration of Polish cinema, taking place from Thursday, December 5th – Sunday, December 8th!
IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: DESTROY, SHE SAID
Written by ChangYu Lee, IFI Youth Panel Member
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FEBRUARY 2025 AT THE IFI 🌼 23 films
Spring has finally sprung, and this February at the IFI we're offering you a jam-packed programme of carefully curated, thought-provoking…
IFI Staff's Top Films of 2024 53 films
It's been an incredible year for cinema at the Irish Film Institute - so this week we decided to ask…
JANUARY 2025 AT THE IFI 🌟 20 films
Bringing us into the New Year with a bang, January is set to be an incredible month for film!
From…
The IFI Youth Panel's Top Films of 2024 🌟 13 films
Our IFI Youth Panel have spoken, and here are their top films of 2024 ⭐
An eclectic mix of genres…
DECEMBER 2024 AT THE IFI 22 films
This December, the Irish Film Institute returns with a jam-packed programme of carefully curated, thought-provoking and all-round entertaining film experiences.…
IFI KINOPOLIS 2024 🇵🇱 FESTIVAL PROGRAMME 9 films
IFI Kinopolis returns - Thursday, December 5th to Sunday, December 8th!
Full programme & tickets are now available on our website:…
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Casey Hynes 10 films
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Oliver Nolan 42 films
Recent reviews
"More than all the other labels that might be attached to this film, what emerges is a dialogue on how to possess the grief that comes with departure, and how a tender individual can persistently face the world when an important component of life is about to be permanently absent."
Screened as part of IFI French Film Festival 2024, check out IFI Youth Panel Member ChangYu Lee's review in full here!
"Duras’ cinema is a profoundly different kind, breaking traditional forms and narrative conventions, with a poetic radicalism, extending the modernity of her written work, and re-examining the relationship between sound and image.
INDIA SONG was made in 1974 and it is considered as one of Marguerite Duras’s best works, based on her play LE VICE-CONSUL and draws on her childhood…
Screened as part of the IFI French Film Festival – book now to catch a special In Conversation with director Stéphane Brizé this weekend on Saturday 23rd at 12.30.
“And our special guest of honour this year is screenwriter and director Stéphane Brizé. His work has featured very regularly at this Festival, and we’re really pleased that he has finally been able to make the trip to Dublin to be with us.” – Ross Keane, Director of the IFI
🎉 Join us at the IFI French Film Festival – Now until 24 Nov
"What Duras tries to do in this film, as the title suggests, is to destroy. Destroy the act of giving meaning, not to give meaning back to objects or language."
Screened as part of IFI French Film Festival 2024, check out IFI Youth Panel Member ChangYu Lee's review in full here!
Liked reviews
Watched the premiere screening of a brand new 35mm print in NFT 1 introduced by thee Laura Mulvey - what a life. Shoutout to the two beside us who had her book cracked open on Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema in anticipation and clutched each other and squealed when she took the stage - couldn’t agree more.
Jeanne Dielman continues to be such a buzz to see with a cinema audience - big laughs and reactions at such a regimented piece…
So fucking awesome. Paul is a hero.
A wonderful, grounded, and incredibly entertaining look at working-class America. What makes this documentary work is that it’s empathetic - the humour never feels like it’s satirising these people, and Bindler does an outstanding job of portraying them as tenacious, multifaceted individuals with unique personal reasons for entering the competition. Aesthetically it's oddly compelling, too; the film features many shots of shrubbery and trees in the general area in which the competition is taking place, which, riddled through the somewhat…
I kept thinking about how in the hands of a lesser documentarian, the whole thing would have been so sensational with the competitive "who's gonna win" angle really played up. Here, on the other hand, you have an incredibly empathetic and human documentary that broke my heart every time someone took their hands off the truck.
Spring has finally sprung, and this February at the IFI we're offering you 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 a two-month-long retrospective season dedicated to master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, collaborative screenings with Classics Now, the Museum of Literature Ireland, and Dublin International Film Festival, special previews of awards-nominated titles, and much more – all presented on the big screen right in the heart of Temple Bar to our audiences.
With the season of love coming up on the horizon, why not book yourself and a date in for a sumptuous meal at the IFI Café Bar with our extra-special Valentine’s Day Menu? Or treat the film-lover in your life to a Valentine from the IFI Film Shop.
And remember, film buffs nationwide can explore a host of incredible Irish and world cinema from the comfort of the couch on IFI@Home, with a large-scale hybrid season of our Ingmar Bergman titles also available to stream throughout the Republic of Ireland via IFI@Home from Saturday, February 1st!
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.
Read more about the month ahead here!