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Irish Film Institute
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The Home of Film in Ireland.

A historic 3-screen cinema in the heart of Temple Bar, with Ireland's only 70mm projector 🎞

Visit http://ifi.ie + watch online via http://ifiarchiveplayer.ie and https://www.ifihome.ie

Charity Number: 20021429
📽️ FRANZ

Agnieszka Holland’s ambitious biopic manages to combine a straightforward account of Kafka’s life with a number of stylistic flourishes that paint him on a much larger canvas, separating the man from the industry that now exists around his name.

📆 Sun 14th
⏰ 18.00
🎟 https://bit.ly/3Y0uxRE
December 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
📽️ THIS IS NOT HAPPENING

Artur Wyrzykowski’s feature debut is an extremely tense and gripping portrayal of parental love even in the face of the most horrific of circumstances.

📆 Sun 14th
⏰ 16.10
🎟 https://bit.ly/4arLdsI
December 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
📽️ Screening today at the IFI 🎟️

👉 ifi.ie/whats-on/
December 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
We are so excited to welcome back the great Charlie Kaufman to the IFI tomorrow for two ❌SOLD OUT❌ screenings and Q&As.

HOW TO SHOOT A GHOST + Q&A
⏰15.30

SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK + Q&A
⏰17.30

See you all there!

Check out the rest of our December programming on sale now 🎟️ bit.ly/3MrHWQa
December 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
🎥SUNSET BOULEVARD🌴
75th ANNIVERSARY RE-RELEASE⭐

One of Sight and Sound's Greatest Films of All Time is back in cinemas now. Billy Wilder's classic noir is a must-see on the silver screen.

Tickets on sale 🎟️ https://bit.ly/4osGXMZ

#75thAnniversary #4KRestoration #Hollywood #Classic #Noir
December 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
📽️ HOME SWEET HOME - IFI Kinopolis Polish Film Festival 2025

A peerless chronicler of the ills of Polish society, Wojciech Smarzowski turns his fierce gaze on relationships of coercive control and domestic violence.

📆 Sat 13th
⏰ 17.20
🎟 https://bit.ly/4pJijZB
December 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
📽️ Screening today at the IFI 🎟️

👉 ifi.ie/whats-on/
December 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
📽️ THIS IS NOT HAPPENING - IFI Kinopolis Polish Film Festival 2025

Artur Wyrzykowski’s feature debut is an extremely tense and gripping portrayal of parental love even in the face of the most horrific of circumstances.

📆 Sun 14th
⏰ 16.10
🎟 https://bit.ly/4arLdsI
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
📢 GIVEAWAY 📢

Win a DIE MY LOVE t-shirt, a copy of the Ariana Harwicz book the film is based on, stickers and much much more.

Comment below and tag someone you love to be in with a chance of winning 🎁

Book tickets for DIE MY LOVE 🎟️ https://bit.ly/4pW3OSp

#DieMyLove #Competition #Giveaway
December 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - The Irish Times

"Jafar Panahi has made one of the very best films of 2025"

IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT 🚗 Opens Today 5/12

Book tickets now 🎟️ https://ifi.ie/film/it-was-just-an-accident/

#NewRelease #JafarPanahi #PalmedOr #FiveStars
December 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
📽️ Screening today at the IFI 🎟️

👉 ifi.ie/whats-on/
December 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
SUNSET BOULEVARD🌴(75th ANNIVERSARY RE-RELEASE) Opens Friday

Drawing from his casts’ experiences and weaving in real-life industry cameos, Billy Wilder added to the tension of his exquisitely crafted Hollywood satire which, 75 years on, is ready for its close-up once again.

🎟️ https://bit.ly/4osGXMZ
December 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
First Fortnight Festival returns in January 2026! We are screening two films at the IFI as part of the festival:

IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU
📆 Thur 15th Jan
⏰ 18.15
🔗 https://bit.ly/4ax9Xjf

THE LOW ROAD + Q&A with director Stephen Mulhearn.
📆 Sat 17th Jan
⏰ 15.30
🔗 https://bit.ly/3KGOxpp
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The 🏆WINNER🏆 of the IFI French Film Festival 2025 @peugeot_ireland Audience Award is: RIDE ALONG (Á BICYCLETTE!)

#IFIFrenchFilmFestival #AudienceAwardWinner
December 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
📽️ Screening today at the IFI 🎟️

👉 ifi.ie/whats-on/
December 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
📽 BEAUTIFUL!

Katarzyna Priwieziencew’s deceptively simple film follows six women at different stages of their lives as each strives for fulfilment.

📅 Fri, Dec 12th
⏰ 18.30
🎟 ifi.ie/film/ifi-kinopolis-beautiful/
December 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
IFI and Universal Pictures Ireland present HAMNET: From Page to Screen - In Conversation with Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell

Saturday 13th December
14.30

Strictly limited tickets for this very special event are now on sale: https://ifi.ie/film/hamnet-from-page-to-screen
December 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
L'ATALANTE 🌼Opens Friday 5/12

L'ATALANTE tells of the tumultuous marriage of Jean and Juliette as they and their crew journey through France on the titular barge. A wonder of lyrical beauty, the film is also a tantalising glimpse of what might have been.

Book tickets now 🎟️ https://bit.ly/3KyZsBz
December 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
📽️ Screening today at the IFI 🎟️

👉 ifi.ie/whats-on/
December 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
This past Saturday we welcomed over 50 of the @lmi.bsky.social to the IFI to join us for an opening weekend screening of PILLION⛓️
Thank you all so much for coming!

Book tickets for PILLION now 🎟️ https://ifi.ie/film/pillion/
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
📽️ THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT

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

📆 Sat 13th
⏰ 13.30
🎟 https://bit.ly/4p7a7Cs
December 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT opens Friday: 🎟️ https://bit.ly/443rr2P

Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT is a fearless tour-de-force from Jafar Panahi. Both urgently political and deeply humane, this new moral classic confronts truth and uncertainty, revenge and mercy, head-on.
December 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
📽️ Screening today at the IFI 🎟️

👉 ifi.ie/whats-on/
December 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
And that's a wrap on IFI French Film Festival 2025!

It's been an unbelievable 12 days of French cinema, and we're so grateful to our audiences who came out in such numbers to be a part of this milestone festival, with record-breaking sales and our biggest ever attendance!

#IFIFFF25 #FrenchCinema
December 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Tomorrow is European Cinema Night! We are screening MALU directed by Pedro Freire at 18.30. This year we are collaborating once again with @europa_cinemas to present our edition of EULAC Cinema Night.

The event is free to attend but ticketed.

🎟️ https://bit.ly/3XWEAak
EULAC CINEMA NIGHT: MALU - Irish Film Institute
SCREENING 2nd DECEMBER In a cramped house in a Rio de Janeiro favela, Malu (Yara de Novaes), a once-promising actress now unemployed and emotionally volatile, shares a tense, codependent existence wit...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM