Irish Film Institute
@irishfilminstitute.bsky.social
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
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
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/
Thank you all so much for coming!
Book tickets for PILLION now 🎟️ https://ifi.ie/film/pillion/
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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/
Thank you all so much for coming!
Book tickets for PILLION now 🎟️ https://ifi.ie/film/pillion/
📽️ 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
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
📽️ 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
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
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.
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
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.
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 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
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
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
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
📽️ 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
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 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
📽️ 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
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 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Ready to get festive? 🎄👼🔔
Our first week of screenings of perennial classic IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE are on-sale now!
📅 Back from Fri, Dec 12th
🎟 https://ifi.ie/film/its-a-wonderful-life-2025/
Our first week of screenings of perennial classic IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE are on-sale now!
📅 Back from Fri, Dec 12th
🎟 https://ifi.ie/film/its-a-wonderful-life-2025/
November 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Ready to get festive? 🎄👼🔔
Our first week of screenings of perennial classic IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE are on-sale now!
📅 Back from Fri, Dec 12th
🎟 https://ifi.ie/film/its-a-wonderful-life-2025/
Our first week of screenings of perennial classic IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE are on-sale now!
📅 Back from Fri, Dec 12th
🎟 https://ifi.ie/film/its-a-wonderful-life-2025/
📽 HOME SWEET HOME - IFI Kinopolis Polish Film Festival
📅 Sat, Dec 13th (17.20)
🎟 https://ifi.ie/film/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.
📅 Sat, Dec 13th (17.20)
🎟 https://ifi.ie/film/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.
November 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
📽 HOME SWEET HOME - IFI Kinopolis Polish Film Festival
📅 Sat, Dec 13th (17.20)
🎟 https://ifi.ie/film/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.
📅 Sat, Dec 13th (17.20)
🎟 https://ifi.ie/film/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.
📽 CONNEMARA - Official Selection, Cannes Première Section, Cannes International Film Festival 2025
Don't miss your last chance to see it as part of the IFI French Film Festival 🇫🇷
📅 Tonight, 20.20
🎟 https://ifi.ie/film/french-film-festival-connemara/
Don't miss your last chance to see it as part of the IFI French Film Festival 🇫🇷
📅 Tonight, 20.20
🎟 https://ifi.ie/film/french-film-festival-connemara/
November 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
📽 CONNEMARA - Official Selection, Cannes Première Section, Cannes International Film Festival 2025
Don't miss your last chance to see it as part of the IFI French Film Festival 🇫🇷
📅 Tonight, 20.20
🎟 https://ifi.ie/film/french-film-festival-connemara/
Don't miss your last chance to see it as part of the IFI French Film Festival 🇫🇷
📅 Tonight, 20.20
🎟 https://ifi.ie/film/french-film-festival-connemara/
November 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
IFI will collaborate again with @europa_cinemas to present EULAC Cinema Night 2025. On December 2nd at 6.30pm, we will screen Pedro Freire's MALU. The screening will be introduced by Ingrid Machaddo of Solax Film Club
Tickets are FREE, but must be booked in advance.
🎟️ https://bit.ly/3XWEAak
Tickets are FREE, but must be booked in advance.
🎟️ https://bit.ly/3XWEAak
November 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
IFI will collaborate again with @europa_cinemas to present EULAC Cinema Night 2025. On December 2nd at 6.30pm, we will screen Pedro Freire's MALU. The screening will be introduced by Ingrid Machaddo of Solax Film Club
Tickets are FREE, but must be booked in advance.
🎟️ https://bit.ly/3XWEAak
Tickets are FREE, but must be booked in advance.
🎟️ https://bit.ly/3XWEAak
Join us at 6.30pm on Friday 5th December for an opening night Q&A for HORSESHOE, the new film from Edwin Mullane and Adam O'Keeffe. This unmissable family drama featuring a powerful Irish cast won the Best First Feature Award at this year's Galway Film Fleadh.
🎟️ https://ifi.ie/film/horseshoe-2/
🎟️ https://ifi.ie/film/horseshoe-2/
November 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Join us at 6.30pm on Friday 5th December for an opening night Q&A for HORSESHOE, the new film from Edwin Mullane and Adam O'Keeffe. This unmissable family drama featuring a powerful Irish cast won the Best First Feature Award at this year's Galway Film Fleadh.
🎟️ https://ifi.ie/film/horseshoe-2/
🎟️ https://ifi.ie/film/horseshoe-2/
Tomorrow is the final day of the 26th IFI French Film Festival!
Don't miss Oscar contender ARCO, charming family comedy L'AVENTURA, boxing drama WILD FOXES, gripping social drama CASE 137, and our beguiling closing film CONNEMARA.
🎟️ https://ifi.ie/frenchfest
Don't miss Oscar contender ARCO, charming family comedy L'AVENTURA, boxing drama WILD FOXES, gripping social drama CASE 137, and our beguiling closing film CONNEMARA.
🎟️ https://ifi.ie/frenchfest
November 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Tomorrow is the final day of the 26th IFI French Film Festival!
Don't miss Oscar contender ARCO, charming family comedy L'AVENTURA, boxing drama WILD FOXES, gripping social drama CASE 137, and our beguiling closing film CONNEMARA.
🎟️ https://ifi.ie/frenchfest
Don't miss Oscar contender ARCO, charming family comedy L'AVENTURA, boxing drama WILD FOXES, gripping social drama CASE 137, and our beguiling closing film CONNEMARA.
🎟️ https://ifi.ie/frenchfest
November 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Join us for the IFI Kinopolis Polish Film Festival's opening screening of CHOPIN, A SONATA IN PARIS 🎹
With a special introduction on Frédéric Chopin from acclaimed pianist Hugh Tinney!
📅 Thurs, Dec 11th (18.00)
🎟 https://ifi.ie/film/ifi-kinopolis-chopin-a-sonata-in-paris/
With a special introduction on Frédéric Chopin from acclaimed pianist Hugh Tinney!
📅 Thurs, Dec 11th (18.00)
🎟 https://ifi.ie/film/ifi-kinopolis-chopin-a-sonata-in-paris/
November 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Join us for the IFI Kinopolis Polish Film Festival's opening screening of CHOPIN, A SONATA IN PARIS 🎹
With a special introduction on Frédéric Chopin from acclaimed pianist Hugh Tinney!
📅 Thurs, Dec 11th (18.00)
🎟 https://ifi.ie/film/ifi-kinopolis-chopin-a-sonata-in-paris/
With a special introduction on Frédéric Chopin from acclaimed pianist Hugh Tinney!
📅 Thurs, Dec 11th (18.00)
🎟 https://ifi.ie/film/ifi-kinopolis-chopin-a-sonata-in-paris/
We're delighted to welcome back Untold Ukraine for a special screening of OKEAN ELZY: STORMWATCH, a new documentary chronicling the rise of Ukraine’s legendary rock band!
Followed by a Q&A with writer Vadym Pereverzev 🎸
📅 Mon, Dec 1st (20.10)
🎟 https://ifi.ie/film/okean-elzy-stormwatch/
Followed by a Q&A with writer Vadym Pereverzev 🎸
📅 Mon, Dec 1st (20.10)
🎟 https://ifi.ie/film/okean-elzy-stormwatch/
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We're delighted to welcome back Untold Ukraine for a special screening of OKEAN ELZY: STORMWATCH, a new documentary chronicling the rise of Ukraine’s legendary rock band!
Followed by a Q&A with writer Vadym Pereverzev 🎸
📅 Mon, Dec 1st (20.10)
🎟 https://ifi.ie/film/okean-elzy-stormwatch/
Followed by a Q&A with writer Vadym Pereverzev 🎸
📅 Mon, Dec 1st (20.10)
🎟 https://ifi.ie/film/okean-elzy-stormwatch/
📽️ THE BREACH (LA RUPTURE)
Again targeting the bourgeoisie, Chabrol’s subtle exploration of psychological manipulation highlights the divide between classes. Of THE BREACH, Chabrol said, "This will be my darkest movie".
📆 Sun 30th
⏰ 16.00
🎟 https://bit.ly/43K8amT
Again targeting the bourgeoisie, Chabrol’s subtle exploration of psychological manipulation highlights the divide between classes. Of THE BREACH, Chabrol said, "This will be my darkest movie".
📆 Sun 30th
⏰ 16.00
🎟 https://bit.ly/43K8amT
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
📽️ THE BREACH (LA RUPTURE)
Again targeting the bourgeoisie, Chabrol’s subtle exploration of psychological manipulation highlights the divide between classes. Of THE BREACH, Chabrol said, "This will be my darkest movie".
📆 Sun 30th
⏰ 16.00
🎟 https://bit.ly/43K8amT
Again targeting the bourgeoisie, Chabrol’s subtle exploration of psychological manipulation highlights the divide between classes. Of THE BREACH, Chabrol said, "This will be my darkest movie".
📆 Sun 30th
⏰ 16.00
🎟 https://bit.ly/43K8amT
November 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Not able to make it to Dublin for #IFIFrenchFest?
Enjoy some of the best of the festival from the comfort of the couch on IFI@Home!
💻 available to rent in the Republic of Ireland until midnight, Friday 28th.
🔗 https://www.ifihome.ie/page/fff-25/
Enjoy some of the best of the festival from the comfort of the couch on IFI@Home!
💻 available to rent in the Republic of Ireland until midnight, Friday 28th.
🔗 https://www.ifihome.ie/page/fff-25/
November 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Not able to make it to Dublin for #IFIFrenchFest?
Enjoy some of the best of the festival from the comfort of the couch on IFI@Home!
💻 available to rent in the Republic of Ireland until midnight, Friday 28th.
🔗 https://www.ifihome.ie/page/fff-25/
Enjoy some of the best of the festival from the comfort of the couch on IFI@Home!
💻 available to rent in the Republic of Ireland until midnight, Friday 28th.
🔗 https://www.ifihome.ie/page/fff-25/
Join us for a special preview screening of SAIPAN followed by a Q&A with the directors Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn on December 22nd.
A must-see account of one of the most infamous episodes in Irish sport.
Tickets available now 🎟️ https://ifi.ie/film/saipan-2026/
A must-see account of one of the most infamous episodes in Irish sport.
Tickets available now 🎟️ https://ifi.ie/film/saipan-2026/
November 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Join us for a special preview screening of SAIPAN followed by a Q&A with the directors Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn on December 22nd.
A must-see account of one of the most infamous episodes in Irish sport.
Tickets available now 🎟️ https://ifi.ie/film/saipan-2026/
A must-see account of one of the most infamous episodes in Irish sport.
Tickets available now 🎟️ https://ifi.ie/film/saipan-2026/
DECEMBER AT THE IFI 🎁 ON SALE NOW!
More gifts coming your way next month include Joachim Trier's new film SENTIMENTAL VALUE, our favourite holiday classic, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, our IFI Youth Panel selection, SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, and much, much more. Tickets to all screenings available now🎄
More gifts coming your way next month include Joachim Trier's new film SENTIMENTAL VALUE, our favourite holiday classic, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, our IFI Youth Panel selection, SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, and much, much more. Tickets to all screenings available now🎄
November 27, 2025 at 10:10 AM
DECEMBER AT THE IFI 🎁 ON SALE NOW!
More gifts coming your way next month include Joachim Trier's new film SENTIMENTAL VALUE, our favourite holiday classic, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, our IFI Youth Panel selection, SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, and much, much more. Tickets to all screenings available now🎄
More gifts coming your way next month include Joachim Trier's new film SENTIMENTAL VALUE, our favourite holiday classic, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, our IFI Youth Panel selection, SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, and much, much more. Tickets to all screenings available now🎄
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
THE DOORS: WHEN YOU’RE STRANGE 🎸
The chemistry of four artists made The Doors one of the most influential rock bands. To mark the 60th anniversary of the band's formation, the film will be presented in 4K and feature a newly recorded performance of “Riders on the Storm”.
🎟️ https://bit.ly/4isCCbs
The chemistry of four artists made The Doors one of the most influential rock bands. To mark the 60th anniversary of the band's formation, the film will be presented in 4K and feature a newly recorded performance of “Riders on the Storm”.
🎟️ https://bit.ly/4isCCbs
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
THE DOORS: WHEN YOU’RE STRANGE 🎸
The chemistry of four artists made The Doors one of the most influential rock bands. To mark the 60th anniversary of the band's formation, the film will be presented in 4K and feature a newly recorded performance of “Riders on the Storm”.
🎟️ https://bit.ly/4isCCbs
The chemistry of four artists made The Doors one of the most influential rock bands. To mark the 60th anniversary of the band's formation, the film will be presented in 4K and feature a newly recorded performance of “Riders on the Storm”.
🎟️ https://bit.ly/4isCCbs
MARTY SUPREME🏓 ON SALE NOW!
Loosely based on the life of Martin Reisman, the flamboyant and eccentric American table tennis champion, Marty Supreme stars Timothée Chalamet as Marty Mauser, a talented and ambitious player of the sport. Chalamet shines in this gripping ride.
🎟️ https://bit.ly/3XOWDPJ
Loosely based on the life of Martin Reisman, the flamboyant and eccentric American table tennis champion, Marty Supreme stars Timothée Chalamet as Marty Mauser, a talented and ambitious player of the sport. Chalamet shines in this gripping ride.
🎟️ https://bit.ly/3XOWDPJ
November 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
MARTY SUPREME🏓 ON SALE NOW!
Loosely based on the life of Martin Reisman, the flamboyant and eccentric American table tennis champion, Marty Supreme stars Timothée Chalamet as Marty Mauser, a talented and ambitious player of the sport. Chalamet shines in this gripping ride.
🎟️ https://bit.ly/3XOWDPJ
Loosely based on the life of Martin Reisman, the flamboyant and eccentric American table tennis champion, Marty Supreme stars Timothée Chalamet as Marty Mauser, a talented and ambitious player of the sport. Chalamet shines in this gripping ride.
🎟️ https://bit.ly/3XOWDPJ