IFI present Wes Anderson Season
Unmistakeable and unforgettable, the IFI presents the Watching Wes Anderson season from 2nd-24th June
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German Film Week at IFI: The System
Marc Bauder’s taut, well-written thriller ‘The System’ screened on Tuesday night at the IFI as part of German Film Week.
German Film Week at IFI: 4 Days in May
4 Days in May screened on Monday evening continuing the German Film Week at the IFI. The third film by writer/director Achim von Borries, 4 Days in May portrays an extremely odd incident that took place during the final days of World War II. With the end of the war imminent 8 Russian soldiers under [...]
German Film Week at IFI: Almanya: Welcome To Germany
The light-hearted and charming comedy Almanya: Welcome To Germany screened on Saturday evening as part of the German Film Week at the IFI.
German Film Week at IFI: Cracks in the Shell
The German Film Week at the IFI continued on Friday evening with a screening of Christian Schwochow’s impressive Cracks in the Shell.
German Film Week at IFI: Calm at Sea
‘Calm at Sea’ provided an intense yet profoundly moving start to the German Film Week at the IFI.
‘Vampyr’ with live musical accompaniment from Steven Severin, co-founder of Siouxsie and the Banshees, at the IFI
Following on from last month’s Carl Dreyer season, the IFI is delighted to present a reprise screening of Vampyr with live musical accompaniment by Steven Severin on 18th May at 18.30pm. A co-founding member of and driving force behind Siouxsie and the Banshees, Severin has in recent years turned his talents towards original scores for [...]
Volker Schlöndorff’s ‘Calm at Sea’ kicks off German Film Week at IFI
German Film Week, presented in association with the Goethe-Institut Irland, kicks off this evening at the IFI at 18.40 with the screening of Volker Schlöndorff’s Calm at Sea [Das Meer am Morgen), an affecting film based on a real-life story that portrays an atrocity that took place in German– occupied France during World War II. [...]
‘Barbaric Genius’ doc on the life of John Healy, writer of ‘The Grass Arena’, released exclusively at the IFI May 25-29
‘Barbaric Genius’, a new documentary on the life of John Healy, writer of ‘The Grass Arena’, to be released exclusively at the IFI from 25th-29th May 2012
IFI presents German Film Week from 10th-16th May featuring new films from German masters Volker Schlöndorff and Andreas Dresen
The IFI presents short season of recent German films in association with Goethe-Institut Irland.
‘Odd Man Out’ featuring James Mason to be screened as May’s IFI Monthly Must-See Cinema selection
‘Odd Man Out’ will be screened on 9th May at 6.30pm at the IFI as part of IFI Monthly Must-See Cinema
Report: Ireland on Sunday at the IFI presents ‘Opus K’
Martin Cusack reports from the screening of ‘Opus K’ and Q&A with director Eamonn Gray and cinematographer Basil Al Rawi, which was presented as part of Ireland on Sunday the IFI’s monthly showcase for new Irish Film.
IFI Presents: A Season of Classic Action Movies
Get more bang for your buck in May with the IFI’s season of classic action movies including Terminator 2 (70mm), Die Hard (70mm), Robocop and First Blood What defines an action movie? It’s a slippery genre and one that perpetually reinvents itself while sticking to a set of conventions we all know and love; never [...]
John Huston’s classic adaptation of ‘The Dead’ to screen at the IFI for Dublin: One City, One Book’s focus on ‘Dubliners’
As part of Dublin: One City, One Book , which this year has selected Dubliners as it’s city-wide read, and continuing the IFI’s collaboration with Dublin City Public Libraries, the IFI presents John Huston’s The Dead on April 21st at 4.15pm. Adapted from the final story in the Dubliners collection, the film is set during [...]
Call For: IFI seeks Public Affairs & Marketing Director
The IFI is seeking to appoint a new Public Affairs & Marketing Director with the energy and acumen to drive its public affairs and marketing strategies across its core activities: Exhibit, Preserve and Educate.
IFI Announces Plans to Build Major New Preservation Centre at NUI Maynooth
Launch of plans for a new IFI Irish Film Archive Preservation & Research Centre at NUI Maynooth.
IFI appoints Ross Keane as new Director
The Board of the Irish Film Institute (IFI) has announced the appointment of Ross Keane as the new Director of IFI (Irish Film Institute) where he currently holds the role of Public Affairs & Marketing Director. With over 12 years’ experience working in leading cultural organisations in Ireland and Australia, such as the Dublin Theatre [...]
The IFI presents free screenings of Oscar®-winning short film ‘The Shore’ every Sunday throughout April
The IFI will be celebrating Ireland’s recent Oscar® win with free screenings of ‘The Shore’ every Sunday throughout April at 1.10pm.
The IFI to present a major retrospective of Carl Theodor Dreyer, one of cinema’s most influential directors, from 1st-29th April 2012
This April the IFI is undertaking a major retrospective of the Danish director’s films giving Irish audiences a unique opportunity to savour the diverse delights of one of cinema’s acknowledged masters.
Five things I learned from making…..’Living Colour’
‘Living Colour’ will be screened on RTÉ 1 on Tuesday, 20th March 2012 at 10:15pm. Its director Éamon Little tells Film Ireland 5 things he learned from making it.
Report: IFI Ireland on Sunday presents Gerard Hurley’s ‘The Pier’
As Gerard Hurley’s The Pier continues its run in cinemas around the country with a screening on Monday, 19th March at The Phoenix Cinema, Dingle, Co Kerry @ 6pm, Soracha Pelan Ó Treasaigh reports on its recent IFI screening as part of Ireland on Sunday series. The Pier was screened as part of the Irish [...]
The IFI celebrates St. Patrick’s Day and remembers David Kelly with a screening of the Irish romantic comedy ‘Quackser Fortune has a Cousin in the Bronx’.
March’s Must-See Cinema from the IFI Irish Film Archive is Quackser Fortune has a Cousin in the Bronx (1970), presented in collaboration with the St. Patrick’s Day Festival. In one of the best-loved and most bizarre films in its collection, Gene Wilder plays a Dublin horse manure collector and salesman who falls in love with [...]
JDIFF: Terence McDonald
Jameson Dublin International Film Festival Irish: Terence McDonald Wednesday, 21st February, 6:30pm, IFI A teacher by trade, prolific Derry amateur filmmaker Terence McDonald (1926-2001) shot over 35 films in his lifetime. For this low-key JDIFF screening, Terence’s son, Peter, shared with us, not only about his father’s varied and skillful shorts but also about what [...]
IFI Ireland on Sunday presents ‘Behold the Lamb’, a new darkly comic feature from Northern Ireland
12pm, 11th March 2012 This debut feature from shorts filmmaker, writer and theatre director John McIlduff is a darkly comic road movie that follows Eddie (Nigel O’Neill), a 50-year old ex-accountant, and Liz (Aoife Duffin), his junkie son’s girlfriend, as they travel across Northern Ireland in a bid to pick up a lamb and thus [...]
The IFI presents three films to help celebrate Francophonie 2012
To mark this annual celebration of the French language and highlight the thriving culture of French language filmmaking, the IFI is delighted to present the three films as part of the Francophonie 2012
Rebecca Daly’s new Irish feature ‘The Other Side of Sleep’, starring Antonia Cambell-Hughes to be released nationwide from 16th March 2012
Rebecca Daly’s new Irish feature ‘The Other Side of Sleep’, starring Antonia Cambell-Hughes to be released nationwide from 16th March 2012
Call For: Director
The Irish Film Institute Board is seeking to appoint a new Director with the energy and acumen to sustain its success and develop the organisation in the continued implementation of its strategic vision through its core activities: Exhibit, Preserve and Educate.
IFI & JDIFF Collaborations
The IFI teams up with Jameson Dublin International Film Festival (JDIFF) to present three fascinating programmes; film works by British artist Andrew Kötting; films by Derry filmmaker Terence McDonald (1926-2001), and a showcase of work from the Arts Council’s Reel Art scheme.
Repertory classics at the IFI in February.
It is 70 years since Michael Curtiz’s wartime romance Casablanca (10th – 16th) starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman was first released and their characters Rick and Ilsa unexpectedly became one of the most iconic screen partnerships of film history. The dialogue is snappy, the performances are mesmerising and the soundtrack lingers long after the [...]
