Irish Film Institute (IFI)

The precarious life of an undocumented migrant is vividly brought to life in Boris Lojkine’s clear-eyed, compassionate and quietly devastating third film.

SOULEYMANE’S STORY screens as part of

📆 TUES 19th & SAT 24th
⏰ 18.30 & 13.00
🎟️ https://ifi.ie/film/french-film-festival-souleymanes-story/

In this fresh and affectionate documentary, it’s not Agnès Varda this time who tells her story, but close friends, collaborators and peers, including her children.

VIVA VARDA! screens at

📆 Mon 18th
⏰ 20.40
🎟 https://ifi.ie/film/french-film-festival-viva-varda/

When Ellias, the newly-appointed artistic director of a famous fashion house organises his estranged father’s funeral, he discovers that he may have inherited much worse than his father's weak heart.

THE SUCCESSOR screens as part of IFI French Film Festival.

📆 Sat 16th
⏰ 20.30
🎟 https://ifi.ie/film/french-film-festival-the-successor/

📽 Q&A SCREENING 🎙

Described by Variety as "a filmmaker of considerable grace and daring", Philippe Lesage joins us for a Q&A after our IFI French Film Festival screening of his latest film WHO BY FIRE 🏹

📆 Sun 17th
⏰ 15.00
🎟️ https://ifi.ie/film/french-film-festival-who-by-fire-qa/

An amusing, poignant chronical of mental illness, which boasts another marvellous turn from the redoubtable Agnès Jaoui.

Celebrated writer-director Sophie Fillières final film THIS LIFE OF MINE screens at IFI French Film Festival.

📆 Fri 15th & Thu 21st
⏰ 18.30/16.20
🎟 https://ifi.ie/film/french-film-festival-this-life-of-mine/

The interconnected romantic entanglements of the three Lyonnaise friends are played out in Emmanuel Mouret’s wryly amusing TROIS AMIES, screening as part of IFI French Film Festival.

📆 Sat 16th & Wed 20th
⏰ 18.00/20.30
🎟 https://ifi.ie/film/french-film-festival-trois-amies/

Stéphane Demoustier’s ingeniously plotted thriller, which plays out over two interconnected timelines, is anchored by a stunning central performances from Hafsia Herzi.

BORGO screens as part of IFI French Film Festival.

Join us on Friday 22nd for a Q&A screening with Stéphane Demoustier! 🎙

📆 Sat 16th & Fri 22nd
⏰ 13.10/20.20
🎟 https://ifi.ie/film/french-film-festival-borgo/

French author Édouard Louis revisits his childhood showing how this influenced him to become one of the leading figures on the French literary scene.

THE MANY LIVES OF ÉDOUARD LOUIS screens as part of IFI French Film Festival

📆 SUN 16th
⏰ 12.00
🎟️ https://ifi.ie/film/french-film-festival-the-many-lives-of-edouard-louis/

In a post-famine Ireland, a father and daughter undertake the care of a remote mansion through a harsh winter.

The first-ever Irish language horror film AN TAIBHSE screens this weekend followed by a cast and crew Q&A!

📆 Sat 9th
⏰ 15.30
🎟 https://ifi.ie/film/horrorthon-2024-an-taibhse-qa/

Told in three chapters from the early 1990s to the dawn of the new millennium, ACROSS THE SEA traces the journey of Nour, a Moroccan immigrant who loves, matures, and clings to his dreams.

Screening as part of IFI French Film Festival.

📆 Thu 14th
⏰ 18.20
🎟 https://ifi.ie/film/french-film-festival-across-the-sea/

Endurance tells the inspiring stories of these two landmark expeditions. Polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton kept his crew of 27 men alive after their shipwreck, meanwhile over a century later, a team of modern-day explorers sets out to find the sunken ship.

This once off screening is not to be missed.

📆 SUN, DEC 1st
⏰ 15.30
🎟️ https://ifi.ie/film/endurance/

Bailey has learned to look after herself. One day in a meadow she meets Bird (Franz Rogowski), an enigmatic, charming drifter in search of his family home.

Andrea Arnold's Bird opens this Friday at the IFI!

📆 From FRI 8th
🎟️ https://ifi.ie/film/bird/

Two brothers spend lockdown with their new partners in their family home. Through the frozen world of memory and childhood, they confront their anxieties, bonds and clashes.

SUSPENDED TIME screens as part of IFI French Film Festival.

📆 Thu 14th/Sun 17th
⏰ 20.40/12.30
🎟 https://ifi.ie/film/french-film-festival-suspended-time/

As part of IFI French Film Festival we are delighted and privileged to present four rarely seen films by Marguerite Duras!

Duras’s cinema explores a profoundly different kind, breaking traditional forms and narrative conventions.

📆 NOV. 17th - 24th
🎟️ https://ifi.ie/frenchfest-marguerite-duras/

Seventeen-year-old Jeff spends a tense stay at the wilderness lodge of film director Blake Cadieux.

Who By Fire screens as part of the IFI French Film Festival
Followed by a Q&A with Philippe Lesage.

📆 SUN 17th
⏰ 15.00
🎟️ https://ifi.ie/film/french-film-festival-who-by-fire-qa/