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Oppenheimer now highest-grossing film in IFI history

The Cillian Murphy-starring Oppenheimer has overtaken the Oscar-nominated An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl) as the highest-grossing film in the Irish Film Institute's 31-year history.

Movies • 25 Aug 23

IFI celebrates 30-year anniversary with free movies

The Irish Film Institute will mark the 30th anniversary of its home in Temple Bar in Dublin by throwing its doors to the public this Saturday with a full day of free films and activities.

Movies • 08 Sep 22

Michael Inside numbers among the strong collection of Irish films from the IFI

IFI launches Irish films on demand

The Irish Film Institute has announced the launch of Growing Pains, a selection of films from Irish directors on its video-on-demand platform IFI@Home.

Film • 18 Jan 21

À L'abordage: part road movie, part Rohmer-esque account of youthful amours

À L'abordage and young love's sweet song of the South

Felix, a young nurse, falls in love with a girl named Alma at an open-air party by the Seine and follows her, though uninvited, to the south of France in this charming yet curiously touching drama, which expertly handles the highs and lows of young love

Movies • 13 Nov 20

Saoirse Ronan is the IFI's new ambassador

Ronan named IFI ambassador to advocate for Irish film

The Irish Film Institute in Dublin has named actress Saoirse Ronan as its inaugural ambassador.

Movies • 29 Jan 20

George RR Martin - Screening one of his favourite films for fans

Game of Thrones author George RR Martin Dublin-bound

Game of Thrones author George RR Martin is coming to the Irish Film Institute (IFI) in Dublin in August for a special screening of legendary sci-fi film Forbidden Planet as part of next month's world science fiction convention in the city.

Movies • 10 Jul 19

U2 on the programme Looking On - Now available to watch on the IFI Player

Rare U2 in Dublin footage goes online for first time

In a treat for U2 fans, previously unreleased footage of the band performing on a rooftop on Sheriff Street in Dublin in 1982 is now available to watch for the first time on the Irish Film Institute Player.

Music • 16 Apr 19

A young(er) Miriam O'Callaghan talks milk at Dublin's Stillorgan Shopping Centre in the eighties

A young Miriam O'Callaghan stars as retro ads go online

Who's that pretty young lady talking up the virtues of Avonmore Milk? Why it's none other than Miriam O'Callaghan who featured in a TV commercial for the brand back in the 1980s.

Retro Adverts • 28 Apr 17

Star-crossed lovers: Rooney Mara as Rose and Jack Reynor as Michael in The Secret Scripture.

Jim Sheridan for The Secret Scripture IFI Q & A

Director Jim Sheridan will attend take part in a Question and Answer session at the opening night screening of his new film, The Secret Scripture, on Friday March 24 at the Irish Film Institute (IFI.)

Entertainment • 11 Mar 17

Notes on Blindness

Notes on Blindness uses the aural diaries of the late academic, John Hull, to tell the absorbing story of what happened following his loss of his sight in 1983 at the age of 45. Paddy Kehoe says the film is pure cinematic poetry.

Movie Reviews • 01 Jul 16

1916 will be marked by the IFI in the new year, in an extensive Dublin programme in March and at various centres throughout the country until June.

The Irish Film Institute to mark 1916 Centenary

The IFI will host a ciné-concert featuring a programme of newsreels documenting events immediately preceding and following the Uprising in Dublin in 1916 on Easter Sunday. Newsreels from international archives will also be shown to musical accompaniment.

Entertainment • 20 Dec 15

An example of Robin Walker's architectural design, as featured in Talking to My Father.

New documentary celebrates Dublin architect

The new documentary Talking to My Father follows Simon Walker, a quarter of a century after his father Robin’s death, as he explores his architectural legacy in Dublin.

Entertainment • 01 Oct 15

IFI train doc features Patti Smith, Cat Power

The documentary Station to Station records a 4000-mile journey across America on a custom-designed vintage train, decked out with kinetic lights built to respond to sound and motion.

Entertainment • 12 Jun 15

Watch! Gael García Bernal's The Burning trailer

Gael García Bernal plays a brooding, mysterious, Man With No Name-figure who stumbles out of the Argentinian rain forest in El Ardor or The Burning, which opens at the IFI on Friday June 19.

Entertainment • 07 Jun 15

Jaws - one of the free films at the IFI Open Day on June 20

Free films at IFI's Open Day on June 20

Back to the Future, Jaws and Monty Python’s Life Of Brian, three sneak previews as well as behind-the-scenes tours, membership discounts, children’s workshops and a chance to win flights to New York with Aer Lingus are all on offer on IFI’s Open Day.

Entertainment • 07 Jun 15

WB Yeats celebrated on film at the IFI

The IFI celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of WB Yeats (on June 13 1865) with Images from a Past Life: W.B Yeats on Film, a programme which includes a screening of a biographical ‘film poem’ from Alan Gilsenan.

Entertainment • 04 Jun 15

In a House That Ceased to Be, winner of last year's Audience Award for Best Feature

New Irish documentaries wanted for IFI Festival

The IFI Documentary Festival (formerly known as Stranger Than Fiction) has been expanded to a five day festival and is now accepting entries for feature length and short Irish documentaries.

Entertainment • 19 May 15

The Clash before the beginnings of implosion and Joe Strummer's Hispanic adventures

New Joe Strummer documentary for IFI

Kicking off their new Rock’n’Roll cinema strand, the Irish Film Institute presents I Need a Dodge: Joe Strummer on the Run on April 24, followed by a This is Radio Clash! event at the IFI Café Bar.

Entertainment • 16 Apr 15

Mass hysteria inspired new film opens April 24

Film-maker Carol Morley's new film The Falling concerns an outbreak of mass fainting at an English girl’s school in the late 1960s.

Entertainment • 13 Apr 15

Family portrait: The Snapper.
Roddy Doyle and film producer Lynda Miles talk about the film and other adapted Doyle works at the IFI

Roddy Doyle to talk Barrytown at IFI

Roddy Doyle and film producer Lynda Myles will take part in a public conversation about the author's celebrated Barrytown film trilogy at the Irish Film Institute in Dublin next week.

Entertainment • 10 Apr 15

Film reveals Himmler as self-styled decent man

A new documentary to be shown at the IFI, The Decent One, portrays Nazi Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler as a family man who viewed himself as thoroughly noble and heroic even while he was responsible for some of the worst atrocities of World War II.

Entertainment • 30 Mar 15

A scene from Paddy, to be seen at the IFI

IFI: Irish interest in March, some free screenings

This month, the Irish Film Institute, Dublin is showing a once-banned 1968 film about a Dublin Casanova. There is also the return of a festival hit documentary on Roger Corman, and free Archive at Lunchtime screenings celebrating Seachtain na Gaeilge.

Entertainment • 06 Mar 15

Jappeloup - Showing as part of this year's festival

French Film Festival back at IFI – tickets comp

The Carte Noire IFI French Film Festival returns to the Irish Film Institute next week, and we're giving you the chance to win tickets to a screening of equestrian biopic Jappeloup at the festival.

Entertainment • 28 Nov 13

Here Was Cuba - Irish film about Cuban Missile Crisis part of this year's programme

Stranger Than Fiction back at IFI

The Irish Film Institute has announced details of this year's Stranger Than Fiction Documentary Festival, which runs from September 26 to 29.

Entertainment • 16 Aug 13

Herzog - His film The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser is coming to the IFI

More classics at the IFI in August

The Irish Film Institute is to screen five more movies in August as part of its IFI Classics strand.

Entertainment • 06 Aug 13