Irish Film Institute (IFI)

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The Irish Film Institute is Ireland’s national cultural institution for film. It aims to exhibit the finest in independent, Irish and international cinema, preserve Ireland’s moving image heritage at the Irish Film Archive, and encourage engagement with film through its various educational programmes. Irish Film Institute is principally funded by the Arts Council. For more information, please visit: http://www.ifi.ie

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We're having a fantastic time at IFI Documentary Festival 2026, with an amazing selection of guests and films covering u...
26/09/2026

We're having a fantastic time at IFI Documentary Festival 2026, with an amazing selection of guests and films covering urgent and fascinating topics.

There's still so much more to see today and tomorrow, come and join us at the festival!

🎟️ Book now
📆 Until Sun 27th

Thanks so much to all of our amazing audiences, filmmakers, The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, RTÉ Supporting The Arts, DCU, and The Irish Times.

💀 It's alive – IFI Horrorthon 2026 lineup is here!🎟️ Book Now | https://ifi.ie/horrorthon📆 Oct 22nd-26th🔪 One of the mos...
25/09/2026

💀 It's alive – IFI Horrorthon 2026 lineup is here!

🎟️ Book Now | https://ifi.ie/horrorthon
📆 Oct 22nd-26th

🔪 One of the most popular events in the IFI calendar, IFI Horrorthon returns to celebrate the terrifying, the gory, the wince-inducing and the uncanny, all enjoyed with a devilish dose of black humour.

💃 Wipe the blood off that dress, because IFI Horrorthon Prom is in town! In partnership with EGG Cabaret, join us for photos, partying, and very special cabaret performances, alongside screenings of iconic teenage horror throwbacks, Carrie, Jennifer's Body and The Loved Ones!

ᛉ This year's festival of fear features a frightening folk horror strand, beginning with a screening of The Blood On Satan's Claw, before offering audiences a chance to revisit or enjoy for the first time on the big screen proto-folk horror Incubus, Witchfinder General and The Wicker Man.

⁉️ Consider yourself a horror expert? Get a gang together and earn the ultimate bragging rights at our annual sell-out Horror Table Quiz (hosted by Derek O'Connor)! We strongly advise booking early for what has become the hottest event of the season.

📽️ As for our main programme, we have a delightfully devilish line-up of Irish and European premieres, double bills, and secret screenings.

🥂 Last year's festival favourite, the custom blood bag cocktails from Stillgarden Distillery, make their delicious return along with exclusive IFI Café Bar specials.

🍿 So grab your popcorn and blood squibs, IFI Horrorthon is not to be missed!

25/09/2026

"A Stirring Irish Reckoning" - Variety

THE LOST CHILDREN OF TUAM is now screening at the IFI.

🎟️ Book Now | https://ifi.ie/films/the-lost-children-of-tuam-2
📆 Opens Today

Frank Berry’s restrained, profoundly moving procedural tells of how, whilst researching the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, County Galway, local history enthusiast Catherine Corless (Monica Dolan) uncovered that nearly 800 children had been buried in unmarked graves on the property.

The discovery began a campaign for justice for both victims and survivors that continues to resonate today.

24/09/2026

🦞 Director Pete Muller chats about the difficult task of filming lobsters for Bucks Harbor.

See even more filmmakers at our live Q&As taking place throughout IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2026.

🎟️ Book Now | https://ifi.ie/docfest
📆 Sept 23-27

24/09/2026

⚓ Director Pete Muller discusses filming his feature documentary, Bucks Harbor.

See even more filmmakers at our live Q&As taking place throughout IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2026.

🎟️ Book Now | https://ifi.ie/docfest
📆 Sept 23-27

24/09/2026

⚓ What did our audience think of BUCKS HARBOR?

IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL 2026 is officially in full swing!
Don't miss out!

🎟️ Book Now | https://ifi.ie/docfest
📆 Sept 23-27

⛩️ RENTAL FAMILY screens as part of our Wild Strawberries strand this month. 🎟️ Book Now | https://ifi.ie/films/wild-str...
24/09/2026

⛩️ RENTAL FAMILY screens as part of our Wild Strawberries strand this month.

🎟️ Book Now | https://ifi.ie/films/wild-strawberries-rental-family-2
📆 Fri 25th & Wed 30th | 11.00

Brendan Fraser plays Phillip, a struggling actor in Tokyo, who lands a job with an agency, where actors are rented out as stand-in family members.

Initially finding it all absurd, he adapts to the role and its inherent complications, where family relationships and needs are slowly uncovered through his own journey of self-discovery.

🍓 Kindly supported by UNICEF's Bucketful of Dreams campaign.

(Partly subtitled. Open Captioned screening on Wed 30th)
UNICEF Ireland

23/09/2026

🎬 BUCKS HARBOR at IFI Documentary Festival 2026, introduced by IFI CEO & Director Ross, Keane.

🎟️ Book your festival tickets today! | https://ifi.ie/docfest
📆 Sept 23-27

Against the spectacular yet unforgiving Maine coastline, Pete Muller’s beautifully observed film explores the inner lives of a generation of fishermen.

Here, boys are shaped by the brutal winters, their harvesting of the ocean, and the rigid codes of their fathers.

Muller’s insightful film offers a timely reflection upon masculinity – its inheritance, pressures, and quiet vulnerabilities – asking what it truly means to be a 'man' today in a changing world.

23/09/2026

🎬 IFI CEO & Director Ross Keane introduces IFI Documentary Festival 2026.

🎟️ Book Now | https://ifi.ie/docfest
📆 Sept 23-27

The IFI Documentary Festival is back this September from the 23rd to the 27th. From the thrilling to the thoughtful, from the historical to the topical, this brilliant selection of films showcases a diverse range of topics told with candour, artistry and a profound humanity.

🔔 NEWLY ANNOUNCED 🔔 Stick around after our IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL screening of KNIFE: THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF SALMAN R...
23/09/2026

🔔 NEWLY ANNOUNCED 🔔

Stick around after our IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL screening of KNIFE: THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF SALMAN RUSHDIE for a special virtual LIVE Q&A with Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney!

🎟️ Book Now | https://ifi.ie/films/doc-fest-26-knife-the-attempted-murder-of-salman-rushdie-2
📆 Fri 25th | 18.15

Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) follows acclaimed author Salman Rushdie in the aftermath of the 2022 attack that nearly claimed his life.

Featuring previously unseen footage captured by Rushdie’s wife, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, and inspired by Rushdie’s own memoir of the same title, Knife explores his recovery, resilience, and the enduring importance of artistic freedom, and reaffirms the power of literature in face of hatred and violence.

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6 Eustace Street, Temple Bar
Dublin
D02PD85

Opening Hours

Monday 10:30am - 11:30pm
Tuesday 10:30am - 11:30pm
Wednesday 10:30am - 11:30pm
Thursday 10:30am - 11:30pm
Friday 10:30am - 12am
Saturday 10:30am - 12am
Sunday 10:30am - 12am

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