Irish Film Institute (IFI)

17/08/2026

💥 It's time to get looney

As part of IFI Family Festival 2026, we will be screening LOONEY TUNES CLASSICS!

🎟️ Book Now | https://ifi.ie/film/ifi-family-festival-2026-looney-tunes-classics/
📆 Sun 23rd | 14.30

Beep Beep! It’s our lunchtime blast of classic Looney Tunes, compiled especially for the festival. With a new Daffy Duck on the autumn cinema horizon, it’s a perfect time to watch a fine feathered mess back on the big screen.

Introduced by Looney Tunes superfan Kevin McGahern.

17/08/2026

👥BRING A BESTIE – two children’s tickets available for €7.50!

🎧 IFI Family Festival 2026 presents: MIRA
ℹ️ Book Now | https://ifi.ie/film/ifi-family-festival-2026-mira/

🎟️ Standard Tickets | €7.50
📅 Sat 22nd | 15.00

🎥 Mira is 12. She loves spending her time making things. Trouble arrives with a new girl, who’s into social media, boyfriends and makeup. When her friend starts hanging out with her, Mira confronts whether to stay true to herself or follow along.

⭐ Bring Your Bestie – Two for One (Just for Tweens)
For tweens ready to spread their cinema wings. Bring your bestie and enjoy the film on your own with friends in a supervised screening for 10–12-year-olds. Parents will stay on-site while tweens enjoy their first independent cinema experience.

17/08/2026

⚽Catch the Bohs win last night? Wanna show off your skills?⚽

As part of IFI Family Festival 2026, we are teaming up with Bohs In The Community for SUMMER SOCCER this Sunday!

Take a cinema break and face the Bohs' inflatable goal scoring game!

And be sure to check out our Sunday screening lineup with 'My Life In Versailles' at 11.00, 'Into The West' at 12.00, 'Looney Tunes Classics' at 14.30, and 'Chimney Town: Frozen In Time' at 16.00.

📍 Meeting House Square
📆 Sun 23rd | 12.00-15.00
ℹ️ More Info: https://ifi.ie/familyfest/

Bohs In The Community
Bohemian Football Club

17/08/2026

⏰IFI Family Festival 2026 presents: SHORT TALES I & II
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🎟️ Tickets | €7.50 per programme

📅 Programme I - Sat 22nd | 11.00, Relaxed Screening at 11.05 | https://ifi.ie/film/ifi-family-festival-2026-short-tales-1/
📅 Programme II - Sat 22nd | 12.30 | https://ifi.ie/film/ifi-family-festival-2026-short-tales-2/

🎥 Programme I - Watch a mischievous penguin, a tiny mouse climbing a hill, or a brave bat protecting an insect swarm. Stunning stop motion and hand-drawn animations, perfect for a first cinema trip.

🎥 Programme II - A mix of live action and animated new short films, from Estonia, France, Italy, Ireland and more. With fun creatures, some themes to make you think, a couple of hardy stoats and lots more, this varied selection is a great cinema trip for children aged 8+.

16/08/2026

Our REDISCOVERING MARGIT WAGNER season concludes with Programme 4: SONGS FOR DREAMERS, MUSIC FOR REBELS + MR GARECH’S COOK.

🎟️ Book Now | https://ifi.ie/film/rediscovering-margit-wagner-songs-for-dreamers-music-for-rebels-mr-garechs-cook/
📆 Wed 19th | 18.30

For many years Wagner’s films were largely inaccessible in Ireland. It is time to rediscover this pioneering filmmaker and reassess her lasting contribution to Irish-German cultural relations.

16/08/2026

Ahead of our From The Vaults screening of his acclaimed documentary 'Barbaric Genius', filmmaker Paul Duane reflects on the life and literary legacy of the film's subject, 'Grass Arena' author John Healy in this RTÉ article.

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Ahead of a special IFI screening of his acclaimed documentary Barbaric Genius, filmmaker Paul Duane reflects on the life and literary legacy of the film's subject, Grass Arena author John Healy.

16/08/2026

⏰IFI Family Festival 2026 presents: CHIMNEY TOWN: FROZEN IN TIME
ℹ️ Book Now | https://ifi.ie/film/ifi-family-festival-2026-chimney-town-frozen-in-time/

🎟️ Tickets | €7.50
📅 Sat 22nd | 16.00

🎥 Following the disappearance of his garbage-made pal, Poupelle, Lubbichi is transported to another world. With talking cat Fluff, he embarks on a quest home.

🎬 Suitable for ages 10+

15/08/2026

🍽️ Service!

Matt Johnson's A24 culinary biopic, Tony, is now screening at the IFI.

🎟️ Book Now | https://ifi.ie/film/tony/

In 1975, on failing to win a writing fellowship, 19-year-old Tony Bourdain (Dominic Sessa) flees to a small town on Cape Cod with no plan other than to chase his high school crush Nancy (Emilia Jones).

With no money and no accommodation, he lucks into the kindness of a local restaurateur he knows only as Chef (Antonio Banderas).

15/08/2026

🚨 POST-SCREENING DIRECTOR Q&A 🚨

Continuing our FROM THE VAULTS series, the IFI will be screening BARBARIC GENIUS next week.

🎟️ Book Now | https://ifi.ie/film/from-the-vaults-barbaric-genius-qa/
📆 Mon 17th | 18.30

Paul Duane’s intimate portrait charts the unpredictable life of John Healy – award-winning author, internationally distinguished chess player and erstwhile alcoholic vagrant.

Following a violent upbringing by Irish parents in a London slum, Healy spent years drinking and brawling on the streets of London before publishing a memoir, The Grass Arena (1988), which though widely acknowledged as a masterpiece, was followed by a dramatic fall from grace and years in obscurity.

15/08/2026

🥐IFI Family Festival 2026 presents: MY LIFE IN VERSAILLES
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🎟️ Tickets €7.50
📅 Sat 23nd | 11.00

🎥 Violet goes to live with her Uncle Régis, caretaker of the palace at Versailles. He’s grumpy and she’s stubborn, but they begin to feel at home, with a playground filled with wonder.

🎨 After the film, join the French Library team in the IFI Foyer for some fun, Versailles-inspired crafts!

🗣️ Suitable for ages 7+. To facilitate younger viewers, subtitles will be read aloud by a screen reader.

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