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Promotional poster for Primavera showing a young woman in a red period dress playing the violin with a man standing behind her in a historic interior, alongside the film's title, cast, and promotional text. Cinema, Monday Night Cinema

Primavera

Mon 12 Oct, 5pm & 8pm

3 Wins & 3 Noms., David di Donatello Awards 2026

World-renowned opera director Damiano Michieletto dramatises Antonio Vivaldi’s time as resident composer and violin teacher in Venice, from the perspective of a gifted female student.

Poster for Familiar Touch, featuring an illustration of an older man embracing another person, with the film title and review quotes. Cinema, Monday Night Cinema

Familiar Touch

Mon 19 Oct, 5pm & 8pm

★★★★★ The Guardian

Sarah Friedland’s elegant, gentle and surprisingly funny debut feature follows Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant), an older woman experiencing the onset of dementia who is moved to a care facility.

Poster for Kokuho, featuring a performer in a flowing red kimono on a rooftop at night, with the film title and accolades prominently displayed. Cinema, Monday Night Cinema

Kokuho

Mon 26 Oct, 3.30pm & 7.30pm (note earlier start times)

Best Makeup & Hairstyling Nominee, Oscars 2026

The highest-grossing Japanese live action film of all time, Kokuho is an epic drama about friendship, love and the often punishing cost of fame and ambition in the cutthroat world of elite kabuki theatre.

Poster for the Solve-Along - a cartoon Jessica Fletcher, holds up a magnifying glass, surrounded by a stylised rotary phone, blank notebook, binoculars, and a typewriter Cinema, Comedy, Matinée

Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote

Sat 31 Oct, 2.30pm & 8pm (Halloween)

The cult hit event returns to Dún Laoghaire for Halloween with the spooky episode “A Witch’s Curse”. Join superfan Tim Benzie and superslueth Jessica Fletcher for a unique and hilarious interactive screening featuring games, prizes and audience participation.

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Dead Man’s Wire

Mon 2 Nov, 5pm & 8pm

★★★★★ The Times

The new thriller from Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting) dramatises a real-world kidnapping incident from 1977, with an all-star cast including Bill Skarsgård, Colman Domingo and Al Pacino.

Poster for Romería, featuring two people overlooking the sea from a rocky coastal landscape, with the film title and festival accolades. Cinema, Monday Night Cinema

Romería

Mon 9 Nov, 5pm & 8pm

Palme d’Or Nominee, Cannes Film Festival 2025

Acclaimed Spanish director Carla Simón (Summer 1993) once again brings her distinctive style to this intimate, intelligent and compelling coming-of-age drama, set on Spain’s Atlantic coast.

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Pressure

Mon 16 Nov, 5pm & 8pm

This tense, intelligent wartime drama revisits one of the most pivotal moments in World War II, the D-Day landings and the role of meteorologist Gp Capt. James Stagg (Andrew Scott) in planning them.

Poster for Nino, featuring a man sitting on a graffiti-covered rooftop overlooking the city, with the film title and a review quote prominently displayed. Cinema, Monday Night Cinema

Nino

Mon 23 Nov, 5pm & 8pm

★★★★★ Irish Independent

This accomplished film from Pauline Loquès is a thoughtful and empathetic drama following a young man reckoning with a cancer diagnosis as he roams Paris meeting friends, family and strangers who are unaware of his news.

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The Blue Trail

Mon 30 Nov, 5pm & 8pm

Silver Bear, Berlin Film Festival 2025

Part adventure film, part dystopian sci-fi and part coming of (old) age story, The Blue Trail is the vibrant and playful new film from acclaimed Brazilian filmmaker Gabriel Mascaro (Neon Bull, Divine Love).

A vibrant poster for Bitter Christmas, featuring a woman in sunglasses against a bold yellow-and-blue background, with the film title and Almodóvar’s name prominently displayed. Cinema, Monday Night Cinema

Bitter Christmas

Mon 14 Dec, 5pm & 8pm

Palme d’Or & Queer Palm Nominee, Cannes 2026

With his new film, Pedro Almodóvar appears to have made one of his most candid and self-reflective works yet… or has he? Another delightfully twisty and playful addition to the Spanish master’s oeuvre.

Poster for It's a Wonderful Life - James Stewart is centre, with the characters' wife and four children surrounding him. Cinema, Christmas

It’s a Wonderful Life

Fri 18 Dec, 7.30pm

Christmas Movies

Frank Capra’s classic Christmas tale follows George Bailey (James Stewart), who struggles with his own desires against always doing the right thing. At the peak of his desperation, a guardian angel arrives to remind him how worthwhile his life has been.

Poster for the movie Elf. Will Ferrell is bent awkwardly, dressed as a Christmas elf, in order to fit inside the image. The tag-line Rediscover You Inner Elf is over the movie title Cinema, Family, Christmas

Elf

Sat 19 Dec, 5.30pm

Christmas Movies

Will Ferrell stars as Buddy the Elf in this modern Christmas classic about a human raised in the North Pole who heads to New York looking for his real father - teaching the whole city the true meaning of Christmas in the process.

Poster for Home Alone. Macauley Culkin is centre, with his hands clasped either side of his face in a scream. Behind him, is a snowy window frame with Joe Pesci, and Daniel Stern looking over his shoulders menacingly Cinema, Family, Christmas

Home Alone

Sun 20 Dec, 5.30pm

Christmas Movies

The beloved family comedy starring Macaulay Culkin as ten-year-old Kevin McCallister who is inadvertently left home alone by his family when they go on vacation.

Three hikers walk along a dry, sunny dirt trail through tall grass and lush green hills. In the foreground, a young man in a grey t-shirt and dark shorts walks beside a smiling woman in a red shirt and shorts with a prosthetic leg, both wearing large backpacks. Slightly behind them, a middle-aged woman wearing a white shirt, sunglasses, and carrying trekking poles follows on the path. Cinema, Schools

Santiago: The Camino Therapy

Mon 1 Mar, 10.30am

IFI Schools Programme
Senior Cycle French

Funny, heartwarming and redemptive, this title follows a rebellious teenager and a woman with a difficult past past who agree to undertake the Camino de Santiago together.

A man in a formal black suit, waistcoat, and white-collared shirt stands prominently in the foreground of a professional kitchen with a serious expression. Surrounding him are three kitchen staff members dressed in traditional white chef jackets and tall white toque hats: a man with arms crossed to the left, a man standing central with hands clasped in front of him, and a woman standing to the right. Cinema, Schools

The Dinner

Mon 1 Mar, 2pm

IFI Schools Programme
Senior Cycle Spanish

A tragicomedy of humour, suspense and defiance under dictatorship, following a Republican prisoner of the Spanish Civil War who must prepare a victory banquet for Franco.