IFI French Film Festival 2025
We are proud to be cultural partner of the Irish Film Institute’s French Film Festival again! The 26th edition will take place between November 19th to 30th at the IFI in Temple Bar. The 2025 programme features over 34 French films, of which 22 Irish premieres, for every taste: drama, comedy, action, documentary, thriller, animation; short film selections; a family screening; and a tribute to Claude Chabrol.
This year’s film supported by Alliance Française Dublin is the 2025 acclaimed drama Connemara directed by Alex Lutz. There will be free tickets, discounted price for AF Friends and prizes to be won during the Festival – don’t miss out, subscribe to our emailing list!
Screening tickets for the IFI French Film Festival are now on sale from the IFI Box Office on 01-6793477 or on www.ifi.ie/frenchfest. Multi-film packages and online bundles are also available.
Tuesday 25th November at 8.30pm
Director: Alex Lutz
Starring Mélanie Thierry & Bastien Bouillon.
Adapted from Prix Goncourt winner Nicolas Mathieu’s novel, Connemara explores the bittersweet crossroads of middle age through the unexpected reunion of two former classmates. Set against the backdrop of provincial France, this tender, witty drama delves into nostalgia, lost dreams, and the quiet hope of new beginnings.
Special price at €13 instead of €16.50 for Alliance Française Friends. There will also be free tickets to be won on social networks, and prizes to win on the night! Come & see hello at our stall in the IFI Lobby and get information about our upcoming activities!
Claude Chabrol (1930–2010) began his career as a critic at Les Cahiers du Cinéma in the 1950s and is often credited with launching the French Nouvelle Vague with Le Beau Serge (1958). Over a prolific career spanning 52 years, he directed 57 films and is best known for his bourgeois dramas and psychological thrillers, earning him the title ‘the French Hitchcock.’
This 4-film programme concentrates on his finest films from the early 1970s starring his wife and actress Stéphane Audran. The films explore themes of female alienation, bourgeois repression, and violent crime.
Exactly 130 years after Louis Lumière first hand-cranked the camera, his cinematographic films shot between 1895 and 1905 have been collated and immaculately restored into 2 feature-length films, allowing the original cinematographic ‘views’ to reveal their full significance on the big screen while offering a deeper exploration of the invention of cinema.
L’Aventure commence
L’Aventure continue
