GFS: The Crime is Mine
In 1930s Paris, aspiring actress Madeleine is accused of murdering a lecherous producer. Seeing an opportunity for her to finally find fame, she and her lawyer friend Pauline come up with a scheme - she will plead guilty! All goes…
Director: François Ozon
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: 26-Aug-2024
Mon 02 Dec
Gladiator II
From legendary director Ridley Scott, Gladiator II continues the epic saga of power, intrigue, and vengeance set in Ancient Rome. Years after witnessing the death of the revered hero Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius (Paul Mescal) is…
Director: Ridley Scott
Genre: Action,Drama
Release Date: 15-Nov-2024
Wicked
Wicked, the untold story of the witches of Oz, stars Emmy, Grammy and Tony winning powerhouse Cynthia Erivo (Harriet, Broadway’s The Color Purple) as Elphaba, a young woman, misunderstood because of her unusual green skin, who has yet to discover…
Director: Jon M. Chu
Genre: Fantasy,Musical,Romance
Release Date: 22-Nov-2024
Small Things Like These
Oscar winner Cillian Murphy delivers a stunning performance as devoted father Bill Furlong in this film based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Claire Keegan. While working as a coal merchant to support his family, he discovers…
Director: Tim Mielants
Genre: Drama,Historical
Release Date: 01-Nov-2024
Conclave
From director Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front) CONCLAVE follows one of the world’s most secretive and ancient events – selecting a new Pope. Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with running this covert process after the unexpected…
Director: Edward Berger
Genre: Thriller
Release Date: 29-Nov-2024
Housewife of the Year
The story of Ireland’s treatment of women through the prism of a unique, surreal, live televised competition, that has to be seen to be believed, where a generation of Irish women competed in front of a live audience for the…
Director: Ciaran Cassidy
Genre: Documentary
Release Date: 22-Nov-2024
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Henry Selick delivers a delightful vision of Tim Burton’s Halloween-meets-Christmas tale.Jack Skellington of Halloween Town finds scaring people just isn’t fun anymore, so sets his sights on neighbouring Christmas Town, a place covered in snow and full of joy. However,…
Director: Henry Selick
Genre: Animation,Fantasy
Release Date: 16-Dec-1994
Tue 03 DecConclave (Open Caption)
From director Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front) CONCLAVE follows one of the world’s most secretive and ancient events – selecting a new Pope. Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with running this covert process after the unexpected…
Director: Edward Berger
Genre: Thriller
Release Date: 29-Nov-2024
Tue 03 DecAnora
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled...
Director: Sean Baker
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 01-Nov-2024
Wed 04 DecEuropean Cinema Night: Creatura
After moving with her boyfriend to her Catalan coastal hometown, 30-year-old Mila begins to realize her loss of desire lies deep within. She undergoes a self-exploration journey in which she revisits experiences of her childhood and adolescence in hopes to…
Director: Elena Martin
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 18-Nov-2024
Wed 04 DecCinephile Paradiso: Spellbound
Cinephile Paradiso returns this December presenting Alfred Hitchcock's 1945 classic psychological thriller SPELLBOUND starring Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman. Hitchcock delivers a unique blend of romance, mystery, and psychoanalysis in this thrilling masterpiece, which follows Dr. Constance Petersen (Bergman), a…
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Genre: Thriller
Release Date: 11-Nov-2024
Thu 05 DecParent & Baby: Conclave
From director Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front) CONCLAVE follows one of the world’s most secretive and ancient events – selecting a new Pope. Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with running this covert process after the unexpected…
Director: Edward Berger
Genre: Thriller
Release Date: 29-Nov-2024
Fri 06 DecSilver Screen: Conclave
From director Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front) CONCLAVE follows one of the world’s most secretive and ancient events – selecting a new Pope. Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with running this covert process after the unexpected…
Director: Edward Berger
Genre: Thriller
Release Date: 29-Nov-2024
Fri 06 DecNightbitch
A woman pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mom, but soon her domesticity takes a surreal turn...
Director: Marielle Heller
Genre: Comedy,Horror
Release Date: 06-Dec-2024
Rumours
The leaders of seven wealthy democracies get lost in the woods while drafting a statement on a global crisis, facing danger as they attempt to find their way out...
Director: Evan Johnson
Director: Galen Johnson
Director: Guy Maddin
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: 06-Dec-2024
All We Imagine as Light
With her sublime second feature, a poetic portrait of three women navigating life in Mumbai, Payal Kapadia became the first Indian filmmaker to win the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. Prabha is a dedicated and hardworking nurse whose…
Director: Payal Kapadia
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 29-Nov-2024
Tangerine
Tangerine, the gloriously queer alternative Christmas tale, is a rip-roaring odyssey, loaded with dry-wit and foul-mouthed comedy as it follows the lives and loves of a couple of transgender sex workers through the various subcultures of Los Angeles at Christmastime.…
Director: Sean Baker
Genre: Comedy,Thriller,Drama
Release Date: 06-Dec-2024
Fri 06 DecParent & Baby: Housewife of the Year
The story of Ireland’s treatment of women through the prism of a unique, surreal, live televised competition, that has to be seen to be believed, where a generation of Irish women competed in front of a live audience for the…
Director: Ciaran Cassidy
Genre: Documentary
Release Date: 22-Nov-2024
Sat 07 DecThe Magic Reindeer: Saving Santa’s Sleigh
Don't miss this gorgeous Galway-produced animation! Christmas is on the horizon, and it looks like it’s going to be the best one yet for Niko the Reindeer as he sets off to fulfil his biggest dream – taking his place…
Director: Jørgen Lerdam
Director: Kari Juusonen
Genre: Animation,Family
Release Date: 22-Nov-2024
Sat 07 DecEAFFI Discoveries: Record of a Tenement Gentleman
Yasujiro Ozu (1903-1963) is one of the masters of Japanese and world cinema of the twentieth century, and his work remains universal and timeless, capturing the human condition and its complex relationships. It is always a wonder to see Ozu…
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 06-Nov-2024
Sat 07 Dec
The Muppet Christmas Carol
What happens when you give a classic Dickens story the Muppet treatment? A lot of laughs, songs and a terrific story too! Michael Caine takes on the part of miserable old miser Ebenezer Scrooge in this liberal but fun adaptation…
Director: Brian Henson
Genre: Comedy,Drama
Release Date: 02-Dec-2022
Sat 07 Dec
Love Actually
Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England...
Director: Richard Curtis
Genre: Comedy,Drama,Romance
Release Date: 21-Nov-2003
Sat 07 Dec
Tokyo Godfathers (20th Anniversary)
In modern-day Tokyo, three homeless people's lives are changed forever when they discover a baby girl at a garbage dump on Christmas Eve. As the New Year fast approaches these three forgotten members of society band together to solve the…
Director: Satoshi Kon
Genre: Animation,Comedy
Release Date: 07-Oct-2003
GFS: Bell Book and Candle
New York publishing executive Shep Henderson is due to marry his fiancée Merle on Christmas Day. That is until his fiercely independent neighbour Gillian takes a liking to him, and decides to break the couple up by bewitching Shep on…
Director: Richard Quine
Genre: Comedy,Fantasy,Romance
Release Date: 04-Dec-1958
Grand Theft Hamlet
January 2021. The UK is in its 3rd lockdown and all entertainment venues remain closed. For theatre actors Sam and Mark, the future looks bleak. As the pandemic drags on, Mark - single and childless - is increasingly socially isolated,…
Director: Sam Crane
Director: Pinny Grylls
Genre: Documentary
Release Date: 21-Oct-2024
Séasúir Shorts: Winter
Séasúir Shorts is a quarterly screening event, bringing short films back into the cinema at Pálás. This winter, as the world tucks itself into the warmth of home, we invite you on a journey through a series of short films—stories…
Genre: Festival
Release Date: 19-Sep-2024
Tue 10 DecNightbitch (Open Caption)
A woman pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mom, but soon her domesticity takes a surreal turn.Open Captioned screening. Open Captions are subtitles that display important audio information as well as dialogue on-screen...
Director: Marielle Heller
Genre: Comedy,Horror
Release Date: 06-Dec-2024
Tue 10 DecParent & Baby: Nightbitch
A woman pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mom, but soon her domesticity takes a surreal turn. Our dedicated Parent and Baby screenings let you catch one of our new releases without having to find a sitter, or worry…
Director: Marielle Heller
Genre: Comedy,Horror
Release Date: 06-Dec-2024
Fri 13 DecSilver Screen: White Christmas (70th Anniversary)
A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general. Silver Screenings take place every Friday morning for film fans over the age of 65.…
Director: Michael Curtiz
Genre: Comedy,Musical,Romance
Release Date: 01-Nov-2024
Fri 13 DecThe Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
LORD OF THE RINGS: THE WAR OF THE ROHIRRIM explores and expands the untold story behind the fortress of Helm's Deep, delving into the life and bloodsoaked times of one of Middle-earth's most legendary figures; the mighty King of Rohan…
Director: Kenji Kamiyama
Genre: Animation
Release Date: 07-Oct-2024
Queer
1950. William Lee (Daniel Craig), an American expat in Mexico City, spends his days almost entirely alone, except for a few contacts with other members of the small American community. His encounter with Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey), an expat former…
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Genre: Drama,Historical
Release Date: 07-Oct-2024
On Becoming A Guinea Fowl
The new film from acclaimed, BAFTA-winning director Rungano Nyoni (I Am Not a Witch), ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL is a compelling drama about community and sisterhood. Driving home from a party one night, Shula seems unfazed by the sight…
Director: Rungano Nyoni
Genre: Drama,Comedy
Release Date: 16-Oct-2024
Fri 13 DecDaft Punk & Leiji Matsumoto: Interstella 5555
Four talented alien musicians are kidnapped by a record producer who disguises them as humans and has them reprogrammed to forget their real identities and play soulless corporate pop as The Crescendolls...
Genre: Music,Animation
Release Date: 04-Nov-2024
Elf
Will Ferrell stars as the ultimate fish out of water, Buddy, who as a baby crawls into Santa's toy bag and is whisked off to the North Pole, where he is raised as an elf. A misfit who grows to…
Director: Jon Favreau
Genre: Comedy,Fantasy
Release Date: 28-Nov-2003
Fri 13 DecFriday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning
With another Friday 13th comes the next entry in our slow-burn Friday the 13th marathon! This time it’s the black sheep entry in the franchise (iykyk)…Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning. Years after he killed the hockey-masked serial…
Genre: Horror
Release Date: 11-Oct-2024
Fri 13 Dec
Home Alone
An eight-year-old troublemaker must protect his house from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone by his family during Christmas vacation...
Director: Chris Columbus
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: 07-Dec-1990
Sat 14 Dec
Solve-Along-A Murder She Wrote
Cult hit event Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote comes to town, with interactive screenings of classic Murder, She Wrote episodes. Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote is a unique and hilarious night featuring games, prizes and audience participation, with special permission from NBC Universal Television. December 13th Light House…
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 15-Apr-2023
White Christmas (70th Anniversary)
A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general...
Director: Michael Curtiz
Genre: Comedy,Musical,Romance
Release Date: 01-Nov-2024
Die Hard
One of the biggest films of the eighties, Die Hard was not only a box office smash, but it made a star of its leading man, Bruce Willis, and quickly became considered as one of the greatest action movies of…
Director: John McTiernan
Genre: Action,Romance
Release Date: 17-Feb-1989
I Can’t Believe You Haven’t Seen: Eyes Wide Shut
After Dr. Bill Hartford's (Tom Cruise) wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings…
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 18-Dec-2024
Wed 18 Dec
It’s a Wonderful Life
Frank Capra’s masterpiece, in little over two hours, manages to run the gamut of human emotions from total joy to utter despair. Unquestionably made to give hope to post-war America, the film shows us all the hardships of life in…
Director: Frank Capra
Genre: Drama,Fantasy
Release Date: 03-Dec-2021
Parent & Baby: The Holdovers
From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually…
Director: Alexander Payne
Genre: Comedy,Drama
Release Date: 19-Jan-2024
Fri 20 DecSilver Screen: On Becoming A Guinea Fowl
The new film from acclaimed, BAFTA-winning director Rungano Nyoni (I Am Not a Witch), ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL is a compelling drama about community and sisterhood. Driving home from a party one night, Shula seems unfazed by the sight…
Director: Rungano Nyoni
Genre: Drama,Comedy
Release Date: 16-Oct-2024
Fri 20 DecThe Holdovers
From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually…
Director: Alexander Payne
Genre: Comedy,Drama
Release Date: 19-Jan-2024
Fri 20 Dec
The Holiday
A woman plagued by man trouble finds her fortune improves when she befriends an Englishwoman while on vacation...
Director: Nancy Meyers
Genre: Comedy,Romance
Release Date: 08-Dec-2006
Sat 21 Dec
