Pavilion Theatre presents

Monday Night Cinema: Spring 2025

17 Weeks of World-Class Film

Pavilion Theatre proudly presents a brand new 17-week season of Monday Night Cinema featuring award season contenders, hidden gems, Irish talent and glimpses of life around the world. Season tickets to guarantee your seat and get the best price are just €144.50 inclusive of booking fees.

Coming up between Monday 6 January and Monday 28 April 2025: Small Thing Like These, Touch, Conclave, All We Imagine as Light, Bird, The Outrun, The Teacher, Anora, The Room Next Door, The Girl with the Needle, The Count of Monte Cristo, Mandoob, The Last Dance, Hard Truths, Nickel Boys, The Seed of the Sacred Fig and How to Make Millions before Grandma Dies.

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Small Things Like These

Mon 6 Jan, 5pm & 8pm

English (unsubtitled) | Cert: 12A | 2024 | 96mins

Golden Bear Nominee, Berlin Film Festival 2024

Based on Claire Keegan’s novel and starring Cillian Murphy, this powerful film explores one man’s efforts to confront the culture of silence and complicity in Catholic Ireland.

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Touch

Mon 13 Jan, 5pm & 8pm

Icelandic and Japanese (with English subtitles), and English (unsubtitled) | Cert: 12A | 2024 | 121mins

★★★★★ Irish Independent

Based on the novel by Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson, this deeply moving film by Baltasar Kormákur is a rich study of love and grief is both heartbreaking and achingly romantic.

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Conclave

Mon 20 Jan, 5pm & 8pm

English (unsubtitled), Latin, Italian & Spanish (with English subtitles) | Cert: 12A | 2024 | 119mins

6 Nominations incl. Best Drama, Golden Globes 2025

Directed by Oscar-winner Edward Berger and based on Robert Harris’s novel, Conclave is a riveting, religious thriller, packed with twists and turns, with an astonishing cast lead by Ralph Fiennes.

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All We Imagine as Light

Mon 27 Jan, 5pm & 8pm

Malayalam, Hindi and Indian (with English subtitles) | Cert: Club | 2024 | 118mins

Grand Prix, Cannes Film Festival 2024

Best Director & Best Non-English Language Film Nominee, Golden Globes 2025

Payal Kapadia’s remarkable fiction debut is a poetic portrait of two women’s lives in contemporary India, that overflows with empathy and respect for its characters.

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Bird

Mon 3 Feb, 5pm & 8pm

English (unsubtitled) | Cert: 15A | 2024 | 119mins

Palme d'Or Nominee, Cannes Film Festival 2024

The latest film from acclaimed filmmaker Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank, American Honey) elegantly combines social and magical realism with exceptional performances from Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski and newcomer Nykiya Adams.

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The Outrun

Mon 10 Feb, 5pm & 8pm

English (unsubtitled) | Cert: 15A | 2024 | 116mins

9 Nominations incl. Best Film, British Independent Film Awards 2024

Nora Fingscheidt (System Crasher) presents a vivid adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s personal memoir of addiction, powered by an extraordinary central performance from Saoirse Ronan.

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Teacher

Mon 17 Feb, 5pm & 8pm

Arabic and Hebrew (with English subtitled), and English (unsubtitled) | Cert: 12A | 2023 | 118mins

Best International Film, Galway Film Fleadh 2024

This first narrative feature from Oscar-nominated, and BAFTA-winning, British-Palestinian writer-director Farah Nabulsi (The Present) is a gripping, authentic complex drama, shot entirely in the West Bank.

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Anora

Mon 24 Feb, 5pm & 8pm

Russian and Armenian (with English subtitles), and English (unsubtitled) | Cert: 16 | 2024 | 140mins

5 Nominations incl. Best Director, Golden Globes 2025

Palme d'Or, Cannes Film Festival 2024

The uproarious new comedy-drama from acclaimed filmmaker Sean Baker. The film mixes farce and sharp class commentary to giddy effect as it follows a Vegas wedding gone wrong.

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The Room Next Door

Mon 3 Mar, 5pm & 8pm

English (unsubtitled) | Cert: 15A | 2024 | 107mins

Best Actress Nominee (Tilda Swinton), Golden Globes 2025

Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival 2024

Director Pedro Almodóvar presents a compassionate, frank and darkly humorous study of end-of-life, starring the tremendous pairing of Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton. 

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The Girl with the Needle

Mon 10 Mar, 5pm & 8pm

Danish (with English subtitles) | Cert: 16 | 2025 | 123mins

Palme d'Or Nominee, Cannes Film Festival 2024

Based on a true story, Director Magnus von Horn's film is a meticulously crafted and fearful observation of one woman’s struggle for survival in post-WWI Copenhagen.

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The Count of Monte Cristo

Mon 17 Mar, 3.30pm & 7.30pm (note earlier start times)

French, Romanian and Italian (with English subtitles) | Cert: 12A | 2024 | 178mins

Audience Award, Philadelphia Film Festival 2024

A breathtaking adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s 1844 novel. Pierre Niney leads a stellar cast in this truly lavish adaptation of the iconic tale of romance and redemption.

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Mandoob

Mon 24 Mar, 5pm & 8pm

Arabic (with English subtitles) | Cert: 15A | 2024 | 110mins

Best Director, Casablanca International Film Festival 2024

A pacy thriller that uncovers the darker side of Saudi Arabian society, and explores the impact when tradition collides with consumerism in a country undergoing rapid change.

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The Last Dance

Mon 31 Mar, 5pm & 8pm

Cantonese (with English subtitles) | Cert: 12A | 2024 | 126mins

6 Nominations incl. Best Film, Macau International Movie Festival 2024

A smash hit in its native Hong Kong, this warm, charming film delicately balances comedy and drama and offers a fascinating insight into funeral traditions and rituals in the region.

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Hard Truths

Mon 7 Apr, 5pm & 8pm

English (unsubtitled) | Cert: 12A | 2024 | 97mins

Best Lead Performance (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), British Independent Film Awards 2024

Acclaimed director Mike Leigh returns to contemporary London for this character-driven family drama with an exceptional cast led by Marianne Jean-Baptiste.

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Nickel Boys

Mon 14 Apr, 5pm & 8pm

English (unsubtitled) | Cert: 12A | 2024 | 140mins

Best Drama Nominee, Golden Globes 2025 2024

An extraordinary adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, RaMell Ross directs this story of two African-American teenagers sent to the same cruel reform school in 1960s Florida.

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The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Mon 21 Apr, 3.30pm & 7.30pm (note earlier start times)

Persian (with English subtitles) | Cert: 15A | 2024 | 167mins

Best Foreign Language Film Nominee, Golden Globes 2025

Palme d'Or Nominee, Cannes Film Festival 2025

Shot entirely in secret, Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof’s award-winning thriller centres on a family thrust into the public eye as a judge grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran.

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How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies

Mon 28 Apr, 5pm & 8pm

Thai (with English subtitles) | Cert: Club | 2024 | 125mins

Audience Award, New York Asian Film Festival 2024

Palme d'Or Nominee, Cannes Film Festival 2025

Thai director Pat Boonitipat offers a feel-good, sunny, gracious portrait of family life in this true story about a grandson and grandmother.