Light House Cinema

The Light House Cinema is an art cinema with 614 seats across four screens in Dublin, which also serves as one of the venues for the Dublin International Film Festival. From 1988–1996, the original Light House Cinema was located in an art-deco venue on Middle Abbey Street. A new government-funded cinema was built and opened in Smithfield, Dublin in 2008. It briefly closed in 2011 following the Dublin property crash, but the property was taken over National Asset Management Agency. It has since 2012 become successful and popular with locals, thanks to its more eclectic mix of films including art-house and Hollywood blockbusters, as well as regular classic screenings. The cinema also hosts quiz nights, book clubs, specially-hosted cult film screenings, and a cinema music festival called ‘1-2-1-2 Music Festival’. Screens hold an audience between 68 and 277 people.