• Ireland
• BFF Sofa Shorts
• Short Film Competition

2020 Belfast Film Festival Best Short Film Award

• Ireland
• BFF Sofa Shorts
• Short Film Competition

2020 Belfast Film Festival Best Short Film Award

• BFF Sofa Shorts

Welcome to Sofa Shorts Day! Pull up a sofa and settle down to watch the island’s best new fictional short films. 

• BFF Sofa Shorts

Welcome to Sofa Shorts Day! Pull up a sofa and settle down to watch the island’s best new fictional short films. 

• BFF Sofa Shorts

Welcome to Sofa Shorts Day! Pull up a sofa and settle down to watch the island’s best new fictional short films. 

• BFF Sofa Shorts

Welcome to Sofa Shorts Day! This year the festival introduces a new category of high quality short film from across Ireland - the 'Official Selection'.

• BFF Sofa Shorts

Welcome to Sofa Shorts Day! This year the festival introduces a new category of high quality short film from across Ireland - the 'Official Selection'.

• UK
• 2020
• 136 mins
• English
• BFF20 Online
• Talking Film

Award winning director Mark Cousins recently treated film students/lovers to a passionate and personal visual talk on movies. This is not only an invaluable resource but a wonderful insight into film.

• BFF20 Online
• Special Events

Out of all the subcultures that have come and gone, dance music had maybe the biggest impact on the styles, culture and politics of any.

• Northern Ireland
• 2020
• 80 mins
• English
• NI Independent
• Public Event

A down-on-his-luck expat returns to Northern Ireland after many years away. Upon arrival he is struck by the prosperity and throngs of tourists he sees.

• Northern Ireland
• 2020
• 35 mins
• BFF20 Online
• NI Independent

A man steals his deceased friend's laptop and starts to explore it's contents. So begins a poetic meditation on the meaning of friendship, loss, mourning and humanity in the digital age.

• Ireland
• 2019
• 35 mins
• English
• BFF Archive

A look through the eyes of a Barista serving coffee from a little Coffee Kiosk in the centre of Belfast.

• BFF Archive

To celebrate our 20th year we are delving back into the archives. In 2018 Belfast Film Festival welcomed Ken Loach to Northern Ireland and award him for his Outstanding Contribution to Cinema.

• BFF Archive

Belfast Film Festival welcomed the BAFTA winning, Emmy nominated Scottish actor to Belfast in 2019.

• BFF Archive

The event that nearly crashed our website! Re-watch the legendary John Cusack in conversation with Brian Henry Martin.

• BFF Archive

During #BFF19, Aamir Khan, one of the greatest stars of Indian Cinema, was in conversation with Nasreen Munni Kabir. Undoubtedly, one of the most anticipated Belfast Film Festival events.

• BFF Archive

During #BFF17, director Mark Cousins took part in a Q&A after screening his film Stockholm My Love.

• BFF Archive

Two years ago we screened The 34th. Watch the post-screening discussion here.

• BFF Archive

To celebrate our 20th year we are delving back into the archives. In 2019 we were honoured to have Oscar winning Director Lenny Abrahamson join us for an "in Conversation' with Hugh Odling-Smee.

• BFF Archive

Re-visit the Q&A with the team behind Ordinary Love, hosted by legendary film critic Mark Kermode.

• Hong Kong
• 1986
• 88 mins
• English
• Action
• Adventure
• UFO

Ninja Terminator - the magnificent, plotless martial arts brainvomit of Cinema's own Frankenstein, Godfrey Ho.

• BFF Sofa Shorts

Welcome to Sofa Shorts Day! Pull up a sofa and settle down to watch the island’s best new fictional short films. 

• Bangor, Belfast, Berlin
• 2020
• NI Independent
• Public Event

Celebrating 10 years of film-making, the Skyway Club screen their first feature film.

• Northern Ireland
• 2020
• 82 mins
• English
• NI Independent
• Online Event
• Public Event

A writer returns home to Ireland, after spending twenty-five years in New York, to confront the ghosts of his past. To make sense of the Northern Ireland he remembers as a child, in comparison with the place he finds it upon his return, still minus a united Ireland.

• Public Event
• Special Events

The Occasional Man is an immersive film installation following the protagonist 'Duncan', a recently retired Glaswegian embarking on a failed attempt to become an actor. The audience will be guided through scenes from his disillusioned life, across several rooms of the former UTV Studios at Havelock House.