• Special Events

Film Devour Short Film Festival provides a platform for local filmmakers, writers and actors to screen their films, network and coordinate ideas.

• USA
• 1995
• 90 mins
• English
• Coming of age
• Cult
• Special Events

Damn the man! Save the Empire! To celebrate Record Store Day BanterFlix are putting on a 35mm screening of Empire Records at the Strand Arts Centre on Saturday 13 April.

• 90 mins
• Special Events

Our tribute to the work of one of america’s greatest performers. Featuring footage of Bruce from his early days to the present, with concert performances, music videos, interviews and more as part of this celebration.

• Ireland
• English
• Various
• Shorts Competition

Showcasing both first-time and established short filmmakers from all parts of Ireland, our short film programme this year is heaving with talent.

• Ireland
• English
• Various
• Shorts Competition

Showcasing both first-time and established short filmmakers from all parts of Ireland, our short film programme this year is heaving with talent.

• Ireland
• English
• Various
• Shorts Competition

Showcasing both first-time and established short filmmakers from all parts of Ireland, our short film programme this year is heaving with talent.

• Ireland
• English
• Various
• Shorts Competition

Showcasing both first-time and established short filmmakers from all parts of Ireland, our short film programme this year is heaving with talent.

• UK
• 2008
• 95 mins
• English
• Drama
• Rewind

We are delighted to announce that Robert Carlyle will introduce this film, personally chosen by him as one of his best, and under-appreciated films.

• Ireland
• 2007
• 85 mins
• English
• Drama
• Rewind

To mark Lenny Abrahamson's visit to Belfast Film Festival we screen one of his earlier films.

• USA
• 1953
• 91 mins
• English
• Comedy
• Musical
• Romance
• Rewind

Two Showgirls travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of one of the Showgirls’ fiancé, as well as a rich, enamored old man and many other doting admirers.

• UK
• 2019
• 90 mins
• English
• Drama
• Opening & Closing

Written by Tess McGowan, directed by Shelly Love and produced by Louise Gallagher, the film centres around the awkward relationship between immature mum Pamela and disapproving daughter, Allegra.

• Argentina/Spain
• 2018
• 126 mins
• Spanish
• Drama
• Mystery
• New Cinema

An attractive stylish portrayal of shallow serial killer, based on a real life, baby-faced murderer in 1970s Argentina

• UK
• 2018
• 91 mins
• English
• Comedy
• Drama
• New Cinema

Bill Nighy, Sam Riley and Alice Lowe star in this stylish and heartfelt comedy-drama about a Scrabble-obsessed tailor searching for a lost son.

• UK
• 2018
• 100 mins
• English
• Drama
• New Cinema

Pond Life is a perfectly formed coming of age tale set in a quiet mining village outside Doncaster in the mid 90s with breakout performances from a talented cast of young actors.

• Ireland/Canada
• 2018
• 98 mins
• English
• Comedy
• Drama
• New Cinema

John Butler’s (Handsome Devil) latest comedy/drama sees the filmmaker return to the themes of empathy and unlikely friendship. In this case, the bond forms between a well-heeled, gay presenter and an older, straight, labourer from Mexico.

• France/Belgium
• 2018
• 97 mins
• French
• Drama
• Thriller
• New Cinema

The spirit of Alfred Hitchcock hovers over this lusciously designed psychological thriller set in 1960s Brussels. Two neighboring suburban housewives are best friends — until a tragic accident breaks the harmony between their clans, and paranoia and distrust take hold.

• Italy
• 2018
• 104 mins
• Italian
• Comedy
• Drama
• New Cinema

Seduction, glamour, corruption, drugs and raucous poolside parties: the life and times of scandal-plagued Silvio Berlusconi have long-demanded a screen depiction, and who else to deliver it than Paolo Sorrentino, the Academy Award-winning director of ‘The Great Beauty’ and ‘The Young Pope’.

• USA
• 2018
• 102 mins
• English
• Drama
• Romance
• New Cinema

Sebastián Lelio (A Fantastic Woman) directs Julianne Moore in this remake of his 2013 film about a free-spirited, middle-aged divorcee hoping to find love on the dance floor.

• Poland/Czech Republic/Sweden
• 2018
• 102 mins
• Polish, English
• Drama
• Mystery
• Thriller
• New Cinema

Alicja suffers from dissociative fugue, a condition that has made her forget her identity. After suffering an episode, she disappears. Two years later, she returns to her former family to assume against her will, her role as wife, mother and daughter.

• Ireland
• 2018
• 101 mins
• English
• Drama
• New Cinema

Carmel Winters’ second feature revolves around a young Irish woman and aspiring boxer and her father, who has just been released from prison in 1960s Ireland.

• UK
• 2018
• 91 mins
• English
• Drama
• New Cinema

An actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur’s debut. Through pitch-black satire, ‘Chained for Life’ examines the treatment of disability on screen and on set.

• Columbia/Denmark/Mexico
• 2018
• 125 mins
• Wayuu, Spanish, English
• Crime
• Drama
• New Cinema

The filmmaking team behind the sublime Embrace of the Serpent addresses the origins of the Colombian drug trade.

• China
• 2018
• 141 mins
• Chinese
• Drama
• Romance
• New Cinema

Heartbreak and resilience fuel this quietly epic saga, in which one woman’s fortitude and knack for crime carry her through a rapidly changing China.

• Poland/Spain/Germany/Belgium/Hungary
• 2018
• 85 mins
• English, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish
• Animation
• Biography
• New Cinema

Based on the book written by legendary Polish war correspondent Ryszard Kapuściński. Another Day Of Life tells the story of a journalist, left to himself to write a feature story on the civil war in Angola on the advent of its regaining independence in 1975. 

• Ireland
• 2019
• 35 mins
• English
• NI Independents

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