We are delighted to announce that the writer and director of Black 47, Lance Daly, known for films such as The Halo Effect, Kisses and The Good Doctor, will be attending this year’s Opening Night Gala. Filmed around Ireland in Wicklow, Connemara and Kildare, it also stars Irish talent Stephen Rea, Barry Keoghan, Moe Dunford… Read Article →
***MORE TICKETS RELEASED TODAY DUE TO DEMAND*** One of the greatest female documentarian’s in the world, Agnès Varda, turns her camera on an Oakland demonstration against the imprisonment of activist and Black Panthers co-founder Huey P. Newton. At this special 50th anniversary of Black Panthers we are honoured to welcome Irish Civil rights leader, feminist,… Read Article →
On the 20th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Belfast Film Festival presents Hear My Voice, a short film by Brendan Byrne (Bobby Sands: 66 Days, Maze), which combines Colin Davidson’s stunning portrait collection, Silent Testimony, with the spoken words of the victims and survivors of the Northern Irish Troubles, featured in the paintings. Silent… Read Article →
The 2018 Belfast Film Festival launched today in front of a packed room of 200 people in The Black Box Belfast. We have 118 premieres in a programme of 178 films ranging from features to short films to Virtual Reality (VR) titles drawn from 30 countries around the world. Amongst our many special guests we… Read Article →
We are very excited to announce the 18th Belfast Film Festival’s limited edition festival pass! There are only 40 of these exclusive passes available to purchase so get them while you can! For only £70 you can enjoy: Guaranteed tickets for the opening and closing galas Guaranteed ticket for Special Presentation Award Ceremonies Guaranteed tickets… Read Article →
Filmmaker Mark Cousins has been named as the new Chairperson of the Belfast Film Festival. Cousins, who is from Belfast, is an internationally acclaimed film director, writer, critic, and presenter. A former director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival and a Honorary Professor of Film at the University of Glasgow, his eclectic works range from… Read Article →
The Beanbag Cinema is Belfast Film Festival’s very own venue snuggled in the heart of the Cathedral Quarter. Bring your own food and drink, pay £4 in, pick a beanbag and enjoy one of our specially chosen films in the comfiest cinema in Belfast! As our first programme of Beanbag films went so well, we’ve… Read Article →
Recently nominated for the 2018 Irish Film & Television Awards, in the prestigious George Morrison Feature Documentary award section, ‘The 34th – The Story of Marriage Equality’ was shown in Belfast, late December 2017. At a private screening hosted by Love Equality, The Social Change Initiative and Belfast Film Festival, Linda Cullen’s documentary was presented … Read Article →
Translink and Belfast Film Festival teamed up this Thanksgiving to present a unique 30th anniversary screening of ‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles’. We were joined by Joe Lindsay who hosted the screening on the main concourse of Belfast Central Station. The audience enjoyed one of the funniest films ever made, Planes, Trains & Automobiles which tells… Read Article →
Belfast Film Festival runs from 12th to 21st April 2018 and is open for submissions to it’s three competition strands (Short Film/Short Documentary Film/Maysles Brothers Award) and the Northern Ireland Independents showcase. The NI Independents showcase presents a series of locally made feature and medium length films produced on micro-budgets and developed by their makers… Read Article →
Belfast Film Festival presented the Irish premiere of Oscar winning filmmaker Alex Gibney’s new film, No Stone Unturned, in a packed to capacity Loughinisland GAA hall on Friday night, past. In an emotional gathering, family and friends of the six victims of the Loughinisland massacre, watched together as the opening sequence, a re-enactment of the… Read Article →
Belfast Film Festival in partnership with South13 celebrated Halloween this week by offering horror fans (and some canine friends) the unique experience of watching some of their favourite scary movies. On Sunday 29th we held our first dog friendly screening of 101 Dalmatians. Over 60 dogs were in attendance and fur-tunately there was enough pup-corn… Read Article →
Translink and Belfast Film Festival are teaming up this Thanksgiving weekend to present a unique 30th anniversary screening of ‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles’ on the main concourse of Belfast’s Central Railway Station. A limited number of tickets will go on sale at 12pm, Friday 3rd November, so mark it in your dairies so you don’t… Read Article →
On Thursday 14th September we hosted the premiere of Maze at the Moviehouse on Dublin Road, Belfast. In attendance were Stephen Burke (director), Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (actor) and Barry Ward (actor). Based on the true story of the 1983 mass break-out of 38 prisoners from the HMP Maze high security prison, Maze is a gripping prison… Read Article →
Belfast Film Festival is delighted to partner once again with Pride for a short season of screenings as part of the city’s 10 day LGBT festival. Based on Jane Rule’s novel Desert of the Heart, Donna Deitch’s narrative feature debut Desert Hearts (29th July) centres on a burgeoning lesbian romance in Reno, Nevada in the… Read Article →
