This film tells the story of actor and performer Matthew Cavan, aka Belfast’s most-loved drag artist, Cherrie Ontop. Watch now on QFT Player.
With their regular nights in the Crescent Arts Centre on hold, the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s are taking the show online for a special virtual get-together, with special guests Joe Holtaway and Robyn Hitchcock. Watch here.
All the raw energy and excitement of the 1970s punk scene in Northern Ireland is on display in John T. Davis' legendary 1979 documentary. Watch now on QFT Player.
QFT Player presents Tailwind (2009) by documentary filmmaker John T. Davis, screening to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day.
After our worldwide digital premiere on Saturday 9 May, the ground-breaking Belfast Ensemble's first lockdown broadcast, Ten Plagues, is available to watch on QFT Player.
QFT Player presents Hobo (1991) by John T. Davis, Northern Ireland’s most distinctive documentary filmmaker and cinematographer.
Witness The Outcasts at their incendiary best in this thrilling concert film from John T. Davis. Watch now on QFT Player.
A dog accompanies his owner through the highs and lows of quarantine.
Available to watch for free on QFT Player, The Uncle Jack is at once a portrait of John T. Davis’ maternal uncle John McBride Neill, the cinema architect who from the 1930s to the 1960s designed 18 of Northern Ireland's most cherished cinemas, and a self-portrait of Davis himself.
The Curzon Film Centre was not just a cinema, it was many different things to different people. A family heirloom, a place for inspiration, relaxation and above all a safe space in a divided community where there were few.
Available to watch on QFT Player, Grace and Goliath is a positive, family feel-good movie, produced by Cinemagic, and shot in Northern Ireland with the help of 48 aspiring young filmmakers.
A short animation directed by Lucy Baxter that vividly represents the internal experience of mental abuse. Available to watch for free on QFT Player.
In late 2019 to early 2020, poetry students from the Seamus Heaney Centre were invited to make new works in response to the Changing Views exhibition at the Ulster Museum.
Showing as part of Film Feels Connected, This Land is a short film about Ireland's relationship with race, identity and immigration, directed by Zithelo Bobby Mthombeni. Available to watch for free on QFT Player.
Join us on Thursday 2 July for one of the highlights of the Seamus Heaney Centre calendar, the annual Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize. Available to watch for free on QFT Player.
Available to watch for free on QFT Player, Dust on the Bible (1989) is John T. Davis' remarkable time capsule film of Belfast's street preachers.
Available to watch for free on QFT Player, Power in the Blood documents country gospel singer and preacher Vernon Oxford’s journey from his home in Franklin, Tennessee to Belfast on a mission to bring the healing power of Jesus back to Northern Ireland.
A film by Dublin director Paul Duane, While You Live, Shine is the story of how an American record collector's obsession with the oldest music in Western Europe changed his life. Watch for free on QFT Player from Friday 10 July (available for 24 hours).
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