James Norton stars as Welsh journalist Gareth Jones whose 1930s visit to Soviet Ukraine uncovered the truth of Stalin’s state-sponsored famine and reputedly inspired George Orwell’s Animal Farm.
It wasn’t until she lost her faith in God that Rosaline started seeing miracles… A Sign (Un Signe, Un Geste) is an enigmatic and compelling short film by Don Duncan, which explores hope, despair and signs. Available to watch for free on QFT Player.
Iceland’s finest actor Ingvar Sigurðsson gives a heart-breaking and Cannes award-winning performance as a widowed cop who becomes increasingly obsessed with his wife’s death. Available to rent 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.
French director Bruno Dumont's sequel to 2014’s Li’l Quinquin is another absurd and macabre adventure featuring aliens, refugees and madcap cops, centred around an investigation into some seriously whiffy business. Presented in two parts, both of which will be available to rent on QFT Player.
Available now on QFT Player, Down With Jazz is a short documentary about the state of jazz music in Ireland, created by students from the Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown, in 2017.
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.
Following the Iron Compass is a documentary about filmmaker John T. Davis and his passion for flying model aircraft, and the connection between the creative and the spiritual. Available to watch for free on QFT Player.
A dog accompanies his owner through the highs and lows of quarantine.
Available to rent 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.
Available to watch for free on QFT Player, John T. Davis' 1990 documentary offers a rare insight into the lyrics, lives and attitudes of Nashville’s songwriters, the largely unknown men and women whose art is the lifeblood of the country music industry.
Queen's Alumni and the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's are delighted to present Susannah Dickey in The Book Club, a new series of online author events. Available to watch for free on QFT Player.
A documentary produced and directed by Cahal McLaughlin and Siobhán Wills exploring the UN’s deadly legacy in Haiti. Available to watch for free on QFT Player.
Safe in a Dream is a new song and video by Lean Logic, a collaboration between Queen's University alumnus Nick Carlisle (Peepholes/Bamboo/Katy and Nick) and Rose Keeler-Schäffeler (Keel Her). Available to watch for free on QFT Player.
A short animation directed by Lucy Baxter that vividly represents the internal experience of mental abuse. Available to watch for free on QFT Player.
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.
Alice Guy-Blaché was a prolific filmmaker and a cinematic pioneer, yet she has largely been erased from the history books. Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché is available to rent on QFT Player.
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.
Behind a Performance: Tufo da Mafalala is an experimental documentary exploring the rituals of Tufo, a traditional Mozambican dance. The film is a collaboration between the Grupo de Tufo da Mafalala, the Associação IVERCA, and researchers in the field of sonic arts and ethnography from Queen’s University Belfast. Free to watch on QFT Player.
QFT Player presents Hobo (1991) by John T. Davis, Northern Ireland’s most distinctive documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. Available to rent now.
Ten-year-old Lise Leplat Prudhomme commands the centre of Bruno Dumont’s inventive reimagining of the story of Joan of Arc, a sequel to Dumont’s musical Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc that’s singular and entrancing enough to stand on its own. Available to rent on QFT Player.
An Iranian couple are forced to flee for their lives from Tehran in Eva Mulvad's (A Cherry Tale, A Modern Man) documentary about a family desperate to start a new life. Available to rent on QFT Player.
From filmmaker Alex Holmes, Maiden is the incredible, against-all-odds story of sailor Tracy Edwards, who skippered the first all-female international crew in the 1989 Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race. Available to rent on QFT Player.
The debut feature from Peaky Blinders director Tim Mielants, Patrick is a poignant dark comedy about the secrets one man exposes when he searches for his neglected tool at a nudist campsite. Available to rent on QFT Player.
The Seamus Heaney Centre's Professor Nick Laird, joins US poet Sharon Olds, in conversation with students from Queen's University. Their conversation took place in November 2020, and is the first in a series of online events with Nick and other internationally renowned poets. Available to watch for free on QFT Player.
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 for free on QFT Player.
A true, stranger-than-fiction adventure, Spaceship Earth follows eight visionaries who in 1991 spent two years quarantined inside of a self-engineered replica of Earth’s ecosystem called BIOSPHERE 2. Available to rent on QFT Player.
Four Sudanese filmmakers (retired, but not through their own choice) embark on a heroic adventure to revive a cinema in a country under an oppressive regime in this powerful documentary by director Suhaib Gasmelbari. Available to rent on QFT Player.
From the team behind Weiner comes The Fight, an inside look at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and how their team of scrappy lawyers have battled President Donald Trump's historic assault on civil liberties. Available to rent on QFT Player.
The Lifeboat Press, in partnership with the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's, presents a film in two parts to coincide with the publication of two pamphlets of new work by Leontia Flynn and Kevin Breathnach. Available to watch on QFT Player.
Italian maestro Marco Bellocchio’s bravura gangster odyssey dramatises the extraordinary real life story of the first major Mafia boss to turn state’s informant. Available to rent on QFT Player.
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.
Witness The Outcasts at their incendiary best in this thrilling concert film from John T. Davis. Watch now for free on QFT Player.
QFT Player presents Tailwind (2009) by documentary filmmaker John T. Davis, screening to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ulster Gaeilge: It's Yours Too! is a series of short animations that aims to show the many and different ways in which people in East Belfast and beyond are engaging with the Irish Language. The first two films are available to watch now on QFT Player.
Up Next is a short documentary produced and directed by Zithelo Bobby Mthombeni about the current growth of rap culture in Ireland. Available to watch for free on QFT Player.