Films Showing on Sat 5 Dec 2020
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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 Fri 27 Nov.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
