belfast film festival

The Belfast Film Festival returns with films and events that celebrate film as a collective experience.

BFF: The Love That Remains

The wonderful Hlynur Pálmason returns after his critically acclaimed thriller-mystery, A White White Day and the sweepingly epic period piece,...

30 October 2025

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BFF: Dead Lover

John Waters and Frankenstein’s monster walk into a bar. They pal around and decide to make a film. They might come up with something similar to...

31 October 2025

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BFF: Competition Shorts Programme 1

Belfast Film Festival is proud to support the medium of short film, and this annual competition is made up of early-to-mid career and established...

01 November 2025

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BFF: Competition Shorts Programme 2

Belfast Film Festival is proud to support the medium of short film, and this annual competition is made up of early-to-mid career and established...

01 November 2025

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BFF: Competition Shorts Programme 3

Belfast Film Festival is proud to support the medium of short film, and this annual competition is made up of early-to-mid career and established...

01 November 2025

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BFF: Competition Shorts Programme 4

Belfast Film Festival is proud to support the medium of short film, and this annual competition is made up of early-to-mid career and established...

01 November 2025

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BFF: Before/After

With seemingly everyone talking about transplant tourism these days, this touching comedy about two men bonding over baldness has come along at just...

01 November 2025

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BFF: On the Sea + Q&A

Set along the weathered coastline of North Wales, Jack works as a hand raker on the mussel beds alongside his younger brother and nephews. Film...

01 November 2025

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BFF: A Private Life (Vie Privée)

Jodie Foster plays renowned psychiatrist, Lillian Steiner, an American in Paris, who begins her own investigation into the death of her patient.

02 November 2025

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BFF: Dracula

One of the most flogged (un)dead horses in cinema history is wheeled out again by maverick auteur Radu Jude for this sprawling deconstruction of the...

02 November 2025

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BFF: It Was Just an Accident

The festival is delighted to present the 2025 Palme d’Or winning work from celebrated Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi.

02 November 2025

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BFF: The Secret Agent

Wagner Moura (Narcos, Civil War) exudes handsome leading-man vibes in this tense and moving 20th century political thriller from acclaimed director,...

02 November 2025

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BFF: Lucky Lu

In this contemporary re-imagining of Bicycle Thieves, Lu is a delivery driver in New York City. Film starts 9pm.

03 November 2025

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BFF: Fior Di Latte

They say smell is intricately tied with memory, just a sniff can transport you to the past via the canyons of the mind. Film starts 9pm.

04 November 2025

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BFF: If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

Starring the hugely talented Rose Byrne as you’ve never seen her before, plus Conan O’Brien, Christian Slater and A$AP Rocky, If I Had...

04 November 2025

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BFF: My Father's Shadow

Deftly told from a child’s perspective, My Father’s Shadow is a remarkable debut from British-Nigerian filmmaker, Akinola Davies. Film...

05 November 2025

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BFF: Bulk + Q&A

Ben Wheatley's Bulk is a gleefully freewheeling genre flick, recalling Alphaville and Quatermass as much as it does Thunderbirds.

06 November 2025

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BFF: Sentimental Value

Joachim Trier returns to his beloved Oslo and another collaboration with the breakout star of his previous award-winning film, The Worst Person In...

06 November 2025

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BFF: Two Prosecutors

Awarded the François Chalais Prize, an award given to a film dedicated to the value of journalism, Two Prosecutors is a gripping portrayal of...

07 November 2025

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BFF: Blue Heron

A young Hungarian family moves to Vancouver. Through the eyes of eight-year-old Sasha, we witness the unnatural rhythms of adjusting to a new...

08 November 2025

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BFF: Kontinental '25

Excitingly one of two Radu Jude films in this year’s programme, Kontinental ‘25 was filmed as a small side project but went on to win the...

08 November 2025

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BFF: Nouvelle Vague

Jean Luc Godard has often been misquoted as saying “the best way to criticise a film is to make one.” Nouvelle Vague considers this...

08 November 2025

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BFF: Promised Sky

The third feature from French Tunisian director Erige Sehiri is a colourful and neorealist exploration of the intersecting lives of three Black...

08 November 2025

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BFF: Sirāt

Saying almost anything in advance about visionary director Oliver Laxe’s fourth film seems too much like a spoiler. It should be enough just to...

08 November 2025

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