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Belfast Film Festival

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

BFF: Universal Language

Matthew Rankin's delightfully offbeat comedy begins with one simple but radical idea: what if Persian were the first language of a stylized but still drolly recognisable Winnipeg?
31 October 2024
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BFF: Bring Them Down

This debut feature from Christopher Andrews is a refreshing stylistic take on the Irish rural drama.
01 November 2024
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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 filmmakers from the island of Ireland.
02 November 2024
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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 filmmakers from the island of Ireland.
02 November 2024
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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 filmmakers from the island of Ireland.
02 November 2024
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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 filmmakers from the island of Ireland.
02 November 2024
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BFF: Windless

After years away, Kaloyan returns to Bulgaria to sell his late father's flat. Initially a routine task, it gradually becomes a journey of self-discovery, confronting distant traumas while finding a new path.
02 November 2024
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BFF: Radu Jude in Conversation

Join us for what is sure to be a highly unpredictable and enjoyable conversation with one of world cinema's true mavericks. 
02 November 2024
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BFF: Dead Man’s Money

Belfast Film Festival is delighted to present a gala screening of the latest film from writer-director, Paul Kennedy. Taking Shakespeare’s Macbeth as its jumping off point, Dead Man’s Money brings a light touch to some dark themes.
03 November 2024
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BFF: Eephus

A pair of New England Sunday league teams face off for the last time over the course of a day.
03 November 2024
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BFF: Second Chance

Indian writer-director Subhadra Mahajan makes a soothing balm of a debut feature with the pensive, intimately observed story of 25-year-old Nia. 
03 November 2024
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BFF: Grand Tour

Miguel Gomes' latest has toured as much as its protagonists showing in Cannes, Sydney, Busan, Toronto and New York film festivals.
03 November 2024
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BFF: The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire

An actress grapples with the legacy of the real-life figure she's supposed to be playing: the Martinique writer Suzanne Césaire.
04 November 2024
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BFF: Lalor Roddy in Conversation

The Belfast Film Festival is proud to present actor Lalor Roddy with an award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Film.
05 November 2024
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BFF: To Kill a Mongolian Horse

On the wintry Mongolian steppes, Saina's dual life as a herdsman and horseback performer unravels as he grapples with the dissolution of the traditional way of life.
05 November 2024
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BFF: Familiar Touch

Sarah Friedland's desperately moving debut feature film won multiple awards at the recent Venice Film Festival and it isn't hard to see why – except insofar as it can be hard to see anything through such wet eyes.
06 November 2024
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BFF: Nightbitch

A woman pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mom, but soon her domesticity takes a surreal turn.
07 November 2024
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BFF: Anne Devlin + Q&A

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Pat Murphy’s seminal Irish film, Anne Devlin, the Belfast Film Festival is presenting a rare opportunity to see this important film on the big screen.
08 November 2024
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BFF: King Baby

A wooden queen comes between a king and a servant in this surreal, dark comedy from English filmmaking duo Kit and Arran.  
09 November 2024
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BFF: Housewife of the Year

This documentary from Ciaran Cassidy made its debut in Galway earlier this year, winning the prize for Best Irish Feature Documentary.
09 November 2024
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BFF: Hard Truths

Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us. 
09 November 2024
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BFF: The Other Way Around

After 14 years together, Ale and Alex decide to throw a party to celebrate their separation, leaving their loved ones perplexed.
09 November 2024
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BFF: Flow

After his home is devastated by an enormous flood, a cat and his travelling companions embark on an incredible journey to find dry land in Latvian director Gint Zilbalodis' magical, breathtaking animation.
09 November 2024
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