Georgia Oakley's (Blue Jean) irresistible new take on Jane Austen’s iconic Sense and Sensibility is a charming, witty, and deeply...

When an amateur historian begins examining records from a former Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co. Galway, she stumbles upon evidence pointing...

Set against the stark beauty of the Oregon landscape, The Weight draws on the introspective action cinema of the 1970s to depict a gritty...

Jeremy Strong, Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White star in Aaron Sorkin's companion piece to The Social Network.

The writer-director behind Sorry to Bother You is back with another idiosyncratic, anti-capitalist vision, featuring an all-star cast that includes...

Brad Bird’s smart animated caper, set in in a futuristic world where humans and aliens co-exist, sees a private eye drawn into a murder...

Lee Chang-dong’s masterfully directed follow-up to Burning finds four strangers’ lives entwined by hidden desires and repressed emotions.

40 years on, Michael Mann’s (Heat) pulsating, cutting-edge Manhunter returns to cinemas in a brand new 4K restoration supervised by Michael...

One of the cornerstones of the 1960 British new wave, Billy Liar put Northern working life on screen capturing its dramas and dialects. 4K...

Danny Boyle brings a seismic moment in Rupert Murdoch’s Fleet Street career blazingly to life, employing the breathtaking style of a story torn...

Winner of the Grand Jury Dramatic Prize at Sundance, this suspenseful and devastating film follows a child trying to navigate life after witnessing a...

Try! is an award-winning documentary that follows four Irish players who defy all expectations on their journey to the most inclusive and...

Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, NAZA reveals the systems behind Israel’s bombing of Gaza and its mass killing of Palestinian...

Hammer Films in partnership with Warner Bros resurrects Dracula in a landmark new 4K restoration featuring long-lost footage unseen for over 60 years.

In a masterclass of control and precision, Paweł Pawlikowski explores the fragmented soul of postwar Germany through a father-daughter road trip...

From the creators of Spirited Away and Ponyo, and Academy Award-nominated director Hiromasa Yonebayashi, comes a gorgeous and adventure-filled...

As part of National Hate Crime Awareness Week 2026, join us at Queen's Film Theatre, Belfast, for Voicing the Void: Small Acts - an afternoon of...

Set against the backdrop of mass protests in Paris, Case 137 follows Stéphanie, a meticulous internal affairs investigator assigned to...

A powerful coven is formed when a new girl in town befriends three other misfits with supernatural tendencies. Celebrating 30 years, this '90s...

This searching, Palme d’Or-winning moral dilemma pits preaching conservative Christian parents against a holier-than-thou liberal system.

The Debut is an elegant and intelligent coming-of-older-age story about how it’s never too late to find our true selves, and the redemptive...

A jaded New York club promoter finds his messy lifestyle upended by the discovery that he has a son, in Jordan Firstman’s hilarious feature...

In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, teenage Nafisa finds herself torn between tradition and change.

A triumph! A spectacle! CatVideoFest is all that and more. Our favourite family-friendly cat-themed film event returns to QFT for a limited time.

A metal-rending car crash announces the beginning of a meticulous study of masculine malaise that never swerves from its course. 

South Korean sci-fi banger which brilliantly fuses cop thriller and monster movie trappings into a hugely satisfying action epic.

What should have been a dream collaboration between Gloria Swanson, her financier lover Joseph P. Kennedy and director Erich von...

Films to Die For brings into conversation a collection of dazzling cinematic moments, from Europe, Hollywood and Brazil, evidencing how works from...

The most popular pick at this year's QUB Freshers' Fair is a wild, meth and fast-food fuelled joyride through the margins of a menacing American...

Based on Milanese sisters Angela and Luciana Giussani’s iconic popular 1960s comic, Danger: Diabolik is a stylish cult classic...

Once upon a time, in a faraway place called QFT, tales of magic, mystery and strange lands lit up the screen all night long.

There is safety in numbers at this slumber party. Slasher gore and spooky vibes back to back - can you survive 'til morning?

Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman delivers an unforgettable performance in this gothic supernatural thriller, 4K restored.

A special screening of Cornish auteur Mark Jenkin’s political folktale of two fishermen locked in a time-loop.

In 1993, invited by David Lynch to come up with a low-budget genre movie, Michael Almereyda came up with a moody, postmodern reimagining of the...

Ken Russell's (The Devils) deliriously unhinged adaptation of Bram Stoker’s final novel follows a young archaeologist who uncovers the skull of...

Do you come out of the cinema buzzing to talk to someone about what you've seen? Join us for After the Credits, our monthly film discussion group...

It's love at first fright in this '90s Addams Family sequel, with an iconic performance from Joan Cusack. And don't you dare mention Malibu Barbie.

This is an historic and intimate farewell to Ozzy and the band that changed music forever.

A tender story of first love, belonging and growing up, Beautiful Thing follows neighbours Jamie and Ste as their friendship deepens into romance...

Belfast Film Festival is proud to honour one of Ireland's most cherished and enduring actors, Stephen Rea, with this year's Réalta Award.

One of two films in this year’s programme set at the advent of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, this film takes a warm and...

Censored for more than half a century, Ken Russell’s visionary masterpiece returns to the big screen fully restored in 4K and cut to...

Martin McDonagh returns with another tragi-comic two-hander with a razor-sharp script and outstanding performances from a stellar cast.

Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson’s wonderfully eccentric fable is, at its core, a gentle love story starring Olivia Colman,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

As actor Stephen Rea will be presented with the 2026 Réalta Award at this year’s festival, Belfast Film Festival is presenting a...

This extraordinary debut from filmmaker Rakan Mayasi follows the story of two sisters whose lives become caught up in the after-effects of a violent...

In forested rural Bangladesh, Jahir is a popular and idealistic teacher making a foray into local politics.

An archaeologist gets ever more intertwined in the dealings of local gangsters in this understated work from Valeska Grisebach (Western).

This sparse and spiky western set in 1870s Wisconsin is the story of a sheriff’s struggle between duty and family in the face of a diphtheria...

Swann Arlaud (Anatomy of A Fall) gives an effectively inexplicit performance as a man making his way up the career ladder of the Vichy government,...

A firm favourite of the festival team, Andrew Haigh returns with this patient, elegiac period piece based on the short story by Colm Toibin.

Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan, Loveless) returns once again to cast his critical gaze on Russia in our bleak present times.

In this magical‑realist portrait of patriarchy, a father living in rural Vietnam grows increasingly afraid for his 16‑year‑old son, Ngo, who...

After premiering his widely anticipated long-form documentary at various international festivals (including Docs Ireland) earlier this year, Mark...

Crustaceans... Corman... Cardioid microphones, The Peril at Pincer Point has it all!

The plight of the polar bear is captured with style and grace in this documentary that highlights the tragedy and beauty of the natural world in the...

The peerless director of Drive My Car and Evil Does Not Exist, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, returns with another deeply considered and exquisitely paced drama.

A beautifully-acted story of teenaged girl Minnie finding solace in her best friend’s mother as they both grieve, with the huge talent of...

There’s another incredible performance from one of the greatest actors of our time in this film. Sandra Huller (Anatomy of a Fall), plays the...

When the quiet German village of Altdorf is taken over by an SS platoon which proceeds to enforce Hitler's ideals upon its inhabitants, a kindly...

After being diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer, filmmaker David Nicholas Wilkinson set out to investigate a disease that is increasingly affecting...

Unavailable for many years due to music licensing issues, this gritty study of 1970s sexual liberation showcases a tour-de-force central performance...

On September 25 1983, 38 Republican inmates executed the largest prison breakout in British history, violently breaching the supposedly escape-proof...

Winner of Docs Ireland Best Irish Feature Documentary, Lesbian Lines reveals a hidden history through an underground network of telephone helplines...

Baby Pictures is our monthly morning film slot exclusively for carers with little ones aged twelve months and under. This month weave...

Céline Sciamma's sumptuously beautiful Cannes prize-winner is one of cinema's most compelling visions of the power of desire.

This summer, one tomboy will get the girl, score a goal and convince his adorable/annoying little sister not to rat him out to his parents for...

Edward Dmytryk brought his experience making US noirs to UK shores, resulting in an astonishingly dark and unsettling picture.

This is Céline Sciamma as you’ve never seen her: solo shooting, raw, unfiltered, singing, documenting herself on screen, as well as our...

Offering an important East Asian perspective on queerness, Edhi Alice: Take is a visually stunning, thoughtful and uncompromising documentary,...

Dry Ground Burning by directors Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós (Once There Was Brasilia) is a brilliantly provocative portrait of...

Imagine Freaky Friday, A Wrinkle in Time and When Marnie Was There got mixed with the magic only Céline Sciamma can sprinkle.

Emmy and Tony winner Christine Baranski makes her West End debut alongside Academy Award-nominated stage and screen legend Richard E. Grant in...

The fierce and funny five-star play returns to the big screen. Sam Mendes (The Lehman Trilogy) directs Mark Gatiss in an Olivier Award-winning...