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7:00 PM
Catalyst Arts Inside Stories (Memories from the Maze and Long Kesh Prison)
Catalyst Arts
Admission is free
Long Kesh (later renamed the Maze) Prison was a microcosm of the political conflict that raged for over thirty years in the North of Ireland. It was... read full listing
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7:15 PM
Shot on location in the picturesque North Antrim coast around Cushendun The Boys and Girl from County Clare begins with grainy black-and-white... read full listing
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7:45 PM
Ricky (Ashley Walters, aka So Solid Crew's Asher D) is just out of a young offender’s institute, heading home to Hackney and determined to go... read full listing
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12:00 PM
Twenty-five countries, twenty-five visions from respected film directors from each of the countries that form the new European Community. Each... read full listing
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3:00 PM
The NIFTC were delegated responsibility for Lottery Film Funding in April 2002. Since that time they have received over 263 Lottery applications and... read full listing
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7:00 PM
In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they... read full listing
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7:00 PM
Who is Wiz?! Wiz is one of the world’s most succesful music video directors. He made a name for himself in 1992 with the seminal Weekender a film... read full listing
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7:15 PM
This powerful documentary looks at the nightmare of a separation fence in Israel-Palestine that imprisons one people while enclosing the other. A... read full listing
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9:00 PM
A documentary on the once-promising American rock bands, The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols, and the friendship/rivalry between their... read full listing
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9:00 PM
Fresh from the release of their ‘Kill the DJ’ record, Messrs Twitch and Wilkes of Glasgow’s Optimo return to Belfast. Optimo are crafty butchers,... read full listing
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9:15 PM
Treading the fine line between adolescence and adulthood, the Field sisters have all but declared war on their domineering father. Though Jim Field... read full listing
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10:00 PM
The QFT plays host to the festival club on April 8 & 9 with chilled out grooves and vibrant visuals to sooth all frantic festival goers. Deadman... read full listing
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11:15 PM
In his feature debut, Moon-Sang Kim creates a futuristic world that is magnificently imaginative and sweeping in scale. Sky Blue is a spectacular... read full listing
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10:00 AM
MEDIA Service NI and the NIFTC in consultation with the MEDIA Business School publication of "The Fine Art of Co-Producing" present its authors Per... read full listing
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2:00 PM
Presenting Local Voices a series of short film and animation education programmes supported by NIFTC and DCAL. The films where produced as a result... read full listing
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3:00 PM
Robert Mulligan's classic adaptation of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, set in the racially charged atmosphere of Macon County, Alabama in... read full listing
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3:30 PM
Conceived, written and designed by the legendary Dr Seuss, the 5000 Fingers of Dr T is a true cult classic and one of the strangest films for... read full listing
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6:30 PM
When Prince Hal Tara finds his father, the Emperor, apparently slain by their enemy, the Zeriths, he is forced to leave the kingdom swiftly to avenge... read full listing
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7:15 PM
Hanif Kureishi's screenplay was ground-breaking in its bold exploration of issues of sexuality, race, class and generational difference. The film... read full listing
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8:00 PM
A documentary six years in the making, Amazing Grace ventures into the phenomenon that is Jeff Buckley. Jeff Buckley was signed by Columbia Records... read full listing
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8:30 PM
Pictorially sumptuous and sexually provocative Untold Scandal is an erotic drama that turns into a tragic romance. A tale of Machiavellian... read full listing
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8:30 PM
Platonic philosophy…transgendered punky glam rawk and the best Farrah wig ever. HEDWIG and the ANGRY INCH is the story of “internationally ignored”... read full listing
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9:30 PM
The Beatles, at the height of their popularity made this psychedelic animated feature. The magical Pepperland is invaded by the Blue Meanies, who... read full listing
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9:30 PM
Jean-Luc Godard's Notre Musique is a typically dense meditation on war and image. The Film is presented in three distinct movements titled Hell,... read full listing
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10:00 PM
The QFT plays host to the festival club on April 8 & 9 with chilled out grooves and vibrant visuals to sooth all frantic festival goers. A myriad... read full listing
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11:00 PM
16-year-old Erik's life is tainted by violence and conflict. After his expulsion from school, he is sent to the boarding school Stjarnsberg as a last... read full listing
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11:15 PM
Thierry has just met Claire and has fallen deeply in love even though she has the only characteristic he dislike sin a woman: very white skin. Claire... read full listing
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2:00 PM
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4:00 PM
Two brothers, Phil and Ted Stoneman, visit their friends in Piedmont, South Carolina: the family Cameron. This friendship is affected by the Civil... read full listing
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6:30 PM
Rocky Road To Dublin might be considered a guide to what shouldn’t happen after a revolution. It was one of the few independent documentaries made in... read full listing
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7:00 PM
In '70s Germany, fifty-something Elli enters an ethnic bar to get out of the rain. Here she meets a young man named Ali, a Moroccan guest worker. A... read full listing
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7:15 PM
In a world teetering on the edge of self-destruction, award winning filmmaker Velcrow Ripper sets out a unique pilgrimage. Visiting the ‘Ground... read full listing
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7:30 PM
Taking France by storm Les Choristes purportedly led to a surge in applications to join choirs all over the country. The magic is unquestionably in... read full listing
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8:00 PM
The Strand 70th Birthday screening - A Night To Remember
Strand Cinema
Adult £4.50, Concession £3.50
Celebrate 70 years of the Strand Cinema with this special birthday screening of A Night To Remember. Director Roy Ward Baker’s highly detailed... read full listing
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9:00 PM
Werner Herzog’s new film is about the daring adventure of exploring rainforest canopy with a novel flying device-the Jungle Airship. Airship engineer... read full listing
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9:30 PM
This masterful, visceral and realistic film taps into the most primal of human fears - what unseen creature lurks below the dark surface of the water... read full listing
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9:30 PM
Here, finally, is a sex comedy that works because it understands one thing: sex is funny. Torremolinos 73 is about an ordinary couple in the 1970s... read full listing
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12:00 PM
Chair: Eilish Rooney Keynote Speaker: Darcus Howe Panellists: Jamal Iweida and others TBC The 5th Belfast Film Festival special publication on... read full listing
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7:00 PM
In Association with the Royal Society of Ulster architects Belfast Film Festival presents a continuation of onedotzero’s excavations into moving... read full listing
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7:00 PM
"God is dead, the world is a terrible place and, because of the desperate need for improvement, people like Mux are crucial." Meet Mux: a freelance... read full listing
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7:15 PM
In ‘Who You Callin' a Nigger?’ Howe looks at intra-racial tensions amongst minority ethnic communities in Britain. As Black and Asian youths in the... read full listing
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7:30 PM
The Mighty Celt is a gutsy story about a 14 year old boy who adopts an awkward greyhound his boss has no time for. Donal (Tyrone McKenna) lives... read full listing
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7:30 PM
In the puritanical 1940’s, Ireland banned as indecent and obscene two hilarious classics that sprang from Gaelic culture - Frank O’Connor’s The... read full listing
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9:00 PM
Mohammed, his wife and their five children live in an isolated house located halfway between a Palestinian village and an Israeli settlement. The... read full listing
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9:00 PM
In 1937, after seeing a photo depicting the lynching of a black man in the south, high school teacher Abel Meeropol wrote a poem entitled "Strange... read full listing
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9:30 PM
It seems fitting that The Republic of Love marks Deepa Mehta's first film since Bollywood/Hollywood (Belfast Film Festival 2003), as it partly deals... read full listing
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3:00 PM
Northern Ireland has become an attractive place for Feature Film Producers and not just those based here. 20 Features have been made here in the last... read full listing
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7:00 PM
Belfast Exposed - Opening the Family Album Part II ‘Beneath The Surface’
Studio cinema
Admission is free
To be screened alongside an exhibition of Jo Spence’s seminal work on domestic photography which is showing from 04 March to 15 April in the Belfast... read full listing
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7:00 PM
A film by Stephan Jarl and award-winning Swedish filmmaker Lukas Moodysson which looks at anti-globalization protesters in Gothenburg, Sweden during... read full listing
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7:30 PM
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7:30 PM
For dance music fans, Ibiza is mecca and it’s here that celebrity DJs ply their trade. It’s not easy to make it, but legendary spinmaster Frankie... read full listing
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7:30 PM
Rebel Frontier vividly recounts how in 1917 in the copper mines of Butte, Montana, USA, Irish and Finnish emigrants buried their ethnic rivalries in... read full listing
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8:00 PM
The Searchers is considered by many to be a true American masterpiece of filmmaking, and the best, most influential and perhaps most-admired film of... read full listing
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8:00 PM
Soccer, Gaelic Football, Ice hockey. Who can say which sport encapsulates the character of Northern Ireland? If we looked in our hearts we’d find the... read full listing
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9:00 PM
Shot in melancholic monochrome, Radio on follows a morose factory worker DJ Robert who drives from London to Bristol to investigate the apparent... read full listing
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9:30 PM
With its extraordinary detailed representations of Victorian Britain, Steamboy is an invigorating sci-fi adventure from Japanese anime master... read full listing
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1:30 PM
The Department of Culture, Arts & Leisure has provided £12 million over a four year period for Irish language film & television production. The aim... read full listing
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2:30 PM
In this powerful, multi award-winning documentary, Jane Elliott, a former teacher in the US midwest builds up a realistic microcosmos of a prejudiced... read full listing
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4:00 PM
The Letter explores what American news outlets have dubbed the 'Somali Invasion' of Lewiston, Maine, an insulated, predominantly white former mill... read full listing
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4:30 PM
A project of sixpackfilm, the Austrian experimental film agency; FILMART TAKES POSITION is a forum for film artists to make statements of an artistic... read full listing
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6:30 PM
One of the first films to kick off the entire Direct Cinema movement, Salesman is considered, along with the other films in this retrospective, an... read full listing
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7:15 PM
Café Lumière charts the life of a Japanese reporter named Yoko. While Yoko researches an article on real-life Taiwanese musician Jiang... read full listing
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7:30 PM
On November 1971, 200 soldiers of the British Army’s Royal Green Jackets regiment, moved into the Creggan Estate in Derry, to carry out a search and... read full listing
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7:30 PM
Romper Stomper is a morally ambiguous look at a group of neo-Nazis raising hell in Melbourne, Australia. A gang of vacant, brutish young thugs headed... read full listing
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8:00 PM
Well, bless my beautiful hide! Seven Brides For Seven Brothers has aged better than most classics, the songs are still great, the dancing still... read full listing
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8:00 PM
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East,... read full listing
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8:00 PM
Lewis Klahr is one of the most original and prolific film artists of his generation. Intensively archaeological in his approach to autobiography and... read full listing
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8:00 PM
Local award winning documentary film-maker Dermot Lavery introduces Cinema Verite icon Albert Maysles. In a public interview Dermot will talk to... read full listing
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9:00 PM
13-year-old girl, Aviva (the palindrome of the title), sets her heart on becoming a mother and ends up sleeping with some of the most ghastly... read full listing
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9:30 PM
In 1973, the Chilean military, under the direction of General Augusto Pinochet and backed by the CIA, overthrew the shaky socialist government of... read full listing
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12:00 PM
Director Daniel O’Hara and Director of Photography Fergal O’Hanlon talk about their award winning short film Yu Ming Is Animn Dom. This was Daniel’s... read full listing
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3:00 PM
Albert Maysles will share his insights and many years of experience in a masterclass on documentary film-making. Please book early to avoid... read full listing
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3:00 PM
Albert Maysles will share his insights and many years of experience in a masterclass on documentary film-making. Please book early to avoid... read full listing
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6:15 PM
The Belfast Film Festival is delighted to celebrate the life and times of Michael Open, administrator of the QFT from 1968 to 2004. No-one has... read full listing
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7:00 PM
Grey Gardens is the unbelievable but true story of Mrs Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie, the aunt and first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy... read full listing
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7:30 PM
MICHAEL OPEN INTRODUCES ANGEL Michael has always been a champion of Irish Cinema, and over the past 35 years has made QFT a showcase for the very... read full listing
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7:30 PM
Timoteo is a surgeon. In the very hospital where he works his 16 year old daughter lies in the operating theatre after an accident, under the care... read full listing
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7:30 PM
Caitlín Maude was a poet, musician and singer from Connemara who died in 1982 at the age of forty two. Her son was left without his mother, her... read full listing
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8:00 PM
"Money still talks, only you have to turn up the volume to hear it." So states the baseball cap framing R.L. Burnside's weathered, Cheshire Cat face,... read full listing
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8:00 PM
Proteus is a tragic story of forbidden love, beautifully transposed from the records of an actual crime that took place in 1735. Sent for 10 years to... read full listing
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9:00 PM
The Green Butchers is a laugh-out-loud farce bristling with cruelty, inviting viewers into the loathsome world of two memorable losers. A sorrier... read full listing
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9:00 PM
So you think you know who played the Scarecrow in the 1978 remake of the ‘Wizard of Oz’? Or the ‘Subway thug’ in Woody Allen’s ‘Bananas’. If so this... read full listing
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9:30 PM
Albert Maysles’ legendary innovations in documentary, is used to great effect here bringing the audience, with unprecedented intimacy, into the lives... read full listing
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7:30 PM
Lance Daly’s (Last Days in Dublin) The Halo Effect portrays an eccentric and nocturnal side to Dublin, full of characters completely removed from the... read full listing
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8:00 PM
Cinilingus in association with Oddball Film+Video present a romp through sex and exploitation films. Drawn from extensive film archives, this... read full listing
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8:00 PM
Based on a little-seen Japanese anime from 1973, Kazuaki Kiriya’s Casshern is the latest film to be shot entirely on a virtual backlot. In a world... read full listing
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8:30 PM
In the early 1990s, Gregg Araki was the bold leader of New Queer Cinema with films like Totally F***ed Up. Now he brings us the brilliant Mysterious... read full listing
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9:30 PM
A bunch of flesh-eating fish are accidentally released and they proceed to munch their way down river to a kid's summer camp and a holiday resort.... read full listing
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10:30 PM
Stéphanie, a 32-year-old transsexual prostitute, shares her life with her lovers Mikhail, an illegal Russian immigrant and Jamel, a French Arab, who... read full listing
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9:30 AM
AGRICULTURAL REPORT Dir. Melina Sydney Padua 2004, Ireland, 2mins 32secs A cow is listening to a radio show 'Agricultural Report' which is... read full listing
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11:30 AM
ENDGAME (35mm) Dir. Sarah Aynesworth 2004, UK/NI 17mins 24secs A hostage protests his innocence EVERYTHING IN THIS COUNTRY MUST (35mm) Dir.... read full listing
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2:00 PM
TEN MINUTE MOVIE Dir. Imogen Murphy 2004, Ireland, 10,mins A lowly extra gets a shot at stardom. Now the glory and the girl are at Sam's... read full listing
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3:00 PM
Tarnation was edited with iMovie on a kitchen table for around $218. It was quickly picked up by a sales agent and touted everywhere by America’s... read full listing
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3:30 PM
THE HUGO MELLON SHOW Dir. Joel Simon 2004, Northern Ireland, 9mins 40secs Hugo Mellon, Ireland's toughest talking chat show host interviews... read full listing
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7:30 PM
A multi-award winning knockout debut from Jonathan Caouette. Tarnation is a roller coaster ride through the life of a gay, American generation x-er. ... read full listing
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7:30 PM
Performing a score specially composed for these rare silent masterpieces, Belfast Film Festival in partnership with The Cathedral Quarter Arts... read full listing