Belfast Film Festival

supported by Orange

7-16 April 2005

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Amazing Grace

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

8:00 PM , Saturday 9th April

Waterfront Hall

 

Cafe Lumiere

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

7:15 PM , Wednesday 13th April

QFT

 

Casshern

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

8:00 PM , Friday 15th April

Waterfront Studio

 

Dig!

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

9:00 PM , Friday 8th April

QFT

 

Falling Angels

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

9:15 PM , Friday 8th April

QFT

 

It's All Gone Pete Tong

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

7:30 PM , Tuesday 12th April

QFT

Orange 2-4-1

 

Machuca

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

9:30 PM , Wednesday 13th April

QFT

 

Mysterious Skin

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

8:30 PM , Friday 15th April

QFT

 

Palindromes

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

9:00 PM , Wednesday 13th April

QFT

Orange 2-4-1

 

Republic of Love

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

9:30 PM , Monday 11th April

QFT

 

Scared Sacred

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

7:15 PM , Sunday 10th April

QFT

 

Sky Blue

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

11:15 PM , Friday 8th April

QFT

Orange 2-4-1

 

Steamboy

With its extraordinary detailed representations of Victorian Britain, Steamboy is an invigorating sci-fi adventure from Japanese anime master ... read full listing

9:30 PM , Tuesday 12th April

QFT

 

The Take

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

7:00 PM , Friday 8th April

QFT

 

Untold Scandal

Pictorially sumptuous and sexually provocative Untold Scandal is an erotic drama that turns into a tragic romance. A tale of Machiavellian ... read full listing

8:30 PM , Saturday 9th April

QFT

 

Wall (Mur)

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

7:15 PM , Friday 8th April

QFT

 

White Skin

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

11:15 PM , Saturday 9th April

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