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1/2 Revolution
Directed by Omar Shargawi & Karim El Hakim. 2011. 72 mins. Egypt ½ Revolution is a personal, intimate story from the Arab Spring: a group of friends living in downtown Cairo struggle to stay together during the first chaotic days ... (click to read more)
Book Now11th Belfast World Pong Champs
Pong returns with a fresh injection of Olympic money. Long ago a primitive computer console was patched together from valves and springs by a young boy in a shed in Bromley. Young Davy Jones went on to even greater things, and by the time ... (click to read more)
Book NowA Royal Affair
Directed by Nikolaj Arcel. 2012. 137 mins. Denmark Johann Friedrich Struensee, town physician and doctor to the poor of Altona – then governed by the King of Denmark, Christian VII – accompanies his monarch in 1768 on the latter’s ... (click to read more)
Book NowA Tribute To Paddy Jolley
7pm. Monday 4th June at The MAC. Irish filmmaker Paddy Jolley, who died earlier this year aged 47, was a popular and influential figure, not only in Ireland but across Europe and the United States. Belfast Film Festival invites you to ... (click to read more)
Book NowAllegro Non Troppo
Directed by Bruno Bozzett Something of a Fantasia for adults, Allegro Non Troppo intercuts slapstick live-action sequences -- which relay the story of a beleaguered animator’s (Maurizio Nichetti) ongoing battle with an Oliver Hardy-like ... (click to read more)
Book NowAmy George
Directed by Yonah Lewis & Calvin Thomas. 2011. 95 mins. Canada A feast for the heart and mind alike, filled with tender moments of daily teenage life turned upside-down by clumsy desire and hormonal hiccups, Amy George tells the story of Jesse, ... (click to read more)
Book NowAn Evening With James Ellis
interviewed by Gerry Anderson Belfast Film Festival is delighted to honour the outstanding and much loved actor and writer James Ellis with a Lifetime Achievement Award. In celebration of the event, local broadcasting genius, Gerry Anderson, ... (click to read more)
Book NowArbeit /Child Of The Atom
Directed by Duncan Campbell. 2011. 39 mins. 14minsgate In Arbeit, Duncan Campbell tries to track the origins of the financial crash, through the life of German economist Hans Tietmeyer, former head of the Deutsche Bundesbank and still a ... (click to read more)
Book NowBay Of All Saints
Directed by Annie Eastman. 2012. 75 mins. USA In Bahia, Brazil, generations of impoverished families live in palafitas, a vast network of shacks built on stilts above a rising tide of garbage over the ocean bay. With the government threatening to ... (click to read more)
Book NowBeauty
Directed by Oliver Hermanus. 2011. 99 mins. France/South Africa While François is convinced that he has wasted his life, a chance encounter completely turns his neat and tidy existence on its head. Christian is a good-looking young man of 23 ... (click to read more)
Book NowBelfast Film Festival Quiz
Directed by BHM "I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it." Well, here’s your chance to change all that by attending the annual movie buff convention that ... (click to read more)
Book NowBetter Things
Directed by Maria Paz Cabardo. 2012. The Life and Choices of Jeffrey Catherine Jones The main participant in the Better ‘Things’ documentary, Jeffrey Jones, is unique even among the pioneers in comics, working in a profoundly ... (click to read more)
Book NowBeyond The Black Rainbow
Directed by Panos Cosmatos. 2010. 110 mins. Canada.. A reverential ode to Kubrick, Argento, Cronenberg, Altered States, John Carpenter synth scores, ‘70s sci-fi and ‘80s fantasy, and mind-boggling, hyper-stylized madness. ... (click to read more)
Book NowBig Banana Feet: Billy Connolly
Directed by David Peat Inspired by DA Pennebaker’s classic Bob Dylan documentary Don’t Look Now, director Murray Grigor and cinematographer David Peat followed Billy Connolly on his 1975 Irish tour from the opening concert in Dublin to ... (click to read more)
Book NowBlack Moon
A film and music night for adults with learning difficulties Black Moon is a night by and for people with learning difficulties but can be enjoyed by anyone. For the Film Festival we’ll have a special Elvis performance from the amazing ... (click to read more)
Book NowCanicula
Directed by Jose Álvarez. 2011. 65 mins. Mexico. An ethnography in the best sense of the word, Jose Álvarez’s film transports us to the Totonac village of Zapotal, Santa Cruz, providing a series of indelible moments: an awkward ... (click to read more)
Book NowChina Heavyweight
Directed by Yung Chang. 2012. 89 mins. Canada/China. The latest film from Yung Chang director of previous Maysles Brothers Competiton film ‘Last Train Home’. In southwestern China, state athletic coaches scour the countryside to ... (click to read more)
Book NowCinematic Titanic. MST3K
Directed by Kazui Nihonmatsu Cinematic Titanic, the riffing show from the creator and original cast of Mystery Science Theater 3000, continues the tradition of riffing on the unfathomable, the horribly great, and the just plain ‘cheesy’ ... (click to read more)
Book NowCloudburst
Cloudburst Directed by Thom Fitzgerald. 2011. 93 mins. USA/Canada Originally produced as an award-winning stage play in Canada, Cloudburst is a road trip tale with a multi-generational twist — a story about the family we choose and the family ... (click to read more)
Book NowCome As You Are
Winner of two major awards at the Montréal World Film Festival, Come As You Are is an off-beat Belgian road movie about three young disabled men on a quest to lose their virginity. Jozef is nearly blind, Philip is a paraplegic, and Lars ... (click to read more)
Book NowCrude
Directed by Joe Berlinger. 2009. 105 mins. USA. Three years in the making, this cinéma-vérité feature from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (one of the team behind Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, also showing in the festival) is ... (click to read more)
Book NowCrulic
Directed by Anca Damian, Romania-Poland 2011, 73min Beautiful artwork and a powerful story are the key elements of animated documentary “Crulic -- The Path to Beyond,” recounting the Kafkaesque history of a Romanian man arrested ... (click to read more)
Book NowDark Horse
Directed by Todd Solondz. 2011. 84 mins. USA Todd Solondz crafts yet another searing portrayal of middle-class malaise. Abe (Jordan Gelber) is a thirty-something lout content to live in his childhood bedroom that’s still adorned with action ... (click to read more)
Book NowDeath Of A Superhero
Directed by Ian Fitzgibbon. 2011. 98 mins. Germany / Ireland Fourteen-year-old Donald (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) feels he has little left to hope for after several cycles of chemotherapy. Worst of all, he might die a virgin. Death Of A Superhero is a ... (click to read more)
Book NowDesert Island Flicks
With special guest Terri Hooley Once more Belfast Film Festival will bring a celebrity guest back in time to the darkness of their local “Roxy” and ask them to revive their best cinema experiences in response to questions like ... (click to read more)
Book NowDigital Art Studios
The Digital Arts Studios Belfast is pleased to present 3 new films by past artists in residence Cherith Brown, Jacqueline Holt and Laura Graham: RECOLO Directed by Cherith Brown, 2012. 7 mins. Recolo is an experimental video ... (click to read more)
Book NowDon Hertzfeldt
Directed by Guillaume Canet. 2010. 154mins.France. Print Source: A special selection of cult animator and Academy Award nominee Don Hertzfeldt classic animated shorts, culminating in the exclusive premiere of his newest film, ... (click to read more)
Book NowFootprints On The Moon
Directed by Luigi Bazzoni. 1975. 96 mins. Italy. Alice Cespi feels her life is falling apart due to strange memories from childhood, when she was forced to watch a film in which some astronauts were left stranded on the moon. Alice has terrible ... (click to read more)
Book NowGhost Ship
Directed by Lionsgate A salvage team think they’ve made the find of a lifetime, until they discover there’s more on board than meets the eye in this supernatural thriller. Led by Captain Sean Murphy (Gabriel Byrne), the crew of the ... (click to read more)
Book NowGirltrash
Directed by Alexandra Kondracke.2012. Special preview screening. In the tradition of “Go” and “Superbad”, GIRLTRASH: All Night Long is the story of five girls and one epic night. Daisy and Tyler are two ... (click to read more)
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