Peter Taylor - Belfast Film Festival

Peter Taylor, Director of Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, will present two medium length films at the Beanbag Cinema. El Futuro Luis López Carrasco, Spain 2013 (63 min) Whilst dancing breathlessly to a soundtrack of Spanish new-wave hits, we go back to the future to party on the eve of the momentous 1982 Spanish election. Sueñan los Androides/Androids Dream Ion de Sosa, Spain 2014 (61 min) The year is 2052 and androids live and dream hidden amongst a dwindling human population. In Ion de Sosa’s hyper-minimalist adaptation of Philip K Dick’s 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?', 16mm documentary footage of off-season Benidorm, collides brilliantly with mordant humour and android extermination. https://belfastfilmfestival.org/films/peter-taylor

17th Belfast Film Festival - 30th March to 8th April 2017

Our opening night film 'Mindhorn' is sold out but plenty else to see, so get booking!... https://belfastfilmfestival.org

On The Road - Belfast Film Festival

Wolf Alice's tour documentary, On The Road. BAFTA-winning filmmaker Michael Winterbottom joined the band on the road, capturing 16 different gigs (including Belfast) and daily life backstage. Winterbottom’s resulting tour film – which records the tour from the point of view of a new member of their crew – is a refreshingly unusual one with unexpected twists; it reveals the relentless, sometimes unglamorous graft of playing loud, hot, physical music, night after night. Dir. Michael Winterbottom Documentary https://belfastfilmfestival.org/films/on-the-road

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Strand Arts Centre

BanterFlix's Jim McClean will be hosting a Q&A with Sean S. Cunningham, the director of 'Friday the 13th', after a screening of the film tomorrow evening at the Strand Arts Centre! Starts at 7pm! Thanks to Northern Ireland Hospice.

BFF17

3 Days to the Start of Belfast Film Festival 17. Join us fellow pluviophiles for a cinematic shower...

Junun - Belfast Film Festival

Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood and Paul Thomas Anderson join other westerners in a musical odyssey through the north Indian state for a documentary recalling Buena Vista Social Club.. https://belfastfilmfestival.org/films/junun

TIDES - Irish Premiere at Belfast Film Festival

Urban Mysteries TRAILER

'Urban Mysteries' is a one-hour multi-media performance work for film, soundtrack and saxophonist Cathal Roche, in which the score and soundtrack by Ian Wilson interacts with a new film (recorded in Belfast and environs) by acclaimed Irish artist Johnnie Lawson. Urban Mysteries was commissioned by the Belfast Film Festival with funds from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. book tickets now at: https://belfastfilmfestival.org/films/urban-mysteries

Contemporary Color - Belfast Film Festival

Contemporary Color In the summer of 2015, legendary musician David Byrne staged an event in Brooklyn to celebrate the art of Colour Guard: synchronised dance routines involving flags, rifles, and sabres - colloquially known as “the sport of the arts”. Contemporary Color is a gift to audiences everywhere - Variety If you aren't bingeing color guard videos on YouTube afterward, you might not have a heart - LA Times Dir. Bill Ross and Turner Ross Documentary https://belfastfilmfestival.org/films/contemporary-color

Cameraperson - Belfast Film Festival

Cameraperson Cameraperson is a tapestry of footage captured over the 25 year career of documentary cinematographer Kirsten Johnson. Cameraperson is haunted - as one senses Johnson may be - by the question of whether and how much documentary filmmakers should intervene in the lives of their subjects - Sight & Sound An absorbing, challenging creation - The Guardian Kirsten Johnson Documentary https://belfastfilmfestival.org/films/cameraperson

Citizen Jane - Belfast Film Festival

Citizen Jane: Battle for the City Legendary writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs’ battle to save historic NYC neighbourhoods from the draconian redevelopment plans of Robert Moses in the 1960s. Screening will be introduced by City Reparo. A fascinating documentary captures the showdown, half a century ago, between the activist Jane Jacobs and the Trumpian urban planner Robert Moses: a fight for the future of New York - Variety Dir. Matt Tyrnauer Documentary https://belfastfilmfestival.org/films/citizen-jane