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This year's edition of the Belfast Film Festival opens on Halloween night with the Irish première of Aislinn Clarke’s Irish language horror movie Fréwaka, and closes on 9 November with the UK première of The Wise Guy, directed by Sam O’Mahony. It includes three world premières and a total of 25 films screening in Northern Ireland for the first time., as well as a William Friedkin tribute and a selection of old favourites.
View Films by Strand:
- Art of Action
- BFF Collaborations
- Galas
- International Competition
- Ireland Focus
- New Cinema
- Palestine Cinema Days
View previous years coverage of the Belfast Film Festival festival:
Belfast Latest Reviews
A woman pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mother, but soon her domesticity takes a surreal turn.
An animated adventure about a group of animals who must work together to survive a catastrophe in a post-human world.
Two men go on a road trip across Ireland in search of a priceless record.
Life's a constant struggle for Pansy. Racked with physical and mental pain, her dealings with the world are channeled through anger and confrontation - only her sister understands and is able to help her.
Follows an octogenarian woman’s transition to life in assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship to herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.
Saina, a herdsman by day and horseback performer by night, is torn between two worlds.
A troubled home carer finds her grip on reality starts to slip after she goes to help an elderly agoraphobic.
A mother is called into her child's infant school after he faces an accusation.
World leaders become stranded in the woods during a G7 summit.
In the autumn of 1960, Father Thomas Riley and Father John Thornton were sent by the Vatican to investigate a miraculous event in an Irish home for 'fallen women', only to uncover something much more horrific.
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