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The 2023 edition of the Belfast Film Festival opens with Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers and closes with Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things. Guests include John Sayles and Maggie Renzi.
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The festival runs from 2 to 11 November.
View Films by Strand:
- Doc Yard
- Family Films
- Galas
- International Competition
- John Sayles & Maggie Renzi Retrospective
- Kill Your Job Before It Kills You
- New Cinema
- New Irish Horror
- NI Independents
- Screenwriters On Screen
- Special Events
View previous years coverage of the Belfast Film Festival festival:
Belfast Latest Reviews
Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona — a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage — tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home.
When an experimental drug trial goes horribly wrong, the surviving test subjects must fight off sleep, and each other, to stay alive.
A mother is shocked when she learns what a teacher has said to her son, but the truth is more complicated.
Two bank staff rob their own establishment.
Set during a bitter 1964 Massachusetts winter, young secretary Eileen becomes enchanted by the glamorous new counsellor at the prison where she works. Their budding friendship takes a twisted turn when Rebecca reveals a dark secret — throwing Eileen onto a sinister path.
A screenwriter embarks on a relationship with a neighbour at the same time as making a journey into his troubled past.
Overworked and underpaid, Angela drives around the city of Bucharest to film the casting for a 'safety at work video' commissioned by a multinational company. When one of the interviewees reveals the company’s liability in his accident, a scandal erupts.
The story of a young woman who has been brought back to life.
The mysterious poisoning of a detective friend leads Kent, a retired English teacher, on the search for a transforming perfume that could shape the political and religious stability of Northern Ireland.
A woman is accused of her husband's murder.
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