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This year, Northern Ireland's biggest film festival combines international hits with challenging documentary content and a great programme of shorts.
The festival runs from 29 October to 7 November.
View Films by Strand:
- Altered States
- Botanic Gardens
- Establishing Shots
- Galas
- New Cinema
- NI Independents
- Opening & Closing Night
View previous years coverage of the Belfast Film Festival festival:
Belfast Latest Reviews
Historical drama set against a backdrop of Vichy France as a man strives to help France's renewal.
During the 1994 IRA ceasefire, two best friends try to escape their lives in a small Irish town.
A lazy sound designer is sent to the remote island where a film was shot to capture a sound powerful enough to elevate its finale. Once there, eerie local fables surface: for years, ambitious and headstrong youth have lost their souls to a ghostly sea captain for his spectral crew.
As of early May 2026, over 260 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023. The UN and various organisations have described this as the deadliest conflict for journalists in history. With Israel’s new surge of ethnic cleansing in South Lebanon the total has now reached 28 for the same period.
A high-powered executive's meticulously controlled existence begins to unravel.
Childhood friends Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli, and Conor played together, skipped school together, and dreamt of the lives they would have one day. Now they’re thirty, and the future they imagined is slipping quietly out of reach.
The director of a nursing home in Paris has an encounter with a terminally ill Japanese playwright that transforms her life.
A woman disguises herself as a man in 17th Century Germany.
A food influencer secretly struggles with bulimia as she navigates online fame, close friendships, and a painful past.
A father goes looking for his missing photographer daughter across rural Georgia.
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