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Belfast Film Festival 2026

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I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning (Country: UK, France, US; Year: 2025; Director: Clio Barnard; Writer: Enda Walsh; Stars: Joe Cole, Anthony Boyle, Lola Petticrew, Jay Lycurgo, Daryl McCormack, Millie Brady, Lucie Shorthouse, James Eeles)
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.
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Lost City (Country: UK; Year: 2027; Director: Sean A Murray; Writer: Sean A Murray; Stars: Ian Beattie, John Connors, Graham Earley, Geraldine Hughes, Stephen Rea, Gerard Jordan, Jade Jordan, Mosa Kambule, Ciaran McCourt, Adam Murphy, Jade O’Neill)
A boxer finds himself facing off against a notorious Limerick gangster in order to protect the woman he loves.
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