Belfast Film Festival

This month the seventh Belfast Film Festival kicks off with a packed programme of films and events. The event runs from 22nd March to 1st of March. The seventh year offers the most exciting programme to date. “From Japan to Austria - Iceland to India, join us as we shake off the winter blues, greet the spring and embrace the best of new independent cinema from across the globe.”

About
In the past ten years Belfast city has began a process of transformation. The film festival has been part of that transformation and has played a significant role in the cultural regeneration of the city.

The Belfast Film Festival originated in August 1995 as part of feile an Phobail (West Belfast Community Festival). After five years of rapid development we moved to city centre premises in 2000 and expanded to a range of venues throughout the city. The festival’s growth has continued with audience levels increasing on average 35% annually over the past 5 years.

Belfast Film festival has been at the forefront in championing cultural film exhibition in Northern Ireland. The festival is now one of the key annual events in the city. After a serious setback in 2004 when fire totally destroyed our offices, 2005 saw the festival’s most major development to date. With new capital investment from European Union, Department of Social Development and Arts Council NI we moved to our new offices in the Cathedral Quarter and launched our Studio Cinema a 50 seater digital screening room.

Belfast Film Festival is unique in that it is the only festival which has a defined ‘socio-political’ focus on films complemented by a commitment to bring the best of new international documentaries to Ireland in our Maysles Documentary Competition. Each year a range of films, speakers and seminars focussing on a selected theme provides a platform for debate and enagagement between diverse section of the audience.

Themes to date have included Reconciliation and Divided Societies; Ulster Protestant Identity on Film; Irish Women Film-makers; Human Rights and Film; Racism, Community and Film and in 2007 Societies in Transition: Policing for the People.

For more information visit the official site here.

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