Belfast Film Festival

I must confess to having no idea that the Belfast Film Festival is now 20 years old - beginning as part of Féile An Phobail in 1995.
Now long established as an essential event in its own right, the festival abounds each year with everything you could hope to find at such an event - from 'New Cinema' to 'Documentary Panorama' and to independently Northern Irish filmmaking.

In recent years the festival has focused on 'site specific' screenings, placing films in a context informed by their content, or as they say: "site-specific cinema means hosting the classics of the silver screen in surroundings that enhance and intensify your experience of our films."

Previously we had Evil Dead in the Ormeau Park, Cool Hand Luke in the Crumlin Road Gaol, The Breakfast Club in Christchurch Library, Odd Man Out at The Albert Clock, 2001: A Space Odyssey at the Titanic Dry Dock and Jaws in the Bangor Aurora swimming pool.

The programme, as ever, is vast, but we will be doing our absolute best to not miss the following:
Michael Rossato-Bennett's Alive Inside, "a joyous cinematic exploration of music's capacity to reawaken our souls and uncover the deepest parts of our humanity."
Eat Your Children - "a provocation, an inside-out activist film, a film that attempts to document the invisible."
Actually, to be honest, it is almost impossible to compile a short list, as almost everything looks like a 'must see'. Find a programme, fill yer boots.

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