• London Korean Film Festival Comes To QFT This Weekend

    November 15, 2018 - By 

    The London Korean Film Festival 2018 is coming to Belfast this week from the 16th till the 18th of November, taking highlights from its programme to Queens Film Theatre, with a selection that focuses on female directors from South Korea. Micro Habitat (dir. Jeon Go-Woon; 16th, 6.30pm) Mi-so (Lee Som), like many thirty-somethings, finds herself unprepared for the harsh economic realities of adulthood. Working as a housekeeper with low wages and zero job security, she struggles to pay the exorbitant rent on her cramped apartment. Mi-so’s spirited youth playing in a band seems a distant memory. The only modest pleasures…

  • Hijack! QFT Mixtape Vol. 1

    June 16, 2017 - By 

    Across July 7-9 we’re teaming up with Belfast’s Queen’s Film Theatre to present Hijack! QFT Mixtape Vol 1, a weekend-long takeover series featuring a selection of some of the very best music-themed films and documentaries. Including NI premieres of Gus Sutherland’s The Unseen: A Detroit Beat Tape, Sarah Price’s L7: Pretend We’re Dead (above), Iggy Pop and Josh Homme doc American Valhalla and John Scheinfeld’s John Coltrane documentary Chasing Trane, the series will also including a Delia Derbyshire Double Bill, School of Rock, Stop Making Sense and more. See below for the full programme. Tickets are available to buy via the QFT website. Chasing…

  • Playspace @ QFT, Belfast

    February 19, 2015 - By 

    Belfast’s Queen’s Film Theatre will host its first ever gaming festival, Playspace, over the weekend of Saturday, February 28 to Sunday, March 1. Set to feature a whole array of film screenings, creative sessions, demo stations and a big screen Halo tournament, the weekend will peak on two of the very best cinema and video game mash-up films ever: Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs the World (above) and the endlessly iconic Tron. Creative Sessions on game design and more will take place across the two days and nights. Check out the full schedule for and buy tickets to Playspace here.

  • Jim Jarmusch: The Essential Independent @ QFT

    August 28, 2014 - By 

    From September 19-25, Belfast’s Queen’s Film Theatre will showcase a slice of the nigh on incomparable oeuvre of a truly singular and independent figure in cinema, Jim Jarmusch. Marking the 30th anniversary of his cult breakthrough film, Stranger Than Paradise, the mini-season will see six of Jarmusch’s finest films screening across six days. They are: Dead Man, a majestic revisionist Western featuring Johnny Depp, considered by many as Jarmusch’s masterpiece. Down By Law, an exceptional and eccentric prison movie featuring Tom Waits, John Lurie and Roberto Benigni. Mystery Train, a film “following a small group of strangers in a strange land…

  • Jeremy Thomas: The Auteur Producer @ QFT

    August 20, 2014 - By 

    Belfast’s Queens Film Theatre will host a special, one-off talk with groundbreaking English film producer Jeremy Thomas on Thursday, August 21. For four decades, Thomas (pictured, right, with Bernardo Bertolucci on the set of the Oscar-winning The Last Emperor) has been behind some of British cinema’s most ambitious and exciting films, working with a host of legendary directors including Nicolas Roeg, David Cronenberg and the aforementioned Italian auteur. The QFT talk is set to be a look back at highlights from a career packed with films of artistic merit, ambition and originality. Things kick off at 7.30pm and you can buy…

  • Nebraska @ QFT

    December 6, 2013 - By 

    From Friday December 6 right up until Sunday December 22, Queen’s Film Theatre Belfast will be screening Alexander Payne’s latest film, Nebraska. Having established his filmmaking style on the likes of Sideways, About Schmidt and the The Descendants, Payne’s latest film sets a very odd couple off on a journey – this time across the plains of the small-town Midwest. Boasting a cast including Bruce Dern (pictured), Will Forte and June Squibb, the move is, according to the QFT website, “an affectionate but refreshingly unsentimental portrait of small-town America, and the complex, often troubled, relationships we have with our parents,…

  • Gremlins @ QFT Belfast

    November 25, 2013 - By 

    Belfast’s Queen’s Film Theatre will host a special one-off screening of Joe Dante’s classic 1984 horror comedy blockbuster Gremlins on Saturday, December 14. Presented by BBC Radio Ulster broadcaster Ralph McClean the screening is one of a select handful of Christmas movies being shown at the film theatre this year and will also include complimentary Jameson cocktails, music and prizes (including an original print by Peter Strain). Doors are at 9pm, the film starts at 10pm and tickets are available to purchase right here. http://www.queensfilmtheatre.com/films/jamesongremlins/