The 2023 edition of the Belfast Film Festival opens with Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers and closes with Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things. Guests include John Sayles and Maggie Renzi.

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The festival runs from 2 to 11 November.

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Goodbye Julia
Goodbye Julia
Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona — a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage — tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home.
Double Blind
Double Blind
When an experimental drug trial goes horribly wrong, the surviving test subjects must fight off sleep, and each other, to stay alive.
Monster
Monster
A mother is shocked when she learns what a teacher has said to her son, but the truth is more complicated.
The Delinquents
The Delinquents
Two bank staff rob their own establishment.
Eileen
Eileen
Set during a bitter 1964 Massachusetts winter, young secretary Eileen becomes enchanted by the glamorous new counsellor at the prison where she works. Their budding friendship takes a twisted turn when Rebecca reveals a dark secret — throwing Eileen onto a sinister path.
All Of Us Strangers
All Of Us Strangers
A screenwriter embarks on a relationship with a neighbour at the same time as making a journey into his troubled past.
Do Not Expect Too Much Of The End of the World
Do Not Expect Too Much Of The End of the World
Overworked and underpaid, Angela drives around the city of Bucharest to film the casting for a 'safety at work video' commissioned by a multinational company. When one of the interviewees reveals the company’s liability in his accident, a scandal erupts.
Poor Things
Poor Things
The story of a young woman who has been brought back to life.
Heaven Scent
Heaven Scent
The mysterious poisoning of a detective friend leads Kent, a retired English teacher, on the search for a transforming perfume that could shape the political and religious stability of Northern Ireland.
Anatomy Of A Fall
Anatomy Of A Fall
A woman is accused of her husband's murder.
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Belfast Film Festival Features

In search of liberty
Rodrigo Moreno on freedom and character development in The Delinquents
The dreamers
Ian Hunt-Duffy and Pollyanna McIntosh discuss Irish horror and Double Blind
Always within her
Elene Naveriani on the recognition of beauty and Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
Truth and nail
Christos Nikou on technology, love and Eighties synthpop in Fingernails
Winds of change
Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir on depicting modern Mongolia and Shamanism onscreen in City Of Wind
'We made magic'
Lila Avilés on the meeting between the worlds of adults and children in Tótem
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