Young at Art artist, Duncan Ross, has been working with local schoolchildren to explore the impact of social distancing on children during lockdown, together reflecting on and creatively responding to what it has meant to not be able to touch those outside their home - their grandparents, their f...

Young at Art artist, Duncan Ross, has been working with local schoolchildren to explore the impact of social distancing on children during lockdown, together reflecting on and creatively responding to what it has meant to not be able to touch those outside their home - their grandparents, their f...

Integrated Education - Through the Eyes of Young People explores integrated education through the lived experiences of past and current pupils in integrated schools in Northern Ireland.

Made using a grant secured by the Integrated Education Fund (IEF) from the Community Relations Council Media P...

QFT presents a new short film by Belfast-based computer artist Glenn Marshall, to accompany the song 'Dissonant Beings' by the group Lean Logic. The film has been created using artificial intelligence and innovative machine learning techniques. Screening for free on QFT Player as part of Film Fee...

Conditional Love is a new song and video by Lean Logic, taken from their debut album, The Last Mirage.

Lean Logic is a collaboration between Queen's University alumnus Nick Carlisle (Peepholes/Bamboo/Katy And Nick) and Rose Keeler-Schäffeler (Keel Her). The Last Mirage was recorded during the lo...

A Playback Film Festival panel discussion on the theme of nostalgia, escapism, cinema in crises and how cinema culture has changed.

This discussion was hosted by Michael McConway (Playback Participant and LUMI Programmer), featuring Dr Sam Manning (Film Academic), Leanne Briggs (North Down Museu...

To celebrate the first anniversary of QFT Player's launch we are delighted to welcome back Yellowstone, a short documentary directed by Éanna Mac Cana and funded by Northern Ireland Screen. Available to watch for free from Fri 2 April.

Yellowstone is a moving account on the life cycle of a place...

HREAM is a new documentary profiling the life of San Francisco funk outsider Doug Hream Blunt.

In a feel-good story at a time when experiencing live music isn't possible, the film highlights the non-traditional connections music creates between players of all ages, experience-levels, and social ...

A short film written and directed by Solène Guichard.

Kelly (Jamie O'Herlihy) comes back to her childhood house after many years abroad to help her sister tidy for the estate agent. Tension is tangible as Andrea (Lucy McConnell) still hasn’t come to terms with who her big brother, Dylan, has bec...

Showing as part of Film Feels Connected, This Land is a short film about Ireland's relationship with race, identity and immigration, directed by Zithelo Bobby Mthombeni.

The film explores different ways of experiencing Irishness, via discussions with chefs, artists, musicians, entrepreneurs, jou...

Living Beings Pt.2 is a new song and video by Lean Logic, and the third single to be taken from their forthcoming album, The Last Mirage.

Lean Logic is a collaboration between Queen's University alumnus Nick Carlisle (Peepholes/Bamboo/Katy And Nick) and Rose Keeler-Schäffeler (Keel Her). Their d...

Mother Machine is a new song and video by Lean Logic, and the second single to be taken from their forthcoming album, The Last Mirage (out in the Spring on O Genesis Recordings).

The project is a collaboration between Queen's University alumnus Nick Carlisle (Peepholes/Bamboo/Katy And Nick) and ...

Safe in a Dream (Extended Version)

Lean Logic is a collaboration between Queen's University alumnus Nick Carlisle (Peepholes/Bamboo/Katy and Nick) and Rose Keeler-Schäffeler (Keel Her) which began last year with Rose offering to remix a Bamboo track, and ended with a completely new project and a...

Fantastic Man is a documentary investigating Nigerian musician William Onyeabor, a man shrouded in mystery and myth.

Between the ’70s and ’80s, Onyeabor self-released a series of unique synth-based funk records (numerous speculations can be found to explain the funds he used for such endeavours,...

Behind a Performance: Tufo da Mafalala is an experimental documentary exploring the rituals of Tufo, a traditional Mozambican dance. The film is a collaboration between the Grupo de Tufo da Mafalala, the Associação IVERCA, and researchers in the field of sonic arts and ethnography from Queen’s Un...

Ivor Reid, a unionist from East Belfast, tells his story of discovering the Irish language.

Ulster Gaeilge: It's Yours Too! is a series of short animations that aims to show the many and different ways in which people in East Belfast and beyond are engaging with the Irish Language. Each animatio...

Gail McCune, a Protestant from East Belfast, tells her story of discovering the Irish language.

Ulster Gaeilge: It's Yours Too! is a series of short animations that aims to show the many and different ways in which people in East Belfast and beyond are engaging with the Irish Language. Each anim...

Highlights from last year's 'Virtual' Cinemagic Mark Kermode Film Night, where the UK’s leading film critic (and double bassist/harmonica enthusiast) shared his thoughts on the year’s new film releases before introducing his 2020 film pick.

Mark's annual visit to Cinemagic and QFT is always a hi...

A short film set in present day Northern Ireland from writer/director Dominic Curran (Furloughed).

Nathan (Paddy Rocks) begrudgingly visits his infirm childhood friend Edgar (Shane McCaffrey), still living in his dilapidated childhood home on the estate they grew up in, but their lives have dive...

The Curzon Film Centre was not just a cinema, it was many different things to different people. A family heirloom, a place for inspiration, relaxation and above all a safe space in a divided community where there were few.

The Curzon Project is a short documentary, which tells the story of the C...

It wasn’t until she lost her faith in God that Rosaline started seeing miracles… A Sign (Un Signe, Un Geste) is an enigmatic and compelling short film by Don Duncan, which explores hope, despair and signs.

Rosaline (Sophia Leboutte) is in the middle of a spiritual crisis. Her longing to be saved...

A documentary produced and directed by Cahal McLaughlin and Siobhán Wills exploring the UN’s deadly legacy in Haiti.

Between 2005 and 2007 UN peacekeeping troops carried out several raids on Cité Soleil, an economically-depressed neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince in Haiti. The raids were targeted ...

Down With Jazz is a short documentary about the state of jazz music in Ireland, created by students from the Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown, in 2017.

Directed by & Edited by: Zithelo Bobby Mthombeni
Produced by: Mikaela Egan, Zithelo Bobby Mthombeni, Paulina Macierzyńska, Tobi Ilori, Al...

Up Next is a short documentary produced and directed by Zithelo Bobby Mthombeni about the current growth of rap culture in Ireland.

The documentary features some of Ireland’s up and coming artists, such as Why-Axis, Nealo, Flynn Johnson, Dena Anuk$a, Nonzus Magnus and many more, with music by Ha...