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Queen's Film Theatre

Queen's Film Theatre

Address:

20 University Square
Belfast
BT7 1PA

Description:

For the past forty years, QFT has occupied a unique place in the cultural and entertainment life of Northern Ireland. This uniqueness comes from QFT's special ambience (a world away from the local cineplex!), its screenings of new and classic films, its loyal members and audiences and from the many people who have worked 'front of house' and behind the scenes.

Literally thousands of films, long and short, famous and obscure, classic and modern have been screened at QFT since 1968. Some, such as those screened during Festival time or during the wonderful 100 Years of Cinema series in 1996, appeared only once while others have run for two or more weeks and then come back due to popular demand.

QFT has always been a broad church. It has always championed foreign language films, both individually and in seasons.  But at the same time as giving screen time to a quiet masterpiece such as Bresson's Au Hasard Balthasar (Michael Open's favourite film) it could happily and legitimately show, week on week, late night dress-up-and-sing-along performances of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

The QFT today is part of the QUB Drama and Film Centre in a spacious build that offers a bar and waiting area in a multi-purpose and dedicated environment. There is no hint of lecture theatre austerity in either of the two auditoria and there is state of the art digital projection in QFT1.  Film culture is multi-platform and the new centre embraces that. It will be interesting to see what the physical and technological environment will be like when QFT reaches its half-century in 2018.

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