Foyle Film Festival

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The Foyle Film Festival is an annual film festival based in Derry, Northern Ireland. It typically takes place in November. Established in 1987, the organisers describe it as "Northern Ireland's longest running film festival". [1] It is the "only Oscar and BAFTA-affiliated film festival" in Northern Ireland. [2]

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The 1995 event included the first public showing of Danny Boyle's Trainspotting . [3] The 21st festival, which took place in November 2008, included the Northern Ireland premieres of Brideshead Revisited and Hounddog . [4] The 30th anniversary festival, held in 2017, involved a "10-day programme [..of..] more than 100 screenings in Londonderry's Guildhall, Nerve Centre and Brunswick Moviebowl". [3]

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  1. ↑ "About Us". foylefilmfestival.org. Retrieved 13 February 2025. Established in 1987 [..] Foyle Film Festival is Northern Ireland's longest running film festival
  2. ↑ "Irish Film & Television Network - Events Diary for December 2024". iftn.ie. Archived from the original on 13 February 2025.
  3. 1 2 "Foyle Film Festival: 30 years of silver screen". bbc.com. 18 November 2017. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
  4. ↑ "Foyle Film Festival". Northern Ireland Screen. Archived from the original on 10 May 2009. Retrieved 20 April 2009.


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