Belfast International Horror Festival

BIHF 2025 Programme

The Belfast International Horror Festival returns for a fifth year with its biggest-ever lineup from the 22 – 31 October

2024 Dark Hedges Programme (photo by Warren Blair)

Dark Hedges Film Festival 2024 Programme

The Dark Hedges Film Festival returns to Belfast for a fourth year with its biggest-ever lineup with six days of screenings both physically and digitally from the 26th to 31st October.

Submissions Open for Dark Hedges Film Festival 2024

Submissions are open until the 1st of September for this year’s festival in October

2023 Programme

Check out the lineup for this year’s festival. 16 screenings and events over six days in Belfast

2023 Submissions Now Open

The Dark Hedges International Film Festival is now seeking submissons for our 2023 programme

Eerie black and white image promoting Belfast International Horror Festival January 2022, with a spooky forest scene and a figure in the darkness, perfect for horror fans.

Dark Hedges 2022 Programme

The Dark Hedges International Film Festival returns to Belfast from Monday 24th October until Monday 31st October

Dark Hedges Film Festival Announces 2021 Programme

Check out our 2021 festival programme in full.

An American Werewolf in London/ The Howling (Double-Bill Screening)

Join us at the Black Box in Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter on Halloween night for a double-bill screening of two iconic werewolf movies, John Landis’ An American Werewolf in London and Joe Dante’s The Howling.

2021 Festival Submissions Now Open

The Dark Hedges International Film Festival will be returning in October 2021 and our festival is now seeking submissions of shorts and features from filmmakers in Ireland and across the globe.

2020 Short Film Competition Winners

We’re delighted to announce the winners of our festival’s inaugural short film competition.