I Am Belfast

This wonderfully inventive meditation on director Mark Cousins’s hometown is refreshingly uncynical and pithy

The Guardian
  • Archive - Festival 32
  • Director: Mark Cousins
  • United Kingdom 2015
  • 84 minutes
  • English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew


I Am Belfast is a creative documentary done in a style unique to Mark Cousins - a visual, poetic depiction of Belfast and its citizens, told with love and passion of someone, who has left the city many years ago but is still fascinated by it. The film personifies Belfast and portrays it as an experienced gentle, older woman (played by Helena Bereen), who has seen, and accepted it all.
Selected filmography: A Story of Children and Film (2013), What Is This Film Called Love? (2012), The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011), The First Movie (2009).


  • Director Mark Cousins
  • Production John Archer, Chris Martin
  • Script Mark Cousins
  • Cinematography Christopher Doyle
  • Editing Timo Langer
  • Music David Holmes
  • Festivals Karlovy Vary, London
  • Actors Helena Bereen
  • Source New Europe Film Sales, Warsaw

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