HOLLYWOOD actor/director Kenneth Branagh will be back in his home city to celebrate the links between his favourite playwright and the silver screen.
Four hundred years after his death, William Shakepeare's role in inspiring more films than any other writer is being marked with a series of events with Film Hub NI.
Sir Kenneth will be at the QFT in south Belfast on Friday for a talk with Film London CEO Adrian Wootton.
The conversation is being beamed across 80 sites in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, including the Movie House in Coleraine.
QFT will also have a series of screenings during May and June including Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, My Private Idaho and Kiss Me Kate with accompanying live music while Belfast Film Festival will show Henry V, Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing in Crescent Gardens followed by a collection of the best of Silent Shakespeare in Dunluce Castle.
