20th June (Third Friday)

BELFAST

UK | 2021 | 98 mins | Drama/Coming of age | Dir: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Jude Hill, Lewis McAskie and Caitríona Balfe

Belfast, 15 August 1969.

Surrounded by sporadic violence and growing danger, nine-year-old Buddy finds himself confronted with the ugly reality of sectarian conflict.

As the suffocating stranglehold of increasing turmoil tightens around his once-peaceful working-class neighbourhood, Buddy tries his best to understand ‘The Troubles’. After all, someone must be responsible for forcing people to flee their homes. Now, Buddy’s family must come face to face with a nearly impossible, life-altering decision: should they stay or should they start packing.

Between 2021 and 2023, Belfast won 60 awards, including, in 2022, for Best Original Screenplay (US Academy Awards) and received 255 nominations, including, in 2022, for Best Motion Picture of the Year (US Academy Awards) and for Best Film (BAFTA Awards) and for Best Picture (Critics Choice Awards) and, in 2023, for Best Non-American Film (Bodil Awards).