The actors grew up in the same city on opposite sides of the Troubles. Here, they reflect on revisiting their past in BELFAST, Branagh’s acclaimed, highly personal new film. Branagh was from working-class Protestant stock, while Hinds was a 16-year-old former altar boy from a Catholic family, whose school was close to the Branagh house. 

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Northern Irish child actor Jude Hill said he feels “lucky” to have had his feature film debut in Kenneth Branagh’s semi-autobiographical film BELFAST. The 10-year-old said he had “loved” the process of auditioning and working with the “fantastic” cast of older actors. He plays nine-year-old Buddy, a role based on Branagh himself, in the film, which follows a working-class protestant family during The Troubles in Northern Ireland.

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Already beloved thanks to TV’s time-traveling romance, Caitríona Balfe’s performance in Kenneth Branagh’s coming-of-age film puts her on the path to movie stardom—and the Oscars. In the latest edition of Vanity Fair, Caitríona breaks down her career and the moment she finds herself in right now.

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Watch BELFAST from home! The most talked about Irish film of 2021 is now available to screen from home. Kenneth Branagh’s BELFAST is now available for UHD rental on YouTube. The film is a poignant story of love, laughter and loss in one boy’s childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960’s Northern Ireland.

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On Outlander, Caitríona Balfe has spent five seasons dubbed “Sassenach,” a Scottish Gaelic word for an English person or outsider — but in BELFAST, she’s anything but one: the Irish actress, 42, portrays a version of writer-director Kenneth Branagh’s mother. Known simply as Ma and seen through the eyes of her 9-year-old son, Buddy (Jude Hill), she is struggling to raise and protect her two children in 1960s Belfast when the nationalist fighting known as the Troubles erupts, plunging their family and way of life into uncertainty.

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Focus Features has debuted a wonderful second official trailer for BELFAST, written and directed by Irish actor / filmmaker Kenneth Branagh, described as his “most personal film” yet. A coming-of-age drama set during the tumult of late-1960s Northern Ireland, the film follows young Buddy while he navigates a landscape of working-class struggle, sweeping cultural changes, and sectarian violence.

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The first trailer for Kenneth Branagh’s new film BELFAST has now been released, offering a first look at the famed director’s semi-autobiographical project and revealing the theatrical release date. The film will draw heavily from the Academy Award nominated director’s childhood in Northern Ireland. It is set to be a “poignant story of love, laughter, and loss” amid music and the tumultuous 1960s in Northern Ireland as nine-year-old Buddy’s childhood is upturned by the start of The Troubles.

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Northern Irish filmmaker Kenneth Branagh will present his new feature, titled BELFAST, at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (9-18 September 2021). His new effort, which was shot in London and Belfast, and which wrapped filming in October 2020, comes on the heels of the Disney+ production ARTEMIS FOWL and the period drama ALL IS TRUE.

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