The film marks 50 years since riots erupted across Northern Ireland, widely seen as the beginning of the thirty-year conflict known as The Troubles. Mark Cousins – who left Belfast at 18 – returns to his hometown to reflect on how the place and its history have been used and occasionally abused by cinema. He traces how the legacy of division has impacted on the nation’s cinematic imagination; and, in a city that once had one of the highest rates of movie-going in the UK, he scrambles around the ruins of Belfast’s once-grand cinemas.
Brian Henry Martin
Director
The Class of ‘9271%
Sherman's March65%
Conor McGregor: Notorious69%
McQueen74%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
A Plastic Ocean75%
180° South72%
Road72%
My Mom Jayne80%
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return67%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Overnight63%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Dawg Fight65%
Harmontown66%
21 Up74%
Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me85%
Black Sheep72%
Public Speaking70%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
