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Focus Features announced that the studio had acquired the worldwide rights to Kenneth Branagh’s “
Belfast,” which he wrote and directed. The cast includes Golden Globe nominee Caitriona Balfe, Academy Award winner Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Ciaran Hinds, and introduces Jude Hill.
The studio’s description reads, “Belfast is the humorous, tender and intensely personal story of one boy’s childhood during the tumult of the late 1960s.”
According to Focus Features, Dornan and Balfe play a glamorous working-class couple caught up in the mayhem, with Dench and Hinds as the wry and spry grandparents.
The film is produced by Branagh, Laura Berwick, Becca Kovacik, and Tamar Thomas.