Written and directed by Academy Award® nominee Kenneth Branagh, BELFAST is a poignant story of love, laughter and loss in one boy’s childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s. Starring Caitriona Balfe, Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Ciaran Hinds, and Jude Hill. Belfast is in theaters November 12.

Written and directed by Academy Award® nominee Kenneth Branagh, BELFAST is a poignant story of love, laughter and loss in one boy’s childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s. Starring Caitriona Balfe, Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Ciaran Hinds, and Jude Hill. Belfast is in theaters November 12.

Focus Features will be releasing Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast on November 12.

Outlander‘s Caitriona Balfe stars with Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Ciaran Hinds and 10-year-old Jude Hill in the pic, a poignant story of love, laughter and loss in one boy’s childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s.

Dornan and Balfe play a passionate working-class couple caught up in the mayhem, with Dench and Hinds as sharp-witted grandparents.

Branagh, Laura Berwick, Becca Kovacik and Tamar Thomas produces.

The movie will share the marquee on that Veterans Day weekend with Sony’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife. [Source]

Focus Features has acquired worldwide rights to Kenneth Branagh-directed feature drama Belfast.

Written and directed by Oscar-nominee Branagh, the semi-autobiographical film charts a boy’s childhood during the tumult of the late 1960s in the Northern Ireland capital.

Cast includes Golden Globe-nominee Caitriona Balfe, Oscar winner Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Ciaran Hinds, and newcomer Jude Hill.

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.

Focus Features will distribute the film in the U.S. and Universal Pictures International will distribute internationally. Endeavor Content handled sales.

Regular behind-the-camera Branagh collaborators include production designer Jim Clay, director of photography Haris Zambarloukos, hair and make-up artist Wakana Yoshihara, editor Una Ni Dhonghaile, costume designer Charlotte Walker and casting directors Lucy Bevan and Emily Brockman.

Kenneth Branagh is bringing his life story to the big screen. The famed actor, director, and screenwriter is currently working on a semi-autobiographical film about his childhood growing up in Northern Ireland, which is rumored to be titled Belfast. Nothing official has been announced yet, but Outlander star Caitriona Balfe recently confirmed the news of the movie (and that she would be playing Branagh’s mother) on social media.

Here’s what else we know so far:
Caitriona Balfe shared the news with an excited tweet.

“I guess the cat is out of the bag!!! So delighted to be working on this special project with this amazing cast and the wonderful Kenneth Branagh. Exciting stuff!” she posted on social media.
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I guess the cat is out of the bag!!! So delighted to be working on this special project with this amazing cast and the wonderful Kenneth Branagh. Exciting stuff! #Belfast https://t.co/XdeOybeGpw
— Caitriona Balfe (@caitrionambalfe) September 4, 2020

Her Outlander co-star Sam Heughan also took to Twitter to congratulate her.”What. A. CAST!!!!!!” he wrote. [Source]