Kenneth Branagh’s BELFAST Movie Gets A November 12 Release Date

Focus Features has announced that it will release Kenneth Branagh’s BELFAST on Friday, November 12, 2021 in theaters domestically.

Written and directed by Academy Award® nominee 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.

The cast stars Golden Globe nominee Caitriona Balfe, Academy Award® winner Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Ciaran Hinds, and introduces 10 year old Jude Hill. Dornan and Balfe play a passionate working-class couple caught up in the mayhem, with Dench and Hinds as sharp-witted grandparents.

The film is produced by Branagh, Laura Berwick, Becca Kovacik and Tamar Thomas.

Branagh has previously worked with Christopher Nolan, playing the crucial role of Commander Bolton in the epic DUNKIRK as well as 2020’s TENET. Among his upcoming projects, Branagh will return to the role of Hercule Poirot and also direct Agatha Christie’s brilliant mystery “Death on the Nile,” the follow-up to his 2017 film “Murder on the Orient Express.”

Branagh recently directed “Artemis Fowl,” based on the beloved book by Eoin Colfer. The film, which is now on Disney +, stars newcomer Ferdia Shaw as the title character, Lara McDonnell, Judi Dench, Josh Gad and Colin Farrell. He also starred in and directed the critically acclaimed film “All is True,” about William Shakespeare’s later years, also starring Judi Dench and Ian McKellen.

In 2015, Branagh directed the critically acclaimed and box-office hit live-action “Cinderella,” starring Cate Blanchett, Lily James, Richard Madden, and Helena Bonham-Carter.

Branagh previously directed the newest installment of the “Jack Ryan” franchise in 2014, in which he also starred alongside Chris Pine and Keira Knightley. In addition, Branagh directed the blockbuster Marvel action adventure “Thor,” starring Natalie Portman, Anthony Hopkins, and Chris Hemsworth. Released in May 2011, the film grossed more than $448 million worldwide.