Belfast
"No matter how far you go, you never forget where you came from."
DramaHistory
Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil, his family faces a momentous choice: hope the conflict will pass or leave everything they know behind for a new life.
🎬 DirectorKenneth Branagh
📅 Release2021-11-12
🌍 CountryUnited Kingdom, Northern Ireland
🗣 LanguageEnglish, Portuguese
🏢 StudioTKBC, Northern Ireland Screen
🗳 Votes1,676
🔥 Popularity2
💰 Budget$11,000,000
💵 Revenue$49,158,343
🎭 Cast
Jude Hill
Buddy
Jamie Dornan
Pa
Caitríona Balfe
Ma
Lewis McAskie
Will
Judi Dench
Granny
Ciarán Hinds
Pop
Lara McDonnell
Moira
Colin Morgan
Billy Clanton
Gerard Horan
Mackie
Josie Walker
Auntie Violet
Olive Tennant
Catherine
Michael Maloney
Frankie West
Turlough Convery
Minister
Conor MacNeill
McLaury
Chris McCurry
Mr Stewart
🎥 Crew
Producer
Tamar Thomas
Producer
Becca Kovacik
Producer
Laura Berwick
Director of Photography
Haris Zambarloukos
Editor
Úna Ní Dhonghaíle
Production Design
Jim Clay
Art Direction
Stephen Swain
Set Decoration
Claire Nia Richards
Costume Design
Charlotte Walter
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Niv Adiri
🖼 Gallery
🏷 Keywords
working classblack and whitebelfast, north ireland1960sthe troubles (north ireland, 1966-98)
💬 Reviews
I wanted to like this more than I did. It's fine, but it just doesn't resonate terribly well with me. Not to mention it feels a bit like a stage-play, taking place all on one street. I understand it's supposed to be the world through a child's eyes, but there's not much there. Conversations and issues feel breezed through, and yet 'Belfast' sags in the middle around the third time they have the sa…
A swell little film, this. I may not have a connection to the events portrayed onscreen, but <em>'Belfast'</em> is - despite the not so good true events that it's retelling - is a pleasant film to watch. With a perfectly timed length of around 90 minutes, this 2021 flick holds a lot of heart - it's also rather funny, it had me laughing a fair number of times. The star of the film is undoubte…
Belfast is packed with powerful images — shot in Haris Zambarloukos’s majestic black-and-white cinematography (except for a handful of color shots at key moments, notably the escapist windows that film and TV offer the characters) — beginning with an early scene in which the young protagonist, Buddy (Jude Hill), armed with a wooden sword and a shield/dumpster lid, confronts a mob of unionist…
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