Focus Features has picked up the worldwide rights to Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast ahead of a 2021 release. Written and directed by the Oscar nominee, Belfast tells the story of one boy’s childhood during the tumult of the late 1960s in Northern Ireland, where Branagh is from.
Focus Features will distribute the film in the U.S. and Universal Pictures International will distribute internationally. “We are excited and grateful to collaborate with such an esteemed filmmaker and storyteller as Kenneth.
Highly personal and passionate, Belfast is a heartwarming piece that is bursting with life, and we look forward to sharing it with audiences worldwide," Focus Features chairman Peter Kujawski said in a statement.
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