Film Screening—Belfast and a Post-Screening Conversation WITH KENNETH BRANAGH AND FEATURED CAST

FILM at LACMA presents classic and contemporary narrative and documentary films, artists and their influences, emerging auteurs, international showcases, special guest-curated programs, and conversations with artists and special guests.

LACMA members are invited to join FILM at LACMA for a special screening of Belfast, followed by a conversation featuring filmmaker and featured cast.

Focus Features presents Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast. Written and directed by Academy Award® nominee Branagh, Belfast is the humorous, tender and intensely personal story of one boy’s childhood during the tumult of the late 1960s in the city of Branagh’s birth.

Belfast is a movie straight from Branagh’s own experience. A nine-year-old boy must chart a path towards adulthood through a world that has suddenly turned upside down. His stable and loving community and everything he thought he understood about life is changed forever but joy, laughter, music and the formative magic of the movies remain.

Belfast is nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Sound, Best Director (Kenneth Branagh), Best Supporting Actress (Judi Dench), Best Supporting Actor (Ciarán Hinds), and Best Original Song (Down to Joy).

You can watch the official trailer here. 

You will receive a link to view the film and the post-screening conversation on the event date.

In case you missed them, you can revisit previously recorded Film at LACMA conversations with featured talent from 2022 Academy Award-nominated films including: West Side Story, Don’t Look Up, CODA, The Power of the Dog, Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), tick, tick…Boom!, Audible, Lead Me Home, Robin Robin, and Three Songs for Benazir.

This screening is hosted by Slipstream, a LACMA-approved third-party screening platform. If you have not previously registered with Slipstream, you will be asked to provide a valid email address and set a password to create an account.