50 Years of the Troubles A Journey Through Film

The film marks 50 years since riots erupted across Northern Ireland widely seen as the beginning of the thirtyyear conflict known as The Troubles Mark Cousins who left Belfast at 18 returns to his hometown to reflect on how the place and its history have been used and occasionally abused by cinema He traces how the legacy of division has impacted on the nations cinematic imagination and in a city that once had one of the highest rates of moviegoing in the UK he scrambles around the ruins of Belfasts oncegrand cinemas