Film on IRA Hunger Strike Wins Award
May 26, 2008
A FILM about an IRA hunger strike in a Northern Irish prison has won an international award.
Hunger, which focuses on life at the Maze Prison and the hunger protest in 1981, received the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday.
It is directed by London born Turner Prize winner Steve McQueen and stars Irish actor Michael Fassbender as IRA prisoner Bobby Sands, the leader and the first to die in the Maze prison hunger strike.
Earlier this week, Liverpool-born director Terence Davies’s new film Of Time and the City was shown at the festival out of competition.
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