
Steve McQueen’s film about Bobby Sands’s hunger strike in a British prison. It will be screened on October 11, 2026, at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque.
Hunger | The debut film by Steve McQueen, which won the Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, focuses on the protest of an Irish prisoner in a British prison in the early 1980s. The film follows Bobby Sands, an imprisoned IRA member, during his hunger strike demanding that he and his fellow prisoners be recognized as political prisoners (rather than retain their status as terrorists). The film brings him together with a Catholic priest in the prison, an encounter […]
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