Hunger

Hunger follows life in the Maze Prison during the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike, led by Bobby Sands. With an epic eye for detail, the film explores what happens when body and mind are pushed to the limit. Raymond Lohand wearily follows his normal routine: an ordinary man doing the job of a prison officier in the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland, 1981. Working within one of the infamous H-Blocks, where republican prisoners are on the blanket and No-Wash protest, is a living hell for both prisoners and prsion officiers. Davey Gillen, new prisoner, resolutely refuses to wear the prison uniform - he is no common criminal. So joining the Blanket protest, the shares a filthy cell with another "non-conforming" republican prisoner Gerry Campbell. Gerry teaches Davey how to smuggle items and exchange "comms" (communications) with the outside world, passing them on to their H-Block leader Bobby Sands at Sunday Mass. Bobby Sands meets Father Dominic Moran. The coversation immediately intensifies into a battle words that illuminates the prisoners determination to begin another Hunger Strike through the priest's questioning of motives and morality.
England
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2008

Director
Steve McQueen

Script
Go Walsh
Steve McQueen

Cinematography
Sean Bobbitt BSC

Editing
Joe Walker

Production
Laura Hastings-Smith

Cast
Brian Milligan
Liam Cunningham
Michael Fassbender
Fate isn’t always fair. Sometimes, despite our best intentions, we find ourselves helplessly subject to fate’s fickle whim

Music
David Holmes
Leo Abrahams

Festivals
14th Festival on Wheels
GOLDEN GAIN INTERNATIONAL FILM COMPETITION