London's Film Festival is back, with Sir Steve McQueen's new film, Blitz, featuring for its opening gala this year. The film acts as a stark reminder of the horrors of war at a time of ongoing violence and destruction in Gaza, Ukraine and beyond.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Sir Steve McQueen hopes his new film will get 'people off their iPhones' and 'refocus our gaze' on what war is like for the children who live through it. His new movie Blitz, set in wartime London and starring Irish actress Saoirse Ronan, will open this year's London Film Festival later today.
'I saw this photograph, a boy with an oversized coat and a very large suitcase standing in railway station waiting to be evacuated, this black child, and I thought 'that's my in'.' The film offers a much more diverse depiction of wartime London than audiences will perhaps have seen before, with characters like Ife - a Nigerian air raid warden - based on real individuals meticulously researched by McQueen's team.
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