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Hunger

White man with short hair, sitting on a torn mattress on the floor, in a filthy room with newspaper clippings near him is smoking a cigarette whilst trying to cut something with his hands.
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British filmmaker Steve McQueen’s BAFTA-winning debut as writer-director is uncompromising, powerful and crucial. Superbly acted by Irish actors Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham and Northern Ireland’s Stuart Graham, the film also won the FIPRESCI Prize and Golden Camera awards at Cannes Film Festival. Co-produced by Film4, Channel 4 Film, Northern Ireland Screen, Wales Creative IP Fund and Blast! Films.

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Set in Northern Ireland in 1981, Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender) leads the Republican prisoners’ hunger strikes. As one of the first to enact the "dirty protest" to fight for recognition as political prisoners, Sands embarked on a hunger strike that would result in his death.