Directed by award winning contemporary artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen, Hunger won the Sydney Film Prize at this year’s SFF as well as receiving the coveted Camera D’Or prize at the Cannes International Film Festival.
Hunger follows life in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike, led by Bobby Sands. With an epic eye for detail, the film provides a timely exploration of what happens when body and mind are pushed to the uttermost limit.
UK artist Steve McQueen, in collaboration with Irish playwright Enda Marsh, has created an extraordinary feature debut. Hunger is an uncompromising and engrossing vision; it reflects on the political, religious, philosophical and personal implications of your own body being the last resource for protest. Clearly influenced by McQueen’s recent stint as a war artist in Iraq, the contemporary relevance of Hunger is loud and resounding.
For you chance to win a double pass email win@www.if.com.au with your name postal address and the subject heading ‘Hunger’. Hunger will be in cinemas the 6th of November.
To view the trailer, please follow this link: www.iconmovies.com.au/hunger