BELFAST (2021, 1h 37min) is a bittersweet coming-of-age memoir in the classic sense of the genre – a portrait of childhood innocence complicated by the turmoil of a bigger, scarier world encroaching upon it. A nine-year-old boy must chart a path towards adulthood through a world that has suddenly turned upside down. His stable and loving community and everything he thought he understood about life is changed forever but joy, laughter, music and the formative magic of the movies remain. Director Kenneth Branagh spent his early childhood years kicking around Belfast, the Northern Ireland capital he called home. For BELFAST, he revisits his childhood through the wisdom of adult eyes.