Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen recreates the hunger strikes of the early ‘80s in the Maze Prison just outside of Belfast in this harrowing narrative feature film debut.

A film about the Bobby Sands hunger strike which scooped an honour at Cannes will “have a resonance across the world”, its co-producer said.

A film about an IRA hunger strike in a prison in the North has won an international award tonight.

The director of a film about life in the Maze prison today said he hoped the people of the North would have an open mind about the movie.