Lost Boys: Belfast’s Missing Children

Joint World Premiere with Irish Film InstituteDocumentaryFestival

During the winter of 1969, young boys started to disappear from the streets of Belfast, never to be seen again. By 1974, as the Troubles were reaching a bloody and vicious peak, five boys in total had vanished within a five-mile radius. Fifty years later, as the disappearances remain unsolved and families continue to search for answers, filmmaker Des Henderson (How to Diffuse a Bomb) reopens these largely forgotten cold-cases, unearthing disturbing revelations in secret state documents to reveal an extraordinary tale of abuse, murder and potential cover up.

Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn

This screening will be introduced by director Des Henderson and producer Ed Stobart.