Succession creator Jesse Armstrong will likely be among the many headline audio system at this yr’s inaugural cinema programme on the Hay Literary Festival.
Working from Might twenty second to June 1st, the longtime literary competition introduced its plans earlier this month to broaden with a brand new sidebar devoted to cinema in collaboration with Mubi.
The total competition programme was introduced this morning and Armstrong will function within the cinema talks programme alongside Regular Folks and I Might Destroy You intimacy coordinator Ita O’Brien, director Marc Evans, producer Ed Talfan and screenwriters Tom Bullough and Josh Hyams (Mr Burton).
Rebecca Lenkiewicz may even cross by way of Hay to debate her adaptation of Deborah Levy’s Sizzling Milk whereas novelist Robert Harris discusses the difference of his novel Conclave.
The competition’s screening programme, happening on the newly erected Mubi Cinema, will display screen titles from the Mubi catalog together with Mia Hansen-Løve’s Bergman Island, Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves, Mati Diop’s Dahomey, and Joachim Trier’s The Worst Individual within the World.
Different titles set to display screen embrace Tips on how to Have Intercourse, Queer, First Cow, Alcarràs, Choice to Go away, Aftersun, Priscilla, Good Days, Petite Maman, and The Worst Individual within the World.
Different standout movie and TV names set for the fest embrace Jameela Jamil, Michael Sheen, Stephen Fry, and artist Grayson Perry.
Elsewhere, Hay Festival will this yr launch the George Alagiah Lecture to have fun the late BBC newsreader George Alagiah. As soon as one of many BBC’s most revered journalists, Alagiah died in 2023 after being identified with stage 4 bowel most cancers.
The inaugural lecture will likely be launched by Alagiah’s son Matt and delivered by author Hisham Matar on Monday 26 Might. In his lecture, Matar will speak in regards to the late Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, the primary Arab winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and one of many Arab world’s greatest identified writers.
