Succession creator Jesse Armstrong will likely be among the many headline audio system at this yr’s inaugural cinema programme on the Hay Literary Pageant.
Working from Might twenty second to June 1st, the longtime literary pageant introduced its plans earlier this month to broaden with a brand new sidebar devoted to cinema in collaboration with Mubi.
The total pageant programme was introduced this morning and Armstrong will characteristic within the cinema talks programme alongside Regular Individuals 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 via Hay to debate her adaptation of Deborah Levy’s Sizzling Milk whereas novelist Robert Harris discusses the difference of his novel Conclave.
The pageant’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 Particular person within the World.
Different titles set to display screen embody How one can Have Intercourse, Queer, First Cow, Alcarràs, Choice to Go away, Aftersun, Priscilla, Excellent Days, Petite Maman, and The Worst Particular person within the World.
Different standout movie and TV names set for the fest embody Jameela Jamil, Michael Sheen, Stephen Fry, and artist Grayson Perry.
Elsewhere, Hay Pageant 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 discuss 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 finest recognized writers.
