{"id":215406,"date":"2025-12-04T17:25:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/215406\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T17:25:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:25:15","slug":"first-trailer-for-midwinter-break-with-lesley-manville-ciaran-hinds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/215406\/","title":{"rendered":"First Trailer for &#8216;Midwinter Break&#8217; with Lesley Manville &#038; Ciar\u00e1n Hinds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\tFirst Trailer for &#8216;Midwinter Break&#8217; with Lesley Manville &amp; Ciar\u00e1n Hinds<\/p>\n<p class=\"date\">by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstshowing.net\/author\/abillington\/\" title=\"Posts by Alex Billington\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Billington<\/a>\t\t<br \/>December 4, 2025<br \/>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FeD_KEGIU_Q\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstshowing.net\/2025\/official-trailer-for-midwinter-break-with-lesley-manville-ciaran-hinds\/\" class=\"watch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/midwinterbreakpostermainTsr1.jpg\" alt=\"Midwinter Break Trailer\" width=\"350\" height=\"168\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a debt to be paid, and I&#8217;ve been looking for a way to pay it&#8230;&#8221; What happened to them all those years ago? Focus Features has revealed an official trailer for a film titled <strong>Midwinter Break<\/strong>, adapted from the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/48HNcH8\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">book of the same name<\/a> written by Irish author Bernard MacLaverty. &#8220;A day they can&#8217;t forget. A truth they can&#8217;t escape.&#8221; Midwinter Break is a stirring meditation on faith, commitment, and the enduring power of love, as a longtime couple takes a life-changing trip to Amsterdam. <strong>Lesley Manville<\/strong> and <strong>Ciar\u00e1n Hinds<\/strong> star Stella &amp; Gerry, a retired couple who&#8217;s winter trip to Amsterdam stirs up troubled memories from their past. Clearly these memories involve The Troubles in Ireland and what happened back then. The cast also includes <strong>Julie Lamberton<\/strong> and <strong>Ed Sayer<\/strong> as younger versions of Stella &amp; Gerry in flashbacks. This looks like it has plenty of gorgeous shots of Amsterdam, I&#8217;m just sad to find out the truth about their relationship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Here&#8217;s the official trailer (+ poster) for Polly Findlay&#8217;s film <strong>Midwinter Break<\/strong>, direct from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FeD_KEGIU_Q\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/midwinterbreakpostermain5992.jpg\" alt=\"Midwinter Break Poster\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"599\" height=\"337\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/midwinterbreakpostermain5991.jpg\" alt=\"Midwinter Break Poster\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"599\" height=\"749\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Midwinter Break follows Stella &amp; Gerry (Lesley Manville &amp; Ciar\u00e1n Hinds), a long-time married couple who reach a crossroads in their relationship when they take a trip to Amsterdam during the winter. Based on Bernard MacLaverty&#8217;s book. Midwinter Break is directed by British theatre director \/ filmmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0277542\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Polly Findlay<\/strong><\/a>, making her feature film directorial debut after directing various stage productions and live theatre previously. The screenplay is written by Nick Payne. Adapted from the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/48HNcH8\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">novel of the same name<\/a> written by Bernard MacLaverty. Produced by Guy Heeley, Floor Onrust. With music by Hannah Peel. Focus Features will debut Findley&#8217;s Midwinter Break film in select US theaters starting on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstshowing.net\/schedule2026\/#feb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>February 20th, 2026<\/strong><\/a> coming soon this winter. No UK release date is set yet &#8211; stay tuned. Who wants to watch? Does that look any good?<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"socialright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share#url=https:\/\/www.firstshowing.net\/2025\/official-trailer-for-midwinter-break-with-lesley-manville-ciaran-hinds\/&amp;title=First%20Trailer%20for%20&#039;Midwinter%20Break&#039;%20with%20Lesley%20Manville%20and%20Ciar\u00e1n%20Hinds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Share \/ Save this post\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ShareButtonMain25-01.png\" width=\"85\" height=\"26\" alt=\"Share\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p style=\"padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:8px;\"><strong>Find more posts in:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstshowing.net\/category\/worthwatching\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">To Watch<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstshowing.net\/category\/trailers\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trailer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First Trailer for &#8216;Midwinter Break&#8217; with Lesley Manville &amp; Ciar\u00e1n Hinds by Alex Billington December 4, 2025Source: YouTube&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[21293,4917,117042,117041,18,117,19,17,117040,117039,117043,327,62206,5587,5659],"class_list":{"0":"post-215406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-adaptation","9":"tag-amsterdam","10":"tag-bernard-maclaverty","11":"tag-ciarian-hinds","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-lesley-manville","17":"tag-midwinter-break","18":"tag-mindwinter-break","19":"tag-movies","20":"tag-to-watch","21":"tag-trailer","22":"tag-vacation"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115662470073183931","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}