Blind Flight is the true account of the kidnapping of Brian Keenan and his subsequent captivity with John McCarthy in the Lebanon in 1986. Keenan and McCarthy spent four and a half years together, confined underground and chained to the wall of their cell. The two men, pawns in a game of international politics, were utterly different in personality, physical appearance and background. The bullish working-class Irish Republican Keenan, who went to the Lebanon as a teacher to escape the horrors of Belfast, and his youthful English cellmate, the handsome, charming, upper-class McCarthy, a journalist ironically reporting on Keenan’s own captivity, could easily have found each other at opposite ends of a gun barrel in the streets of Keenan’s Belfast. Instead, in the face of the most acute deprivation and under the constant threat of death at the hands of their captors, they forged a relationship that transcended all that appeared to divide them.

Winner Best Actor, Ian Hart, Tribeca Film Festival 2004.

Cast

Bassem Breish
Mohamad Chamas
Ian Hart
Linus Roach