British Film Festival 2026 Special Presentation

Australian Premiere

In this explosive drama, Academy Award®-winning director Danny Boyle (Slumdog  Millionaire, Trainspotting) strikingly adapts playwright James Graham’s tumultuous account of the meteoric rise of The Sun newspaper and how Rupert Murdoch (Guy Pearce, The Brutalist) and Larry Lamb (Jack O’Connell) moulded it to become Britain’s most influential tabloid.

In 1969, rising media tycoon Rupert Murdoch persuades newspaper editor Larry Lamb to oversee his newly acquired but failing newspaper. Eager to gain traction in the highly competitive media market, they decide to publish the extreme, printing any story that would divide opinion. When Joyce Hopkirk (Claire Foy, The  Crown) is brought in to widen the newspaper's appeal, she begins to contest the limits of the prevailing boys’ club culture within the industry. But as readership numbers rise, so too do the paper’s disparagers.

A fierce, funny and increasingly unsettling examination of the moment news learnt how profitable it could be to provoke outrage, Ink is an intoxicating watch, filled with Boyle’s signature visceral filmmaking and electric performances.

“Gripping performances... anchor a film that feverishly chronicles how an ambitious man with a chip on his shoulder disrupted traditional media.” – Screen International

WINNER – Soundtrack Stars Award Special Prize, Venice Film Festival 2026

NOMINEE – Golden Lion (Best Director), Venice Film Festival 2026

OFFICAL SELECTION – Toronto International Film Festival 2026

OFFICAL SELECTION – San Sebastián International Film Festival 2026