Saoirse Ronan’s New Film The Outrun

Moderator Annette Insdorf will interview Saoirse Ronan after a screening of her new film, The Outrun.

Even before reaching 30, Saoirse Ronan received 4 Oscar nominations, beginning with Atonement (2007) at the age of 13, and continuing with Brooklyn (2015), followed by Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird and Little Women. Her other notable credits include Hanna (2011), Mary Queen of Scots (2018), Ammonite (2020), and Steve McQueen’s historical drama, Blitz, the closing-night selection of the 2024 NY Film Festival.

The Outrun is directed by Nora Fingscheidt, based on the bestselling 2016 memoir by Amy Liptrot. Ronan produced the feature alongside Jack Lowden and Sarah Brocklehurst. She plays a young biologist for whom alcoholism and recovery are cyclical. Moving from London to the isolation of the Orkney islands, she begins to understand her place in the natural world. As Gerwig wrote about Ronan when the actress received a tribute from the 2024 Telluride Film Festival, “in The Outrun, she holds the vast discomfort and ecstasy of being alive. She fully inhabits this other life.”