Audiences can see JOYCE BRANAGH and WILLIAM JAMES HOLSTEAD in the multi award winning short film about the war poet Wilfred Owen’s final year 1917/1918 at screenings across the country throughout November.

The Burying Party focuses on a fascinating final year for Owen, meeting such literary heavyweights as Robbie Ross, Charles Scott Moncrieff, Robert Graves and of course, his mentor, Siegfried Sassoon.

On November 4th 1918, he finally fell at the Sambre-Oise canal in the culmination of The Somme campaign near Ors in France. 100 years later to the day, Sine Wave Media are showing the film at the Genesis Cinema, then in Edinburgh where he was treated for shell shock, and in his hometowns in Shropshire and the Wirral.

Writer and Director Richard Weston said: “The casting was rigorous, and we needed a team that could carry the weight of such a powerful story. Wilfred Owen (Matthew Staite) is a fascinating character who has never been truly realised. Dominic Hibberd’s biography is immensely important in underlining his sexuality, which had a huge influence on his work.

Full screening list for November is as follows:

02 TENBURY, REGAL CINEMA, 7PM

04 LONDON, GENESIS CINEMA, 6PM, LIVE Q & A

06 MERSEYSIDE, HESWALL HALL, 7PM, LIVE Q & A

07 MERSEYSIDE, CHRIST CHURCH, 7PM, LIVE Q & A

08 SHROPSHIRE, SHREWSBURY MUSEUM, 5PM, LIVE Q & A

08 EDINBURGH, REDFORD BARRACKS, 7PM

10 TENBURY, REGAL CINEMA, 7PM

10 OSWESTRY, WYNSTAY HOTEL, 1PM, LIVE Q & A

10 WIRRAL, BIRKENHEAD LIBRARY, 5PM, LIVE Q & A

10 TENBURY, REGAL CINEMA, 7PM

26 LIVERPOOL, PICTUREHOUSE AT FACT, 6.30PM