When A Long Winter will reach Irish cinemas and what Irish viewers can expectIrish star Caitríona Balfe is to lead A Long Winter, the big-screen adaptation of Colm Tóibín's short story, with All of Us Strangers director Andrew Haigh behind the camera. The film will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival this autumn. Filmed on location in Alberta, Canada, A Long Winter is “set in the mountains as autumn draws to a close and a family prepares for the long winter ahead”. A release date for Irish cinemas has yet to be announced, though the twin festival bows in Toronto and New York put the film firmly on the awards-season radar, RTÉ Entertainment reports. It marks another high-profile literary role for Balfe.