At Middleburg Film Festival, Kenneth Branagh?s ‘Belfast’ joins films reflecting on the past

Nor did pandemic-era strictures impact high quality: Koch and Connie White, Middleburg’s astute and tireless head programmer, managed to attain a lot of this 12 months’s hottest awards contenders, together with “King Richard,” Branagh’s tender coming-of-age memoir “Belfast,” Fran Kranz’s searing chamber piece “Mass,” Pablo Larrain’s Princess Diana biopic “Spencer,” Mike Mills’s uncle-nephew street image “C’mon, C’mon,” Rebecca Corridor’s interval drama “Passing,” Jane Campion’s Twenties western “The Energy of the Canine,” Maggie Gyllenhaal’s spectacular directorial debut “The Misplaced Daughter” and Joe Wright’s daring adaptation of the stage musical “Cyrano,” that includes Peter Dinklage in a wide ranging efficiency because the title character.