The director illuminates his new World War II epic, focused on a boy’s fight to get back home amid the rubble of war-torn London.

Steve McQueen is no longer attending the opening night screening of his new film "Blitz" at Camerimage Film Festival over comments the festival director made about women cinematographers. He was also set to receive the outstanding director award at the event.

The Oscar-winning filmmaker joins Q’s Tom Power to talk about his new film, and why the story is still relevant in 2024.

Here, Josh Levine, author of The Secret History of the Blitz and a consultant on the film, talks to TIME about the hardships brought on by the Blitz and the scenes that are based on real people and incidents.

Seeing war through a child’s eyes is sobering. It helps us reconnect to a situation that’s ongoing and unfortunately very familiar."

While those born years after the months-long 1940 Nazi bombing of London may have no clue about Hitler’s merciless destruction of civilian targets or the Brits’ courageous resistance, the subject,