First trailer for Andrew Haigh's A Long Winter sets January cinema dates
The first trailer for A Long Winter is out, giving audiences an opening look at Andrew Haigh's snowbound drama and its run into cinemas in the new year.
Deadline published the exclusive trailer on 14 October. The film stars Fred Hechinger, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Caitriona Balfe, Kit Connor and D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai. It is Haigh's latest feature as writer and director, adapted from Colm Tóibín's short story of the same name.
The ensemble came together last autumn. Deadline first reported Connor joining Hechinger and Woon-A-Tai in October 2025, with Moss-Bachrach and Balfe added to the cast a week later.
The story sits in the early 1950s in a remote stretch of the Colorado mountains. Hechinger plays Mike, part of a family forced into uneasy isolation alongside Moss-Bachrach's character. TIFF names Hechinger's role as Mike, while The Hollywood Reporter describes the pair as family members cut off together.
That isolation has played across the autumn festival circuit. The film is associated with Telluride, Toronto and the New York Film Festival. In Toronto, it screened in Special Presentations, the strand for high-profile premieres, and was billed as its Canadian Premiere as a Canada-United Kingdom production directed by Haigh.
Behind the camera, the producers are Tristan Goligher for The Bureau, Chad Oakes and Mike Frislev for Nomadic Pictures, and Michael Elliott. The project was developed by Mubi and co-financed by Mubi and Film4. Mubi is handling most of the release, putting a streamer and distributor in charge of a traditional cinema rollout.
The dates are now set. The film opens in cinemas in the UK and Ireland on 15 January, then in the US and Canada on 22 January. A wider release follows on 18 February across Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain and Latin America.
What makes this stand out is the shift in scale for Haigh, the British film-maker from Harrogate known for intimate dramas. He has described the film as his version of The Revenant, The Hollywood Reporter reported in August. The trailer keeps that promise visual: mountains, snow and a small group with nowhere else to go.
