Blind Flight is a 2003 British prison film directed by John Furse and starring Ian Hart and Linus Roache.

Brian Keenan, a humourless bearded Irish academic, has moved to Beirut in the mid 1980s and works as an English teacher.

He is kept on his own but eventually he is moved into a cell in a deserted house, where he is joined by another hostage, the English journalist John McCarthy, who had been reporting on Keenan’s kidnapping not long before he himself was abducted.

The grumpy Brit-hating Irishman and the more pliable British journalist are forced to share their small prison cell.

The pair slowly begin to bond as they make a temporary life together, playing chess, catching mosquitoes, trapping a mouse, telling stories and imagining they are somewhere else.

After another move, to a small, white-tiled cell, McCarthy is traumatized after being shown a video of his mother pleading for his return.