Watch Dev Patel and Rooney Mara in the Lion trailer

Directed by Garth Davis, and adapted from Saroo Brierley’s engrossing memoir “A Long Way Home,” Lion tells the true story of how a wrong train takes a five-year-old Indian boy hundreds of miles from home; he survives many challenges before being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, haunted by memories of his childhood, he learns of a new technology called Google Earth, and sets out to find his lost family.

The film stars Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, David Wenham and Nicole Kidman. They film will be the American Express Gala at The 60th BFI London Film Festival . The film will receive its UK premiere on Wednesday 12 October at London’s Odeon Leicester Square, with Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman expected to attend.

Source: The Weinstein Company