New Star Wars Force Awakens teaser released on Instagram

​The makers of the new Star Wars film have released another teaser clip, this time via Instagram.

The promo for Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens was posted on the movie's official account using the photo and video-sharing site's new landscape format.

The caption below simply says: "There has been an awakening..."

The film is due for release in the UK just before Christmas this year.

The plot comes 30 years after Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

The 15 second clip does not give away any of the latest storyline.

But we do see a vast army of Stormtroopers and the character Finn, played by John Boyega, holding a lightsaber and facing an enemy in a forest.

The Star Wars account has 1.5m followers and calls itself "the only official home of Star Wars on Instagram".