English playwright Andrea Dunbar, author of Rita, Sue And Bob Too, filmed by Alan Clarke in 1987, led a short, hard life, enduring a series of troubled relationships and addiction to alcohol before her death from a brain haemorrhage at just 29. Her three children, including daughter Lorraine, subsequently faced their own difficulties and tragedies. Here, director Clio Barnard takes actual recordings of Lorraine and others of Dunbar’s family and friends and has them lip-synched by the actors on screen, adding an extra layer of expressiveness and effectiveness to these often harrowing aural documents.

The screening will be introduced by theatre and opera director Tom Creed.

Notes by Kevin Coyne