SUNLIGHT Director: CLAIRE DIX 91 mins, Ireland, 2023, Digital Watch trailer Book cinema tickets This film will be screening from Friday, June 16th. Tickets will go on sale Monday, June 12th. Preview screening on Tuesday 13th on sale now. Former addict Leon (Barry Ward) is indebted to Iver (Liam Carney), his friend who helped him back from the edge. Now the tables have turned; Leon is clean and bursting with unbridled energy while Iver is at death’s door. Diagnosed with a terminal illness, he has invited Maria (Maureen Beattie), a Scottish death doula, to help him with an early exit. Leon is having none of it and forces Iver to agree to one last day out in Dublin visiting his favourite people and places, hoping to convince him to live. Ward and Carney create warmly complementary characters in this refreshing film about male friendship, which reunites writer Ailbhe Keogan and Claire Dix (in her debut feature). Infused with the humour and sights and sounds of Dublin, this is a joyous offering underpinned by hefty questions of life and death. Preview screening on Tuesday, June 13th (18.30). Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn. Director: CLAIRE DIX 91 mins, Ireland, 2023, Digital Watch trailer