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Director
Claire Dix
Credits
Producer: Roisin Geraghty
Cinematographer:Narayan Van Maele
Principal Cast
Barry Ward, Liam Carney, Maureen Beattie, Ericka Roe, Lydia McGuinness.
Category
FeatureF-Rated
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. Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn
91 minutes, Ireland, 2023, Colour
EAFFI DISCOVERIES: THE BREAKING ICE + Q&A 18.10
HEART OF AN OAK 13:00, 20:45
KINDS OF KINDNESS 14:55
SLEEP 16:15, 18:30 (OC)
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 20:50
THE COMMANDANT’S SHADOW
THE CONVERSATION 50TH ANNIVERSARY 4K RESTORATION 15:40
THE SPARROW 20:50
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