David Farnor | On 16, Oct 2022

Letitia Wright and Josh O’Connor are heading from the London Film Festival to Sky Cinema in Aisha and a new trailer gives us a glimpse of what to expect from the drama.

Written and directed by Frank Berry, it follows Aisha (Wright), a young Nigerian woman seeking asylum in Ireland. She is floundering in a maze of social services and bureaucracy. Alone and unwilling to sacrifice her dignity to satisfy the demands of the authorities, she finds an ally in Conor (O’Connor), an employee at her residence home, a local young man with a troubled past of his own. Together they struggle to maintain their tender friendship in the face of Aisha’s increasingly dire predicament and her rapidly diminishing options.   

The film is produced by Tristan Orpen Lynch, Aoife O’Sullivan, Donna Eperon and Sam Bisbee. The executive producers are Hallee Adelman, Ivy Herman, Jenifer Westphal, Joe Plummer, Lance Acord, Jackie Kelman Bisbee, Wendy Neu, William Byerley, George Rush, Alison Thompson and Mark Gooder. Rose Garnett is executive producer for BBC Film and Celine Haddad is executive producer for Screen Ireland.  

The film premiered at the London Film Festival on 6th October and will be available in cinemas and on Sky Cinema on 17th November. Here’s the trailer:

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