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- 2024
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- 1 h 34 m
- 2024
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- 1 h 34 m
Summary Aisha (Letitia Wright), a young Nigerian woman seeking asylum in Ireland, struggles to maintain hope and dignity against the looming threat of deportation.
Directed By: Frank Berry
Written By: Frank Berry
- 2024
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- 1 h 34 m
- 2024
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- 1 h 34 m
Aisha
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Summary Aisha (Letitia Wright), a young Nigerian woman seeking asylum in Ireland, struggles to maintain hope and dignity against the looming threat of deportation.
Directed By: Frank Berry
Written By: Frank Berry
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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This is one of the best movies of the year, featuring two of our finest actors at the top of their game. Wright’s lead performance is worthy of major award nominations, as is O’Connor’s supporting work.
This tightly focused character study is a tiny film, with an emotional effect in inverse proportion to its size.
Aisha is a portrait of unassailable dignity in the face of cruel happenstance.
It is a thoughtful and intelligent film, and it finds a gifted actor doing some very tricky things quite well.
Writer-director Frank Berry’s film never devolves into melodrama – if anything, it may be understated to a fault – but he grounds her plight in an authentic mixture of daily frustrations and sporadic joys.
“Aisha” resists tidy answers through the gentle force of its performances and by staying on the rebuffs and uncertainty Aisha suffers.
The stakes could not be more intimate and personal here, but as reassured as we might be that something like “due process” and “common sense” will prevail, Wright and O’Connor do a good job of playing people who aren’t so sure, whose faith in people — not the state — to show compassion has its limits.
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Production Company
BBC Film,
Subotica,
Wavelength,
World of Ha Productions
Release Date May 10, 2024
Duration 1 h 34 m
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Awards
Irish Film and Television Awards
• 3 Wins & 10 Nominations
Cork International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Louth International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination