“Here’s a film that unwraps its mysteries slowly, revealing under its quiet surface the human condition writ delicate but deep.”
– Jonathan Romney, Financial Times ★★★★★

“Using subtle visual motifs to elucidate the film’s themes, he takes an unhurried approach to his characters’ lives, trusting the audience to understand they’re rich enough and colourful enough to forgo the need for melodramatic embellishment.”
– Allistair Harkness, Scotsman ★★★★

“…subtle and dignified performances across the board…”
– Philip Hoad, The Guardian

“The rain comes down, the sun shines, grass grows, children grow old and die. That’s the holy all of it” – and Collins brings the curious, attentive eye of the documentarian to capturing these moments, making That They May Face the Rising Sun a quietly captivating experience.”
—Sight & Sound

Screening April 18 – 24th!
Get tickets HERE.

Capturing a year in the life of a rural, lakeside community in Ireland in the 1970’s, That They May Face The Rising Sun is an adaptation of the final novel from John McGahern, one of Ireland’s greatest novelists.

Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among the small, close-knit community near to where Joe grew up.

Now deeply embedded in life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters around them unfolds through the rituals of work, play and the passing seasons as this enclosed world becomes an everywhere.