An important and moving watch
Movingly, the documentary is narrated in the majority by Lyra herself, using voicenotes and dictaphone tapes from her work as a journalist.: "It must have taken six weeks to go through all of them. We wanted to take the audience and introduce them to Lyra – a wee girl who grew up in Ardoyne. We wanted the audience to feel the same loss as we did. Our aim with using her voice was to bring her back to life for 60 or 70 minutes. We didn’t want her to be silenced by a bullet.
She was the 160th death since the Good Friday Agreement.”There is. Watch a teaser for the documentary, which includes footage and audio from Lyra herself, below:The documentary has won widespread praise from both critics and viewers, after it was first aired at Belfast and Cork film festivals in 2021, and released in UK and Irish cinemas in November 2022.: “I can't think of a recent documentary that has married art, politics and emotion so successfully and movingly.
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