BBFF26 The Lightkeeper

Ireland, 1924. Seamus Óg MacGrianna (Dominic Cooper) is a lighthouse keeper whose elaborate rituals keep him tethered to the past - tending the garden where he once lived and rowing out into the mist every morning, to listen for the call of the fabled Each-Uisce that might finally set him free. By night he guides ships by the light burning in his lighthouse; by day he has lost his way. But the walls Seamus has created begin to crack when three lives intersect with his own: Edith (Sarah Gadon), the mysterious American whose quest for closure ignites a long forgotten spark; Father MacGabhann (Aidan Quinn), the hard-line priest who makes it his mission to battle a man who has nothing to lose; and Máire (Sarah Bolger), the housekeeper whose unconditional love can no longer protect him from himself. Set against the wild beauty of Ireland’s Atlantic coast, The Lightkeeper is a powerful meditation on love, loss, and letting go. Byron Premiere