Beautiful film I did love it. The acting by the two main characters was so impressive and moving. I just felt the end cut off too quickly, left you feeling moved but a bit confused why they finished the film with no end to it.

I love Leticia, but get a Nollywood actress 🤷

Definitely worth a watch. Highlights the plight of asylum seekers and how grim the system is in their plight for safety. Made me think

Wright and O’Connor deliver understated yet very wonderful performances. It’s a really poignant film. The ending left me hoping it all turned out alright for Aisha and wishing there was more story coming.

I just saw this gem streaming - just stumbled across it - I was surprised at how beautiful and poignant and hopeful it was. A bit sad but not overly so - without giving anything away, this movie is not as depressing as you might think, considering the subject matter. GREAT performances from the two leads. Just a lovely, quiet, indie film. I would recommend Aisha to anyone.

Heartbreaking story with very realistic and fantastic performances.

What writer-director Frank Berry's latest film has going for it is a very worthy subject-matter and a subtle yet powerful performance by Letitia Wright as a Nigerian asylum seeker in Ireland, struggling in limbo as she's being put through an often cruel and Kafka-esque procedure to prove her claims. Clearly heavily researched and made with the noblest of intentions, the film almost feels obliged to put her through the wringer and pile on the many unfriendly and unhelpful people she encounters along the way in order to make its point, which can make this a difficult watch. Unfussily directed and deliberately paced, almost Ken Loachian in its approach, the mood is understatingly downbeat, while demonstrating enough restraints by not making it over-melodramatic and tear-jerking and letting the desperate situation she finds herself trapped in unfolds as organically as possible. Wright, who is literally in every scene, anchors the film well and its use of her close-up shots keeps her engaging and sympathetic as the script teases out her harrowing history back at home while her tentative romantic relationship with Josh O'Connor's security guard, another lost soul looking for second chances, provides the hopeful compromise that allows the film to avoid choosing between an unrealistically fairytale happy ending and a more realistic but depressing one. While I do rate their central performances, I suspect their jobs are halfway done with the convincing accents they have adopted here. Setting this in Ireland, instead of the UK, also gives this an alternative and slightly fresher take on a social injustice issue from ones we might have seen on big and small screens before. However, I can't help but compare this to the recent but superior Limbo which makes similar points on this issue in a more accessible and graceful manner.