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On the Sea
Linenhall Film Club
Tuesday, 3 November 2026
7.30pm
Full €7
Concession €5
Linenhall Film Club Season Ticket - €30
Contact Box Office for bookings: 094 9023733
(7 Films Winter Programme 2026)
Jack has been married to Maggie for over half his life. He works as a Hand Raker on the mussel beds in North Wales alongside his younger brother, Dyfan, and Dyfan’s three sons. Jack has always assumed that his own boy, Tom, will join the family business on leaving school but Tom’s resistance to follow in his footsteps creates familial tension. Tensions are further in flamed by the arrival of an itinerant deckhand, Daniel, who makes known his feelings for Jack. In this remote, rural community where life revolves around Church and fishery, Jack is faced with an impossible dilemma. On The Sea is a beautiful, sensual and at times, tragic exploration of masculinity, place and desire.
UK, 2025
English / 111 mins
Dir: Helen Walsh
Cast: Barry Ward, Lorne MacFadyen, Liz White, Henry Lawfull
On The Sea combines astute observational writing with powerful performances and evocative cinematography to create a low-key yet vivid portrait of a man coming to terms with himself
it traces the expected, anguished coming-out arc with rare honesty and frank, bristly sensual abandon — both actors committing with equal parts vulnerable yearning and terse emotional avoidance
