Dir: Alison Millar
92 mins

“Lyra is a film that is unafraid to examine some of the darkest parts of Northern Ireland and the heritage of the Troubles, but does so in order to find hope.” – Christy Taylor, Film Ireland.

Lyra is an emotive, intimate film portrait of the life and death of Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee, who was murdered by dissident Republicans the day before Good Friday, April 2019. Directed by her close friend, documentarian Alison Millar, the film seeks answers to her senseless killing through Lyra’s own work and words.

In just 29 years, Lyra rose from working-class roots in the epicentre of war torn Belfast to become an internationally renowned investigative journalist, seeking justice for crimes that had been forgotten amid the euphoria surrounding the 1998 Good Friday Peace agreement. As the voice of her ceasefire generation, Lyra represented hope for a future free of conflict. Her death is another tragic milestone for a country trying to shake off the shackles of its violent past.

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