Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “That They May Face the Rising Sun” showing April 25-May 1 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre.
“That They May Face the Rising Sun” shows a year in the life of a rural, lakeside community in Ireland in the 1980s and its cast of authentic, memorable characters.

The film is an adaptation of the final novel from John McGahern, one of Ireland’s greatest novelists.
Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among a small, lakeside community in rural Ireland near to where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded in the life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters that move about them unfolds through the rituals of work, play and the passing seasons as this enclosed world becomes an “everywhere”.
“A lyrical, loving celebration of the everyday.” — Screen International
“An Irish masterpiece.” — Irish Independent
“A powerful and delicate portrayal of ordinary life in rural Ireland.” — Loud and Clear Reviews
“That They May Face the Rising Sun” will be shown at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre April 25-May 1. Showtimes will be Friday, Saturday and Monday, April 25, 26 and 28 at 3:30 p.m.; Tuesday, April 29 at 7:00 p.m.; and Wednesday and Thursday, April 30 and May 1 at 6:30 p.m.
Tickets are $12 general admission, or $9 for Film Festival members. For tickets and more information, please call 928-282-1177. Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona. For more information, visit: www.SedonaFilmFestival.org.