Dinner with Friends

Plot

Shot in 9 days on a budget of $100k, Dinner with Friends follows eight friends trying to hold on to their group as they get older and life gets complicated. Over a series of dinners, the group deals with loyalty, loss, and an uncertain future as relationships shift and secrets are unraveled, with each dinner bringing its own dynamic-shifting announcement of reconciliation, unexpected relationships, and betrayal. The city is crumbling, the climate is changing, and worries about the future of the world are making it hard for this group of friends to stay together. But they’ll come to realize everything would be much harder if they don’t.

About Dinner with Friends

Dinner with Friends is a Canadian drama film, directed by Sasha Leigh Henry and released in 2025. Her full-length directorial debut, the film centres on a group of eight longtime friends who are now in their mid-30s, and who regularly meet for dinner in an attempt to hold onto their connections in the face of external pressures that seem to be pulling them apart. Shot on a micro-budget, the film's cast includes Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell, Alex Spencer, Rakhee Morzaria, Michael Ayres and Leighton Alexander Williams.

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