I, Daniel Blake
Synopsis
He crosses paths with a single mother, Katie, and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city she doesn’t know, some 300 miles away.
Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land, caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in modern day Britain.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2016 - Special Presentations
Winner - Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival 2016
Details
- Year
- 2016
- Type of film
- Features
- Running time
- 100 mins
- Director
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Ken Loach
- Producer
- Rebecca O'Brien
- Editor
- Jonathan Morris
- Screenwriter
- Paul Laverty
- Director of Photography
- Robbie Ryan
- Principal cast
- Dave Johns, Hayley Squires
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
UK, France, Belgium coproduction
Sixteen Films (UK), Why Not Productions (FR), Wild Bunch (FR), Les Films du Fleuve (BE) with the support of BFI (UK) and BBC Films (UK), France 2 Cinéma (FR), Canal + (FR), France Télévisions (FR), Le Pacte (FR), Cinéart (BE), Ciné+ (FR), VOO and Be tv (BE)
Sixteen Films
2nd Floor187 Wardour Street
London
W1F 8ZB
Sales Company
Wild Bunch
Olivier Barbier65 Rue de Dunkerque
75009 Paris
France
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