Raining Stones

Director: Ken Loach

Year: 2023

The future for the last remaining pub, The Old Oak in a village of the Northeast England, where people are leaving the land as the mines are closed. Houses are cheap and available thus making it an ideal location for the Syrian refugees.<br /> Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2023 - Competition - World premiere

Director: Ken Loach

Year: 2019

Ricky, Abby and their two children live in Newcastle. They are a strong family who care for each other. Ricky has skipped from one labouring job to another while Abby, who loves her work, cares for old people. Despite working longer and harder they realise they will never have independence or their own home. It's now or never; the app revolution offers Ricky a golden opportunity. He and Abby make a bet. She sells her car so Ricky can buy a shiny new van and become a freelance driver, with his own business at last. The modern world impinges on these four souls in the privacy of their kitchen; the future beckons.<br /> Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Competition - World premiere<br /> Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Masters

Director: Ken Loach

Year: 2016

Daniel Blake has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, he needs help from the State for the first time in his life.<br /> 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.<br /> 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.<br /> Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2016 - Special Presentations<br /> Winner - Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival 2016