Projects matching: Ken Loach

Synopsis

Aurora, a Portuguese worker in a Scottish warehouse, is navigating loneliness and alienation in an algorithm-driven gig economy as she seeks meaning and connection amidst solitude and workplace confines.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2024 - World premiere
Official Selection San Sebastian Film Festival 2024 - European premiere
San Sebastian Film Festival 2024 - Winner - Silver Seashell for Best Director
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024 - First Feature Competition
BFI London Film Festival 2024 - Winner - Sutherland Award for Best First Feature
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2025

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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.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2023 - Competition - World premiere

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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.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Competition - World premiere
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Masters

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Documentary focusing on the work, both on screen and off, of director Ken Loach. Revolving around the 'battles' linked to his long filmography- ranging from the campaign to combat homelessness prompted by the 1966 film 'Cathy Come Home', to a right-wing press backlash over the Palme d’Or win for 'The Wind That Shakes The Barley' in 2006, to a fight with the censors over the language in 'Sweet Sixteen'.
A provocative and revealing account of the life and career of one of Britain’s foremost filmmakers, produced as he turns eighty, looking back at over fifty years of filmmaking.

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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.
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

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In 1921, Jimmy Gralton's sin was to build a dance hall on a rural crossroads in Ireland, where young people could come to learn, to argue, to dream... but above all to dance and have fun. Jimmy's Hall celebrates the spirit of these free-thinkers.

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1945 was a pivotal year in British history. The unity that carried Britain through the war allied to the bitter memories of the inter-war years led to a vision of a better society. Director Ken Loach has used film from Britain’s regional and national archives, alongside sound recordings and contemporary interviews to create a rich political and social narrative.The Spirit of ’45 hopes to illuminate and celebrate a period of unprecedented community spirit in the UK, the impact of which endured for many years and which may yet be rediscovered today.

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This bitter sweet comedy follows protagonist Robbie as he sneaks into the maternity hospital to visit his young girlfriend Leonie and hold his newborn son Luke for the first time. Overwhelmed by the moment, he swears that Luke will not have the same tragic life he has had. Escaping a prison sentence by the skin of his teeth, he's given one last chance......While serving a community service order, he meets Rhino, Albert and Mo who, like him, find it impossible to find work because of their criminal records. Little did Robbie imagine how turning to drink might change their lives - not cheap fortified wine, but the best malt whiskies in the world. Will it be 'slopping out' for the next twenty years, or a new future with 'Uisge Beatha' the 'Water of Life?' Only the angels know...

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Imagine the kind of twilight world in which the characters from a bygone British-made space-opera, might find themselves making a much-needed pit stop at a Motorway Service Station at 2:45am on a nondescript weekday morning.

'Bizarre', (Heat Magazine). 'Surreal', (The Daily Mirror). 'Sly, smart, and outrageous. A short break well worth stopping off for', (The Guardian). 'Star Trek with a Ken Loach twist', (Starburst Magazine). 'Stunning, weird and lovely', (BBC).

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Won 1st prize at 'Reelhealthstories', a competition judged by Ken Loach and David Morrissey (July 4th, 2010).

The Ramp shows Jeff's struggle to get a ramp fitted at the entrance to his council flat, so he can leave his home with the help of a wheelchair. The money all in place, the ramp delayed for a year due to bureaucratic stumbling blocks about permissions not granted to extend a ramp into a parking space of the estate where Jeff's flat is located.

A once independent and vivacious man is reduced to confinement in his home for over 6 months while the authorities argue about his status, until he dies. Made as a 5 minute short for 'reelhealthstories', to be shown to medical students about the actual impact of their recommendations, and the human cost of agencies working cross side each other.

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Liverpool, August 1976. Five-year-old Fergus' eyes lit up when he met Frankie on his first day at school. They've been in each other's shadow ever since. As teenagers, in the Spring of 1986, they skipped school and drank cider on the ferry over the river Mersey, dreaming about future adventures and travelling the world.

In September 2004, Fergus (ex-SAS) persuaded Frankie (ex-Para) to join his team in Iraq and earn £12,000 a month tax free as a private security contractor - their last chance to "load up" in this increasingly privatised war.

2006, and Baghdad is the most dangerous city in the world. Route Irish - as nicknamed by occupying forces, is the most dangerous road in this city, running from Baghdad airport to the Green Zone. Together Frankie and Fergus risk their lives in a city steeped in violence, terror, impunity, greed, and awash with cash - US dollars, by the billions. But Route Irish has a fate in store for the friends that neither could have imagined.

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Bill and Karl, a father and son outfit, have just got out of jail free - but all is not well in Down Terrace - For Karl, life in Billworld has become intolerable and he's close to the edge, in fact, he's falling over it.
A darkly comic and deeply disturbing slice of social surrealism featuring the cream of British comedy character actors, 'Down Terrace' is the debut feature film from director Ben Wheatley. Think Ken Loach on Acid - the new wave of kitchen sink starts here.