2016 | B/N | 100:00 Daniel Blake, 59 years old, worked as a joiner in Newcastle, England. After suffering heart disease he applies for sickness benefit. He meets single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless person’s hostel in London is to accept a flat in a city 300 miles away. Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land, caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy in modern-day Britain. Direction: Loach; Ken Script: Laverty; Paul Production: O’brien; Rebecca Photography: Ryan; Robbie Sound: Beckett; Ray Music: Fenton; George Cast:Johns; Dave, Shann; Briana, Squires; Hayley, Mckiernan; Dylan Phillip, Rutter; Kate, Percy; Sharon, Sikazwe; Kema Art direction: Wilson; Linda, Clegg; Fergus Participation year at FICM: 2016
2016 | B/N | 100:00 Daniel Blake, 59 years old, worked as a joiner in Newcastle, England. After suffering heart disease he applies for sickness benefit. He meets single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless person’s hostel in London is to accept a flat in a city 300 miles away. Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land, caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy in modern-day Britain. Direction: Loach; Ken Script: Laverty; Paul Production: O’brien; Rebecca Photography: Ryan; Robbie Sound: Beckett; Ray Music: Fenton; George Cast:Johns; Dave, Shann; Briana, Squires; Hayley, Mckiernan; Dylan Phillip, Rutter; Kate, Percy; Sharon, Sikazwe; Kema Art direction: Wilson; Linda, Clegg; Fergus Participation year at FICM: 2016
The Spirit of ’45 A documentary about the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years and carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society. See More
Looking for Eric Life is slipping through the fingers of Eric, the postman. His family life is chaotic, and his adopted children are not much help. But it is Eric’s own secret that drives him to the brink. Can he face Lily, the woman he once loved 30 years ago? Despite the efforts and good intentions of his soccer teammates to support him emotionally, Eric continues to sink. See More
The Wind that Shakes the Barley Ireland 1920: workers from field and country unite to form volunteer guerrilla armies to face the ruthless ?Black and Tan? squads that are being shipped from Britain to block Ireland?s bid for independence. Driven by a deep sense of duty and a love for his country, Damien abandons his burgeoning career as a doctor and joins his brother, Teddy, in a dangerous and violent fight for freedom See More
The 22nd FICM Awarded the Best of its Official Selection and Impulso Morelia 10 10 · 25 · 24 Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24 The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24 The Documentary LAS AMAZONAS DE YAXUNAH Premieres at the 22nd FICM 10 · 25 · 24
Alfonso Cuarón Presents a Film that Shaped Him at the 22nd FICM: JONÁS WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 10 · 25 · 24
The Vindication of a Great Artist: Interview with Eva Aridjis Fuentes, Director of ADIÓS CABALLOS: THE MANY LIVES OF Q LAZZARUS (2024) 10 · 25 · 24
