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
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