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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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