I, Daniel Blake
Synopsis
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
Details
- Year
- 2016
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 100 mins
- Director
- Ken Loach
- Producer
- Rebecca O'Brien
- Editor
- Jonathan Morris
- Screenwriter
- Paul Laverty
- Director of Photography
- Robbie Ryan
- Principal Cast
- Dave Johns, Hayley Squires
Genre
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 30th August 2016
