Ken Loach

Palme d'Or nominee from Ken Loach (I, Daniel Blake), following a modern-day English family struggling to get past looming debt.

An East German protest singer leaves his family behind to emigrate to West Berlin, where the representatives of an American record company are eagerly waiting for him.

Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed even his immortal soul and salvation, in blind pursuit of that goal.

David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.

Maggie has had four children, by four different fathers, removed by social services because of a previous violent relationship. When she meets Jorge, a gentle Latin American refugee, she gradually sees her chance for happiness, but her history still haunts her.

Two thirtysomethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, start a romantic relationship in the one of the toughest Glasgow neighbourhoods.

Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration status and to not conflict with their "signing on" for unemployment benefits. Some coworkers help Stevie secure housing, squatting in a council estate. Then Stevie meets Susan, from Ireland, who's struggling to be a professional singer.

In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish during the "Troubles." But when Sullivan is assassinated in the streets, Jessner teams up with Peter Kerrigan, a British investigator acting against the will of his own government, and struggles to uncover a conspiracy that may even implicate one of Kerrigan's colleagues.

A private security contractor in Iraq rejects the official explanation of his friend's death and decides to investigate.

A young man upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher.

A Glasgow man visits war-torn Nicaragua with a refugee tormented by her memories.

The great Ken Loach and his regular writer Paul Laverty reunite for this Palme d'Or-nominated drama centred on the last remaining pub in an area that's become ideal for housing Syrian refugees.

Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival 2016, this is Ken Loach's drama about a 59-year-old carpenter in North-East England who falls ill and requires state assistance for disability...

Ken Loach's true-story drama, set in 1932 Ireland, about political firebrand and communist Jimmy Gralton who - upon returning from 10 years abroad - opens a dance hall for the youth to share ideas. Based on the stageplay by Donal O'Kelly. Nominated for the Palme d'Or, Cannes 2014.

A young, English working-class boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet falcon in Ken Loach's BAFTA award-winning drama.

Brit comedy-drama from veteren filmmaker Ken Loach (The Wind That Shakes The Barley, The Navigators) about postman Eric who turns to footballing genius and philospher Eric Cantona to get his life back on track. Nominated for the Golden Palm at Cannes 2009.

Carol White and Terence Stamp star in the first of several social realism films by Ken Loach. Co-written by Nell Dunn and based on his novel.

Ken Loach (Looking for Eric) comedy about a Scottish man with a criminal past who vows to change his ways when he's introduced to fatherhood. A visit to a whisky distillery inspires him and his mates to seek a way out of their dead-end lives.

Documentary on the UK’s post-WWII Labour government and its programme of nationalisation, showing the background to - and construction of - the country's welfare state that ended up largely dismantled during the Thatcher era.

Ireland, 1920. Damien and Teddy are brothers. But while the latter is already the leader of a guerrilla squad fighting for the independence of his motherland...

A look at the life and work of Italian cinematographer, Carlo di Palma.