It's a monumental farce, isn't it? Looking for non-existent jobs and all it does is humiliate me.
Daniel Blake, 59, who has worked as a joiner most of his life in the North East of England needs help from the State for the first time ever following an illness.
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 is to accept a flat some 300 miles away.
Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy now played out against the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in modern day Britain.
Awards
- Winner of the Cannes 2016 top filmmaking prize, the Palme d'Or
- Winner of 2 British Independent Film Awards 2016; Best Actor Dave Johns, and Most Promising Newcomer Hayley Squires. Nominated for 7: Best British Independent Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor & Most Promising Newcomer Dave Johns, Best Actress and Most Promising Newcomer Hayley Squires
- Nominated for 4 European Film Awards 2016: European Film, European Director Ken Loach, European Screenwriter Paul Laverty, European Actor Dave Johns
- Winner Outstanding British Film at the British Academy Film Awards 2017 (BAFTA). Also nominated for Best Film, Director Ken Loach, Supporting Actress Hayley Squires and Original Screenplay Paul Laverty
- Winner of The Attenborough Award for British/Irish Film of the Year London Critics' Circle Film Awards
- Winner Best British Film and Best Male Newcomer Dave Johns at the Empire Film Awards 2017
Starring:
Dave Johns, Hayley Squires
Director:
Ken Loach
Producers:
Rebecca O'Brien
Screenplay:
Paul Laverty
Executive Producers:
Pascal Caucheteux, Grégoire Sorlat, Vincent Maraval
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Distributor:
Credits summary:
BBC Films and BFI present A Sixteen Films, Why Not Productions and Wild Bunch Production
Certificate:
15
Running time:
100 mins
Released
21 October 2016
Out on DVD
27 February 2017