72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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I, Daniel Blake

Ken Loach
UK - France - Belgium      100 m.
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English joiner Daniel Blake (59) has heart problems, and for the first time ever he needs help from the State. Despite doctor’s orders not to work, the social services oblige him to find a job if he doesn’t want to be sanctioned. At one of his Job Centre appointments, Daniel meets Katie, a single mum with two children who’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. Finding themselves in no-man’s land, caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy in modern day Britain, Daniel and Katie will try to help one another.

Director
Ken Loach
Screenplay
Paul Laverty
Production
BFI (United Kingdom)
Les Films du Fleuve (Belgium)
Sixteen Films (United Kingdom)
Rebecca O'Brien
Why Not Productions (France)
Pascal Caucheteux
Wild Bunch (France)
Vincent Maraval
Photography
Robbie Ryan
Edition
Jonathan Morris
Music
George Fenton
Cast
Dave Johns, Hayley Squires
Format
DCP FOLLOWING DCI
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Wild Bunch
65, rue de Dunkerque
75009
Paris
France
Running Time
100 m.
Country
UK - France - Belgium
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