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"When you're not at work, what sort of things do you like to do?" Letterboxd has debuted the full official UK trailer for an indie film titled On Falling, the feature directorial debut of Portuguese filmmaker Laura Carreira. This premiered at TIFF 2024 last year, and also played at the London, San Sebastian, Thessaloniki, and Rome Film Festivals. it focuses on Aurora, a Portuguese worker in a Scottish warehouse, navigating loneliness and alienation in an algorithm-driven gig economy as she seeks meaning and connection amidst solitude and workplace confines. The film stars Joana Santos, Inês Vaz, Piotr Sikora, Jake McGarry, and Neil Leiper. This received mostly positive reviews. It's described as "social cinema that is worthwhile" that's a "clear, cold, tender, merciless and, above all, unforgettable film." Fits right alongside Ken Loach's films; the poster states it's from the same producers as I, Daniel Blake & The Old Oak anyway. Take a look.

The modern workplace is the focus of Laura Carreira’s hypnotic debut On Falling, a sobering study of a woman’s attempt to stay afloat in contemporary Glasgow. Produced by Ken Loach’s Sixteen Films production company, it has plenty in common with the British social realist’s output and specifically his more recent films, notably his state-of-the-nation trilogy (2016-23) that comprised I, Daniel Blake, Sorry We Missed You and The Old Oak. Carreira, however, brings a subtle but assured lyricism to the subject that has already caught the attention of festival programmers worldwide: after debuting in the Discovery strand at the Toronto Film Festival, her film On Falling now competes in the official selection at San Sebastian and will soon enter the First Feature Competition at the London Film Festival.

Like Loach’s Sorry We Missed You, the subject is the gig economy, but this time from the point...

The UK industry gathered at the Cannes UK pavilion yesterday (May 16) to celebrate the work of the eight projects taking part in this year’s Cannes Great 8 showcase.

Christopher Andrews’ Bring Them Down starring Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott, Sean Dunn’s The Fall Of Sir Douglas Weatherford and Marianne Elliott’s The Salt Path were among the eight titles taking part, with filmmakers taking to the stage to discuss their projects.

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The only documentary in this year’s line-up is Witches, from Elizabeth Sankey, in which the filmmaker explores the unexpected connections...

Christopher Andrews’ Bring Them Down starring Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott, Sean Dunn’s The Fall Of Sir Douglas Weatherford and Marianne Elliott’s The Salt Path, featuring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs, are among the eight films taking part in the Great 8 showcase, which presents new UK feature films from first-and second-time UK filmmakers to international distributors and festival programmers.

Now in its seventh year, the 2024 Great 8 showcase is funded and produced by the BFI and the British Council, with support from the Great Britain & Northern Ireland campaign, BBC Film and Film4.

In preparation for Cannes, unseen footage from...

French sales outfit Goodfellas has added Laura Carreira’s debut feature On Falling to its European Film Market (EFM) line-up.

The drama tells the story of a Portuguese warehouse picker working in Scotland. Trapped between the confines of her workplace and the solitude of her flatshare, she seeks to resist the loneliness, alienation and ensuing small talk which begin to threaten her sense of self.

Keeping alive Loach and Sixteen Films’ tradition, the cast features a mixture of actors and non-actors. Portuguese actor Joana Santos leads the cast, which features Inês Vaz, Piotr Sikora, Jake McGarry and Neil Leiper.

It...

Exclusive: Fantasy feature goes to North America, UK and Japan in flurry of deals.

UK sales company Truffle Pictures has closed deals on fantasy action adventure The Gaelic King to North America and the UK (4Digital Media), the Middle East (Italia Film), Japan (Interfilm) and Italy (Draka Distribution). 4Digital Media is planning to release the film in the UK this July. All deals were negotiated by Caroline Couret-Delègue, managing director at Truffle Pictures.

Directed by Philip Todd from a script by Philip and Matthew Todd, the film’s ensemble cast includes Jake McGarry, Shona Melrose, Kerry Browne, Noah Irvine and Peter Cosgrove.

Set in 800Ad Scotland, the story follows warrior-king Alpin mac Eachdach and his young brother Finn, forced into exile after their family is brutally murdered by a rival Pictish king.

The film is produced by Nathan Todd with Jezz Vernon and Couret-Delègue executive producing. Todd said, “We’re delighted to have closed deals in five...