I, Daniel Blake

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.

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Winner of the Cannes 2016 top filmmaking prize, the Palme d'Or

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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

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Nominated for 4 European Film Awards 2016: European Film, European Director Ken Loach, European Screenwriter Paul Laverty, European Actor Dave Johns