ON FALLING

Awarded at the BFI London Film Festival and for Best Director at the San Sebastian Festival, Laura Carreiry's debut film subtly delivers its emotional depth while introducing us to a new master of social realism in contemporary cinema. Aurora (played by Joana Santos) is a Portuguese woman working in a Scottish warehouse. Her life revolves around solitude, with her daily routine comprising barcode scanning, item sorting, and order picking. Still, it is worth putting in the effort, as top work efficiency and results might earn her a chocolate bar from her supervisor. After work, Aurora shares a flat with strangers, yet even here, a sense of closeness and connection is missing from her life.

Carreiry’s film dissects the flaws of the free-market system, where employing workers on zero-hour contracts is commonplace, depriving them of any real sense of security—financial or psychological.

Produced by Sixteen Films (co-founded by Ken Loach himself), this debut gives us a socially engaged cinema that opens hearts and minds far more powerfully than anything the master Loach has directed in recent years. In the multicultural empire of loneliness built by the Portuguese director, there is no shortage of Polish accents, either. The world premiere of the film took place at the Toronto Film Festival. We bring this film to Polish audiences for the first time as part of the British Film Festival.

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Dorota Reksińska

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The film will be shown after the BFF's opening gala, which starts at 19:30 and will lasts approximately 30 minutes.

The ticket purchased is valid for the gala and the screening.