I, DANIEL BLAKE (2016)

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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Palme d’Or Winner - Cannes Film Festival 2016
Winner for Best Actor (Dave Johns) and Most Promising Newcomer (Hayley Squires) - BIFA’s 2016
Nominated for Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress - BIFA’s 2016
Nominated for European Film, European Director, European Screenwriter, European Actor - European Film Awards 2016
BAFTA Winner - Outstanding British Film 2017
BAFTA Nominated - Best Film, Director, Supporting Actress and Original Screenplay 2017
Winner of The Attenborough Award for British/Irish Film of the Year - London Critics' Circle Film Awards 2017
Winner Best British Film and Best Male Newcomer Dave Johns - Empire Film Awards 2017