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On Falling

United Kingdom, Portugal | 2024 | 104 min

Language: English, Portuguese

Subtitles: English

Suitable for audiences aged 12 and above


Director(s): Laura Carreira

Script: Laura Carreira

Cast: Joana Santos, Inês Vaz, Piotr Sikora, Jake McGarry, Neil Leiper, Deborah Arnott,; Ola Forman, Ross Ian-Martin

Production: Sixteen Films, BRO Cinema

Distribution: Goodfellas


Drama


Female Director Matter of Mind Society At Work Debut Critics Choice


Letterboxd

Screenings:

Aurora has emigrated from Portugal to Scotland and works as a picker in an online store’s warehouse. The days are monotonous and productivity is measured and rewarded in humillating ways. When Aurora’s phone screen shatters, the 99 pound repair pushes her into the abyss. 

On Falling offers a carefully studied portrait of work-based immigration that is the reality for even the “everyman” white European, while observing how algorithms and technology alienates us from each other and ourselves.

Director-screenwriter Laura Carreira’s astonishignly strong debut has been co-produced by the company of British veteran of social realism Ken Loach. This subtle film, relying on long takes and the aesthetics of the everyday, continues the Loachian tradition convincingly, touring festivals from Toronto to Rotterdam.

Saara Tuusa