The gut-wrenching performance that won Jessie Buckley an Oscar. Plus, a powerful critique of the gig economy by debut director Laura Carreira

Focusing on the life of a warehouse ‘picker’ in an Amazon-style fulfilment centre, On Falling puts a human face on the realities of precarious work in today’s gig economy. Director Laura Carreira tell...

Laura Carreira explains why removing antagonists sharpened her film's critique of the gig economy and its deleterious effect on an isolated Portuguese migrant.

In On Falling, first time director Laura Carreira exposes the hardships and humiliations of a woman struggling to earn a living in a ‘fulfilment centre’ in Glasgow

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La cineasta portuguesa debuta con 'On falling', retrato de las condiciones de los centros logísticos de las empresas de envíos y sus consecuencias en la salud mental

From a dark and death-haunted classic by Mike Leigh to Tom Cruise’s final highwire stunt and Timothée Chalamet’s brilliant embodiment of Dylan we rewind six months of sensational cinema – in order of ...

Als sie von der freundlichen Frau beim Vorstellungsgespräch gefragt wird, was sie denn so in ihrer Freizeit mache, fällt Aurora spontan bloss «die Wäsche» ein. Dann verstummt sie, und schliesslich lau...

Two films in one review – featuring a Portuguese warehouse worker, and the return of the beloved (and idiosyncratic) Takeshi Kitano…

Winner of Best Director at San Sebastián and The Sutherland Award at BFI London Film Festival, On Falling (produced by Ken Loach’s Sixteen Films) marks…

The Local Cinema film programme is funded by the City of Edinburgh Council via the Creative Community Hubs Network, bringing together eight building-based hubs who are engaging with their local commun...

The importance of human connection lies at the heart of this powerful, nuanced portrait of a young Portuguese warehouse employee in Scotland.

“On Falling” acompanha a vida de Aurora, uma emigrante portuguesa na Escócia que trabalha como picker num armazém de distribuição. O filme de Laura Carreira e da produtora de Ken Loach (Sixteen…

Aurora, a protagonista de On Falling (2024), tem um nome que evoca o nascer de uma certa luz, ou de alguma revelação de esperança por um novo caminho. Luz e esperança são precisamente duas coisas q…

Director Laura Carreira repeatedly returns to the same settings of Aurora’s work and life, almost tableaus, to illustrate the repetitiveness and drudgery of her existence.

A young Portuguese woman living in Scotland becomes worn down and isolated by a precarious job as a workhouse picker in this accomplished first feature.

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Sim, fixemos o título! O filme chama-se "On Falling", e é a primeira longa-metragem da cineasta portuense, com uma produção da Sixteen Films, de Ken Loach, em

As inevitáveis comparações com Ken Loach fazem-se sentir quando "On Falling" manifesta a sua estética academizada, alinhando-se com uma vertente de realismo proto-dardenneano - a protagonista, uma tra...

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Gisteren samen met Gerjanne de film On Falling gezien, het sociale drama waarmee de Portugees-Schotse filmmaker Laura Carreira in 2024 haar regiedebuut maakte. De film is een Brits-Portugese coproduct...