I, Daniel Blake – opening in Irish cinemas October 21st

Daniel Blake, 59, has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, for the first time ever, following an illness, he needs help from the State. He crosses paths with 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 in a city she doesn’t know, some 300 miles away. Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land, caught on the barbed-wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in modern-day Britain.

Directed by Ken Loach, I, Daniel Blake (cert 12a) opens in Irish cinemas October 21st. The film won the Palme D’or award at Cannes Film Festival 2016 and is a socially charged and emotionally moving film.