Director Ken Loach won the prestigious Palme D’or at Cannes for I, Daniel Blake, a searing tale of an aging, widowed carpenter trapped in a bureaucratic nightmare. After suffering a heart attack, Daniel is told by his doctors that he’s too ill to work. But he also isn’t eligible for disability benefits, unless he spends at least 35 hours a week looking for a job that he won’t be able to take. At the state welfare office, Daniel meets and forms an unlikely friendship with a struggling single mother with two young children. Loach has a long and distinguished career exploring socio-economic issues in Britain. In I, Daniel Blake, he masterfully puts a timely and unforgettable human face on a broken and uncompromising system that has very real and devastating consequences. (Running TIme: 100 minutes)
