2016’s Palm D’or winning I, Daniel Blake is a Kafka-esque tale about the British welfare state, set in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The message here is not about people who “fall through the cracks”, but rather how those cracks are systematically widened by bureaucracy in order to save the state money. This was a lovely, humanist bit of Ken Loach activism which, while requiring the passing of Kleenex boxes around our sofas, also delivered a lot of laugh-out-loud humor.

I decided to add subtitles to this one… the Geordie accent can be tough… good call!

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