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Syrian refugees arrive in an English former mining town in what may well be the director’s last film
A dilapidated pub in a former coal-mining village is the setting for a soapy but sincere exploration of xenophobia
The award-winning director’s latest film shines a light on zero-hours contracts and their effect on family life
Yes, Loach is didactic, but you have to admire his undimmed passion. And he knows how to deliver the gut-punch
Soaring vice-chancellor pay and mounting undergraduate debt stir doubt on value for money
Ken Loach portrays a vexatious bureaucratic loop that drives an incapacitated Geordie joiner to distraction
Lucas Hedges stars in a drama about social breakdown that shifts into interesting territory
The tale of a life crushed by economic circumstances is quintessential Ken Loach
British cultural chronicles conscript luckless workers to the service of a leftwing creed they have always rejected
The film traces the fascinating ups and downs of Britain’s latest octogenarian national treasure
A documentary that takes a fair-minded approach to the director’s career
The British director scoops the top prize for ‘I, Daniel Blake’
Highlights of this year’s festival include a comedy about cannibalism and class conflict
Party loyalists bemused at exclusion from leadership ballot
Cinematographer Robbie Ryan turns this story of a runaway couple into gold
A picaresque tale of wannabe migrants from debut director Diego Quemada-Diez
Ken Loach’s new film is a charmer with a brain – and exquisitely filmed by Robbie Ryan
The 67th edition promises a heady blend of familiar faces and hopeful first-timers
Cristian Mungiu’s truth-based story finds rapture in its austerity, the simple, moving power of ‘Shell’, and Ken Loach’s plea for a return to the values of 1945
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