WHALE Community Cinema presents I, Daniel Blake, directed by Ken Loach and written by Paul Laverty on 27 January 2017 at 6:00pm.
This hard-hitting and frank film deals with the matter of benefits and benefit sanctions, and has received positive reviews from all.
The Edinburgh Reporter watched the film on the small screen just last week, and it is very moving.
Join the Community Cinema for a free screening at the WHALE Arts Centre in Wester Hailes on Friday 27 January 2017. This screening is supported by Unite the Union.
Daniel Blake has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, for the first time ever, he needs help from the State. He crosses paths with a single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan.
Katie’s only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless hostel in London has been 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.
This film is suitable for ages 15+.
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