Joana Santos

Joana Santos Instagram – ON FALLING DIRECTOR Q&A
@riversidestudioslondon Sun 9th March

UK, Portugal 2024
Dir: Laura Carriera @carreira_lau
Cast: @____joanasantos____ , @_ines_vaz_ , @thatssopiotr , @jjakemcgarry
English / 104m

London Breeze is excited to be supporting the opening weekend of On Falling as it releases into cinemas across the UK. Writer and director of the film, Laura Carriera will join us for a Q&A after the screening.

On Falling tells the story of Aurora (Joana Santos), a Portuguese migrant working who is a warehouse picker in Edinburgh. Trapped between the confines of a vast distribution centre and the solitude of her own bedroom, Aurora seeks out every opportunity to resist the loneliness and alienation that threaten her sense of self.

BAFTA Longlisted for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer and winner of the BFI London Film Festival Sutherland Award 2024 for the most original and imaginative directorial debut, Laura Carreira’s On Falling is co-produced by Ken Loach’s @kenloachandsixteenfilms production company.

“this is a very impressive debut”
– ★★★★ The Guardian

“a clarion call for a new generation of social-realist cinema”
– Variety (Guy Lodge)

“Laura Carreira, working with Ken Loach’s Sixteen Films, proves herself an empathetic inheritor of his mantle with an enveloping portrait of loneliness which doesn’t ask for pity or outrage.”
– Screen International

“A Haunting Study Of Modern Serfdom”
– Deadline

“Each scene is a miniature marvel”
– IndieWire

“Captivatingly crafted with powerful anti-capitalist sentiments, and a belter of a lead performance to boot, it’s a film that hypnotises and enrages simultaneously, keeping us absorbed with its empathy for the heroine.”
– ★★★★ In Their Own League | Posted on 08/Feb/2025 12:15:16