Portuguese immigrant Aurora (Joana Santos) works as a warehouse picker in a vast fulfilment centre in Scotland. Trapped between the confines of her workplace and her flatshare, Aurora seeks to resist the loneliness, alienation and ensuing small talk which begin to threaten her sense of self. Set against a landscape dominated by an algorithm-driven gig economy designed to keep us apart, ON FALLING explores the vital struggle to find meaning and connection.
On Falling
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A young Portuguese migrant worker in Scotland attempts to reconnect with her humanity in the face of the monotonous and demeaning demands of contemporary warehouse work. Laura Carriera’s acclaimed debut feature is a striking, quietly devastating study of the human cost of our consumerist appetites.
- Land
- Vereinigtes Königreich, Portugal
- Jahr
- 2024
- Länge
- 105 min
- Regie
- Laura Carreira
- Sprache(n)
- Englisch, Portugiesisch
- Untertitel
- Deutsch, Englisch
- Produzent*in
- Jack Thomas-O'Brien, Mário Patrocínio
- Kamera
- Karl Kürten
- Schnitt
- Helle le Fevre
- Cast
- Joana Santos, Inês Vaz, Piotr Sikora
Regie
Laura Carreira is a Portuguese filmmaker who lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, since studying film at the ECA (Edinburgh College of Art). Her first short film RED HILL won the New Visions Award at the 73rd Edinburgh International Film Festival and was nominated for the Best Short Film award at the 2019 BAFTA Scotland Awards. Her short film THE SHIFT premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in 2020, won the New Talent Award at IndieLisboa and was nominated for the European Film Awards and the London Critics’ Circle Film Awards. In 2022, Laura was named one of the Rising Stars Scotland by Screen International. ON FALLING is her debut feature film.