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A landlord of a failing pub in County Durham befriends a Syrian refugee and attempts to quell tensions between their two communities in this sobering film that may well be Loach’s last.

British television programme demonised welfare recipients, says Social Democrats TD Cian O’Callaghan

Ken Loach, that old warhorse of the English left, has been promising to retire for the last decade, but The Old Oak may well be the 85-year-old’s final feature film. Over the course of an extraordinary career, in films like Kes, Raining Stones, Carla’s Song, Sweet Sixteen and The Wind That Shakes the Barley, he’s confronted thorny social issues and railed against iniquity. He uses non-actors to enhance a feeling of earthy veracity, and since the mid-1990s has maintained a close collaborati...

"The more specific and precise you are, the more universal [a story] can be.”

The hero of Left-wing cinema keeps hitting his usual talking points in increasingly drab style. Is it time to put away the megaphone?

PBP’s Paul Murphy accuses Leo Varadkar of emulating UK model of work capability assessments as portrayed in film I, Daniel Blake

British film-maker Ken Loach has told Sky News he welcomes an end to the US writers' strike, describing one of the issues facing the industry as &...

The 87-year-old director and screenwriter is preparing for the release of The Old Oak - which could be his last-ever film.

Make time in your schedule to catch these brilliant documentaries, films and series from around our world before they leave SBS On Demand this month.

Characters and community attracted a movie-making team to Glasgow to make some of their most hard-hitting films.