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On Falling

Laura CARREIRA
Festival HITS Female Director 2024 104 min United Kingdom, Portugal
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Synopsis

An unrelenting debut film about the crushing grind of capitalism

Originally from Portugal and now living in Edinburgh, Aurora works as an order picker in a huge warehouse. Each evening, she returns to her shared flat, where her roommates live on different schedules, and to the alienating solitude of her room. But one day at lunch in the cafeteria, she meets another isolated employee.

Through a repetition of sequenced events in the style of Groundhog Day, On Falling expertly reveals its titular agenda: to depict, with astonishing accuracy, the downfall of a heroine crushed by an inhumane system that feeds on a workforce which came to Northern Europe in search of a better life

Cast/Avec

  • Joana Santos
  • Inês Vaz
  • Piotr Sikora… 

Screenplay

  • Laura CARREIRA

Cinematographer

  • Karl Kürten

Sound

  • Olivier Blanc

Music

  • Ines Adriana

Production

  • Sixteen Films
  • BRO Cinema

Screenings

Monday 10 March 2025 20:00
Lieux : Ciné Utopia
Audio : English, Portuguese
Subtitles : French, Dutch
Screening : Public Screening
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Tuesday 11 March 2025 21:00
Lieux : Cinémathèque
Audio : English, Portuguese
Subtitles : English
Screening : Public Screening
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Friday 14 March 2025 14:00
Lieux : Ciné Utopia
Audio : English, Portuguese
Subtitles : English
Screening : Public Screening
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Critics

"Carreira and Santos show that Aurora’s undemonstrative niceness, her easygoing emollient blandness, mask the fact that she is not, as might be assumed, doing all right .... This is a very impressive debut.”
Peter Bradshaw The Guardian 24/11/2024

Laura CARREIRA

Laura CARREIRA
Laura CARREIRA

Born in Portugal in 1994, Laura Carreira directed her first short film, Red Hill, in 2019, which won the New Visions Award at the Edinburgh Festival and was nominated at the BAFTA Scotland Awards in the short films category. Her second short, The Shift (2020), premiered in the Orizzonti section of the Venice Festival, won the New Talent Award at IndieLisboa, and was nominated at the London Critics’ Circle Film Awards. On Falling is her first feature film.

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Filmography

  • On Falling 2024
  • The Shift (short film) 2020
  • Monday (short film) 2018
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