ON FALLING (UK-Portugal, 2024, 104′)

Friday, October 3rd, at 9:00 p.m.; Cinema Massimo, Screen 3 

Event in partnership with the Order of Journalists of Piedmont

National premiere

On Friday, October 3rd, at 9:00 p.m., in Room 3 of Cinema Massimo, Job Film Days, in collaboration with the Order of Journalists of Piedmont, will present the national premiere of the film On Falling (UK, 2024) by director Laura Carreira . This movie is a promising debut work nourished by social realism and supported by an appreciable sensitivity to the human condition, which, not surprisingly, also counts Ken Loach among its producers. The life of the protagonist could be that of many young people her age, ‘millennials’ who have left home to build their independence and find themselves in an environment that annihilates them, in a highly effective generational portrait.

Admission method : you can access the event by purchasing tickets online or at Cinema Massimo box office.

International title: On Falling
Original title: On Falling
Director: Laura Carreira
Screenplay: Laura Carreira
Photography: Karl Kürten
Editing: Helle Le Fevre
Sound: Ines Adriana
Starring: Joana Santos, Inês Vaz, Piotr Sikora, Neil Leiper
Production: Sixteen Films, Bro Cinema

Edinburgh. Aurora, a young woman from Portugal, works in the warehouse of a retail company, being in charge of selecting the objects that need to be removed from shelves. This is a stressful, repetitive and manager-monitored job, which creates isolation and amplifies the solitude that characterizes the protagonist’s personal life. A captivating portrait of a generation of workers who are forced to live their lives hanging by a thread, constantly on a falling point – referencing the film title that includes Ken Loach, the famous British director, among its producers. Within the context of social and working-class realist cinema, the Portuguese director’s debut investigates the everyday life of a young woman, portrayed by Joana Santos, a brilliant actress who is already well-known for her roles both in cinema and on screen in Portugal.

Laura Carreira (Porto, 1994), director, screenwriter and editor, studied at the Escola de Artes António Arroio in Lisbon, and later graduated in Movie Direction at the University of Edinburgh. She debuted as a director in 2017 with the short film Monday , which was followed by two other short films: Red Hill (New Visions Award at the 73rd Edinburgh International Film Festival) and The Shift (premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in 2020). On Falling , her first long feature film, won best director at the 72nd San Sebastián Film Festival. Carreiro lives in Edinburgh.

Filmography: Monday (sf, 2017), Red Hill (sf, 2018), The Shift (sf, 2020), On Falling (lff, 2024).