On Falling
Film details
| Film Title | On Falling |
|---|---|
| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 104mins |
| Year | 2025 |
| Country | Portugal, United Kingdom |
| Director | Laura Carreira |
| Actors | Joana Santos, Inês Vaz, Neil Leiper, Deborah Arnott, Ola Forman, Ross Ian-Martin, Daniel Mcguire, Helen Robinson, Robert Rutonjić, Piotr Sikora |
| Language | English, Portuguese |
| Showings |
Aurora, a Portuguese migrant, works as an order picker in a warehouse in Edinburgh, Scotland. Caught between the walls of a huge distribution centre and the solitude of her own room, Aurora tries to seize every opportunity to resist the alienation and isolation that threaten her identity.
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: her manner is a kind of learned invisibility, indicative of an internal emigration into defeat and despair. But it is not too late. This is a very impressive debut.
★★★★
