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Director - Ken Loach
Script - Paul Laverty
Camera - Robbie Ryan
Music - George Fenton
With - Dave Turner, Ebla Mari, Claire Rodgerson, Trevor Fox, Chris McGladе
Producer - Rebecca O'Brien
The Old Oak is a special place. Not only is it the last pub standing, it is the only remaining public space where people can meet in a once thriving mining community that has now fallen on hard times after 30 years of decline. TJ Ballantyne the landlord hangs on to The Old Oak by his fingertips, and his hold is endangered even more when The Old Oak becomes contested territory after the arrival of Syrian refugees who are placed in the village. In an unlikely friendship TJ encounters a young Syrian, Yara with her camera. Can they find a way for the two communities to understand each other? So unfolds a deeply moving drama about loss, fear and the difficulty of finding hope.

“The film is about conflict, deprivation and alienation, from neglect, from the political people who run things, from poverty. It is an area of England in the Northeast, which is an old mining area where the mines closed. And the right wing party, the Tories, that closed the mines, were determined not only to close down the industry, but to destroy the communities.”
Ken Loach

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS -

Cannes ’23 – Nominated for Palme d’Or Locarno ’23 – Prix du public UBS Ghent ’23 – Best Film Valladolid ’23 – Best Film, Best Actor

Program

  • 15.03.2024
    CULTURAL CENTER G8 - 20.30 часа
  • 31.03.2024
    ODEON CINEMA - 18.00 часа
  • 17.03.2024
    CINEGRAND PARK CENTER - 19.00 часа
  • 18.03.2024
    CINEMA CITY SOFIA - 19.00 часа
  • 23.03.2024
    VLAIKOVA CINEMA - 18.00 часа
  • 27.03.2024
    FRENCH INSTITUTE – SLAVEIKOV CINEMA - 20.30 часа
  • 28.03.2024
    LUMIERE CINEMA - 20.30 часа