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Original name: On Falling
English name: On Falling
Year: 2024
Run time: 104 minutes
Language: English, Portuguese
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: United Kingdom, Portugal
Director: Laura Carreira
Producer: Jack Thomas-O’Brien & Mário Patrocínio
Cast: Joana Santos, Inês Vaz, Piotr Sikora, Jake McGarry, Neil Leiper
Screenplay: Laura Carreira
Cinematographer: Karl Kürten
Editor: Helle le Fevre
Sound Designer: Ines Adriana
Costume Designer: Carole K Millar
Production Designer: Andy Drummond
Production Company: Sixteen Films, BRO Cinema
World Sales: GoodFellas
Laura Carreira is a Portuguese filmmaker based in Edinburgh, Scotland since studying film at the ECA (Edinburgh College of Art). Her first short film Red Hill won the New Visions Award at the 73rd Edinburgh International Film Festival and was nominated for the Best Short Film award at the 2019 BAFTA Scotland Awards. Her short film The Shift premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in 2020, won the New Talent Award at IndieLisboa and was nominated for the European Film Awards and the London Critics’ Circle Film Awards. In 2022, Laura was named one of the Rising Stars Scotland by Screen International. On Falling is her debut feature film. Her second feature film is in development.
Portuguese immigrant Aurora works as a warehouse picker in a vast fulfilment centre in Scotland. Trapped between the confines of her workplace and her flatshare, Aurora seeks to resist the loneliness, alienation and ensuing small talk which begin to threaten her sense of self. Set against a landscape dominated by an algorithm-driven gig economy designed to keep us apart, On Falling explores the vital struggle to find meaning and connection.
