BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL 2025

DIRECTOR: Laura Carreira
STARRING: Joana Santos, Inês Vaz, Piotr Sikora
UK/PORTUGAL, 2024, 1 HOUR 44 MINUTES, ENGLISH/PORTUGUESE + ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Laura Carreira’s impressive feature debut is a powerful and nuanced meditation on social isolation and alienation.

Working round the clock at a vast fulfilment centre in Edinburgh, warehouse picker Aurora (Portuguese screen star Joana Santos) is a slave to the algorithm. Trapped between the
confines of her workplace and the solitude of her flat share, she is desperate to build a rich and meaningful life but enjoys only the slightest of exchanges with her co-workers and flatmates.

Within a culture dominated by an anonymising gig economy and the wider social and technological forces that seem designed to keep us apart, On Falling explores the struggle to find real  connection.

Best Director, San Sebastián International Film Festival 2024
Sutherland Prize for First Feature, BFI London Film Festival 2024

Preview courtesy of Conic