The latest from multiple Palme d’Or winner, Ken Loach, THE OLD OAK is set in a village in the northeast of England, where the mines have closed, making local residents feel deserted by their government. The young have left and what was once a thriving, proud community struggles to keep old values alive even as anger and resentment grow and hope subsides. When a group of Syrian refugees are housed in the village, life is disrupted and tensions surface. But a growing friendship between a pub owner and a young refugee might just be what the town needs to find new life.

Winner of the UBS Audience Award at the 76th annual Locarno Film Festival, director Ken Loach (SORRY WE MISSED YOU, CIFF 2019; I, DANIEL BLAKE, CIFF 2016) has staked his claim on telling the stories of Britain’s working class and marginalized outsiders. THE OLD OAK is quite possibly his final film in an illustrious 50-plus-year career. It is also one of his most sensitive and most hopeful.