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Film: Ken Loach's "Sorry We Missed You"

Although this year's DC LaborFest will have to be rescheduled to May 2021 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we're very pleased to announce a new weekly online series of labor films that launches this coming Tuesday, April 14. We've teamed up with our friends at the AFI Silver, Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber to bring you Ken Loach's latest film, SORRY WE MISSED YOU. Now you can watch this acclaimed drama safely from home, all while supporting longtime LaborFest partner AFI Silver during their temporary closure! As an added bonus, we'll host a Zoom meeting during the screening where we can chat with each other as another way of keeping solidarity alive during this challenging times. See you Tuesday, and stay tuned for details on more upcoming screenings!
- Chris Garlock, Director, DC LaborFest

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Film
"Sorry We Missed You"
Tue, April 14, 7pm, online at AFI Silver's "virtual theatre"
[link removed] Here's the link to get your ticket ($12 covers everybody in your household, and if you can't join us on Tuesday night, your ticket is good for 5 days from date of purchase)
Here's the link for the LaborFest [link removed] "Sorry We Missed You" Zoom gathering; you must register for access.

"Unsparing but deeply compassionate...A devastating critique of the privatized public sector, with Loach's portrait of a communal safety net disintegrating before the eyes of the film's heart-rending title character."
Ann Hornaday, [link removed] in The Washington Post

Film Synopsis: Ken Loach's follow-up to 2016's Palme d'Or-winning I, DANIEL BLAKE interrogates another facet of life in contemporary Britain, this time taking on the harsh realities of the gig economy through the lens of one family struggling to make ends meet in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash. Ricky (Kris Hitchen), a former construction worker who lost his job and home in the crash, is keen to make a go of it when a friend suggests he take a job as a semi-freelance delivery driver. Though it sounds appealing, it is soon clear that without any of the benefits of conventional employment, Ricky will need to run himself ragged just to call it a wash, forfeiting even the basic need for a bathroom break to keep on track and meet the steep daily targets. When Ricky convinces his wife, Abbie (Debbie Honeywood), an equally hardworking home care nurse, to sell her car so that he can buy his own van and avoid the unaffordable daily rental rate charged by the delivery firm, what starts as a step toward independence risks dragging Ricky and his family further and further behind.

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