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.
Preview courtesy of Conic
