Ken Loach

• British filmmaker, born Nuneaton in 1936.

  While studying law at Oxford, Loach joined the university's acting troupe, marking the start of his acting career. He soon went behind the camera, working for the BBC from the early 60s. His committed, humanist cinema adopted some of the codes of documentary to best accompany the social dimension of his work. He won critical and public acclaim with his second feature, Kes (1969), a portrait of a small mining town teenager with a passion for hawks. Throughout his career - which includes more than thirty films for the cinema - Loach is committed to giving a voice to the underdogs of the contemporary world, while regularly bringing to the screen the history of struggles, such as that of the Irish War of Independence in The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Palme d'Or winner in 2006. Ten years later, he won a second Palme d'Or for I, Daniel Blake.

• Poor Cow (1967) - Kes  (1969) - The Save the Children Fund Film (1971) - Family Life (1971) - Black Jack (1979) - The Gamekeeper (1980) - Looks and Smiles (1981) - Fatherland (1986) - Riff-Raff (1990) - Hidden Agenda (1990) - Raining Stones (1993) - Ladybird (1994) - Land and Freedom (1995) - Carla's Song (1996) - The Flickering Flame (1997) - My Name Is Joe (1998) - Bread and Roses (2000) - The Navigators (2001) - Sweet Sixteen (2002) - 11’9’’01 - September 11 - segment United Kingdom (2002) - Just a Kiss (2004) - Tickets (2005) - McLibel (2005) - The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006) - Happy Ending - It's a Free World! (2007) - Looking for Eric (2009) - Route Irish (2010) - The Angels' Share (2012) - The Spirit of '45 (2013) - Jimmy's Hall (2014) - I, Daniel Blake (2016) - Sorry We Missed You (2019) - The Old Oak (2023)