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On Falling (2025) is a drama by Laura Carreira you can watch online on iFILM. Aurora, a young Portuguese migrant, has moved to Scotland and works as an order picker in a vast warehouse outside Edinburgh.
Her days are miles of aisles, a handheld scanner, quotas and hundreds of identical routes. Home is a rented room and silence. Aurora reaches for any small thing that proves she's still a person and not a line on a productivity sheet, while the isolation keeps closing in. Joana Santos carries nearly the whole film in close-ups and quiet.
Laura Carreira's feature debut sits squarely in the Ken Loach tradition — no big events, just a precise portrait of invisible labor and a migrant's loneliness. Slow, honest, quietly devastating in its ordinariness. Stream On Falling (2025) online on iFILM.
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