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Rebecca O’Brien, award-winning collaborator on Loach's films, raised urgent warnings at a select committee inquiry into the industry

The Old Oak, about tensions in a former mining village when refugees arrive, has touched a nerve more raw now than when filming began

Award-winning director's latest - and last - film, set in Durham, becomes the the third in his locally-made trilogy to be picked for Cannes Film Festival where this May's premiere will mark his record-breaking 15th appearance in the competition

The Old Oak is about the rehousing of a group of Syrian refugees in a run-down former mining town

The award-winning film-maker who is premiering The Old Oak at the Cannes film festival said ‘I’ll be nearly 90 and your facilities do decline’

The story of a widowed joiner and a young single mother has been written by Dave Johns, who played the title role in Ken Loach’s 2016 film

"The challenge with this thing was to do something positive at a time when things are pretty bleak."

The new film from double Palme d’Or winners focusses on a pair of young immigrants to Belgium who find themselves working in dangerous situations

Work on the new Ken Loach film is under way and here's a first look behind-the-scenes