Carla's Song

Set in 1987, Carla's Song tells the story of the relationship between a Scottish bus driver, George Lennox (Robert Carlyle) and Carla (Oyanka Cabezas), a Nicaraguan woman living in exile in Glasgow. Searching for her past (her family and boyfriend), Carla returns to war-torn Nicaragua with George, into the thick of the U.S. sponsored Contra insurgency against the Sandinistas. A film by Ken Loach.

Festivals

Evening Standard British Film Awards - Winner for Best Actor

Havana Film Festival - Winner of Best Work of a Non-Latin American Director on a Latin America Subject

London Critics Circle Film Awards - Winner of ALFS Award for British Actor of the Year

Venice Film Festival - Winner of The President of the Italian Senate's Gold Medal

Venice Film Festival - Nominee for Golden Lion

BAFTA - Nominee The Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film

BAFTA Awards Scotland - Nominee Best Feature Film

Camerimage - Nominee Golden Frog

CountryUnited Kingdom
Running Time107:00
Date31 Jan, 1997
ProducerFilm Four Limited,
Journeyman Pictures,
Sixteen Films
OriginalSD
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Ken Loach

One of Britain's greatest filmmakers, Ken Loach has been a pioneer of socially conscious, uncompromising cinema, serving as Britain’s celluloid conscience throughout the last fifty years. From his breakthrough film Kes to the Palm d’Or winning I, Daniel Blake, Loach's career is a testament to cinema's ability to challenge the powerful and champion the causes of the oppressed. Spanning subjects as different as the Spanish Civil War (Land and Freedom) to the Liverpool’s dock work-ins (The Big Flame), witness the work of one of the defining artists of the 20th and 21st century.

Carla's Song

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