We live in a period of austerity driven by ideas that risk to bring us to catastrophe … Film has many traditions and one of them is to present protest against those more powerful and mighty. I hope this is a tradition that goes on … We must give a message of hope and say that another world is possible and necessary.

The British director Ken Loach  is the winner of the Palme d’Or at 2016 Cannes Film Festival for his film “I, Daniel Blake”, one of only nine filmmakers to have been awarded the prize twice in the festival’s 69-year history.

~ The quote above is from his acceptance speech.