The Old Oak

Wednesday November 13th 2024

UK 2023 1hr 53mins
Director: Ken Loach

Good pubs are full of stories. “The Old Oak” of this story is the last pub standing in an old mining village that now has no mines and no miners. The cheerful, optimistic publican ‘TJ’ (Dave Turner) sees the places at his bar taken up by the new wave of Syrian refugees. There is inevitable conflict between the old and the new until the young Yara with her camera helps both sides understand each other