On Falling, a film by Laura Carreira, with Joana Santos

24 June 2025

We order an item from an online retailer, submit payment, and a few days later it arrives in a box on the doorstep. Most convenient.

On Falling, trailer, the debut feature of Edinburgh, Scotland, based Portuguese filmmaker Laura Carreira, explores the lesser seen, behind the scenes, side of this ostensibly expedient process.

Aurora (Joana Santos), is a Portuguese immigrant living in Scotland. She works in a distribution warehouse, likely being paid below minimum wage rates, and at the end of her shift retreats to her single room apartment, where she lives alone.

On Falling is bleak drama, but the sort I like. The film premiered at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, last September, and has been in limited release, mainly in Europe.

I can’t, as yet, find any information about a cinematic run in Australia, so this might be one to stream.