Ken Loach wins lifetime achievement honour at European film awards

‘The sad fact is that most of the films we are celebrating tonight won’t be seen in large areas of Europe,’ Loach commented after receiving the award. Photograph: Henning Kaiser/AFP/Getty Images Grit, not glamour, proved the order of the day at the 22nd annual European film awards, which took place inside a former power station in Germany’s industrial heartland, and handed a lifetime achievement award to the director Ken Loach . The leading light of social-realist British cinema seemed to relish his trip to the Ruhr region, a landscape dominated by smokestacks and coal-mines.

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Ken Loach wins lifetime achievement honour at European film awards

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