Benefits

Directed by Edward Lomas · Starring Asheq Akhtar, Mia Lacostena, Nicholas A. Newman, Emma Peadon · 2017

In an isolated, totalitarian England of 2028, a man in his late thirties goes to collect his monthly benefit cheque from a welfare system that is now fully automated.

A sharp, bite-sized vision of where Britain's austerity and automation might lead.

The year is 2028; England is isolated, detached from the rest of world and run by a powerful few in a totalitarian state. We follow Adeel, a man in his late thirties as he collects his benefit cheque for the month. The w

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