Oranges and Sunshine (2010)

Following his father's footsteps, Jim Loach's debut feature is a socially aware drama that boasts three exceptional performances and a script that is surprisingly subtle - those who were expecting a film-of-the-week weepie, look away. The tears are not delivered by a cheesy music like in the trailer, but by a story that is quite different to what I was expecting.

Emily Watson plays the Nottingham social worker Margaret Humphreys, who through two serendipituous incidents was made aware of a mass deportation of children from Great Britain to Australia from the 1940s all the way to the 1970s. In 1986, when the film takes place, Margaret makes it her life's mission to find out why these kids, all from disadvantaged backgrounds, were forcibly sent to live in Australia, lied to about their parents' deaths, and lived their lives in essentially slave labour.