On 28 May 2006 , Loach won the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival for his film '' The Wind That Shakes the Barley '' , a political-historical drama about the Irish War of Independence and the subsequent Irish Civil War during the 1920s . Like '' Hidden Agenda '' before it , '' The Wind That Shakes the Barley '' was criticised for allegedly being too sympathetic to the Irish Republican Army and Provisional Irish Republican Army . This film was followed by '' It 's a Free World ... '' ( 2007 ) , a story of one woman 's attempt to establish an illegal placement service for migrant workers in London
2006 Cannes Film Festival
2006 Cannes Film Festival
Ken Loach