As part of Channel 4’s Generation Next season, documentary new talent strand First Cut continues with Lucy Cohen’s extraordinary directorial debut. Each year in Britain around 2,500 people are buried alone. No one claims them, and no one attends their funerals. Driven by a desire to find out more about these lonely individuals, this film pieces together two peoples’ lives, and asks how - in crowded, hectic, connected, modern Britain - it is possible for anyone to simply slip through the cracks and disappear.

Friday 22 August 2008, Channel 4 7.35pm