Cat in the Wall
This terrific comedy-drama is set on a southeast London council estate, which is riven by social and economic divisions and threatened by the all-consuming force of gentrification. Irina, a Bulgarian woman lives there with her small son and her brother. The lift serves as a toilet, the multi-cultural residents exchange shouts rather than pleasantries, and an expensive refurbishment is undesired but must be paid for. And in the midst of this: an apparently owner-less cat which has had enough of the heated atmosphere barricades itself ‘in the wall’, requiring the residents to collaborate. “Cat in the Wall” is an arresting critique of society, a whirlpool of emotions from despair to joie de vivre conveyed by strongly delineated characters. This heart-warming tale, shot in a documentary style, is this year’s equivalent of director Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake.
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Credits
Directors: | Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova |
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Producer: | Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova, Lambros Atteshlis, Christophe Bruncher |
Screenwriter: | Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova |
Cinematographer: | Dimitar Kostov |
Editor: | Donka Ivanova |
Production Designer: | Yuliya Kunova |
Sound Designer: | Georgi Marinov, Stéphane de Rocquigny |
Music: | Andy Cowton |
Principal Cast: | Irina Atanasova, Angel Genov, Orlin Asenov, Gilda Waugh, Chinwe A. Nwokolo, Kadisha Gee Camara, Jon-jo Inkpen, John Harty |
Contact
Distributor: | Raffaella Pontarelli; Francesca Breccia |
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Public Film Contact: | Mina Mileva |
Publicity Contact: | Raffaella Pontarelli |
Sales Agent: | Coccinelle Film Placement; rpontarelli@coccinellefilm.com; fbreccia@coccinellefilm.com |