Completed - ENGLISH, BULGARIAN - Drama, Social issues - 92 minutes
How a cat, stuck in a wall, changes thelives of aspirational migrants, benefit fraudsters and gentrified Brexiteers.
Year of production : 2019 Director(s) : Mina MILEVA, Vesela KAZAKOVA Writer(s) : Mina MILEVA, Vesela KAZAKOVA Cast : Irina ATANASOVA, Angel GENOV, Orlin ASENOV, Gilda WAUGH, Chinwe A NWOKOLO, Kadisha GEE CAMARA, Jon-Jo INKPEN, John HARTY Producer(s) : Mina MILEVA (activist 38), Vesela KAZAKOVA (activist 38), Christophe BRUNCHER (Ici et Là Productions ), Lambros ATTESHLIS (Glasshead Limited)
Life on a council estate in Brexit London - gentrification plans bring astronomic bill for homeowners and aggravate the community. In the eye of the storm Irina, a Bulgarian single mother, tries to breakthrough as an architect and refuses to live on benefits like most of her neighbours.She galvanizes the homeowners to appeal against bill with the Council but the English assure her that any attempt to fight the system is doomed. Irina’s family and people living on benefits clash over the ownership of a cat. А different side of British society is revealed to her and she realizes she is trapped in the walls of her property and metaphorically in her mind.She takes a drastic decision to change her life.
Country(ies) : BULGARIA, UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE
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Locarno Film Festival 2019 Concorso InternazionaleSarajevo FF 2019 Competition FeatureWarsaw FF 2019 - Competition 1-2 (Winner)Thessaloniki IFF 2019 Official SelectionGolden Rose Film Festival 2019 (Best Debut)Kolkata 2019Tallinn Black Nights IFF 2019Valladolid 2019Cairo IFF 2019SXSW 2020Sofia IFF 2020 (Best Bulgarian film)Tarkovsky film fest 2020 (Jury and Audience Awards)Auteur Film Fest Belgrade 2020