Project Detail
Cat in the Wall
Synopsis
CAT IN THE WALL tells the true story of how a cat, stuck in a wall, changes the lives of aspirational migrants, benefit fraudsters and gentrified Brexiteers.
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. different side of British society is revealed to her and she realises she is trapped in the walls of her property and metaphorically in her mind.
She takes a drastic decision to change her life.
Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2019 - International Competition - World premiere
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. different side of British society is revealed to her and she realises she is trapped in the walls of her property and metaphorically in her mind.
She takes a drastic decision to change her life.
Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2019 - International Competition - World premiere
Details
- Year
- 2019
- Type of film
- Features
- Running time
- 92 mins
- Director
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Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova 1st Feature
- Producer
- Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
- Editor
- Donka Ivanova
- Screenwriter
- Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
- Director of Photography
- Dimitar Kostov
- Production Designer
- Yuliya Kunova
- Composer
- Andy Cowton
- Principal cast
- Irina Atanasova, Angel Genov, Orlin Asenov, Gilda Waugh, Chinwe Nwokolo, Kadisha Gee Camara, Jon-Jo Inkpen, John Harty
Genre
Production Status
Production Company
Bulgaria, UK, France co-production
Activist 38 (BU), Glasshead (UK), Ici et Là Productions (FR)
Glasshead
Lambros Atteshlis10 Orange Street
Haymarket
London
WC2H 7DQ
Sales Company
Coccinelle Film
via della Cisterna00153 Rome
Italy
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