CAT IN THE WALL / fiction film

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CAT IN THE WALL

/Bulgaria/UK/France/

Original title: CAT IN THE WALL

French title: Le Chat dans le Mur

Bulgarian title: Котка в стената

Year of production: 2019

92 min

Colour

DCP: 1.85-ratio-25 fps

1998/1080 resolution

ISAN number: 0000-0005-6C2D-0000-C-0000-0000-1

Logline

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.

Synopsis:

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 realises she is trapped in the walls of her property and metaphorically in her mind. She takes a drastic decision to change her life.

Contacts: Address: 149 B Rakovski Street, Sofia 1000, Bulgaria

Email: mina@activist38.com; vesela@activist38.com;

Cell phone: +44794963933; +359 887 856383;

Awards: ARTE (International Relations Award at Cinelink) 2017, Coco Post Pitch Award 2017

Cast and Crew

Cast: Irina Atanasova, Angel Genov, Orlin Asenov, Gilda Waugh, Chinwe A Nwokolo, Kadisha Gee Camara, Jon-jo Inkpen, John Harty

Director of Photograpy: Dimitar Kostov

Edited by: Donka Ivanova

Production Design by: Yuliya Kunova

Music by: Andy Cowton

Sound editing: Georgi Marinov

Sound mix: Stéphane de Rocquigny

Focus puller: Galina Vasileva;

Written and directed by: Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova;

Producers: Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova

Production Company: Activsit38

Co-Producers: Christophe Bruncher - Ici et Là Productions (FR), Lambros Atteshlis - Glasshead Limited (UK)

Financial support

Région Ile de France, in partnership with CNC,

Creative Europe’s programme MEDIA for development,

Bulgarian National Television,

ARTE development award, The Post Republic, Germany

Project Awards: ARTE (International Relations Award at Cinelink) 2017, Coco Post Pitch Award 2017