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Alamo Lamar
Alamo Lamar C
1120 S Lamar Blvd.
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.Programming descriptions are generated by participants and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SXSW.
Directors
Mina Mileva
Vesela Kazakova
Credits
Directors: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
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
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Premiere Status: North American Premiere
Genre: Drama
Screening Section: Global
Screening Category: Narrative Feature
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English, Bulgarian
Runtime: 92 mins