Cat
Poland2022fiction21'Konkurs polski (2022)
A simple and honest story about teenage rebellion, loneliness and the need of closeness hidden behind the veil of lies, excuses and escape. The daughter comes to her father’s flat to feed the cat and water the flowers during his absence. However, the cat makes a fuss and the teenager discovers a long-hidden secret. This secret will change her life. And what role will the slightly nosy but kind neighbour play in all this?
- directed by
- Zofia Kowalewska
Film director born in 1995 in Kraków. She is a graduate of Film Directing at the Film School in Łódź. Her documentary Bonds won more than 40 awards at prestigious festivals at home and abroad (Krakow Film Festival, IDFA, DOK Leipzig) and was shortlisted for an Oscar nomination in 2017. Her next documentary Only the Wind premiered at the Krakow Film Festival and HotDocs 2022. She is a winner of the Trojka’s Talents Award in the Film category and a three-time holder of the scholarship awarded by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. Cat (produced by the Film School in Łódź) is her graduation film.
- cinematography
- Tomasz Wierzbicki
- script
- Zofia Kowalewska
- cast
- Julia Kuzka, Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak, Julia Szczepańska
- sound
- Bogdan Klat
- editing
- Kamil Grzybowski
- production
- Agata Golańska (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna im. L.Schillera w Łodzi)
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