Years with ALS have left Kathryn paralyzed and needing 24-hour care. With her mind intact and having opted for mechanical breathing, she could live like this indefinitely. But the situation has embittered and alienated her husband Said, and proved too much for many nurses and aides. Her grown son Noah, who lives with Kathryn and Said in their New York City apartment, struggles to balance his academic obligations with those he feels to his mother. The disease has also been a destructive force complicating relations between everyone in her family. Kathryn often falls into despair, but she has been holding on to see her daughter’s wedding day. This project draws on 930 hours of footage—all filmed without any crew present from a fixed camera from Kathryn’s point of view. The result is a profoundly intimate, layered and wryly funny portrait of a family at its breaking point.
production company
ZELA FILM
directors
ADAM ISENBERG
NOAH AMIR ARJOMAND
SENEM TÜZEN
producers
ADAM ISENBERG
NOAH AMIR ARJOMAND
SENEM TÜZEN
cinematographer
NOAH AMIR ARJOMAND
sound recorder
NOAH AMIR ARJOMAND
editing consultant
TOBI SHIMIN
music
DANIEL WHITWORTH
post supervisors
FRANZISKA ZERNACK
DENIZ KAYIK
head of sound
MICHAEL KACZMAREK
in-house producers
CATHERINE MORAWITZ
MICHAEL NAGEL
sound design & mix
ADRIAN LO
foley artist
JOO FÜRST
foley editor
ANDREAS HARTWIG
VFX producer
RUFIN WIESEMANN
VFX supervisor
MARKUS FRANK
VFX coordinator
STEFAN KERBEL
color grading
SILVIA POZZI
compositing artists
KRISTIN FEIST
VICTOR MANSKE
LUKAS MENZEL
FELIX REIMET
BIRGER SCHIRRMEISTER
MARTIN SPRINGER
Support
Supported by the Catapult Film Fund, Cinereach, Field of Vision, the Bloomington Arts & Humanities Council, and the Center for Documentary Research and Practice at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Selected to the 2020 Sheffield Doc/Fest MeetMarket (under the working title 'Caring for Kathryn'), and Meetings on the Bridge at the Istanbul Film Festival, where it received the Cine Chromatix Post-Production Award.
WORLD SALES:
Deckert Distribution GmbH
Gottschedstr. 18
04109 Leipzig
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)341 2156638
Email: info [at] deckert-distribution.com
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USA, Spain, Turkey | 2021 | color | 74m (& 52m) | DCP | 1.85 | 5.1 | English
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