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THE YELLOW CEILING
EL SOSTRE GROC

• Director: Isabel Coixet
• SPAIN / 2022 / DCP / Colour / 93’ / Catalan, Spanish; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Isabel Coixet, Laura Ferrero
• Director of Photography: Nadia S. Zafra
• Editing: Mariona Solé Altimira 
• Music: Chop Suey
• Producer: Isabel Coixet, Carla Sospedra
• Production Co.: Miss Wasabi Films
• World Sales: The Open Reel

2022 San Sebastian RTVE Another Look Award, Special Mention
2022 Marseilles Special Mention

Catalan filmmaker Isabel Coixet has made several outstanding socially influenced documentaries alongside highly-praised fiction films. The Yellow Ceiling explains and denounces the Case of the Lleida Theater Classroom in Spain through its protagonists. In 2018, a group of nine women filed a complaint against two of their teachers for sexual abuse that occurred between 2001 and 2008, when they were teenagers. It was too late. Out of fear, out of shame, because it took them a long time to understand and digest what had happened, the complaint came when the case had already been prescribed and was filed. Isabel Coixet uses candid interviews with students and others involved and combines them with archival footage and home videos to tell an agonising story that spans 20 years narrated from the perspective of its victims.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.