THE FLATS

By Alessandra CELESIA

FILMS DE FORCE MAJEURE - as PROD

Social issues - Production 2021


Festivals
& Awards

Doc Market – Belfast film Festival – Northen Ireland 2019
Pitching du réel – Visions du Réel – Nyon, Switzerland 2019
Film Market – Cannes Festival 2019
Doc Corner Prize
Geneva post-production 2019
EAD Prize
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Social issues, True Story, Documentary
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, BELGIUM, UNITED KINGDOM, IRELAND
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Alessandra CELESIA
    • Producer(s)
    • Jean-Laurent CSINIDIS (FILMS DE FORCE MAJEURE), Geneviève DE BAUW (Thank you & Good Night Productions), John MCILDUFF (I Dumbworld), Jeremiah CULLINANE (Planet Korda)
    • Synopsis
    • New Lodge: seven 12-storey towers each stuck in the heart of Belfast.

      One of the areas that were the most severely affected by the Northern-Irish conflict during three decades. One of those where the number of casualties per inhabitant can make your head spin.

      Today, this small Catholic neighbourhood is marked by some kind of social abandonment. Yet, a touch of madness and hope, even idealism, still floats around, supported by the humanity and caustic humour of the locals.

      More than 20 years after the cease-fire, what has become of the residents of this high-rise microcosm, which has been forever marked by the trauma and bloodshed of the “Troubles”?