Cat's Cradle (2012)

We wanted to make a film about a teenage mother. We met Joana in a casting that took place in Setubal, in the Bela Vista neighborhood. She appeared to us as a porcelain doll, small, fragile, pale, with a little hair bow. Little by little, she crumbled apart, revealing a charming complexity. We were conquered by the duality of strength and fragility, freedom and incarceration, joy and sorrow. The intimacy and complicity we were able to establish with her made this film possible. In Cat's Cradle, we share her with everyone else.

If you liked Cat's Cradle, you might also like…

93% match

Beyoncé: Life Is But a Dream

2013

88% match

To Be Takei

2014

83% match

Heart of a Dog

2015

81% match

In the Realms of the Unreal

2004

77% match

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

2013

75% match

Feminists: What Were They Thinking?

2018

69% match

Love, Marilyn

2013

68% match

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

2016

62% match

I Am Ali

2014

60% match

Cameraperson

2016

60% match

To Kill a Tiger

2023

60% match

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

2000

60% match

My Mom Jayne

2025

60% match

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

2004

60% match

Nothing Like a Dame

2018

60% match

Katy Perry: Part of Me

2012

60% match

Seduced and Abandoned

2013

60% match

Girl Model

2011

60% match

Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me

2023

60% match

Miss Representation

2011

Similar films

Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio

2014

Art's Home is my Kassel

2014

The Execution of Wanda Jean

2002

Naked Spaces: Living Is Round

1985

Promised Lands

1974

After the Revolution

1996

If Mama Ain't Happy, Nobody's Happy

2014

Des poules et des grosses voitures

2013

Nowhere Place

2014

An Intent to Enrich the Bare Mechanistic World

2006

From Scotland with Love

2014

Mutationen