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• Cannes 2015 (Debut)
• Cannes 2016 (Premiere)

Year of production : 2015

Director(s) : Ben CURA
Writer(s) : Ben CURA, August STRINDBERG
Cast : Christian MCKAY, Andrea DECK, Ben CURA, Tom BATEMAN, Simon CALLOW, Ania SOWINSKI

Producer(s) : Ben CURA (TOUGH DANCE), Andrea DECK (TOUGH DANCE)

Grant Pierce (Christian McKay) arrives from London into Madrid, Spain, hoping to be given the chance to meet his favourite painter, American Freddie Lynch (Ben Cura), who is currently staying at a private hotel in an unassuming location outside the city. As Grant steps into the main building of 'El Madroño', he troublingly finds Lynch a crippled man whom, he soon reveals, has been unable to actually paint for the better part of a year.

As the two men get to know each other under the watchful eye of one of the owners of the hotel, Michael Redmane (Tom Bateman), they start to piece together the disturbing picture of Freddie's marriage to beautiful writer Chloe Fleury (Andrea Deck) which harbours secrets that will reveal much more than Freddie's recent creative emaciation and clearly defined obsession with her ex-husband.

Based on August Strindberg's 1888 play, 'Creditors' is a modern re-telling of Strindberg's story of love, betrayal, revenge and psychological manipulation, which he considered to be his one true masterpiece.

At times disturbingly funny and cruelly bleak, 'Creditors' deals with the most private aspects of human relationships. From questioning our concepts of marriage and fidelity, to trying to establish the role of the modern woman in a world still trapping her within the confines of old fashioned canons, the film's story stirs, moves and sometimes even angrily rebuts our very own personal definitions of each.