Eat Your Catfish
Directed by Noah Amir Arjomand, Adam Isenberg, Senem Tüzen
April 27th, 2025 3:30 pm
Synopsis
Free admission!
Winner of the 2024 Emmy Award for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary
Kathryn’s ALS has left her paralyzed and her family’s relations in tatters, but she holds on to see her daughter’s wedding.
Co-director and co-producer Noah Amir Arjomand, a UCR screenwriting MFA student, will attend for a talkback after the screening. Carla Mazzio, Professor of English and Co-Director of the Health Humanities & Disability Justice Initiative, and Ruhi Khan, Associate Professor of Media & Cultural Studies, will serve as discussants. A reception will follow in the Culver Center Atrium.
Reviews
“Co-director Noah Arjomand chronicles his own mother’s struggle with the degenerative disease to courageously intimate, brutally moving effect… an unusually unsentimental, everyday document of ALS, tender in the expressly painful manner of a fresh bruise.”
Guy Lodge, VARIETY
“Crucially, the film gives Kathryn a platform to tell — and indeed show — her story, in her own unique way. Her lingering hope is that viewers don’t think she’s pathetic, but plucky. Painstakingly edited by Adam Isenberg and Senem Tuzen, this film grants her that wish.”
Nikki Baughan, SCREEN DAILY
“’Eat Your Catfish’ is one of the most emotionally enthralling cinematic experiences you will ever have. It will leave you vibrating with anger and sympathy, but also joy and hope.”
Christopher Lloyd, THE FILM YAP
“An astonishingly open, moving, funny and challenging insight into the world of a woman paralysed but with her mind intact, Eat Your Catfish is remarkable in portraying an intimate and powerful portrait of a family stretched to its very breaking point.”
Mark Adams, BUSINESS DOC EUROPE
Film Details
Director: Noah Amir Arjomand, Adam Isenberg, Senem Tüzen
Release Year: 2024
Running Time: 73 minutes