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Lily & Kat

2015 film directed by Micael Preysler

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ19880793 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lily & Kat is a 2015 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film, written and directed by Micael Preysler.

After its premiere at the TIFF Next Wave, Mance Media released the film theatrically and on video on demand on March 20, 2015 in the United States.

Plot

Set in New York City, the film follows a naive fashion school graduate named Lily who finds her world turned upside down when her reckless best friend Kat announces she’s moving away to London in a matter of days. At a Lower East Side art gallery opening the next night, they meet the enigmatic rising artist Henri, who Lily quickly takes a liking to. With less than seven days left together and a new guy coming between them, Lily and Kat will find their “unbreakable” friendship put to the test.

Editorial summary

“Lily & Kat” enters the record as 2015 film directed by Micael Preysler. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lily, film and directed can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—2015-02-14, 2015-03-20—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lily, film and directed.
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Why this record matters

“Lily & Kat” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Lily, film and directed provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19880793. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lily & Kat” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.