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Apples

Horizons 2021 / Mila / Greece, Poland, Slovenia 2020

The world has been gripped by a pandemic which causes sudden amnesia. Aris becomes part of a special programme designed to help him build a new identity. This beguilingly melancholic debut from Christos Nikou opened last year’s Orrizonti in Venice, where it justifiably earned unanimous praise from the critics and won viewers’ hearts.

Apples Apples

Synopsis

The world has been gripped by a pandemic which causes sudden amnesia. Aris becomes part of a special programme designed to help him build a new identity. Equipped with a camera, he is sent out to fill his mind with new memories and, along the way, he meets Anna, a woman in the same situation as himself… In his beguilingly melancholic debut, Greek director Christos Nikou examines issues of identity and considers the role recollections play in our lives, along with the myriad emotions triggered by faded Polaroid photos. The film opened last year’s Orrizonti in Venice, where it justifiably earned unanimous praise from the critics and won viewers’ hearts.

Lenka Tyrpáková

About the film

90 min / Color, DCP

Director Christos Nikou / Screenplay Christos Nikou, Stavros Raptis / Dir. of Photography Bartosz Swiniarski / Music Alexander Voulgaris (The Boy) / Editor Giorgos Zafeiris / Art Director Efi Birba / Producer Iraklis Mavroidis, Angelo Venetis, Aris Dagios, Nikos Smpiliris, Mariusz Włodarski, Christos Nikou / Production Boo Productions / Coproduction Perfo Production, Dirty Films, Musou Music Group, NOVA / Cast Aris Servetalis, Sofia Georgovasili, Anna Kalaitzidou, Argiris Bakirtzis / Sales Alpha Violet / Distributor Artcam Films

About the director

Christos Nikou

Christos Nikou (1984, Athens). Filmography: KM (2012, short), Apples, (Mila, 2020).

Contacts

Artcam Films
Rašínovo nábřeží 6, 128 00, Praha 2
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 221 411 619
Fax: +420 221 411 699
E-mail: [email protected]

Alpha Violet
47 avenue de la République, 750 11, Paris
France
Phone: +33 629 835 108
E-mail: [email protected]

Guests

Christos Nikou
Film Director

Stavros Raptis
Screenwriter

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