APPLES
COMPETITION · CO-PRODUCTION · FEATURE · FICTION
2020 · 90 min · colour · 5.1 · DCP · 1.33 : 1
Greek with Slovenian subtitles.
| PRODUCER | Aleš Pavlin, Andrej Štritof |
| CO-PRODUCERS | Iraklis Mavroeidis, Angelos Venetis, Aris Dagios, Nikos Smpiliris, Christos Nikou, Mariusz Włodarski |
| CO-PRODUCTION | Boo Productions, Lava Films, Perfo |
Amidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities. Prescribed daily tasks on cassette tapes so he can create new memories and document them on camera, Aris slides back into ordinary life. Then he meets Anna, a woman who is also in recovery.
| DIRECTED BY | Christos Nikou |
| WRITTEN BY | Christos Nikou, Stavros Raptis |
| DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY | Bartosz Swiniarski |
| MUSIC | Alexander Voulgaris |
| EDITED BY | Giorgos Zafeiris |
| PRODUCTION DESIGN | Efi Birba |
| COSTUME DESIGN | Dimitra Liakoura |
| SOUND DESIGN | Sašo Kalan, Tom Lemajič |
| MAKEUP ARTIST | Kyriaky Melidou |
| SOUND RECORDING | Kostas Koutelidakis |
| CAST | Aris Servetalis (Aris), Sofia Georgovasili (Anna), Anna Kalaitzidou, Argiris Bakirtzis |
Director’s statement:
Apples, an allegorical comedy-drama, is at its core an effort to explore how our memory functions and how this affect us; how emotions affect our memory, and especially how our memory is affected by technology, which nowadays makes it very easy to record information. Could it be that all this progress in technology has made our brain “lazier”, so that we remember fewer and fewer events, fewer and fewer emotions? Could it be that we have ended up living “less”?
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