Programme
Apolonia, Apolonia
Apolonia, Apolonia
2022 Denmark, Poland, France 116 min N-13
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Apolonia grew up in a bohemian fairytale – an artists’ community in an underground theater in Paris. Charismatic young woman intrigued Lea Glob, a film directing student at the time. Over 13 years they developed a special bond, Lea kept revisiting Apolonia and documenting stages of her life. Among them – a heartbreaking friendship with one of the founders of the feminist action group Femen. Also – a deal with young artists “patron satan” in Hollywood – one of Apolonia’s eager attempts to find her place in the art world.
“Like the director of the film for so many years, we also can't take our eyes off Apolonia, who shares her life with us completely openly. She probably needs to bare herself in front of the camera as well – to better understand how to be in the worlds of culture, art, politics and business and how to succeed. This is an intimate portrait of an imperfect human being that can tell us a lot about the current generation of thirty-somethings.” (Dovilė Grigaliūnaitė)
“Like the director of the film for so many years, we also can't take our eyes off Apolonia, who shares her life with us completely openly. She probably needs to bare herself in front of the camera as well – to better understand how to be in the worlds of culture, art, politics and business and how to succeed. This is an intimate portrait of an imperfect human being that can tell us a lot about the current generation of thirty-somethings.” (Dovilė Grigaliūnaitė)
Awards
World Premiere: IDFA, International Competition, 2022
Awards: Best Film, IDFA, 2022
Awards: Best Film, IDFA, 2022
Director's biography
Lea Glob (b. 1982) graduated as a director from The National Film School of Denmark in 2011 with the short film Meeting My Father Kasper Top Hat about the directors’ involuntary journey into a stranger than fiction story of her own origins. Glob co-directed Olmo and the Seagull (2014, Kino Pavasaris), which won the Young Jury Prize in Locarno and the Best Nordic Dox Award at CPH:DOX. In 2016 Glob co-directed the feature documentary Venus about sexuality from a female perspective, which won the audience award in IndieLisboa. Apolonia, Apolonia is the director’s first documentary feature as a solo-director.
Director(s) - Lea Glob
Screenwriter(s) - Lea Glob
Actors - Apolonia Sokol
Producer(s) - Sidsel Siersted
Cinematographer - Lea Glob
Editor(s) - Andreas Bøggild Monies, Thor Ochsner
Sound - Anna Żarnecka-Wójcik
Composer(s) - Jonas Struck
Sales agent - Cat&Docs
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Production company -
Translation - Auksė Beatričė Katarskytė
Dialogues - French, Polish, English, Danish
Subtitles - Lithuanian, English
Awards
World Premiere: IDFA, International Competition, 2022
Awards: Best Film, IDFA, 2022
Awards: Best Film, IDFA, 2022
Director's biography
Lea Glob (b. 1982) graduated as a director from The National Film School of Denmark in 2011 with the short film Meeting My Father Kasper Top Hat about the directors’ involuntary journey into a stranger than fiction story of her own origins. Glob co-directed Olmo and the Seagull (2014, Kino Pavasaris), which won the Young Jury Prize in Locarno and the Best Nordic Dox Award at CPH:DOX. In 2016 Glob co-directed the feature documentary Venus about sexuality from a female perspective, which won the audience award in IndieLisboa. Apolonia, Apolonia is the director’s first documentary feature as a solo-director.
