Apples (Mila)
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Apples (Mila)

APPLES (MILA)

 

Greece/Poland/Slovenia

 

production

Iraklis Mavroidis, Angelo Venetis, Aris Dagios, Mariusz Włodarski, Christos Nikou

 

co-production

Aleš Pavlin, Andrej Štritof, Stefanos Ganos, Stavros Raptis

 

year

2020

 

awards

Vesna Award for Best Sound
Vesna Award for Best Minority Co-production

 

film crew

Director Christos Nikou I Scriptwriters Christos Nikou, Stavros Raptis I Director of photography Bartosz Świniarski I Editor George Zafiris I Music The Boy I Sound design Sašo Kalan, Tom Lemajič I Actors Aris Servetalis, Sofia Georgovasili, Anna Kalaitzidou, Argiris Bakirtzis I Distribution FIVIA – Vojnik

 

plot

Amidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris (Aris Servetalis) 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, meeting Anna (Sofia Georgovasili), a woman who is also in recovery. Through images deadpan, strange and surreal, Greek writer-director Christos Nikou posits a beguiling reflection on memory, identity, and loss, exploring how a society might handle an irreversible epidemic through one man’s story of self-discovery. Are we the sum of the images we compile and display of ourselves, or are we something richer, and deeper?