APPLES

MILA

By Christos NIKOU

REQUIRED VIEWING - as DISTR / PROMO / CONS

First film - Completed 2020

As an unpredictable, sweeping pandemic causes people to develop sudden amnesia, a man finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help him build a new life. His treatment: performing daily tasks prescribed by his doctors on cassette tape, and capturing these new memories with a Polaroid

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2020
Industry Selects
Venice - Biennale 2020
Orizzonti Opening Film
Zurich FF 2020
Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • First film, Drama, Black comedy
    • Countries
    • GREECE, POLAND, SLOVENIA
    • Languages
    • GREEK
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Christos NIKOU
    • Writer(s)
    • Stavros RAPTIS, Christos NIKOU
    • Producer(s)
    • Hercules MAVROEIDIS (BOO PRODUCTIONS)
    • Synopsis
    • 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 (Anna Kalaitzidou), 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?