Apolonia, Apolonia
SYNOPSIS
In 2009, when filmmaker Lea Glob met Apolonia, a girl raised in the bohemian world of Paris by a group of theater artists founded by her father, she didn’t know she would be filming her for 13 years. Glob creates the portrait of a young woman who takes us on a journey in search of creative freedom.
Spanish premiere. With the presence of the director.
Why must you see it?
The fascination for a young, bohemian and uncontrollable artist, the Parisian Apolonia Sokol, leads the Danish filmmaker Lea Glob to follow her with a camera for more than a decade. From her portrait flow two other stories, that of Ukrainian activist and artist Oksana Shachko and her own. All three women live their time intensely and consistently, with all the drifts that this involvement entails. With her prolonged capture of time, the filmmaker succeeds in outlining the fleetingness of enthusiasm, those experiences that give meaning to an existence, tracing a film as passionate and novelistic as life itself.
Miquel M. Freixas
Lea Glob
Lea Glob, born 1982 in Denmark. She grew up in the city of Århus, and in 2007 she entered The National Film School of Denmark. She graduated with the short film Meeting my father Kasper Tophat (2011).In her films you often find strong women, and a preference of seeing the beauty and humor of everyday life, even in absurd and rough conditions of the human existence. She insists on using both body and camera as means of understanding our world. Glob co-direted Olmo & The Seagull (2014), Venus– Lets talk about sex (2016), Apolonia, Apolonia is her debut as solo-director, it won the main award at IDFA 2022 and is currently a candidate for the Danish Oscar-contribution.
Year: 2022
Country: Denmark, Poland
Length: 116 min
Language: English, Danish, French, Polish, Russian
Subtitles: Spanish, English
Writer & Director: Lea Glob
Production: Sidsel Siersted
for Danish Documentary Production
Cinematography: Lea Glob
Editing: Andreas Bøggild Monies, Thor Ochsner
Sound Design: Anna Żarnecka-Wójcik
Music: Jonas Struck
Involved TV channel: HBOMax, ARTE-G.E.I.E., AVRO-TROS, DR, SVT, YLE, VGTV
Screening Copy: Danish Documentary Production
