A movie that took 13 years to make!
The documentary “Apollonia, Apollonia”, which won the main prize of the Amsterdam Documentary Film Festival this year, has been in front of the camera for 13 years.
Charso Press: Danish filmmaker Lea Globe won the premiere of the 35th Amsterdam International Documentary Festival (IDFA) with her third film “Apollonia, Apollonia”, a film that was shot over a period of 13 years and traces the life path of the main character of the story as well as the filmmaker himself. .
In 2009, Globe met its protagonist, a young figurative painter named Apollonia Sokol, through a mutual friend. At the time, the Danish filmmaker was a student at the National Film School in Copenhagen, looking for a subject for a short film. and finally he started making a short film, but he was not satisfied with making a short film and he believed that this artist would be worthy of making another film and finally he decided to make a feature film and by re-editing the films that were made during 13 years from The main character had recorded the story, made a 116-minute long film that was able to receive the main prize of the most important documentary festival in the world.
“Apollonia, Apollonia” is about a young woman named Apollonia who is trying to find her place in the art world. He is confident in his talent, but the path is not always easy. One of the lessons Apollonia learns is that female painters must make more sacrifices and overcome greater obstacles than their male counterparts. This is also the case with Oksana Shachko, one of the founders of the feminist action group “Femen”, a friend with whom she lives for a long time, …
This year’s IDFA festival feature documentary competition section included 13 films, in which Iranian cinema was also present with the 100-minute film “Silent House”. This documentary made by Farnaz Chorabjian and Mohammad Reza Chorabchian follows the fate of three generations of an upper middle class Iranian family and at the center of the story is a century-old house in Tehran where the family spent happy and sad days. they did
In addition to the competitive section of feature films, Iranian cinema had several other representatives in this year’s “IDFA” festival, and the 15-minute short documentary “Total” as a joint production of Iran and Poland by Mohammad Reza Farzad was shown in the Best of Fests section. and the documentary “Aura” (Sahrgah), a joint production of Iran and Afghanistan, directed by Samere Rezaei and Hossein Hosseini, was screened in the “Luminous” section of the festival.
The 35th Amsterdam International Documentary Festival (IDFA) was held in the Netherlands from November 9 to 20 (November 18 to 29).