Apple Cider Vinegar (in post-production)

DESCRIPTION

Stones are at once the most foundational and the most overlooked parts of our lifeworld. When a retired nature documentary narrator passes a kidney stone, she decides to tell one more story about this forgotten world of stone . A hypnotic essay film asking urgent ecological questions, Apple Cider Vinegar takes the viewer on a journey meeting Palestinian quarry workers, passionate Britisch Geologist and  People living on the lava fields of Fogo.

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CONNEXT screening: Apple Cider Vinegar by Sofie Benoot, Business Doc Europe

DIRECTED BY
Sofie Benoot, Belgium, Netherlands, 2024, 84´
Production
Inti Films (BE) & Pieter van Huystee Film (NL)
Distribution
Avila (BE)
Festivals
Available for the world premiere spring/ summer 2024
TERRITORIES
World except of BENELUX
DIRECTOR BIO

Sofie Benoot (Bruges, 1985) lives and works in Brussels. Her films are patchworks of different stories, carefully assembled to reveal hidden connections. Fronterismo (2007), Blue Meridian (2010) and Desert Haze (2014) played at Visions du Réel (Switzerland), Camden IFF (USA), Torino FD (Italy), and BAFICI (Argentina). Benoot teaches in the Film master’s programme at LUCA School of Arts in Brussels. She co-directed Victoria (2020), which premiered at the Berlin FF and won the Caligari Prize.