Toxic
Saule Bliuvaite / LT, 2024 / 101 min.
Two teenage girls want to escape the dreary industrial city in Lithuania where they live; they become close friends at a sinister school for models which promises them a better life. To obtain this though, they have to make increasingly extreme modifications to their bodies. Winner of a Golden Leopard in Locarno.
In the crumbling industrial suburbs of Kaunas in Lithuania, thirteen-year-old Marija (Vesta Matulytė) is mercilessly bullied because she walks with a limp. After being dumped with her grandma by her uninterested mother, Marija – together with rebellious Kristina (Ieva Rupeikaitė) – is picked up by one of the many obscure Lithuanian modelling schools that promise slender young girls from hopeless places a way out into a better life.
Preliminary film
Before the screening of Toxic, you can watch the short animated film Depart at 22 (4') from 2016 by Wiep Teeuwisse from the Eye collection. The transience of the human body and the fear of it are central to this drawn animated film. After your 22nd year of life, everything becomes less.
In Eye and in national cinemas.
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Details
Director
Saule Bliuvaite
Production year
2024
Country
LT
Original title
Akiplesa
Length
101 min.
Language
Lithuanian, English
Subtitles
ENG or NLD
Format
DCP
Part of
Previously Unreleased
Screened at prominent national and international festivals, yet never released in Dutch cinemas. Quite unjustly so, Eye Filmmuseum thinks, and so it has once again brought an exceptional selection of films from international festivals to the Netherlands.
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