
Synopsis
Stones are at once one of the most fundamental and most overlooked pieces of our world. Filmmaker Sofie Benoot embarks on a quest to find out more after passing a kidney stone, playfully taking us from a volcano in Cape Verde to Palestinian quarries and then stumbling upon an English geologist on holiday. Her narrative thread raises urgent ecological questions in a hypnotic essay that also be read as a philosophical fable. Through the film, the director invites us to explore the connections between the human body and the planet, contrasting the everyday with deep questions about life in the cosmos.
Biography and Films
Sofie Benoot (Bruges, 1985) lives and works in Brussels. She earned an MA in audiovisual arts from the LUCA School of Arts in Brussels, where she now teaches. Her films are mosaics of carefully assembled stories that reveal hidden connections. Fronterismo (2007), Blue Meridian (2010, screened at l'Alternativa), and Desert Haze (2014) were shown at Visions du Réel, the Camden International Festival, the Turin Festival, and the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema - BAFICI. In 2020, together with Liesbeth De Ceulaer and Isabelle Tollenaere, she co-directed Victoria, which premiered at the Berlinale and won the Caligari Prize before being featured at l'Alternativa 2020.
Extra-Special Tie-In Activity
The screening of Apple Cider Vinegar on Saturday 16 November will include a very special presentation by Rosa Cerarols, who not only holds a PhD in Geography and an MA in Visual Anthropology, but also lectures in geohumanities and is a curator and cofounder of Konvent, a multidisciplinary space for cultural programmes and artistic residencies.
- Production INTI FILMS
- Distribution Filmotor
- Screenplay Sofie Benoot
- Cinematography Jonathan Wannyn
- Editing Sofie Benoot, Liyo Gong
- Music Kwinten van Laethem, Gert Verboven
- Sound Huibert Boon
- Premiere Catalan premiere
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Festivals
- Visions du Réel
- Dokufest (Best Green Dox)
- Camden Film Festival
- Vancouver Film Festival
- Visions du Réel
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