2024 - 69th Edition

Toxic

Akiplėša
Saulė Bliuvaitė
Lithuania
 - 2024
Estreno nacional
Toxic, the big winner at the last Locarno International Film Festival (Golden Leopard and Best First Film), deals with the protagonists' conflictive relationship with their bodies: fundamental elements of self-discovery and, at the same time, battlefields from which they cannot escape. Maria and Kristina are two teenagers who seek an escape from the industrial city in which they live and enrol in a disreputable modelling school, where they will be forced to comply with extreme bodily demands. Against this background, Lithuanian Saulè Biluvaité explores the depths of adolescent anguish in a society founded upon the cult of the body and unattainable canons of beauty. Drawing on autobiographical elements, she formulates a powerful social critique at the intersection between the quest for perfection and the portrayal of life on the peripheries.

Screenings

O.V. in Lithuanian with English and Spanish subtitles
Tue. 22, 22:00
Presentation
Q&A
Wed. 23, 19:15
Presentation
Q&A
Thu. 24, 19:00
DIRECTOR
Saulė Bliuvaitė
RUNNING TIME
92 min.
TYPE
Largometraje
FORMAT
Color
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2024
VERSION
V.O. en lituano subtitulada en español e inglés
EDAD RECOMENDADA
A partir de 16 años
COUNTRY
Lithuania

The movies of

France, Belgium
81
Michel Hazanavicius
Estreno nacional
Breve historia de una familia
Jia ting jian shi
China, France, Denmark, Qatar
99
Lin Jianjie
Estreno nacional
Vietnam, Philippines, Singapore, France, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, United States
129
Trương Minh Quý
Estreno nacional
United Kingdom
98
Lucy Cohen
Estreno nacional
China
111
Jia Zhang-ke
Estreno nacional
United States
91
Sarah Friedland
Estreno nacional
Anzu, gato fantasma
Bakeneko Anzu-chan
Japan
90
Yôko Kuno, Nobuhiro Yamashita
La Red Fantasma
Les fantômes
France, Germany, Belgium
105
Jonathan Millet
Estreno nacional
Germany, Türkiye
85
Türker Süer
Estreno nacional
Kensuke's Kingdom
United Kingdom, Luxembourg, France
84
Neil Boyle, Kirk Hendry
Estreno nacional
France
90
Louise Courvoisier
Estreno nacional
Mi hermano Ali
Spain, Portugal
85
Paula Palacios
Estreno mundial
United Kingdom
100
Sasha Nathwani
Estreno nacional
A su imagen
À son image
France
113
Thierry de Peretti
Estreno nacional
Out of competition
Spain, Mexico
109
Jenifer de la Rosa Martín
El artista del cristal
The Glassworker
Pakistan, Spain, United States
98
Usman Riaz
Estreno nacional
Germany
105
Eva Trobisch
Estreno nacional
Greece, Germany
14
Thelyia Petraki
Estreno nacional
Deprisa, deprisa
Fast, Fast
Spain, France
99
Carlos Saura
Austria
93
Kurdwin Ayub
Estreno nacional
Spain
20
Mariona Martínez
Estreno mundial
A nuestros amigos
Spain, Portugal
90
Adrián Orr Serrano
Estreno nacional
Germany
101
Thomas Arslan
Estreno nacional
United Kingdom, France
13
Joe Weiland, Finn Constantine
Estreno nacional
United States, Poland
89
Jesse Eisenberg
Estreno nacional
India, United States
116
Raam Reddy
Estreno nacional
Nens
Spain
15
Anna Martí Domingo
Estreno mundial
United States
116
Constance Tsang
Estreno nacional
Lithuania
92
Saulė Bliuvaitė
Estreno nacional
South Africa, United States
14
Jason Adam Maselle
Estreno nacional