APPLE CIDER VINEGAR

2024, 80 min, 1.78, color, 5.1, BE/NL, English, Creole, Arabic

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED Sofie Benoot
WITH Siân Phillips's voice
IMAGE Jonathan Wannyn
SOUND Kwinten van Laethem, Gert Verboven
PRODUCER Inti Films Peter Krüger
EDITING Sofie Benoot, Liyo Gong
MUSIC and SOUND DESIGN Huibert Boon
COLOUR CORRECTION Veerle Zeelmaekers
PRODUCTION Inti Films
CO-PRODUCTION Pieter van Huystee Film
WITH THE SUPPORT OF
The Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), The Netherlands Film Fund (NFF), Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles (CCA), The Belgian Tax Shelter for Film Financing

SCREENINGS

2024 Vision du reel (CH)
2024 Palace Cinema (BE)
2024 Sphinx Cinema (BE)
2024 Lumiere Cinema (BE)
2024 Cinema Storck (BE)
2024 Dokufest Kosovo (OO) Green Dox Award
2024 Camden International film festival (USA)
2024 Vancouver International film festival (CAN)
2024 Festival international du film independent de Bordeaux (FR)
2024 Matsalu nature film festival (EE) Winner Best Director
2024 Another Way Festival (SP)(special mention jury)
2024 Fic Monterey Festival (MX)
2024 Message to Men (RU)
2024 Viennale (AU)
2024 Jihalava (CZ)
2024 Cork Film Festival (IR)
2024 IDF Westlake (CH)
2024 L’alternativa festival (SP) (special mention jury)
2024 Rome Independent Festival (IT)
2024 Ethnofest (GR)
2025 Docpoint Helsinki (FI)
2025 Big Sky film festival (MO)
2025 Tempo film festival (SW)
2025 Ambulante '(MX)
2025 Portland eco festival (USA)
2025 Wisconsin Festival (USA)
2025 Full Frame festival (USA)
2025 In science film festival (NL)
2025 AFO olomouc festival (CZ)
2025 Future FF (RU)
2025 Finger Lakes FF (USA)
2025 Ecozine (SP)

Stones are one of the most fundamental but overlooked parts of our world. When a fictitious nature documentary narrator begins to investigate her kidney stone, she decides to tell one more story about this forgotten world of stone. Apple Cider Vinegar is a hypnotic essay film asking urgent ecological questions that takes the viewer on a journey meeting Palestinian stone masons, passionate British geologists and people living on the lava fields of Fogo.​

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