Μήλα (aka Apples) (2020)

Amid a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, a middle aged man (Aris Servetalis) finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities. Directed by Christos Nikou in a feature film directorial debut, this was filmed before the Covid pandemic which makes it all the more potent in its examination of a society cut off from each other. This alienation of sorts began long before the pandemic in our dependence on technology rather than our own mind and memories. Who remembers phone numbers anymore when it's there on our iphones, why remember directions when we can google it, why talk to people face to face when we can text them, why write a letter when you can send an e-mail? As a society, we're rapidly beginning to exist in a vaccum. Nikou's remarkable film examines memory, the loss of it and the need to be remembered (if we're not remembered, did we exist?). A beautiful film released in Greece in 2020 but not in the U.S. until 2022. With Sofia Georgovassili and Anna Kalatzidou.