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SPOON (KAROTE)
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Completed - No dialog - Environmental, Documentary - 65 minutes

Log Line

Spoon. Its meaningful life will last for one unceremonious meal.

Year of production : 2019

Director(s) : Pakalniņa LAILA
Producer(s) : Laila PAKALNINA (HARGLA COMPANY), Dagne VILDZIUNAITE (JUST A MOMENT), Hege DEHLI (MECHANIX FILM)

Synopsis

This film is about a plastic spoon and a society that has reached such a level of development that it extracts petroleum from the depths of the earth, transports it to a refinery, where it is turned into plastic, then transports the plastic to another factory, where it takes on the form of a spoon, then transports the spoons to all kinds of stores and eating establishments, where the spoon’s meaningful life lasts a mere ten minutes or so before being thrown out.

Production

Country(ies) : LATVIA, LITHUANIA, NORWAY

Festivals and Awards

Karlovy Vary 2019 (Documentary competition)
FIDBA - Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de Buenos Aires 2019 (International competition)
Black Canvas Festival de Cine Contemporáneo 2019
Riga International Film Festival 2019 (Documentary competition)
Minsk International Film Festival "Listapad" 2019
Baltic Film Festival in New York 2019
Scanorama IFF 2019
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2019
“Cinema Verite” Iran International Documentary Film Festival 2019


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