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Toxic (Previously Unreleased)

Saule Bliuvaite
Fri 18 Jul - Tue 22 Jul
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  • Content rating: Drugs- and alcoholabuse
  • Content rating: Discrimination
  • Content rating: Coarse Language

Two teenagers want to escape their bleak Lithuanian industrial town and become close friends at a sinister modeling school. Here, they are promised a better life but to achieve it they must push their bodies to increasingly extreme limits.

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Volkskrant ★★★★

In the crumbling industrial outskirts of Kaunas, Lithuania, thirteen-year-old Marija (Vesta Matulytė) is mercilessly bullied because she walks with a limp. After being dumped by her indifferent mother at her grandmother’s house, Marija, along with the rebellious Kristina (Ieva Rupeikaitė), is taken in by one of the many obscure Lithuanian modeling schools that promise slim young girls from hopeless places a way out to a better life. Of course, they first have to pay for everything themselves — photos, training, flights abroad — but above all, they must stay thin. Kristina has read about how to do that: by swallowing a tapeworm. Now allies, the girls are willing to do anything to their bodies to escape their fate.

Toxic won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival, where it also took home the award for best debut.

Toxic (Previously Unreleased)
Direction
Saule Bliuvaite
Duration
99 min
RELEASE
Thu 10 Jul
Year
2024
Country
Lithuania
Language
Lithuanian, English
Subtitles
Dutch
  • Content rating: Watch out with children under 12
  • Content rating: Drugs- and alcoholabuse
  • Content rating: Discrimination
  • Content rating: Coarse Language

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