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For the second time Pink Apple will award the Pink Apple Festival Award for merits in gay and lesbian filmmaking. This year the Canadian-Swiss Léa Pool will receive the prize. Since the Eighties, images of women and love between women have been the central topics of the Geneva born filmmaker, who made a name internationally with insightful films such as «Anne Trister» or «Lost and Delirious». With «Emporte-moi» she won numerous awards, among others the Swiss Film Prize, and for «Maman est chez le coiffeur» the Audience Award at the Solothurn Film Days. The Filmpodium Cinema honours the director with a retrospective from 1 April to 15 May, comprising 15 films, one of which is her latest film «La passion d’Augustine», and her documentary «Pink Ribbons, Inc.». Léa Pool chose «Mädchen in Uniform» («Girls in Uniform», 1958) as a Carte Blanche film. (Foto: © Monic Richard)
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Pink Apple Festival Award – Léa Pool Feature film
Summer 1966. It's time to enjoy the summer holiday, total freedom. Teenage Élise discovers that the sudden departure of her mother completely disrupts the family. Her brother Coco seeks solace in the garage, building a super racing car. Her youngest brother Benoît throws himself into his own inner world. The father seems absolutely knocked out by the situation. Élise decides to take control of her family, in an eloquent attempt to save them. With the assistance of flourishing nature around her, she stands on the threshold of an incomparable summer.