Selected as Greece’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars, the darkly funny Apples has been generating enormous buzz on the festival circuit. When the city of Athens is struck by a mysterious pandemic which causes amnesia, one man who is impacted sets out to create a new identity for himself through a state-sponsored programme. The movie is the feature debut of Christos Nikou, who worked as assistant director on Yorgos Lanthimos’s Dogtooth.