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Toxic

Dir. Saulė Bliuvaitė
Constellation / Competition
Fri 8 Nov and Sun 10 Nov
Fri 8 Nov
and
Sun 10 Nov
  • Fri 8 Nov
    20:45 - 22:24
    Vue in the Light, Leeds
    Screen 12
    Past event
  • Sun 10 Nov
    15:30 - 17:09
    Vue in the Light, Leeds
    Screen 11
    Past event

Winner of the Golden Leopard at Locarno Film Festival, this unflinching drama sees two teenagers put their bodies and minds through hell to become models. 

A sobering reminder of the punishing standards put on teenage girls, Saulė Bliuvaitė’s Locarno winner Toxic is a brutally beautiful drama that finds some light in the strength of female friendships in hopeless situations. In a crumbling industrial town, a young teen is mercilessly bullied for her limp. With no social options but to connect with her bullies, she eventually finds an ally in the spiky Kristina. When a modelling agency offers the chance of a contract to aspiring locals, the girls are willing to do anything to their bodies to escape the confines of their town.

"In a film about something so familiar, everything Bliuvaite delivers is unexpected." - Stephanie Bunbury, Sight and Sound

Content Guidance


Contains themes of eating disorders, graphic scenes and disability discrimination.

Toxic

Director: Saulė Bliuvaitė
Premiere status: UK Premiere
Running time: 99 minutes
Production year: 2024
Country: Lithuania
Language: Lithuanian
Subtitles: English subtitles
Print source: Bendita

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Constellation

Constellation is the new name for our main programme section where we preview many of the most talked about films of the year and present UK Premieres of films from exciting new filmmakers in our feature film competition.