אפולוניה, אפולוניה

Graduated as a director from The National Film School of
Denmark in 2011 with the short film MEETING MY FATHERKASPER
TOPHAT about the directors’ involuntary journey
into a stranger than fiction story of her own origins.
Glob co-directed OLMO & THE SEAGULL with Petra Costa in
2014. It premiered at Locarno where it won the Young Jury
Prize. It also won the Best Nordic Dox Award at CPH:DOX,
Best Documentary at the Rio Film Festival, Best
Documentary at the Cairo Film Festival, and Best Narrative
at the RiverRun International film festival, among others.
In 2016 Glob co-directed the feature documentary VENUS
together with Mette Carla Albrechtsen about sexuality from
a female perspective, which became a moment to share thoughts on sexuality and identity, in an
attempt to formulate a language and reclaim the female body. The film premiered in IDFA’s First
Appearance Competition and won the audience award in IndieLisboa IIFF.
All along those years Glob followed the story of Apolonia Sokol, creating a sort of double sided
portrait of the artist as a young woman. APOLONIA, APOLONIA is the director’s first documentary
feature as a solo-director.