Mon 29.05.2017 | 13:00The Last Leaf (2016)
Section: International Competition of Animated Films for Children
Directed by: Olya Golubeva
Ireland, 2016, 6 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
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Autumn. It’s when the lives of plants and the leaves on trees come to their natural end. Little Leaf refuses this fate; he doesn’t want to finish his days in a dirty cold puddle covered with mud and kicked around by people.
Mon 29.05.2017 | 13:00Weasel (2016)
Section: International Competition of Animated Films for Children
Directed by: Timon Leder
Slovenia, 2016, 11 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
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A starving Weasel wanders around a desolate land. There are no signs of other life, only fallen trees everywhere. When Weasel hears a song, he follows it to the last standing tree – kept alive by a flock of singing birds.
Mon 29.05.2017 | 13:00Short Animations 7
Section: International Competition of Animated Films for Children
International, 0, 41 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
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Mon 29.05.2017 | 13:00The Pocket Man (2016)
Section: International Competition of Animated Films for Children
Directed by: Ana Chubinidze
France, Switzerland, Georgia, 2016, 7 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
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A little man lives in an old suitcase. One day he finds a new friend - an old blind man. The little man jumps into the blind man's pocket and the pocket man helps the blind man to walk safely in the street. Both are very happy together.
Mon 29.05.2017 | 13:00The Kid And the Hedgehog (2016)
Section: International Competition of Animated Films for Children
Directed by: Marc Riba, Anna Solanas
Spain, 2016, 3 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
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A little boy pulls his duck on a high hill, where an interesting station is waiting for him. It is guided by the lonely Mr. Hedgehog, who provides extra services for a fee. The swing at the very top is not an ordinary swing.
Mon 29.05.2017 | 13:10Iris (2011)
Section: Days of Swedish Cinema
Directed by: Ulrika Bengts
Finland, Sweden, 2011, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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The year is 1890. Iris is 8 years old and lives in Stockholm with her mother, who is an artist. Iris is precocious and experienced in the ways of the world. She feels at home among her mother´s modern artist friends. Now she is waiting for the big adventure; Ester´s exhibition in Paris. On the day of the departure, Iris is shocked to find out that she will not be going to Paris. When the proposed child minders cannot look after her as planned, she is sent by mail boat to Åland; a place she knows nothing about, but where she will learn to know her roots and become the child she has not been.
Mon 29.05.2017 | 14:00Oskar's America (2017)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Children
Directed by: Torfinn Iversen
Norway, 2017, 79 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Moving tale of extraordinary friendship against the backdrop of a broken family. Oskar's dream of spending the holidays with his mother on horseback on the prairie collides with dreary reality as she drops him off with his cantankerous grandfather for the summer. She must go first to America alone in order to find a job. Levi, a social outcast who talks with his pony becomes Oskar's only friend. When Levi has to go to a care home and Oskar's mother does not return, the two of them hatch a plan: using Levi's great-grandfather's boat, they will row across the Atlantic to America.
Mon 29.05.2017 | 15:00Rascals on the Road (2006)
Section: Welcome to Switzerland
Directed by: Michael Steiner
Switzerland, 2006, 100 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
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Set in the 1960s, we follow 12-year-olds Eugen and Wrigley on their last summer of adventure. When Wrigley's parents announce their intention to pack him off to boarding school, the boys run away, hoping to find Fritzli Bühler, the "King of Rascals" in Zurich. But then Eugen and Wrigley bump into their Scouts group on the train and feel forced to join them to Ticino. From there they escape again and attempt to cycle back to Zurich, but the boys' disappearance is noticed and their parents get on their trail. As the boys continue their precarious journey over their Alps, they begin to doubt whether Fritzli Bühler really lives in Zurich and whether he actually exists at all.
Mon 29.05.2017 | 15:20Åke and His World (1984)
Section: Days of Swedish Cinema
Directed by: Allan Edwall
Sweden, 1984, 99 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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Set in 1929, the film follows the 6-year old son of a Swedish country doctor. Åke lives with his parents and his sister Aja in a small provincial town. His best friend is Kalle Nubb. Åke is very frightened of the janitor Bergström as well as the lunatic Anne-Marie, his cousin who lives in the attic. There is also the strict principal Godeman and the religious cobbler Ebenholtz.
Mon 29.05.2017 | 15:30Rasmus and the Vagabond (1981)
Section: Days of Swedish Cinema
Directed by: Olle Hellbom
Sweden, 1981, 105 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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Rasmus lives at an orphanage. He's OK, but wants a mom and a dad. Sometimes people come to find a child, but they always choose little girls. Rasmus realizes he has to run away and find parents himself. He meets a vagabond they call Paradise Oskar who likes to sing and play his accordion. Oskar makes the world seem a much better place for Rasmus.
Mon 29.05.2017 | 16:30Hunting Flies (2016)
Section: International Competition of European First Films
Directed by: Izer Aliu
Norway, 2016, 106 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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The rise and fall of a dictatorship in a classroom. At first glance this is a film about childhood, but it is also deeply political. The story takes place in Macedonia, where politics and ethnicity still create great divisions in the population. On their first day in junior high school, three friends meet their new classmates. The teacher Ghani quickly discovers that old conflicts divide the class. Ghani, who will lose his job as the new government replaces the old teachers with their own administration, tries to convince the director to keep him on. He declares his intention to make peace in his class, and starts work on mediation. He is determined not to quit until the groups have reconciled. This is a film about boys who reproduce their fathers’ feuds and about a country where choosing the wrong side in politics can have serious consequences.
Mon 29.05.2017 | 17:10Bright Nights (2017)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Thomas Arslan
Germany, Norway, 2017, 86 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
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Austrian civil engineer Michael lives with his girlfriend in Berlin. For years, he has barely had any contact with his 14-year-old son Luis. When Michael’s father dies, the two travel together to the funeral held in the remote north of Norway. Barely knowing each other, the two are suddenly caught in an intimate situation. After the funeral, Michael suggests spending a few days together exploring the region, which turns out to be more difficult than expected. Never having spent any time with each other on a daily basis, they have trouble handling their relationship. When they are in the car together it feels like the calm before a storm.
Mon 29.05.2017 | 17:20Simple Simon (2010)
Section: Days of Swedish Cinema
Directed by: Andreas Öhman
Sweden, 2010, 82 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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"My name is Simon. I have Asperger's syndrome. I like space, things shaped like circles, and my brother Sam, who takes care of me. I do not like feelings, other people, change, and comedies with Hugh Grant." For 18-year-old Simon every day is a challenge. But with the patient care of his brother Sam and a firmly established regime he's able to function. The status quo gets disrupted after the breakup of Sam and his girlfriend. Her departure from the household affect both brothers badly. When Sam falls into depression, Simon's life becomes an unbearable chaos. He decides to take the situation into his own hands. To reestablish the lost order, he's got to find his brother a new perfect girl.
Mon 29.05.2017 | 17:30Brenda Brave (1989)
Section: Days of Swedish Cinema
Directed by: Daniel Bergman
Sweden, 1989, 84 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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Brenda gladly helps her grandmother sell candy canes at the market square. But one day her grandmother suffers from a sore leg. Brenda has to take care of the candy cane sales all by herself.
Mon 29.05.2017 | 17:30Astrid (2014)
Section: Days of Swedish Cinema
Directed by: Kristina Lindström
Sweden, 2014, 84 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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Pippi Longstocking, Emil of Lönneberga, Karlsson-on-the-Roof. Astrid Lindgren’s books have sold 150 million copies and she is one of the world’s ten most read authors. But who was she and where did her stories come from? Using unique archive materials, she’s brought to life for a new generation. She bore a secret which she turned into stories about strong girls and lonely boys. She was a female pioneer, she gave solace and influenced politics and public debate. Taught us respect for children and was an activist against war, racism and nuclear power. She was needed in Sweden and around the world. But what was it that made her stories talk to people, across all cultural boundaries?
Mon 29.05.2017 | 17:30Astrid (2014)
Section: Days of Swedish Cinema
Directed by: Kristina Lindström
Sweden, 2014, 84 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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Pippi Longstocking, Emil of Lönneberga, Karlsson-on-the-Roof. Astrid Lindgren’s books have sold 150 million copies and she is one of the world’s ten most read authors. But who was she and where did her stories come from? Using unique archive materials, she’s brought to life for a new generation. She bore a secret which she turned into stories about strong girls and lonely boys. She was a female pioneer, she gave solace and influenced politics and public debate. Taught us respect for children and was an activist against war, racism and nuclear power. She was needed in Sweden and around the world. But what was it that made her stories talk to people, across all cultural boundaries?
Mon 29.05.2017 | 18:00KALASH (2016)
Section: International Competition of Student Films Zlín Dog
Directed by: Bachir Abou Zeid
Lebanon, 2016, 29 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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On September 18, 1982, shortly after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the bloody massacre in Sabra and Shatila, Khalid, Nidal and Salma prepare for a mission of vengeance. In one unbroken shot, this film captures real-time events that happened in Beirut.
Mon 29.05.2017 | 18:00Terka Nova (2016)
Section: International Competition of Student Films Zlín Dog
Directed by: Stella Asmon
Hungary, 2016, 10 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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A strange hairstyle, clothing style, and a strange name. This is Terka Nova. Her only friend in difficult times is her dog. When an unknown person poisons him, her main goal becomes to find the culprit and punish him. A dark tale filed with colorful exaggeration and an innovative way of storytelling.
Mon 29.05.2017 | 18:00The Return of Erkin (2015)
Section: International Competition of Student Films Zlín Dog
Directed by: Maria Guskova
Russia, 2015, 29 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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After 15 years in prison, Erkin returns to his native village. He's eager to get back to his old life and be with his family. But after such a long time everything has changed and Erkin isn't sure if he's able to live outside of a cell.
Mon 29.05.2017 | 18:00Cloud Rider (2017)
Section: International Competition of Student Films Zlín Dog
Directed by: Manuela Rüegg
Switzerland, 2017, 18 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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Maximilian is a big dreamer. His best friend is a pilot from a cloud who takes them both on an adventure. The boy's mother, however, just can't comprehend his behavior. What happens to an imaginary world and a journey to the moon, when reality steps in?