Sun 28.05.2017 | 10:40Heartstrings (2016)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Children
Directed by: Michel Boujenah
France, 2016, 89 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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A talented cellist and top student, 12-year-old Marie has a secret that she hasn’t shared with anyone at school: she has a degenerative eye disease. Her parents believe she should move to a leading medical facility for treatment, but Marie wants to finish the school year and audition for a prestigious music academy. Meanwhile, Marie offers to tutor her classmate Victor, who is having difficulties with his school work — and also harbours a secret crush on Marie. The two develop a strong friendship, and Marie eventually confides in Victor about her eyesight. Together, they hatch a plan: he will help cover up her deteriorating vision in class so she can finish the school year and perform her audition.
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.
Tue 30.05.2017 | 10:40Heartstrings (2016)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Children
Directed by: Michel Boujenah
France, 2016, 89 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
Score:
A talented cellist and top student, 12-year-old Marie has a secret that she hasn’t shared with anyone at school: she has a degenerative eye disease. Her parents believe she should move to a leading medical facility for treatment, but Marie wants to finish the school year and audition for a prestigious music academy. Meanwhile, Marie offers to tutor her classmate Victor, who is having difficulties with his school work — and also harbours a secret crush on Marie. The two develop a strong friendship, and Marie eventually confides in Victor about her eyesight. Together, they hatch a plan: he will help cover up her deteriorating vision in class so she can finish the school year and perform her audition.
Tue 30.05.2017 | 15:20Neuland (2013)
Section: Welcome to Switzerland
Directed by: Anna Thommen
Switzerland, 2013, 93 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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Afghanistan, Cameroon, Serbia, Venezuela – Mr. Zingg’s new students in the Basel integration class have travelled far. Young, and with hopes of a better future, they travelled to Switzerland and now place great hopes in their teacher: he should show them the ways of this new country. The pupils learn the language and culture of Switzerland in just two years. Mr. Zingg, has justy one goal in sight: to help these young traumatized people find a job in their new society. But as the end of their schooling approaches, these young migrants have to ask themselves a harrowing question: is there a place at all for them in this country...?
Tue 30.05.2017 | 16:30Obsession (2016)
Section: Special Mention
Directed by: Jakub Machala
Czech Republic, 2016, 20 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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A documentary film based on the parallel lives of two women – of a student looking for her place in life and work and of an experienced lady who found her place long ago. Mrs. Sonja Bata and a student of a footwear design studio not only lead audiences through the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, but on the journey of two women, the search for human similarities and differences, and especially the source of desire and obsession that leads us to seek out and achieve them; these should appeal to even those not interested in shoes at all.
Wed 31.05.2017 | 15:30Normal (2010)
Section: Welcome to Switzerland
Directed by: Bernard Weber
Switzerland, 2010, 60 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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A portrait of an extraordinary teacher and her class. She teaches children who are disabled, who have learning difficulties, and who are highly gifted together in one classroom. While the school administration worries about if and how a disabled child should be integrated into secondary school, we observe daily life in this exceptional class, where children philosophize about, for example, God and death. A portrait about how the classroom returns to normal by defining new norms. The children do not perceive their divergent abilities as a deficit, but rather as a chance and source of enrichment.
Thu 01.06.2017 | 20:20Who Saw Him Die (1968)
Section: Days of Swedish Cinema
Directed by: Jan Troell
Sweden, 1968, 110 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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Martensson is a disillusioned teacher trying desperately to keep control of a class that has gone askew. He valiantly tries to bridge the generation gap while alternately loving and hating his job and his students.