Fri 26.05.2017 | 08:15Owls & Mice (2016)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Simone van Dusseldorp
Netherlands, 2016, 80 min
Projection place: Aula
Score:
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Meral (8) just moved into a new town. She tries to make friends at her new school before their autumn school camp, but this is harder than expected. At home she befriends a little mouse that lives in her new room, which she calls Peepeep. Afraid that her parents will kill Peepeep while she is away, she secretly takes him with her. Thanks to the mouse, Meral makes some unexpected new friends. When an owl catches the little mouse, Meral blames her new friends. It is not until they set out into the wild to retrieve the owl pellet with Peepeep’s bones that Meral finally understands what friendship is all about.
Fri 26.05.2017 | 08:30Tjorven, Båtsman and Moses (1964)
Section: Days of Swedish Cinema
Directed by: Olle Hellbom
Sweden, 1964, 89 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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Vesterman has found a young seal in his fishing nets in the outskirts of the archipelago. When he comes back to the Saltkråkan island, he gives the seal to Tjorven, who names it Moses. Peter Malm, a visitor who works at the Zoological Institute in Uppsala, wants to buy the seal, but Tjorven says it's not for sale. Vesterman is in need of money and tries to get the seal back, to sell it to Peter. The children have to hide the seal, so he won't find it. Pelle's rabbit Jocke and one of Söderman's lambs are found bitten to death. The dog Båtsman is accused of those evil deeds and must be put down. What is to be the fate of Moses and Båtsman.
Fri 26.05.2017 | 08:30Pippi in the South Seas (1970)
Section: Days of Swedish Cinema
Directed by: Olle Hellbom
Sweden, Germany, 1970, 86 min
Projection place: Mala scena
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With their parents on vacation, Tommy and Annika spend time with their wonderful friend Pippi Longstocking at her cottage Villa Villekulla, until she finds a bottle with a message from her father Captain Efraim Longstocking, who warns her that he was captured by a band of evil pirates led by Blood-Svente and Jock the Knife, who hold him prisoner in their castle on the island of Porto Piluse, so they can find the secret location of his treasure. Pippi, Tommy and Annika then travel to Porto Piluse to rescue her father before he is forced to reveal the whereabouts of his treasure...
Fri 26.05.2017 | 10:00Up in the Sky (2016)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Children
Directed by: Petter Lennstrand
Sweden, 2016, 82 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 1
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Pottan is supposed to be spending her holidays at a pony farm, but her parents, who are always busy, end up leaving their eight-year-old daughter at a recycling yard by mistake. After a short discussion, the strange residents of the yard decide to take in the girl and she unexpectedly becomes part of a secret space mission. They are all sure that up there they will find fabulous treasures and the fulfillment of their dreams. Petter Lennstrand's life-sized puppets are already well known to Swedish TV viewers. In his debut feature film, his cheeky, unconventional characters tell a tale of friendship and the meaning of seemingly unimportant things.
Fri 26.05.2017 | 10:20Come Along (2016)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Igor Šterk
Slovenia, 2016, 83 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
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In search of the best photo for the school competition, four teenagers head to remote hills where the competition for awards turns into a struggle for survival. Manc, who leads the group, has been accused of stealing a phone and consequently might be expelled from school. Schoolmates Mina, Oto and Spurc join him on this trip. Mina, a spoiled, stubborn city girl, breaks first in this foreign environment, but luckily Oto is there for her. He’s a rational boy who is in love with her. With them into this pristine wilderness has also come Spurc, who has been golden-spoon-fed all his life; he turns into a cowardish spoiled-child. In the end, Manc is the one who safely guides them back home.
Fri 26.05.2017 | 10:40Room 213 (2017)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Emelie Lindblom
Sweden, 2017, 95 min
Projection place: Aula
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Twelve-year-old Elvira arrives at summer camp feeling anxious and upset because her best friend couldn't join her. She's just getting settled in with her two roommates, Bea and Meja, when a flood forces them to move to Room 213 — where no one has stayed in 60 years. Strange, inexplicable things begin to happen, and the girls grow suspicious of one another. That is, until a letter with ancient handwriting leads them into the woods to the home of an old lady, who tells them of a girl who died at the camp six decades earlier. Could this be the same red-haired girl in a white dress they have seen sneaking through the corridors at night?
Fri 26.05.2017 | 10:40Pippi in the South Seas (1970)
Section: Days of Swedish Cinema
Directed by: Olle Hellbom
Sweden, Germany, 1970, 86 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
Score:
With their parents on vacation, Tommy and Annika spend time with their wonderful friend Pippi Longstocking at her cottage Villa Villekulla, until she finds a bottle with a message from her father Captain Efraim Longstocking, who warns her that he was captured by a band of evil pirates led by Blood-Svente and Jock the Knife, who hold him prisoner in their castle on the island of Porto Piluse, so they can find the secret location of his treasure. Pippi, Tommy and Annika then travel to Porto Piluse to rescue her father before he is forced to reveal the whereabouts of his treasure...
Fri 26.05.2017 | 10:50Ronja, the Robber´s Daughter (1984)
Section: Days of Swedish Cinema
Directed by: Tage Danielsson
Norway, Sweden, 1984, 126 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
Score:
Ronja was born after a very stormy night to the bandit leader Mattis. Lightning from the storm struck Mattis's castle and split it in half, one half of which gets settled by a hostile gang of robbers lead by Borka. His son Birk was born the same night as Mattis's daughter. The two kids meet and they become best friends. The feud between the gangs continues, so the children decide to run away. Mattis disowns Ronja, but he later appears and asks Ronja for forgiveness and soon the two bandit gangs join together and organize a hunt for the soldiers who threaten them in the woods. In the end, they decide to join forever and Mattis and Borkou fight over who will be the leader...
Sat 27.05.2017 | 10:00Angel of the Lord 2 (2016)
Section: Czech Films and TV
Directed by: Jiří Strach
Czech Republic, 2016, 99 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 1
Score:
The angel Petronel is still working at the Heavenly Gate, but he wants something better. His eternal tempter, the devil Uriah, suggests that he pick an apple from the Tree of Knowledge to know all that God knows, then he’ll quickly move on to better things. The two argue over the apple and they drop the precious fruit…down to Earth. The muddle-headed angel and his scoundrel friend devil must swiftly enter the world to find the Apple of Knowledge and bring it back. On the eve of Saint Nicholas Day day, they get tangled up in a peculiar whirl. Before they find the apple and return it to where it belongs, they endure a great adventure and go through quite a few dangerous setups...
Sat 27.05.2017 | 10:40Swallows and Amazons (2016)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Philippa Lowthorpe
U.K., 2016, 97 min
Projection place: Mala scena
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Set over an idyllic English summer holiday, the four Walker children and their sailing rivals, the Blacketts, run amok in their boats against the stunning backdrop of the Lake District. The Walkers sail the agile Swallow and the Blacketts commandeer The Amazon, making camp on a nearby island. Their world is one of imagination – filled with pirates and canons, where boats are captured and the enemy has to walk the plank. But when family friend, Uncle Jim is revealed to be a spy, our motley crew are forced to put down their imaginary swords and band together to protect him from his Soviet enemies.
Sat 27.05.2017 | 10:40Behind the Blue Door (2016)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Mariusz Palej
Poland, 2016, 93 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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Eleven-year-old Lukas and his mother get into a car accident that results in his and his mom’s hospitalization. When it turns out Lukas’ mom is in a coma, the boy must be taken care of by his only relative – aunt Agatha, whom he gets to meet for the first time in his life. Agatha brings the boy to her own guesthouse by the seaside and places him in a room his mom used to live in. It’s the room where Lukas accidently discovers a secret passage to a different dimension and soon learns what amazing and yet frightening mysteries the newly disclosed world hides. The blue door in his room is a gate to different reality. There he will have to face his fears, loneliness, helplessness and longings.
Sat 27.05.2017 | 10:50Pippi on the Run (1970)
Section: Days of Swedish Cinema
Directed by: Olle Hellbom
Sweden, Germany, 1970, 94 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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When siblings Tommy and Annika Settergren come home late from playing at their friend Pippi Longstocking’s, they are greeted at home by nagging parents. Pippi joins the family at breakfast the following morning. When Tommy and Annika are asked by their family to pull weeds in the garden, they bitterly decide to run away from home. Feeling that their two children might be serious about this, the Settergrens send Pippi to look after them. Pippi, Tommy, and Annika disembark on a wild adventure. But the harsher their journey gets, the more Tommy and Annika learn they had it a lot better back at home after all...
Sat 27.05.2017 | 13:10Brave Kids (1975)
Section: Golden Slipper for Special Contribution in Children´s and Youth Cinema
Directed by: Věra Šimková - Plívová
Czech Republic, 1975, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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Friends Thomas, Hubert a Jozhka live the town of Levin. Thomas is full of ideas – to the annoyance of everyone else. To impress his classmate Blanka, he tries to win the prize for best student of the school...
Sat 27.05.2017 | 14:00Cloudboy (2017)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Children
Directed by: Meikeminne Clinckspoor
Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, 2017, 78 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Twelve-year-old city boy Niilas has been living with his father for as long as he can remember and barely knows his Swedish mother. This summer, Niilas has to travel to Lapland – much against his will – where his mother and her new family live amongst the Sami, an indigenous reindeer-herding people. Despite a warm welcome, Niilas retreats inward. The only one who can get through to him is his half-sister Sunnà. The reindeer migration is fully underway and Niilas has to lend a helping hand. When a reindeer goes missing, Niilas joins in the search, and an impressive moose keeps crossing his path at the most unexpected moments. Gradually he discovers his roots, which prove to be stronger than he ever could have imagined. Against all odds, Niilas experiences the most adventurous summer of his life.
Sat 27.05.2017 | 14:30Storm - Letter of Fire (2016)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Dennis Bots
Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, 2016, 105 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 1
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What if you are suddenly on your own and anyone could be your enemy? 12-year-old Storm ends up on an adventure when his father Klaas accepts a new job. He secretly prints forbidden texts in his print shop. Storm's mother does not like this one bit; it’s dangerous to have different opinions. The safe life Storm knew is turned upside down when Klaas gets caught in the act. Storm flees just in time with the original letter and becomes the focus of a manhunt. He gets help from someone unexpected when he meets Marieke, a girl that lives in the city's underground tunnels. In a race against time, Storm tries to save his father. But who can he trust?
Sat 27.05.2017 | 15:00Ronja, the Robber´s Daughter (1984)
Section: Days of Swedish Cinema
Directed by: Tage Danielsson
Norway, Sweden, 1984, 126 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
Score:
Ronja was born after a very stormy night to the bandit leader Mattis. Lightning from the storm struck Mattis's castle and split it in half, one half of which gets settled by a hostile gang of robbers lead by Borka. His son Birk was born the same night as Mattis's daughter. The two kids meet and they become best friends. The feud between the gangs continues, so the children decide to run away. Mattis disowns Ronja, but he later appears and asks Ronja for forgiveness and soon the two bandit gangs join together and organize a hunt for the soldiers who threaten them in the woods. In the end, they decide to join forever and Mattis and Borkou fight over who will be the leader...
Sat 27.05.2017 | 15:10Tjorven, Båtsman and Moses (1964)
Section: Days of Swedish Cinema
Directed by: Olle Hellbom
Sweden, 1964, 89 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
Score:
Vesterman has found a young seal in his fishing nets in the outskirts of the archipelago. When he comes back to the Saltkråkan island, he gives the seal to Tjorven, who names it Moses. Peter Malm, a visitor who works at the Zoological Institute in Uppsala, wants to buy the seal, but Tjorven says it's not for sale. Vesterman is in need of money and tries to get the seal back, to sell it to Peter. The children have to hide the seal, so he won't find it. Pelle's rabbit Jocke and one of Söderman's lambs are found bitten to death. The dog Båtsman is accused of those evil deeds and must be put down. What is to be the fate of Moses and Båtsman.
Sat 27.05.2017 | 19:40Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Taika Waititi
New Zealand, 2016, 101 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
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Raised on hip-hop and foster care, defiant city kid Ricky gets a fresh start in the New Zealand countryside. He quickly finds himself at home with his new foster family: the loving Aunt Bella, the cantankerous Uncle Hec, and dog Tupac. When a tragedy strikes that threatens to ship Ricky to another home, both he and Hec go on the run in the bush. As a national manhunt ensues, the newly branded outlaws must face their options: go out in a blaze of glory or overcome their differences and survive as a family.
Sat 27.05.2017 | 21:30The Land (2016)
Section: Night Horizons
Directed by: Steven Caple Jr.
U.S.A., 2016, 104 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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A vivid inner-city saga set amidst Cleveland's hip-hop underground. Teenage buddies Cisco, Junior, Boobie, and Patty Cake shrug off school to practice skateboarding, which they hope will be their ticket to a better life. In the meantime, they steal cars to finance their dream. But when they get mixed up in a drug deal and cross a ruthless crime queen-pin, they put their friendship--and lives--on the line. Set to a choice hip-hop soundtrack and featuring an impressive ensemble cast that includes The Wire's Michael K. Williams, Erykah Badu, and rapper Machine Gun Kelly, The Land crackles with the energy and poetry of the streets.
Sun 28.05.2017 | 10:00Ducat rock (2017)
Section: Czech Films and TV
Directed by: Ján Novák
Czech Republic, 2017, 106 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 1
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The main heroes of this fairytale-tinged film are a group of kids who experience an adventure-filled holiday in the small village of Lukov. In order to help their friends in need, they begin to search for a castle treasure and any rumors associated with it. But on the trail of the treasure they get trapped by the Black Lady, the treasure's guardian. The whole village and the children's parents then unite forces not only to find the children, but to ultimately end the curse on the castle and its guardian.