Fri 26.05.2017 | 18:00Sebbe (2010)
Section: Days of Swedish Cinema
Directed by: Babak Najafi
Finland, Sweden, 2010, 83 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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Sebbe is 15 and lives with his mother in an apartment that is really very small. Sebbe does what he can. He never strikes back. He loves his mother because otherwise he couldn't carry on. He escapes to a junkyard where his hands bring unliving things to life. He has the power of creativity. He's free there, but alone. His detachment increases at the same pace as his world shrinks, until finally one day he is completely isolated, with only his mother. If she fails, everything else will disappear.
Tue 30.05.2017 | 20:201:54 (2016)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Youth
Directed by: Yan England
Canada, 2016, 106 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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At the age of 16, Tim is an intelligent but shy young man gifted with a natural athletic ability for running. However, the last four years have been tough on him because of Jeff and his crew. In his last year of high school, Tim is sick and tired of feeling like a loser and wants to shine for once. He decides to stand up to Jeff by dethroning him in the 800 m championship, the event Jeff is known for in school. But behind the competition and rivalry, a secret is wreaking havoc. Tim tells both his running coach and his father, both of whom want to help him, that “Either you shut up and do absolutely nothing. Or you shut up and take care of it yourself. I choose option two.”
Wed 31.05.2017 | 10:501:54 (2016)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Youth
Directed by: Yan England
Canada, 2016, 106 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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At the age of 16, Tim is an intelligent but shy young man gifted with a natural athletic ability for running. However, the last four years have been tough on him because of Jeff and his crew. In his last year of high school, Tim is sick and tired of feeling like a loser and wants to shine for once. He decides to stand up to Jeff by dethroning him in the 800 m championship, the event Jeff is known for in school. But behind the competition and rivalry, a secret is wreaking havoc. Tim tells both his running coach and his father, both of whom want to help him, that “Either you shut up and do absolutely nothing. Or you shut up and take care of it yourself. I choose option two.”
Wed 31.05.2017 | 19:40Where Have All the Good Men Gone (2016)
Section: International Competition of European First Films
Directed by: Rene Frelle Petersen
Denmark, 2016, 94 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
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Living in a tiny trailer in the back of their family's bar, Sofia and her older half-sister Olivia live a rough life filled with abuse and exploitation. Sofia's stepfather, Lars, is a violent man who keeps the girls and their mother under an iron thumb. When their mother lets it slip that Sofia's biological father may still be alive and living nearby, Sofia packs up her and Olivia's bags and they hit the road, going off of an address found on an old love letter. What they find is rather unexpected. Adam, Sofia's father, is holed up in an isolated farmhouse surrounded by barbed wire and signs that warn everyone to "KEEP OUT!" An ex-soldier with severe PTSD, Adam lives alone and has no interest in opening up to anyone, much less two young runaways. The girls camp out outside his property until he finally gives in and lets them stay with him, and slowly but surely they all grow close to resembling the kind of stable, caring family the girls have always wanted. Things can't stay perfect forever, though, and the girls realize they might not have gone far enough to escape Lars.
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.
Thu 01.06.2017 | 21:30Kicks (2016)
Section: Night Horizons
Directed by: Justin Tipping
U.S.A., 2016, 80 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Brandon is 15 longs for a pair of the freshest sneakers that money can buy; assuming that merely having them on his feet will help him escape the reality of being poor, neglected by the opposite sex and picked on by everyone even his best friends. Working hard to get them, he soon finds that the titular shoes have instead made him a target after they are promptly snatched by local hood, Flaco. Seemingly the embodiment of menace, Flaco harbors complexities of his own that will be revealed when Brandon goes on a mission to retrieve his stolen sneakers with his two best friends in tow.
Fri 02.06.2017 | 18:00Show Me Love (1998)
Section: Days of Swedish Cinema
Directed by: Lukas Moodysson
Sweden, 1998, 89 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5
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Sixteen-year introvert Agnes lives in the boring town of Amal and is in love with her popular 14-year-old classmate Elin. The reclusive girl suffers from loneliness and doesn't know how to escape it. The young Elin, on the other hand, happily accepts everyone's adoration, but feels confined in this town. She feels nothing's happening here and is eager to get away to the big city. She's got no doubt that she has a future as a movie star, model, or even a psychologist. She also subconsciously wants to break free from a family in which she's always fighting with her older sister Jessica and her tired mother. After a getting to know Agnes, however, Elin begins to feel something she's never known...