Film programme 2017

Zlín Dog - Student Live-action Films 4 (2017)

Section: International Competition of Student Films Zlín Dog

International, 2017, 101 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5

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CUMULONIMBUS (2016)

Section: International Competition of Student Films Zlín Dog

Directed by: Ioana Mischie

Romania, 2016, 15 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5

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In Romanian villages, the tradition is still kept that every person under the age of seven has to be married. Though arranged marriages are considered illegal today, for the locals at its core is the fact that the custom symbolizes protection and care. The film asks the fundamental question of how it's possible to measure ethics and tradition.

I Give You My Word 3 (2017)

Section: Panorama

Directed by: Alexandr Karpilovsky

Russia, 2017, 100 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6

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The final part of a unique trilogy about a Soviet pioneer childhood in which our heroes finish school and get into a series of adventures, say goodbye to childhood and start growing up...

Filthy (2017)

Section: International Competition of European First Films

Directed by: Tereza Nvotová

Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, 2017, 87 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 1

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This is the coming-of-age story of 17-year old Lena. In love with a boy for the first time, Lena longs for freedom and adventure. Her magic world is shattered instantly when her teacher, whom all her classmates have a crush on, rapes her in her own home. Instead of sharing her trauma, Lena keeps it a secret, even from her best friend. Her pent up feelings drive her to attempt suicide. Her family in shock, Lena ends up in a psychiatric ward. In the middle of wild and similarly misunderstood kids, she discovers she is not alone in her experience. But when her close roommate hangs herself, Lena hits bottom. She agrees to electroconvulsive therapy. At first, it seems to help and – apart from memory loss – Lena is well again. But the attempt to live her old life doesn’t last long. Gradually, her memories come to the surface, bringing a realization that is unbearable. This time, however, she does not fall into the same abyss of self-hate and instead tries to face the trauma.

Heartstone (2016)

Section: International Competition of European First Films

Directed by: Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson

Iceland, 2016, 129 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2

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In his directorial debut, director and screenwriter Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson offers us a view into the lives of two teenage boys in a remote fishing village in Iceland. Thor and Christian truly experience a turbulent summer. As one tries to win a girl's heart, the other discovers till now unfamiliar emotions towards his best friend. As Iceland's harsh nature takes back its right with the ending summer, it is high time to leave the playground and face adulthood. The sensitive and intimate story is like a mosaic composed of many of life's important themes: the relationship between parents and children, life in a remote village, first love, awakening of puberty and sexuality, and friendship.

Sister (2012)

Section: Welcome to Switzerland

Directed by: Ursula Meier

Switzerland, France, 2012, 97 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3

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Simon lives with his older sister in a housing complex below a luxury Swiss ski resort. With his sister drifting in and out of jobs and relationships, 12-year-old Simon takes on the responsibility of providing for the two of them. Every day, he takes the lift up to the opulent ski world above, stealing equipment from rich tourists to resell to the local kids down in the valley. He is able to keep their little family afloat with his small-time hustles and his sister is thankful for the money he brings in. But, when Simon partners with a crooked British seasonal worker, he begins to lose his boundaries, which affects his relationship with his sister and plummets him into dangerous territory.

The Whisperers (2016)

Section: Documentary Films

Directed by: David Kinsella

Norway, 2016, 91 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4

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A teenage coming-of-age, environmental, indigenous adventure. The film tells the story of a young indigenous girl named Ellen-Sara Sparrok Larsen. She’s the eldest child in a reindeer herding family, born to continue the 1000 year tradition in Norway. We follow her on her journey from when she was 11 until she is 18 today. Ellen-Sara is a unique character, being a girl rather than a boy having the responsibility of carrying on her traditions. Ellen Sara stands in the middle of a progressive Norwegian society and the rich traditions of the South Sami reindeer herding culture, but the life of a teenager and their choices in life are questioned. The commercial world is just so tempting for this young woman.

Don't Call Me Son (2016)

Section: Panorama

Directed by: Anna Muylaert

Brazil, 2016, 82 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5

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Pierre is 17 and in mid-puberty. He plays in a band, has sex at parties and secretly tries on women’s clothing and lipstick in front of a mirror. Ever since his father’s death, his mother Aracy has looked after him and his younger sister Jacqueline, spoiling them both. But when he discovers that she stole him from a hospital when he was a new born baby, Pierre’s life changes dramatically. Overnight, his world falls apart and his mother Aracy is arrested. His biological parents Gloria and Matheus have spent 17 years searching for him; they are now desperate to make up for the lost years and spend time with their eldest son, whom they call Felipe. But Pierre has his own designs for his life.

Teenage Kicks (2016)

Section: Night Horizons

Directed by: Craig Boreham

Australia, 2016, 99 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6

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Miklos Varga is punching his way through the dark terrain that exists somewhere between the vague, scratchy signposts marked “Boy” and “Man.” On the verge of his 18th birthday, Miklos’ world has come crumbling down. His plans to run away and escape the strangulating hold of his migrant family have been tipped sideways by a family disaster. Only Mik knows the events that led to this tragedy, and he blames just one person: himself. Mik is suddenly torn between his desire to head north and start a new life with his best friend Dan, and the obligation to his broken family. Is Mik a danger to himself and everyone around him, or just a kid caught hopelessly in the tripwires of teen angst?

Kong: Skull Island (2017)

Section: Open Air Cinema

Directed by: Jordan Vogt-Roberts

U.S.A., Vietnam, 2017, 118 min

Projection place: Open Air Cinema

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A thrilling adventure story of a disparate team of researchers, soldiers and adventurers; they've come together to explore a mysterious island somewhere in the Pacific not found on any map and is just as dangerous as it is beautiful. Cut off from everything they know, these explorers enter the territory of the mighty Kong and ignite the most terrible battle between man and nature. Their journey of discovery turns into a fight for survival and escape from this primordial paradise, which is not a place for humans.

Swallows and Amazons (2016)

Section: Panorama

Directed by: Philippa Lowthorpe

U.K., 2016, 97 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 1

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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.

Owls & Mice (2016)

Section: Panorama

Directed by: Simone van Dusseldorp

Netherlands, 2016, 80 min

Projection place: Aula

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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.

My Life as a Zucchini (2016)

Section: Welcome to Switzerland

Directed by: Claude Barras

Switzerland, France, 2016, 66 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2

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Zucchini is a rather unusual nickname for a 9-year-old boy and his unique story is surprisingly universal. After his mother’s sudden death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer Raymond, who accompanies Zucchini to his new foster home, which is filled with other orphans his age. At first Zucchini struggles to find his place in this strange, at times, hostile environment. Yet with Raymond’s help and his new found friends, he eventually learns to trust, finds true love and at last a new family of his own.

Oskar's America (2017)

Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Children

Directed by: Torfinn Iversen

Norway, 2017, 79 min

Projection place: Mala scena

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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.

The Black Brothers (2013)

Section: Welcome to Switzerland

Directed by: Xavier Koller

Germany, Switzerland, 2013, 98 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3

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Up until the middle of the 19th century, poverty stricken mountain farmers from the Ticino area of Switzerland frequently sold their children to Milan as chimney sweeps. That is also young Giorgio’s fate. He is forced to climb through pitch black chimneys, flinging down soot with his bare hands. But he doesn’t lose heart. Together with his fellow sweeps, he establishes the association of Black Brothers. They stick together, struggling against their penury and get involved in fights with the street gangs of Milan. The film tells of the gripping adventures of the chimney sweep boys and their spectacular escape back to their native land.

Annabell's Spectacularities (2014)

Section: Days of Swedish Cinema

Directed by: Elisabet Gustafsson

Sweden, 2014, 75 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4

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A playful musical adventure about little Annabell Olsson, who is older than 7 but younger than 11. She has three little triplet siblings, who mostly just cause trouble, and a grandmother, who is the source of more adventure than Annabell realizes. There is a book at her grandmother’s country house that contains an unfinished story – a story about a wizard who turned himself into a glass of lemonade and then drank himself up. For over 70 years, Grandma has been thinking about how that could have happened and how the wizard might be turned back into himself. Now it’s up to Annabell to try and help her grandmother help the wizard, and thus bring the story to an end.

Two Trams (2016)

Section: International Competition of Animated Films for Children

Directed by: Svetlana Andrianova

Russia, 2016, 10 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5

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Daily two trams set on their way to serve local citizens and drive them to their chosen destinations. The younger tram has to learn a lot, but fortunately, the mum tram is very patient. As time goes by, the tram gets old and rusty. So now it is time for a younger tram to pay its debt to the mother.

The Last Leaf (2016)

Section: International Competition of Animated Films for Children

Directed by: Olya Golubeva

Ireland, 2016, 6 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5

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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.

Weasel (2016)

Section: International Competition of Animated Films for Children

Directed by: Timon Leder

Slovenia, 2016, 11 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5

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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.

Short Animations 7

Section: International Competition of Animated Films for Children

International, 0, 41 min

Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 5

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